Existential crisis here

[Wyssahtyn]

Maybe I'm completely off here but I thought the lore says that only the mother's race gets inherited. So a female Hyur and a male Hrothgar would still make a Hyur. It's only little things like pointy ears (Hilda) that can get inherited.

Lore doesn't say that. It's just an inference since all the half breeds we've been shown have been like that.

[Packetdancer]

Lore doesn't say that. It's just an inference since all the half breeds we've been shown have been like that.

I think it actually did get answered that way in a Koji Fox interview somewhere, specifically to address the fandom speculation about, uh... 'issues' entailed if a Roegadyn father and a Lalafellan mother had a kid.

[MikkoAkure]

In the cutscenes when we see Eula/Nael in her original form and without her helmet on, I could swear she's got Hyur ears rather than Elezen. Am I misremembering? (I'm not in game to go check.)

Like I said earlier, the game files mostly show the Garleans as being elezens with a custom head. Eula/Nael and Maxima don't even have custom faces and instead have legit wildwood heads with a third eye and hyur ears. Gaius, Solus, and Nero are considered to be elezen according to the game files, but they have completely custom heads. Zenos and Varris are the only completely custom Garleans that have their own body.

I think it actually did get answered that way in a Koji Fox interview somewhere, specifically to address the fandom speculation about, uh... 'issues' entailed if a Roegadyn father and a Lalafellan mother had a kid.

The only interview I could find where Koji brought up hybrids, the whole "mother" thing wasn't mentioned. Unless someone else can find an interview or a blurb in the game or lore books where it says otherwise, that's fanon. I know it's a fantasy game, but it doesn't make any biological sense for the child of two races to look exactly like the mother's race but with a tiny bit from the dad anyway. SE wasn't going to make a whole separate body model just for Hilda when they can just give her pointy ears and call it a day. It's just as simple as that.

Funny enough, in the same interview, Koji describes Garleans as being a separate race from hyur. I saw a different interview with Banri Oda where he said the same.