Sex between the Races Lore?

[Cereza]

Massively curious what a miqau ra would look like lol

[TheMightyMollusk]

Well, going by the half-breeds we know in the game (Hilda and Arenvald), they'd be mostly of the mother's race, maybe with a trait from their father, like Hilda's ears.

[MikkoAkure]

Massively curious what a miqau ra would look like lol

So far, there’s no evidence on miqos being able to successfully breed with anything else despite the fact they sleep around a lot.

[YianKutku]

So far, there’s no evidence on miqos being able to successfully breed with anything else despite the fact they sleep around a lot.

Baut implies that he's expecting (lots of) children from his new relationship with J'dyalani. J'dyalani doesn't contradict this (other than the usual "oh my, how bold").

[MikkoAkure]

Baut implies that he's expecting (lots of) children from his new relationship with J'dyalani. J'dyalani doesn't contradict this (other than the usual "oh my, how bold").

You might've gotten me there, but I don't think a response like "I don't believe our species are biologically compatible with each other" is very romantic or natural to say in that scenario. Also I'm too stubborn to back down from my point.

There's no word on cross miqo babies despite the fact that there are miqo'te prostitutes everywhere and no birth control.

[SinSilverwing]

May not be the best person for this, but i believe magic and alchemy cover as birth-control in 14.

[Cereza]

I think Koji actually addressed this before. One reason could be that while it is possible for hybrid offspring, a successful pregnancy is quite rare.

[LineageRazor]

There's no word on cross miqo babies despite the fact that there are miqo'te prostitutes everywhere and no birth control.

Definitely a giant leap to assume there's no birth control. Even discounting SinSilverwing's suggestion of fantasy birth control, the medieval setting would still provide many possible methods. You can check out The History of Birth Control on Wikipedia for many examples of pre-modern birth control, and even if they don't all work in the FFXIV setting, I'm sure the natives found their own methods. The game itself may not delve deeply into the methods the prostitutes use - but why would it?

Prostitutes have VERY strong motivation to avoid becoming pregnant - it's tough enough to make a living without having to care for children at the same time.

[MikkoAkure]

I think my hint of sarcasm went unnoticed.

[kujoestars]

Still not at ShB yet, but I’ve been poking a bit on the lore for the Gwiber mounts out of curiosity and the description on the Fey Gwiber described them as an attempt to “recreate the fantastical beast known as a dragon”, which is making the possibility that we’ve had dragons poking around the First more plausible. Obviously, it’s possible races just came up with dragons independently just like how many wildly different irl cultures independently came up with their own overlapping concepts of dragons. But given how much the Gwibers all look actual dragons, including the fae gwiber whose origins are from a Ronkan sorcerer, it seems like they based in reality.

Which means Auri being possibly descended from dragons still perfectly on the table. Time flows differently in each Shard, and for all we know, the Drahn came into being because some member of the First Brood could have messed around there at some point. We still have two members (Azdaja and Vrtra) unaccounted for, after all.