What would determine the base look of the child? Would the child look more like an elf if the mother was an elf or would it look more human if the mother was human? I have an idea for an RP character that is a half-elf but I wanna try to make it as believeable as I possible can.
probably elf. for instance all Half-Orcen look Orc, even when mixed with something as drastic as Draenei. https://www.wowhead.com/npc=16886/arator-the-redeemer from what I can tell all Half-elves look almost indistinguishable from their Elven conceivers Male/Female. usually they’ll look either 100% human (Alodi) or 100% elf (Arator and Vereesa’s twins all look entirely Elven), kalecgos is the exception, however any “mortal” appearance he has elf or otherwise is just an illusion so that’s why.
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This,
It may also vary greatly based on recessive (Elf probably) and dominant genes, as also which you might inherit more from either parent.
Like rl, including biracial, the appearance is unexpected and unpredictable. We still yet to have an updated Aratos model that could distinguish & have that sort of half-elf image.
They might look far more human with very subtle features such as unusual brown-blue eye colour than average, growth of hair, high cheekbones etc,.
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Be as flexible as you wish to be when enrolling a half-elf.
Add features that may resemble its elvish heritage like slight point ears that appear human but when close inspecting it it can reveal that Elven heritage while having an average less slender but human body type & vice versa.
Just like rl humans, be open and play with options.
I forget where it was mentioned in wowpedia but they’re not long lived & life span is that of an average human with unusual slow aging but still aging nevertheless.
All in all, experiment!
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Given that half-orcs look like smaller versions of Orcs I would imagine that Half-elves look similar. For example, they may not be as tall as their full Elven mother, their eyebrows and ears may not be as long, though the life span would probably be greater than a humans. Im not sure about eye color though given that Elves had green eyes from consuming fel magic or whatever -would that carry over into the child? Not sure.
Mal’valen here is a half-Elf and has two younger siblings, brother in the middle, and sister is the youngest. Their father was Quel’dorei, and their mother was Human. Mal’valen looks much more like his Elven father, and Kal’theraa looks much more like their Human mother. Veladrys is somewhere in between. They all have distinctly Elven features, like the pointed ears and longer, wispy eyebrows, but Veladrys and Kal’theraa are both a bit more on the human-shaped side. Veladrys’ ears are also half as tall as Mal’s, and Kal’thera’s are basically the same size as a Human’s but with pointy tips.
This, one hundred percent. There’s no hard and fast rules. I went with what I felt was interesting, that the oldest and youngest looked like the same sex parents, and the middle kid was just kind of an amalgamation of the two.
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You have one in-game example… Arator who you see at Honor Hold, and on Argus, the child of Turalyon and Alleria. He looks identical to a High Elf.