(07-08-2013, 09:44 PM)Spiritual Machine Wrote: Not everyone in the thread seemed aware of it. Honestly it seemed like there were a few conversations going on, and mixed race wasn't even the original topic. I could be mistaken, though.
It doesn't seem necessary to say, in the case of what a half-breed would simply look like, "don't do it because we don't know." In the case of appearances, we'll rarely perfectly recreate our character concepts in-game, as the customization options will always be more limited than we'd like them to be. The fact that the concept is possible seems good enough to at least attempt to recreate it.
It might not be realistic to come to only one conclusion, in my opinion. There are a lot of ways the characteristics of two parents could come together. I'm not discouraging the discussion at all, though! I'm saying that there are probably a lot of ways to make a "Hyurqo'te" that could be just as different from each other as the parent races are--a whole spectrum of mutts with pointy Hyur ears and stunted tails and what have you!
At least until SE spells it out for us, I suppose. But imagined physical characteristics are easy to retcon anyway.
Yea, those variations of mutts just don't exist in the NPCs that we see, so I am happy to accept it as support for the theory of one race being expressed at a time. Otherwise stuff'd get soooo messyyy..
The visual purity of the races are maintained, even though SE says cross-breeding is possible and happens, albeit rarely.
