Sex between the Races Lore?

[Bright-Flower]

Keep in mind this is a fantasy setting. Evolution could always just happen faster than it does in real life. It's not really a realistic setting even when you take out the literal magic spells.

[kujoestars]

Because that as well as many other things were written in 1.0 before anything regarding the current story was made or thought up. It’s part of why I wish they deleted the game at the end of 1.0 and started fresh without baggage or retcons.

For example, dunesfolk were said to be from a desert island to the south where they evolved their special eyes and settled Thanalan because it’s like their old home. Yet post-calamity now we know that before Ul’dah, they came from Mchach, which was never a desert. Elezen were supposed to be the only natives to Eorzea, which caused strife pre-Gelmorra but now we know that hyur and the other races have been in Eorzea for a long while before the current era.

But on the other hand, duskwights somehow got their blue skin and white hair after only living in caves for a few hundred years so it could be that small changes like that happen fast on Hydaelyn.

1.0 is still canon regardless of what you want. From a meta standpoint, ARR is a soft reboot with only minor tweaks to the original timeline since we still see core NPCs and Carteneau and Louisoix are always referenced. From an in-universe standpoint, it's just a small reality tweak as a result of Louisoix becoming Phoenix. And besides, how many writers even plan everything out when starting out with a story? By that logic, we can't have ANY reveals at all because it's "different" from what we have at the start. Just because Zodiark created the new world and new life doesn't mean he manually put them together; he could have just thrown in the basic ingredients and hit the proverbial "run simulation" button. "Oh sorry, you wanted me to make your exact race? Should have been more specific, smh. Gonna cost you extra now cuz them's the breaks."

Keep in mind this is a fantasy setting. Evolution could always just happen faster than it does in real life. It's not really a realistic setting even when you take out the literal magic spells.

This. It's already silly to expect evolution to work exactly the same on other worlds in general given how many variables go into natural selection. Throw in magic and things get even crazier. Why else would we have improbable things like 6-limbed vertebrates like wyrm-type dragons and huge-af bugs everywhere (to say nothing of the Gnath folks)? This is one of those times I'd just go *finger waggle* Weird Magic Shit(TM). The laws of physics most definitely work differently on Hydaelyn than on Earth is all we can say (especially where aether is involved).