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Subject says it all.

The short answer is no.

The logn answer is they are two completely different species made up entirely of different people, so it's physically impossible. It's like us trying to mate with the squid. It never happened, And never will.

Antique fluff (RT-2nd ed era) had half-eldar astropaths mentioned in a few mini-stories.

These days, who knows?

Regular eldar wouldn't touch a mon-keigh with a 10 ft firepike, and i'm not sure even dark eldar would be that hinky Humans are oooogly....

Ascalam wrote:Antique fluff (RT-2nd ed era) had half-eldar astropaths mentioned in a few mini-stories.

These days, who knows?

Regular eldar wouldn't touch a mon-keigh with a 10 ft firepike, and i'm not sure even dark eldar would be that hinky Humans are oooogly....

Nope. They're completely incompatible.

They are now.

Back in RT they weren't. Now they are.

Mysterious are the ways of GW...

Ascalam wrote:Antique fluff (RT-2nd ed era) had half-eldar astropaths mentioned in a few mini-stories.

These days, who knows?

Regular eldar wouldn't touch a mon-keigh with a 10 ft firepike, and i'm not sure even dark eldar would be that hinky Humans are oooogly....

Didn't a dark eldar archon go a "hinky" spree with some human slaves in the second salamander book?

Ascalam wrote:They are now.

Back in RT they weren't. Now they are.

They've been incompatible since 3rd. Eldar are somewhow crystalline or some such crap. Xenology has theories about it in there.

Mysterious are the ways of GW...

Not really. It came about with their whole push to get rid of the "Fantasy in Space" motif bashing you over the head everywhere you looked.

I read somewhere not to long ago about the old ones. Supposedly they created the humans and Eedar. They were created to possibly interbreed but thats not yes they can interbreed. Im goin with no they cant because the site might not have been correct. Plus that would be pretty crazy if they could.

Malivon wrote:

Ascalam wrote:Antique fluff (RT-2nd ed era) had half-eldar astropaths mentioned in a few mini-stories.

These days, who knows?

Regular eldar wouldn't touch a mon-keigh with a 10 ft firepike, and i'm not sure even dark eldar would be that hinky Humans are oooogly....

Didn't a dark eldar archon go a "hinky" spree with some human slaves in the second salamander book?

I hate to say it, but so what?

There's people who indulge hinky sprees with animals. That's how the Eldar view it with humans.

A popular race in fantasy games is the "half-elf", a person of mixed human and elven parentage (in some games, simply mixed heritage, even if their parents are both humans or both elves).

In early RT/40K the Eldar were (and, in many ways, still are) nothing more than Elves in Space, and so the "half-eldar" was a nod to the "half-elf" trope. This has since been done away with as Humans and Eldar are entirely separate species and thus cannot share genetic material to create offspring.

I'm not even sure Eldar are... equipped, in the breeding apparatus department, in any method compatible with humanity. It is known that Eldar breed sexually (or maybe that, too, has changed), but that does not make them sexually compatible with humans.

Kanluwen wrote:

Malivon wrote:

Ascalam wrote:Antique fluff (RT-2nd ed era) had half-eldar astropaths mentioned in a few mini-stories.

These days, who knows?

Regular eldar wouldn't touch a mon-keigh with a 10 ft firepike, and i'm not sure even dark eldar would be that hinky Humans are oooogly....

Didn't a dark eldar archon go a "hinky" spree with some human slaves in the second salamander book?

I hate to say it, but so what?

There's people who indulge hinky sprees with animals. That's how the Eldar view it with humans.

NP just making sure that they are that f'd up and dirty lol.

40K Rogue trader says yes, but that is antiquated fluff at this point. Not sure what the latest fluff would be.

Hawk wrote:I read somewhere not to long ago about the old ones. Supposedly they created the humans and Eldar.

Not true, they created every race except Humans. When the Necrons wipe out the Old Ones, Earth was hit by Asteroid that wiped out Dinisaurs ( lore mentione some 60.000.000 years B.C. ). Our race now exist for "only" 100.000 years. There is no way that they have made us.

