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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6762568" data-attributes="member: 22424">I think you're right that that's the default fluff. But I suspect that this is one of those things that will be largely ignored - that in actual play we'll see as many half-elves with mixed parentage as with two half-elf parents. If the player even gives any thought to the character's parents, that is, rather than making them the standard-issue orphan.That's a whole other can of worms, and indeed one that ties also into the new policy of inclusion. (It also crops up in the most recent "Pathfinder Tale", in which one of the characters is both gay and the heir to a noble family, and so there is some discussion of his duty to provide the family with another heir. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about their handling of the subject, but I'm quite impressed that they tried.)I suspect the answer to those questions will inevitably be setting-specific, and indeed may well differ in different parts of a setting. One culture could have a policy of inheritance via declaration rather than blood (so the nobleman can just pass his estate and titles on to an adopted child, or to a cousin, or indeed to his butler if he wanted), while another might insist that in the absence of a biological child then the estate reverts to the crown. Or something else entirely.</blockquote>