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IIRC, Jes Goodwin (who, y'know, invented the Eldar) reckoned that there were probably a lot of hybrids kicking about in Comorragh.
It was in one of the "designer's videos" that GW released when the new Dark Eldar codex came out. So, fairly recent if not actually written down anywhere.

Graphite wrote:
IIRC, Jes Goodwin (who, y'know, invented the Eldar) reckoned that there were probably a lot of hybrids kicking about in Comorragh.
It was in one of the "designer's videos" that GW released when the new Dark Eldar codex came out. So, fairly recent if not actually written down anywhere.

Well, there we have it. If Word of God says so, then it's possible between Humans and Eldar.

IMHO Xenology also contained the Ethereals' pheromonal control gland and an Imperial citizen actually doing science instead of quoting ancient tracts and resorting to the principle of authority

Interesting read, though.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Yup. The closest they would come to sex would be the best fight of their lives.

So when you think about it, fighting an ork is the equivilant of "boinking" him.

Now i'm going to feel like the universe's most peverted pimp every time i field my waaaagh

I can live with that

How about tau and human?

IIRC, Tau genetics are not compatible. It'd be like a human trying to breed with a bovine. Though now that there are those... cat people.... I don't even want to contemplate where *that* is going to go.

Except those Cat people are actually a sub-species of human. Just like Ogryn, Squats, and Ratlings. So they would potentially be genetically compatable. Tau, not so much.

Holy Chri-.... are you serious? I have to admit that my mind had blocked out the cat-people thing after I had originally heard about the idea in the middle of last year, after some unrelated, but no less psychologically traumatizing, events involving cat people from another setting.

Well... I should probably start reading up on them, it's inevitable that someone will want to play one in a Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader campaign. *bangs head against wall*

They are on the list of recognized abhuman strains in the 6th edition rulebook's fluff section.

En Excelsis wrote:
I think it's unlikely that an CWE or even DE would deign to mate with or be sexual with a human (whom they do not regard as animals, but more like barbarians). They would both probably avoid that sort of relationship out of an aloofness or arrogance.
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Dark Eldar may or may not - however they might find it amusing to "convince" others to do so and they have plenty of methods to make it happen.

 Psienesis wrote:
IIRC, Tau genetics are not compatible. It'd be like a human trying to breed with a bovine. Though now that there are those... cat people.... I don't even want to contemplate where *that* is going to go.

There ARE humans that try to breed with bovines for their own sick pleasure though A sentient bovine-based life form might enjoy it also, and reciprocate

They don't expect a half-bovine hybrid, they just want to get their jollies.

Same goes for almost anything else they can catch, sane or not Crocodiles for instance... Not so sane, that..

Live in a rural area for a while. It's an education

Yeah, there is no doubt that you can "get it on" with any living thing. You just won't get any results unless its the same species or a derivative thereof.

Pretty much.

I'd not be shocked if most human-abhuman matchups would mule out or at least have a very low conception rate either, even though the original base-stock was homo sapiens.

Yeah, there would probably be a very low rate of viable offpring. But they would be possible, unlike if aliens were involved.

 Ascalam wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
IIRC, Tau genetics are not compatible. It'd be like a human trying to breed with a bovine. Though now that there are those... cat people.... I don't even want to contemplate where *that* is going to go.

There ARE humans that try to breed with bovines for their own sick pleasure though A sentient bovine-based life form might enjoy it also, and reciprocate

They don't expect a half-bovine hybrid, they just want to get their jollies.

Same goes for almost anything else they can catch, sane or not Crocodiles for instance... Not so sane, that..

Live in a rural area for a while. It's an education

When I say "breed", I mean "have offspring", not "get it on with". They make servitors for that.

As far as rural living goes... I'm originally from the Deep South of the US. I got out of there many, many years ago and have never looked back. The Innsmouth Look? Not reserved to New England.

Heh

Thanks for the Lovecraft reference - sums up a couple of places i lived in for a while, a few years back

 Psienesis wrote:
Holy Chri-.... are you serious? I have to admit that my mind had blocked out the cat-people thing after I had originally heard about the idea in the middle of last year, after some unrelated, but no less psychologically traumatizing, events involving cat people from another setting.