And Eldar and Humans can't have children, they don't have same DNA to have kids. They can still have sex... ( oh the fantasies of the Eldar... ).
But, except for that, I don't have anything else on the subject. There are some records in the past about Ultramarine Librarian, son of Human female and Eldar male. And I didn't read anything in fluff that suggest Eldar and Humans can't have kids.

I will assume it is still possible. But Eldar see us like we see monkeys - barbaric, sadistic race of savages. But who knows, they respect us more with every new fluff. Maybe there will be something in the future on this theme. We shall see...

BTW sex topics like these have been answered about once per month, so a search would have helped.

Brother Coa wrote:

Not true, they created every race except Humans. When the Necrons wipe out the Old Ones, Earth was hit by Asteroid that wiped out Dinisaurs ( lore mentione some 60.000.000 years B.C. ). Our race now exist for "only" 100.000 years. There is no way that they have made us....

Whilst that might be the case in the real world, in the 40K setting it is indeed intimated that the Old Ones did indeed create humans, or at least lay down the initial genetic blueprint for us the war against the C'tan and the Enslaver plague kiboshing their chances of actively watching or interfering with our development.

Remember our idea of the Reaper is supposedly distant genetic memory of Nightbringer and the death he spread.

This is, of course, assuming that the background presented in Codex : Necrons and Xenology is still canon/up to date. One wonders if we'll get more info in the new Necron codex, but it would seem ( aptly enough one could argue) the fluff in that book will be more focused on the Necrontyr rather than the C'tan, as it currently did.

Going back to Xenology, there is no compatibility between humans and Eldar. The DNAs are too different.

reds8n wrote:
Whilst that might be the case in the real world, in the 40K setting it is indeed intimated that the Old Ones did indeed create humans, or at least lay down the initial genetic blueprint for us the war against the C'tan and the Enslaver plague kiboshing their chances of actively watching or interfering with our development.

Remember our idea of the Reaper is supposedly distant genetic memory of Nightbringer and the death he spread.

This is, of course, assuming that the background presented in Codex : Necrons and Xenology is still canon/up to date. One wonders if we'll get more info in the new Necron codex, but it would seem ( aptly enough one could argue) the fluff in that book will be more focused on the Necrontyr rather than the C'tan, as it currently did.

Going back to Xenology, there is no compatibility between humans and Eldar. The DNAs are too different.

Quote from Lexicanum on the matter: " Among their creations also included early Mankind who were tree beasts that were part of their ecosystem but otherwise had no greater role defined for them by the Old Ones." and: " In the power vacuum following the war, the lesser creations of the Old Ones such as Mankind were known to had continued to develop but in unforseen ways."

They did have us as pets maybe, they never intended for us to evolve. We evolve our-self long after they where gone...

Yep, big secret of 40k. Old ones made the humans.

If I remember correctly that's when the Eldar picked up the nick-name monkeigh, though I think it used to refer to all other races they considered inferior. Eldar and humans used to be able to interbreed, in fact the Ultramarines had at least one half Eldar Librarian at some point, but the fluff was retconned ages ago to that they are completely incompatible.

Brother Coa wrote:

Quote from Lexicanum on the matter: " Among their creations also included early Mankind who were tree beasts that were part of their ecosystem but otherwise had no greater role defined for them by the Old Ones." and: " In the power vacuum following the war, the lesser creations of the Old Ones such as Mankind were known to had continued to develop but in unforseen ways."

They did have us as pets maybe, they never intended for us to evolve. We evolve our-self long after they where gone...

No, look at the carving above -- the old ones made all of the psychic races.

And we where not psychic race for how long?
Our psykers started to appear when the Fall of Eldar was ongoing. Beside, it is all said there - we where just pets for them, nothing else. They had plans for other races to evolve, but not for us, we where accident and we succeed. And that is why Eldar hate us so much, because we are being able to survive and to even hold a grip on the galaxy while being former pets of the galaxy's most advanced races.

Brother Coa wrote:And we where not psychic race for how long?
Our psykers started to appear when the Fall of Eldar was ongoing.

Five words for you: The God-Emperor of Mankind.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:And we where not psychic race for how long?
Our psykers started to appear when the Fall of Eldar was ongoing.

