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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3898523" data-attributes="member: 7177">They might exist, though it should be noted that elves tend to have such small populations in most settings when compared to humans and orcs that this is a much more unlikely combination than half human, half orc.Of course, whether such a combination is even possible depends on how the local equivalent of genetics work. Maybe it's impossible - humans might be genetically closer to both elves and orcs than elves and orcs are to each other.Personally, when it comes to &quot;fantasy genetics&quot;, I rather like the assumptions of Exalted where almost anything can breed with anything under the right circumstances. Described are offspring of:- Humans and gods.- Humans and demons.- Humans and ghosts - in this case the mother needs to be a living human, though the ghostly parent may be either male or female.- Humans and elementals.- Humans and Fair Folk.- Humans and animals - this requires the presence of Wyld (=chaos) energies, though there's rather a lot of that at the edges of the world. Some powerful humans who have been invested with the power of a particular god (Lunars, if you know the setting) and who can transform into animal shapes have even used this to breed servant races of beastmen.- Animals and inanimate objects: This requires even more Wyld energies. One of the sourcebook describes a &quot;stone lion&quot; - the offspring of a lion and a stone. I thought that was pretty cool...&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 3898523, member: 7177"] They might exist, though it should be noted that elves tend to have such small populations in most settings when compared to humans and orcs that this is a much more unlikely combination than half human, half orc. Of course, whether such a combination is even possible depends on how the local equivalent of genetics work. Maybe it's impossible - humans might be genetically closer to both elves and orcs than elves and orcs are to each other. Personally, when it comes to "fantasy genetics", I rather like the assumptions of Exalted where almost anything can breed with anything under the right circumstances. Described are offspring of: - Humans and gods. - Humans and demons. - Humans and ghosts - in this case the mother needs to be a living human, though the ghostly parent may be either male or female. - Humans and elementals. - Humans and Fair Folk. - Humans and animals - this requires the presence of Wyld (=chaos) energies, though there's rather a lot of that at the edges of the world. Some powerful humans who have been invested with the power of a particular god (Lunars, if you know the setting) and who can transform into animal shapes have even used this to breed servant races of beastmen. - Animals and inanimate objects: This requires even more Wyld energies. One of the sourcebook describes a "stone lion" - the offspring of a lion and a stone. I thought that was pretty cool... ;) [/QUOTE]

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