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If there are no half-elves or half-orcs will there be Tieflings (half fiends)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9087147" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>Part of the problem is that the cultural things that could define a half-elf are no longer part of species. Elves and orcs barely have any sort of racial identity beyond what is biological/mechanical and maybe an implied origin. </p><p></p><p>The Khorvar of Eberron are defined by not adhering to the cultural norms of their elven (aereni and valenar) or human (Five Nations) but blending the traditions. The problem is that you need those traditions to exist and the PHB is scrubbing that kind of racial identity. </p><p></p><p>And the Bretons are half-elves the same way Elrond and Arwen are half-elves; they may have a little mixed blood but they favor their one parent highly. In the Bretons' case, they are humans who have an affinity for magic that comes from ancestral direnni blood, they are not considered mer. (If I was running TES under 5e, they'd be humans who took magic initiate as their bonus feat). </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, because their parents are so bland and boring, they got nothing to work with. And WotC is insisting on making humans and elves blander in 2024.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 9087147, member: 7635"] Part of the problem is that the cultural things that could define a half-elf are no longer part of species. Elves and orcs barely have any sort of racial identity beyond what is biological/mechanical and maybe an implied origin. The Khorvar of Eberron are defined by not adhering to the cultural norms of their elven (aereni and valenar) or human (Five Nations) but blending the traditions. The problem is that you need those traditions to exist and the PHB is scrubbing that kind of racial identity. And the Bretons are half-elves the same way Elrond and Arwen are half-elves; they may have a little mixed blood but they favor their one parent highly. In the Bretons' case, they are humans who have an affinity for magic that comes from ancestral direnni blood, they are not considered mer. (If I was running TES under 5e, they'd be humans who took magic initiate as their bonus feat). Unfortunately, because their parents are so bland and boring, they got nothing to work with. And WotC is insisting on making humans and elves blander in 2024. [/QUOTE]
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