Sex between the Races Lore?

[kujoestars]

Honestly, the original concepts alone will keep me convinced Auri are the Dragonborn of FFXIV minus the breath powers: https://www.dualshockers.com/final-f...to-au-ra-nsfw/

Given how far ahead a story is planned, I seriously wonder why Auri initially were conceptualized (based on the art of a female with a dragon and one of the male designs being full on anthro dragon) as being more blatantly related to dragons if supposedly the reason was Ishgardians wouldn’t accept a dragon-related WoL. Sure, concepts aren’t exactly canon, but at the very least they were always meant to be draconic in design. Now I just wish they at least left in some more dragon-like features like the scaly claw “gloves” or even had the awesome jaws as an option for the boys.

I just hope we eventually go back to exploring more dragon lore at some point.

[Cybylt]

That is true, though if the offspring stays in the same region that would result in the same form repeatedly

That is not the case in the dragons of Dravania, who predominantly live in the same area yet show a variety of forms even several flightless varieties in the floating islands of the churning mist. Weather patterns over their lifetime as well as personal habits are going to change the balance of aether they're going to take in. A dragon that spends more time in flight is going to get more wind aether than one that spends time on land which is put forward as how we get Wyverns and Lesser Dragons.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I didn't read all of this to see if anyone clarified but it seems a large portion of posters haven't been playing since Heavensward.

*Spoilers for cutscene skippers or people still in ARR.

Hilda is the most famous (or most story visible anyway) half-breed. She is half hyur and half-elezen, which is why the Gentry have given her the title of 'Mongrel'.

Minfilia's 'mother', F'lhaminn, is actually her adopted mother. Their backstories are heavily connected to the 1.0 storyline. She, herself is considered half Seeker/Keeper due to the fact that she has characteristics of both. Also I remember reading that the original Y'da was half Garlean (which is why she wears the headdress, to hide her node) but that could just be fannon or speculation.

The Aesthetician is fully elezen. A bit of his backstory can be seen by doing the Moogle Mail quests. This quest line has some nice race/origin lore bits and its rather easy. I highly recommend it.

Otherwise there are plenty of references to the races being romantically involved, from the Hyur who claims to be in love with Momodi (lalafel) or the weirdest, a Roe man confessing his secret love of Brayflox (the goblin). I can imagine only the ones who are the most physically similar can crossbreed, but the game may prove us wrong.

Also: my theory is that the Twins are also half hyur. Their features are too soft and hilda-like to be fully elezen IMO.

[MikkoAkure]

I didn't read all of this to see if anyone clarified but it seems a large portion of posters haven't been playing since Heavensward.

*Spoilers for cutscene skippers or people still in ARR.

Hilda is the most famous (or most story visible anyway) half-breed. She is half hyur and half-elezen, which is why the Gentry have given her the title of 'Mongrel'.

Minfilia's 'mother', F'lhaminn, is actually her adopted mother. Their backstories are heavily connected to the 1.0 storyline. She, herself is considered half Seeker/Keeper due to the fact that she has characteristics of both. Also I remember reading that the original Y'da was half Garlean (which is why she wears the headdress, to hide her node) but that could just be fannon or speculation.

The Aesthetician is fully elezen. A bit of his backstory can be seen by doing the Moogle Mail quests. This quest line has some nice race/origin lore bits and its rather easy. I highly recommend it.

Otherwise there are plenty of references to the races being romantically involved, from the Hyur who claims to be in love with Momodi (lalafel) or the weirdest, a Roe man confessing his secret love of Brayflox (the goblin). I can imagine only the ones who are the most physically similar can crossbreed, but the game may prove us wrong.

Also: my theory is that the Twins are also half hyur. Their features are too soft and hilda-like to be fully elezen IMO.

Yda being partly Garlean is nothing that exists in the game and is probably made up. It’s already canon that half-Garleans don’t inherit the third eye thing is. And the twins only look like that because they’re specially made characters and they had more work done on them to make them look good than normal models. Same is true for Gosetsu, who people believed to also be half-hyur.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The only confirmed halfbreeds in the game are Hilda (Hyur/Elezen) and Arenvald (Highlander/Garlean). Backstory for Heaven-on-High mentions a Hyur/Au Ra hybrid in the distant past, but they're never shown.

