Dear lord. I’d say that a tauren would be more likely to eat a gnome than attempt to mate with it.
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Genstics, man. Didnt you ever pay attention in biology class? Hell, the fact that Garona is half human and half orc should have been impossible, given that both species evolved on completely different planets with no common ancestors.
The only half race options options should work are those with similar genetic ancestry:
-vrykul/humans/dwarves/gnomes all come from titan creations afflicted by the curse of flesh.
-trolls/elves (and offshoot elves such as naga/satyrs) would also be compatible with one another, but not with anyone else.
-orcs/ogres due to common ancestry on draenor, this is how we got moknathal
-tauren/taunka I believe have common ancestry
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In what order?
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This is disgusting. I can only think of Human and Elf, or at least I saw few of them already.
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Fun fact: Garona is actually an Orc/Draenei hybrid, not Orc/Human. However because Orcs and Draenei are not of the same world (Draenei being native to Argus) your original point is still valid.
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Draenelf
Dwargen
Pantauran
Gnoblome
By comparison, cats and dogs living together now doesn’t seem so bad.
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Only in the retconned version. Back in the old warcraft games she was human/orc and born after the invasion into azeroth, because nobody had done enough shrooms to think adding space goats to the game was a good idea yet
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I think I found their offspring
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Warcraft lore has become one giant retcon, lol.
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That… raises some intriguing questions.
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Getting people to unanimously agree to something on a video game message board is.
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Fun fact
This is a Fantasy Game and is only limited by the imagination and not the reality of real world genetic restrictions.
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Adding on here…
In real life, mixed race folks, adolescents specifically, based on this paper, are at a higher risk for health complications, and life struggles.
Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity
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I know Blizzard sees absolutely no value in nuance these days, but there is a story to be told here, one that can reflect the everyday lives of regular folks.
Not only could this make for an interesting story, especially given the fact that this is a game about tribal warfare (isn’t it all, in the end?) but it could also serve as the foundation for a unique gameplay element.
Third faction rebellion, perhaps?
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Its an interesting thought but no rules have been officially established for crossbreeding.
Works for Elves+Humans, Orcs+Draenei and even Orcs+Ogres but beyond that its largely murky waters. If anything these days biological backgrounds don’t really have a huge bearing on what happens story-wise but where blood-magic is present I wouldn’t put it past for a certain someone to jump into her sisters blood should her body become swiss cheese in the upcoming expansion.
I am more curious how both factions manage to replenish their numbers after each war as there doesn’t appear to be a lot of down-time between them to allow youths to be born and grow into adulthood to bear weapons and kill one another.
Perhaps its harder to kill things inside our factions then we’re led to believe. Unless you’re a Warchief, your pretty much dead on a whim from Blizzard.
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we have half Dreanei/Orc
we know Elves evolved from trolls so same genetic pool there.
we know dwarves, humans and gnomes come from the Titans same genetic pool.
we have half elf/ human so the Troll geno and the Titan geno can mix.
So all we really need is enough booze and mood music and we can make many things that shouldn’t be.
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I know this thread is more about people getting on with other races than the actual thoughts on how genetics and biology and breeding works in wow, but I will be touching more on that “science” side here.
We have already crossbreeds like it was mentioned.
Garona being half orc half draenei.
We have the half human half high elf with the sons of ronin and vereesa and the son of alleria and turalyon.
Between different elf races we haven’t seen crossbreeding, but they all come from Night Elves, and i think as far as genetic and biology, they’re all elves, so they should be able to reproduce well enough.
Now, we know that humans, Dwarves and gnomes are product of titan constructs transformed by the curse of flesh, maybe this curse of flesh used elf structure and DNA as a blueprint? Since Elves have been around before the curse of flesh? Or the change in the well of eternity that turned Trolls into Elves generate a being biologically compatible with whatever the curse of flesh made to the titan constructs, or maybe Troll DNA was the blueprint, and therefore all elven races, trolls and descendants of curse of flesh victims can reproduce.
But, at the very basic level, i think is safe to assume that all elven races (and maybe trolls) can breed with the races that are descendant from titan constructs. Now, are those crossbreeds able to breed? Normally when you crossbreed in real life even if the results are successful in a healthy animal, normally said animal can’t reproduce at all.
That of course still leaves question for the less “human” races of azeroth, like Tauren, Pandaren and Vulpera.
Orcs and Draenei, we have a case of course confirmed, but wasn’t Garona product of magical experiments?
This isn’t too far of a stretch now since the Chronicles mass retcon. They now claim that when the Titans showed up there was only the Elementals and the Old Gods races on Azeroth and that all non-old god created life was seeded after the destruction of the Black Empire by Eir.
So technically all non-old god sentient races native to Azeroth are derived from the Titans. The Orcs/Ogres/Ogron/Gron are also descended from a Titan construct so they too could be lumped in with the native races.
The only odd one out is the Draenei, who have already been shown to be able to reproduce with Orcs, but only because magic was involved. The Orc/Draenei pairings aren’t natural. They were the product of magical experimentation.
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Not really, we have a natural one if you play thru Nagrand in WoD.
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Actually you can trace him back to Nagrand during Burning Crusade.
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