I've heard before that humans in various DnD settings often have some very diluted genealogical connection to other races/lineages, but I've been wondering if it goes the other way around. Could a half-orc lineage eventually give rise to ''pure'' orcs again, or a half-elf lineage eventually produce elves who experience trance once more.
I've heard before that humans in various DnD settings often have some very diluted genealogical connection to other races/lineages, but I've been wondering if it goes the other way around. Could a half-orc lineage eventually give rise to ''pure'' orcs again, or a half-elf lineage eventually produce elves who experience trance once more.
Just wonderin'.
in the forgotten realms under certain circumstances yes
in most worlds homebrew or not yes and fairly often too.
History is yours to create with D&D! You could indeed have this as a feature - and could have it as a plot point - a historian goes missing, it turns out an orc tribe found out he has found a human ancestor of their tribe and sought to cover it up. That sort of thing.
My favourite way of dealing with "Humans" is what they do in the Edge Chronicles (amazing books). They never really talk about the "human" characters, they always point out Trogs, Trolls, Gnomes, Slaughterers, Goblins etc., but never mention Humans, which is what the protagonists seem to be. In later books they refer to them as Fourthlings, because htey are mixes of all the other people of the Edge and their lineage comes from the four quarters of the world, so humans are basically all the races blended into their own, average race. This is the way of thinking I will be taking with my world - some humans might look to "have a bit of troll in them" or "look quite dwarfish" depending on the stronger roots of their ancestry, but they are the result of nonspecific interbreeding for countless generations.
I've heard before that humans in various DnD settings often have some very diluted genealogical connection to other races/lineages, but I've been wondering if it goes the other way around. Could a half-orc lineage eventually give rise to ''pure'' orcs again, or a half-elf lineage eventually produce elves who experience trance once more.
Just wonderin'.
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in the forgotten realms under certain circumstances yes
in most worlds homebrew or not yes and fairly often too.
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History is yours to create with D&D! You could indeed have this as a feature - and could have it as a plot point - a historian goes missing, it turns out an orc tribe found out he has found a human ancestor of their tribe and sought to cover it up. That sort of thing.
My favourite way of dealing with "Humans" is what they do in the Edge Chronicles (amazing books). They never really talk about the "human" characters, they always point out Trogs, Trolls, Gnomes, Slaughterers, Goblins etc., but never mention Humans, which is what the protagonists seem to be. In later books they refer to them as Fourthlings, because htey are mixes of all the other people of the Edge and their lineage comes from the four quarters of the world, so humans are basically all the races blended into their own, average race. This is the way of thinking I will be taking with my world - some humans might look to "have a bit of troll in them" or "look quite dwarfish" depending on the stronger roots of their ancestry, but they are the result of nonspecific interbreeding for countless generations.
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