(07-07-2013, 07:42 PM)Khaze Wrote:(07-07-2013, 06:53 PM)Callipygian Wrote: As a real-world biologist, my guess would be that inter-racial breeding would be like the typical hybridization you see in the real world examples of tigons, ligers, mules, etc. In all likelihood, an inter-racial hybrid would be sterile. The potential parents of such a creature, or at least the mother, would likely consider this when it comes to producing children and abstain from inter-racial breeding.I fully agree with you from a real world stand point and its generally my stand as well however I would point you to this thread on Miqo'te Culture as we are covering the same kinda discussion there as well although a little more focused on just the Miqo'te.  There have been suggestions from posters that because its a fantasy setting that we should not take real world genetics as the sole driving force of the mating, given the innately magical nature of the world.
As for inter-breeding between the two different clans within a species, it should be completely biologically viable. Only social stigma and cultural bias would make it unlikely. Even these would make it so that inter-breeding is uncommon rather than extremely rare, depending on the species. Miqo'te I would expect to have very little inter-breeding because their mating structures are very different, and they are diurnal versus nocturnal. The other races like Hyur and Lalafell probably interact regularly within their two clans.
Its interesting to see two threads converging like this although I guess with the topics at hand its not surprising.
Aye, as I said in that thread, while in the real world we would expect something else to happen, we should definitely go by what we see in the NPCs/given lore instead.
