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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Express" data-source="post: 1652543" data-attributes="member: 19166">Actually I was wondering if anyone would say anything <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I know that a race dominates each House, and they have retainers and hirelings to serve the Houses which presumably can be of different races. I havent really read anywhere that a member of another race could not be a dragonmarked memeber of a House of a different race, although I assume its just implied that the upper classes (with the family blood) of the House are going to be pretty homogenous ( dwarves are going to marry dwarves, etc). Human/half elf bondings might be the exception. Our group sort of debated this. But then we reread the dragonmark feat description and saw it requires proper race/House combination. Did that make sense?Anyway, Calib is a human because of a mistake early in our game. We debated having a human in a half elf house. I thought it reinforced his illegitimacy, so during the chargen session our group had I created a human (Having an extra first level feat doesnt hurt.) The we re read the dragonmark feat requirement.Long story short I changed my mind at the last minute, and reverted to half elf. Fast forward to the next week, the adventure begins, we get to the break in of our office and boom Calib is asleep.Cue rustling of my character sheet. "Im a half elf" I say. "Are you sure?" asks the Dm embarrased. He had kept my first human version of Calib by mistake. So I kept Calib a human and put it in the story, sort of as a character quirk- Calib thinks of himself as half elf though human-  and to commerate our games inauspicous start. We are houseruling a bit, but just in my case, and because of how it happened.As a side note I agreed not to increase the power of the mark to retain his outsider status, he wont be rising to rule his house.Actually I like that half elves in Eberron are a true breeding race and not just a random offshoot, we just sort of goofed up a little.</blockquote>

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