[Cybylt]

Also: my theory is that the Twins are also half hyur. Their features are too soft and hilda-like to be fully elezen IMO.

They're like that because being 16, they're still growing.

With lifespans one- or two-tenths longer than their fellow races, their physical maturity is somewhat delayed. It is not uncommon for Wildwood children to look up to their Hyuran friends in their early teens, only to outstrip them around the age of twenty

On the Yda thing, that sounds like some of the pre-Stormblood speculation that Yda was 1) alive and 2) Zenos.

[Avidria]

Whether of not they can crossbreed, I'd like to see some legitimate inter-racial (inter-special?) romance...

Currently, the only cross-race stuff I've encountered is guys looking for hookers and the like. :-/

I see this post is from 2013 and idk if this person even still plays anymore but (alchemy quest spoiler here, sort of...)

F'lamhin's lover was an Elezen, and you get some of his story during the Stormblood alchemist quest. Apparently this was actually something from 1.0 but I didn't play back then so never knew it.

Anyway yeah I only knew of Hilda being half-Elezen, forgot about Arenvald... I've seen a few interracial couples but not many kids about. Still a lot of quests I haven't done yet though I suppose... and if it's possible for some, it could be for more. /Shrug

[SicariusSeven]

Probably said already but it was confirmed that if two races interbreed, 90% of the time the child born takes after the mother. So if it's a Hyur father and a Miqo'te mother, the child born is Miqo'te. Only under rare circumstances does the child become a hybrid, the most drastic case we've sen so far is Hilda during Heavensward. This is why we don't see so many of them walking around. It's a case of it being rare. The reason Hilda stands out is because her backstory involved nobles and commoners, so there was no hiding what happened between her parents.

[MikkoAkure]

Probably said already but it was confirmed that if two races interbreed, 90% of the time the child born takes after the mother. So if it's a Hyur father and a Miqo'te mother, the child born is Miqo'te. Only under rare circumstances does the child become a hybrid, the most drastic case we've sen so far is Hilda during Heavensward. This is why we don't see so many of them walking around. It's a case of it being rare. The reason Hilda stands out is because her backstory involved nobles and commoners, so there was no hiding what happened between her parents.

The child taking after the mother thing is fanon from an RP website, not canon. There is no case at all of mix-race kids looking like 1 parent only.

To add, I'm not sure if it's still the case anymore, but at least around ARR-time it was considered taboo to be in a serious, committed relationship with someone from a different race. Casual flings seem to be fine considering how many miqos were hanging around hyur a lot. There was even a same-sex couple who ran away because their relationship wasn't approved by their families. Not because they were same sex, but because they were a miqo'te and a hyur. Before present, pretty much all the races were at open war with each other as they came back into Eorzea after the calamities and the racial grudges last to the present time.

The reason we don't see mixed-race children is because of the old taboo and probably because it seems it would be difficult to conceive if we're all different actual species. Inter-clan relationships seem to already be present. Yda/Lyse/Minfilia are all highlander women who look like midlanders. There are a few keepr miqo'te with seekrer names and the other way around as well.

[Kidria]

Probably said already but it was confirmed that if two races interbreed, 90% of the time the child born takes after the mother. So if it's a Hyur father and a Miqo'te mother, the child born is Miqo'te. Only under rare circumstances does the child become a hybrid, the most drastic case we've sen so far is Hilda during Heavensward. This is why we don't see so many of them walking around. It's a case of it being rare. The reason Hilda stands out is because her backstory involved nobles and commoners, so there was no hiding what happened between her parents.

I don't believe that's true. If it were, all the Raen children the Ruby Princess of old had with a Hyur would have taken after her; but it was explicitly mentioned they had little to no scales. This tidbit was shared in the Ruby Princess questline after the dungeon. While this proves interracial children are possible (well, "proves" to an extent as these children are probably dead now) it does disprove whatever theory the above is.

Found it, from "A Part of Your World" :

Shiosai: To the contrary, Your Grace. I believe generations back, a Ruby Princess and a Hyuran man were once joined in holy matrimony. The son they bore was said to have had almost no scales.