Five words for you: The God-Emperor of Mankind.

That's just one psyker, he even didn't use his powers until the Age of the Imperium. We where not officially psychic race until the Fall of the Eldar.

The baby in the sun could be a reference to the star Child?

Wasn't the reaper reference from the war in heavenr?

THE BIRTH OF FEAR
But victory came at a price. Shards of the Yngir's flesh, driven deep into Khaine's body by the cataclysmic demise of his foe, melted in the fires of the War God's wrath. The silver poison flowed into his bloodstream, forever tainting his physical incarnation with the aspect of the Reaper7.

Kaelis Ra cannot truly die, for it is death incarnate. Raging at its defeat, its quintessence howled throughout space, entering every one of the Eldar race and cursing them with the terror of the grave. Thus it was that the seed of the Eldar's downfall was sown, and ultimately, the way of reincarnation was closed to them forever.

I like to see it as they can interbreed ala Half-Elf, but the Inq has laid down the law as you cant, to prevent powerful half breeds from poking up and making a mess of things...

I think i just got an idea for my libraryman...

edit: I realise that it is canon somewhere that they cant breed, so I reject your reality and substitute my own... I see this as in universe Inq meddling...

Uh, basic species theory kinda indicates that Humans and Eldar can't interbreed. They might look human, to an extent, but Eldar are very much incompatible in reproductive terms. Hence GW's more scientific take on the matter since 3rd Ed.

Brother Coa wrote:And we where not psychic race for how long?
Our psykers started to appear when the Fall of Eldar was ongoing. Beside, it is all said there - we where just pets for them, nothing else. They had plans for other races to evolve, but not for us, we where accident and we succeed. And that is why Eldar hate us so much, because we are being able to survive and to even hold a grip on the galaxy while being former pets of the galaxy's most advanced races.

No, "we"'ve always had psychic ability or potential at least, hence why we've always had shamans, "sorcerors" et al throughout human history. In fact it was the collective Shaman who, ultimately, all died and "combined" to form the Emperor.

It was this psychic potential that the C'tan/Necrons tried to stop, which incldues the introduction of the Pariah gene into humanity.

The baby in the sun could be a reference to the star Child?

Could be. Or it could infact be The Emperor... either way the implication is that humanities "manifest destiny" is not what we think it/should be and in fact is very little to do with us/free will either.

Of course the idea that pure, noble humanity is in fact subject to the whims and manipulations of.. of... of xenos ! is kind of a touchy subject for the Imperium, hence why the Inquisition suppressed this information.

reds8n wrote:
It was this psychic potential that the C'tan/Necrons tried to stop, which incldues the introduction of the Pariah gene into humanity.

Ok all that, but I heard that Pariah will no longer be part of Necron army.

*shrugs*

indeed.

Codex : Necrons might come out and totally rewrite every single thing we "know" about the setting.

..what a game eh !

You bet

reds8n wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

Not true, they created every race except Humans. When the Necrons wipe out the Old Ones, Earth was hit by Asteroid that wiped out Dinisaurs ( lore mentione some 60.000.000 years B.C. ). Our race now exist for "only" 100.000 years. There is no way that they have made us....

Whilst that might be the case in the real world, in the 40K setting it is indeed intimated that the Old Ones did indeed create humans, or at least lay down the initial genetic blueprint for us the war against the C'tan and the Enslaver plague kiboshing their chances of actively watching or interfering with our development.

Remember our idea of the Reaper is supposedly distant genetic memory of Nightbringer and the death he spread.

This is, of course, assuming that the background presented in Codex : Necrons and Xenology is still canon/up to date. One wonders if we'll get more info in the new Necron codex, but it would seem ( aptly enough one could argue) the fluff in that book will be more focused on the Necrontyr rather than the C'tan, as it currently did.

Going back to Xenology, there is no compatibility between humans and Eldar. The DNAs are too different.

Why does there appear to be a long row of Batmen (Batmans?) at the bottom of that piece of rock?

Yes they can! One of the newer space marine books has a half eldar chick in it. Let me see if I can figure out which one it was (thinking it was one of the Ultramarine novels, but not sure).