Well... I should probably start reading up on them, it's inevitable that someone will want to play one in a Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader campaign. *bangs head against wall*

Are they snappy dressers with spray cans of scent to make things theirs?

That's mine, and that's mine ...all of this is miiiine...

Except that bit.. i don't want that bit... but all of the rest of this is MINE....

Actually that sounds more like the IOM

 Flinty wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Holy Chri-.... are you serious? I have to admit that my mind had blocked out the cat-people thing after I had originally heard about the idea in the middle of last year, after some unrelated, but no less psychologically traumatizing, events involving cat people from another setting.

Well... I should probably start reading up on them, it's inevitable that someone will want to play one in a Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader campaign. *bangs head against wall*

Are they snappy dressers with spray cans of scent to make things theirs?

I can only hope, because my DH group contains some Red Dwarf fans, but it also contains two women, who might be totally enamored at the idea of playing bolter-slinging Death Cult Assassin Cat-girls.

 Psienesis wrote:


When I say "breed", I mean "have offspring", not "get it on with".

Thus far, only Eldar-Human hybrids are possible based on Word of God.

Even that doesnt make a lot of sense, since the Eldar were created, pretty much fully-formed and advanced as all hell, 60 million years ago. Why the homo sapien species would be at all genetically related is... questionable. I'd have to see the quote in context.

 Psienesis wrote:
Even that doesnt make a lot of sense, since the Eldar were created, pretty much fully-formed and advanced as all hell, 60 million years ago. Why the homo sapien species would be at all genetically related is... questionable. I'd have to see the quote in context.

Maybe they were created to be compatible with a wide range of different life form types. As soon as you drop off the natural evolution side of things, then you can say anything. Do Eldar have genes? Maybe they are all actually extremely complicaetd self-organising nano machine hives.

Also Mass Effect ratehr neatly dealt with the whole inter-species breeding thing with the Asari.

 Flinty wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Even that doesnt make a lot of sense, since the Eldar were created, pretty much fully-formed and advanced as all hell, 60 million years ago. Why the homo sapien species would be at all genetically related is... questionable. I'd have to see the quote in context.

Maybe they were created to be compatible with a wide range of different life form types. As soon as you drop off the natural evolution side of things, then you can say anything. Do Eldar have genes? Maybe they are all actually extremely complicaetd self-organising nano machine hives.

Also some can remember that in some old GW books it were humans whose origins could be not-so-natural (afair oldcrons/C'Tan were pointed at). So maybe it's homo sapiens bellum malleus who are most compatible with xenos filth

It is thought that the Old Ones originally seeded the galaxy with life, but after their destruction, those that were not already involved with the War in Heaven were left to develop without their interference. So while what would become Mankind may have originated with the Old Ones, they were not as... guided... in their development as the Orks or Eldar or any other preceding race was.

Really, the idea of the Eldar as Elves in Spaaace (and the Dark Eldar just being Dark Elves) is as old as the IP is, and half-elves have always been a popular thing in fantasy gaming and fantasy fiction. Personally, I prefer my Elves to be a bit more... otherworldy. More like the various legends of the Fair Folk or the Fae from a number of cultures, and definitely Not Human.

Now in Fantasy, sure you could have Half-elves. That is 100% certain will all races being created by the Old Ones(except for Beastmen)

"The Black Library novel The Chapter's Due has as a minor character Kaarja Salombar The Corsair Queen. She's variously described as "...beautiful, with palm skin and warm almond shaped eyes of striking violet...there were some who said there was Eldar blood in her veins..." and "...more than a hint of inhuman Eldar to her lithe frame, and a wild mane of azure hair flowing around her shoulders..." She also bags at least a trio of Ultramarines and near slays Cato Sicarius before getting piked by the Ultramarines 2nd Company standard, which should make a bit of a hero to the various Ward haters"

Granted I haven't read the book, this is what i found on another website. But since they haven't retconned that Rogue Trader bit, I guess its whatever the particular fan thinks. I thought it said something about Eldar/Human Hybrids in the 4th or 5th Edition Rulebooks?

I personally would have to say its possible, But not likely as every race hates every other race in 40k.

I seem to remember reading something about just why tigurius is so powerful a psyker.

PredaKhaine wrote:


I seem to remember reading something about just why tigurius is so powerful a psyker.

Pure talent?

Must be. Forget I asked.