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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9150991" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Elves, Humans, and Orcs can "exchange genes".</p><p></p><p>Elves are understandably a different species because they are immaterial, originating away from the Material Plane − but its complicated.</p><p></p><p>The Hin and the Orc are material, and are "natural", and need a doublecheck to confirm their concept and mechanics merit the classification of a separate <em>fantastical</em> species.</p><p></p><p>In reallife, humans are <em>Homo sapiens</em>. But I view the D&D term "Humanoid" to effectively replace the reallife genus <em>Homo</em>. So species that derive from independent fantastical origins can all get classified as members of the Humanoid creature type, because they are humanlike in the sense of the capacity of speech, free will, and cultures. Pragmatically, Humanoids are gaming go-tos that a player can relate to and that balance mechanically.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Elves are complicated. They spring parthenogenically from the "blood" of astral thought stuff, while in the form of a mercurial shapeshifter. As shapeshifters, Elves voluntarily chose to adopt Human forms. While they evolved as natives of the Feywild, they are immaterial Fey spirits and nonbiological. So far simple: a separate species. The tricky part is. Some Elves used magic to enter the Material Plane, by means of "incarnating" into material bodies of flesh and blood. These Fey spirits are wearing a biological body as an avatar. Had they preferred, these Fey spirits could have manifested within the Material Plane as ethereal force constructs, similar to ghosts, angels, and spell-summoned creatures. But they actually chose to adopt bodies of matter − with a biological metabolism. This natural body that some elven cultures feature exhibits a DNA that is similar to or identical with the Human species. So much so, Humans and Elves can freely "exchange genes" to reproduce offspring together. So even when certain elven cultures feature a physical body that might taxonomically classify as members of the Human species, their Fey spirit remains in play, and it is their Fey characteristics that easily qualify as a separate <em>fantastical</em> species.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9150991, member: 58172"] Elves, Humans, and Orcs can "exchange genes". Elves are understandably a different species because they are immaterial, originating away from the Material Plane − but its complicated. The Hin and the Orc are material, and are "natural", and need a doublecheck to confirm their concept and mechanics merit the classification of a separate [I]fantastical[/I] species. In reallife, humans are [I]Homo sapiens[/I]. But I view the D&D term "Humanoid" to effectively replace the reallife genus [I]Homo[/I]. So species that derive from independent fantastical origins can all get classified as members of the Humanoid creature type, because they are humanlike in the sense of the capacity of speech, free will, and cultures. Pragmatically, Humanoids are gaming go-tos that a player can relate to and that balance mechanically. Elves are complicated. They spring parthenogenically from the "blood" of astral thought stuff, while in the form of a mercurial shapeshifter. As shapeshifters, Elves voluntarily chose to adopt Human forms. While they evolved as natives of the Feywild, they are immaterial Fey spirits and nonbiological. So far simple: a separate species. The tricky part is. Some Elves used magic to enter the Material Plane, by means of "incarnating" into material bodies of flesh and blood. These Fey spirits are wearing a biological body as an avatar. Had they preferred, these Fey spirits could have manifested within the Material Plane as ethereal force constructs, similar to ghosts, angels, and spell-summoned creatures. But they actually chose to adopt bodies of matter − with a biological metabolism. This natural body that some elven cultures feature exhibits a DNA that is similar to or identical with the Human species. So much so, Humans and Elves can freely "exchange genes" to reproduce offspring together. So even when certain elven cultures feature a physical body that might taxonomically classify as members of the Human species, their Fey spirit remains in play, and it is their Fey characteristics that easily qualify as a separate [I]fantastical[/I] species. [/QUOTE]
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