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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2270755" data-attributes="member: 16989">Not quite:Think of Sausage (not in that way either).Franks are so finally ground you can't tell what is in them, it all blends into 1 distinctive whole.Home-made Brats are coarsley ground and have distinctive bits of Peppers, Garlic, Herbs, Lamb, Pork, etc spread throughout.  While a unique whole the parts that make up the whole are easily apperent.Mangrelmen were brats.Unlike interbreeding (say half-orcs & half-elves), there is no true 'mixing' going on.  It is not a 'blending' of two races.  It's taking whole parts and gluing them together.From your Blender example:Half-Orc:  Blender on liquify, poured in glass.Mongrelman: Man with Butcherknife and toothpicks.Thus, the complaint of the poster, that Mogrelfolk are a slight against those of 'mixed' race is totally incorrect.  While the blurb in Races of Destiny CAN be read that way, if you (like me) can go back to the orginal source material, you see the orginal was more based on taking the Monster Manual, putting it through a chipper & then trying to piece the pictures together.Races of Destiny just wanted to make them a more 'attractive' player character race, as opposed to a monster, NO TWO OF WHICH ARE A LIKE (in the Orginal Monster Manual description).  Thus they made them more like if you made the Hunchback of Notre Dame a PC race, than the sewer-mutants they, indeed are.</blockquote>