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Does it happen? Between who? How does it end (if it even begins)?

Between Tyranid Genestealers and you love will always bloom

As with all things in 40k, it's up to you mate. Canon says... maybe. Probably not, as far as I know.

Well, Eldar and Humans can't have kids if you were wondering. And indeed this would apply to anything not related to Chaos or Genestealers.

Orks are compeltely asexual so its out of the question. The closest an ork could come to romance would be finding a big loud gun.


The closest you'd come to what you are probably thinking of would be between strains of abhumans. There are many many subspecies of human, many with major differences, that are still considered to be part of humanity.

There is only war. So, no...

War is not incompatable with romance. Many wars have been started over such a thing

 Grey Templar wrote:
Well, Eldar and Humans can't have kids if you were wondering..

Why not? The physical similarity is striking, to say the least. More so than the Tau, for which I am very thankful (space elves > space commies).

 Byte wrote:
There is only war. So, no...

Ever read Gaunt's Ghosts? Human relationships are actually quite normal.

It hasn't happened. Xenos are barely explored in the fluff/books, and when they are it's 99% as adversaries. The Eldar would view a relationship with a human akin to bestiality, humans would view it as heresy.

Yeah i remember something about a half-Eldar Ultramarine...

Gonna have to look him up.

That bit has long since been redacted. Its no longer valid in any way, shape, or form.

Nope. It never got retconed. It's still perfectly valid.

And the Eldar section in my old Rogue Trader book still mentions human-eldar hybrids. Very rare but not unheard of.

Well, if GW said it was possible before, and never bothered to change their stance, I suppose it's still valid.

 Snrub wrote:
Nope. It never got retconed. It's still perfectly valid.

source?

Source? The source is that they never directly contradicted his existance. They just never wrote about him again and hoped people would forget about him.


I'm still looking for "him" though. I can't for the life of me remember his name and its making finding him rather troublesome.

Looking for this?

This what your after



Looking at the bio, born on Badab, worked with the dark angels, was an astropath for a while.

Its not a job you switch roles in typically. I think we can safely discount him as a relic of rogue Trader as having no reliable impact on todays fluff.

Xenology confirms that despite certain aesthetic similarities, the physiology of an Eldar is nothing like that of a human.

Yes that is what i was looking for. What book is it in?


True enough its a fanciful bit of writing. It still doesn't discout it as a valid piece of fluff though. Although i suppose thats open to interpretation isn't it?

Well having him grow up on Badab after the Badab war... Was there anything left of that world?

Dunno how much of it was actually left after the war but according to Lexicanum the whole of the Badab system including Badab Primaris is under the Star Phantoms control. So i'd assume theres still something left of Badab Prime thats worth holding.

 Snrub wrote:
Dunno how much of it was actually left after the war but according to Lexicanum the whole of the Badab system including Badab Primaris is under the Star Phantoms control. So i'd assume theres still something left of Badab Prime thats worth holding.

Probably a fortress/es with all its guns aimed at the Maelstrom or something along those lines.

I support the notion of a half-Eldar Ultramarine, for no reason other than to validate my fantasies of humanXhot Eldar babe shenanigans.

BlaxicanX wrote:
I support the notion of a half-Eldar Ultramarine, for no reason other than to validate my fantasies of humanXhot Eldar babe shenanigans.

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Are you serious?

Are you?

BlaxicanX wrote:
Are you?

Maybe...TBH, the Craftworld Eldar remind me of the Quarians, so...

Void__Dragon wrote:Xenology confirms that despite certain aesthetic similarities, the physiology of an Eldar is nothing like that of a human.

Xenology also thinks that Tau have feet and Ork blood is green.

In the end, there is no such thing as "one singular truth" in 40k and the various sources of fluff - which includes not only the official outlets of GW, Black Library, Forgeworld and FFG (which contradict each other regularly) but also the fans - are all on equal footing. It's left to the fans to decide what they want to roll with.

Personally, Human + Eldar I could see happen on a biological level, but culturally each of these civilisations seems highly xenophobic (with the Humans it's hate, with the Eldar it's arrogance) so that it would be a rare thing indeed. "Special snowflake" kind of rare.

I suppose in some dark, forgotten corner of the galaxy a depraved human and an even more depraved Eldar meet. Their romance is forbidden, abohorent, reviling and not very pleasant to any onlookers. However, despite all that, they meet. They are a rare, 1 in a million chance pairing. For the human, the angular yet alluring beauty of an Eldar is too much for him or her. For the Eldar, his or her twisted and disgusting fetishes over ride any sense of self respect. Their genetic material is incompatible but for the forbidden factor of their "love" well makes up for it.

At least that's how it could happen according to what people say is Gee-Dubs stance on Eldar/Human relations.

I can well imagine Dark Eldar not being too put off by the depravity in the way that their Craftworld cousins would. Either that... or some Dark Eldar are forced to for the amusement of other Dark Eldar. :p
Slaaneshi Daemons are pretty much lore-bound to do something freaky with whatever they get their hands on. Of course, neither example is exactly romance or relationship...!

TheCustomLime wrote:
I suppose in some dark, forgotten corner of the galaxy a depraved human and an even more depraved Eldar meet. Their romance is forbidden, abohorent, reviling and not very pleasant to any onlookers. However, despite all that, they meet. They are a rare, 1 in a million chance pairing. For the human, the angular yet alluring beauty of an Eldar is too much for him or her. For the Eldar, his or her twisted and disgusting fetishes over ride any sense of self respect. Their genetic material is incompatible but for the forbidden factor of their "love" well makes up for it.

At least that's how it could happen according to what people say is Gee-Dubs stance on Eldar/Human relations.

I know where. The Dark City of Commoragh, where nothing is truly forbidden, and where the strong rule and the weak merely submit. There are supposed to be alien mercenaries in the outer districts, but since this is from the Dark Eldar codex, I assume 'alien' here refers to non-Dark Eldar. There are bound to be Human mercs there (given Humans are scattered like weeds across the galaxy), and given the reputation of the Dark Eldar, some things are bound to happen.