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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1654997" data-attributes="member: 4910">I'd say they can still breed with the base animal they were awakened from.  I mean heck, orcs and humans can breed and produce viable offspring after all.  Whether they would want to mate with a less intelligent animal would be an issue for the individual creature to deal with.  Either breeding is an intellectual choice, like it is for humans, and the idea of mating with a non-sentient partner would be difficult, or breeding is an instinctual impetus like it is for most animals and they don't sweat the details.  They just know that when the time is right, you do what you're supposed to do, and follow your internal urgings.    I'd say that A) the offspring is a magical beast, following the Elf Blood/Orc Blood line of reasoning (the more 'advanced' parental type is dominant... even if one type isn't actually more advanced than the other, heh.), and that B) the offspring would have a mean intelligence between that of the awakened and non-awakened parents, rather than some being fully sentient and others fully non-sentient.  So basically if you wanted to create a fully sentient, self-sufficient breed, you'd either need to awaken all members of a breeding stock, or you'd have to awaken the studs and then go with good ol' fashioned eugenics.    Not particularly obligated, per se.  It would be the nice thing to do, sure, but druids arn't required to be nice people.  Nor are they required to work within "the natural order of things" - druids, in essence, have lisence to screw with nature however they see fit, because nature likes them.  Awaken, Reincarnate, Control Weather, and many many other spells on the druid's list would horribly screw up an area's local ecosystem, but they're allowed to do them where, when, and how they see fit because, hey... nature likes them.  Any obligation to use a soft touch with the world would be from an internal urging, rather than an externally imposed requirement.     See above.  If a druids were required to work to the constant betterment, and in the best interest of, the natural order they'd never cast spells.  Healing spells work against the natural order, because when a creature gets injured, they're supposed to die.  Reincarnate works against the natural order, because when a creature dies, it's not supposed to come back in any way, shape, or form.  Any of the great bevy offire spells the druid has access to work against the natural order because there's not supposed to be fire there, otherwise.  Plant Growth works against the natural order, because plants are supposed to grow at a rate that's prescribed for their type and growing conditions.  Everything a druid does screws with the natural order in some way or another.  Magical Alteration and the Natural Order are like oil and water, it's just that a druids Magical Alternations spring from, and function within a framework of the natural order.  On its own, nature would get by just fine without any magical alteration whatsoever - it just doesn't need it to keep going.</blockquote>

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