what does a baby chimera look like

[MiniPrinny]

If you want to be technical then Chimeras aren't born, they are manufactured, so from "birth" they look exactly as we see them. However there is no reason why we couldn't get a "baby" chimera as a runt or failed project.

This... actually isn't true. Chimeras aren't infertile and that is why they also haven't been hunted to extinction. Well, that and they're extremely dangerous creatures. Chimeras have a breeding population, not just in Azys Lla, but across Eorzea. If I had to take a guess, baby chimera (chimera cubs?) look like lion cubs, but with their extra features scaled proportionately.

[BubblyBoar]

This... actually isn't true. Chimeras aren't infertile and that is why they also haven't been hunted to extinction. Well, that and they're extremely dangerous creatures. Chimeras have a breeding population, not just in Azys Lla, but across Eorzea. If I had to take a guess, baby chimera (chimera cubs?) look like lion cubs, but with their extra features scaled proportionately.

I wouldn't be so sure. A process like that doesn't exactly leave the beast in good shape. And the many Chimera across Eorzea could just be from all the ones that were made, not just a new species that is reproducing.

[MiniPrinny]

I wouldn't be so sure. A process like that doesn't exactly leave the beast in good shape. And the many Chimera across Eorzea could just be from all the ones that were made, not just a new species that is reproducing.

The thing is, we have living proof of Allagan creations reproducing. Arachne Eve is very likely an Allagan creation, while the Ixal, as we have seen, evolved from the Ixalion over generations. It's so very unlikely that all the chimera lived this long without reproducing. And, I dunno, they seem in pretty good shape considering the fight they put up!

[Lambdafish]

The thing is, we have living proof of Allagan creations reproducing. Arachne Eve is very likely an Allagan creation, while the Ixal, as we have seen, evolved from the Ixalion over generations. It's so very unlikely that all the chimera lived this long without reproducing. And, I dunno, they seem in pretty good shape considering the fight they put up!

Arachne eve is very likely not an allagan creation, but rather something much bigger. People have theorised that she is in fact the mother of all spiders in the world(because we have known anout arachne web for a while), and her relation to Mhach is akin to shelob and Mordor from lord of the rings. As for the ixal, the difference between them and a chimera, is that a chimera is literally a chimera. The ixal look to be an original species, one that the allagans genetically constructed to be original, with males and females and the ability to self sustain (cheaper to produce). Chimeras by design (in anything, not just XIV) are monstrous creatures created by fusing the DNA (or just the idea) of multiple creatures together so that they end result shares pieces of the originals. With this violent bonding of DNA, and the incompatibility of the three creatures, the chances of breeding would be slim to impossible

[Lambdafish]

This... actually isn't true. Chimeras aren't infertile and that is why they also haven't been hunted to extinction. Well, that and they're extremely dangerous creatures. Chimeras have a breeding population, not just in Azys Lla, but across Eorzea. If I had to take a guess, baby chimera (chimera cubs?) look like lion cubs, but with their extra features scaled proportionately.

After doing some digging, we might both be right, however I still firmly hold the belief that a constructed creature would not be able to breed. The game might (sources are thin and some may have been retconned) suggest that the eorzea chimeras (relic and cutters cry etc.) are completely unrelated to the allagan chimeras despite sharing the same model. If, and only if, they were natural, then they will be able to breed, however if they are related to the allagans, then my original post stands true.

EDIT: more digging - the Gorgimera states that the creature was made by a "madman", and some theories float around that the allagans knowledge of creating chimeras has passed down through the ages, causing others to make monsterous beings, much like void summoning. This would give an explantion to the eorzea chimeras being unrelated