Interracial attraction; does it exist?

[Kainue]

But in all of this..I'd like to remind people in graphic detail body parts and sexual desire.

Spoiler:

A drae is probably going to be, well, stacked, so naturally the female must be a little wider to accommodate it. Same with Nelves and Humans and yadda yadda yadda.

Just..Uh, yeah, think of this shit too. Because honestly, if you look at racial characteristics in our world. Though people do break the stereotypes, it is just..normal to understand that male genitalia is made for female.

For example, (and please do not take offense to this. My biological anthropology class did a study on it.) Asian men and women's bodies have over time adapted to one another..Well, because for a very long time, they were independent from the rest of the world. Because of this...his size was made for her size...get it? Because I do not wanna go much further drunk and tired. XD

Anyways, just..uh..take this stuff into consideration too. lolol.

I'd like to stack some more stuff upon this here and say yes. It would be awkward trying to get something bigger (or smaller) in to something that just doesn't accommodate it nicely. The odds of it happening -anyways- is there, no doubt about it, but I would suggest not trying to go down that road just for the sake of this thread-conversation dwelling any deeper in to the physical aspects of some "half-anything(s)" father and mother.

Which has already started somewhat with the Asian persuasion, Cressy! Blargh!

Let's just not go there, for I will feel bad for the youngin's that read this thread.

[Piroska]

I don't think there should be any half-things on CotH.

Don't worry -- that's already taken care of! According to our awesome, newly updated (holy crap, is that a new front page?) wiki, the Half-insert-race-here article states:

Enjoy and embrace playing a normal, full-blooded character. (Apologies to Forsaken lacking blood.)

Too many half-races are simply entirely improbable because of race relations (even if the parents accept it, the rest of their culture would not), and many of the Warcraft races have an elitist view of the world. An "impure" member of their race would be embarrassing at best, and kill-on-sight at worst.

Yes, there are half-races in the lore. We know. We also point out that they're EXTREMELY rare. It's for a reason. We don't want to cheapen it with dozens of half-races running around.

So, nope, no half-breeds running amok. That's already been nixed by the staff.

[Azheron]

... I know it's been taken care of, Piroska, THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAMNIT. /rawr

Anyways, I think those rules are good.

Why did I post this...?

[Kainue]

... I know it's been taken care of, Piroska, THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAMNIT. /rawr

Anyways, I think those rules are good.

Why did I post this...?

For the sake of reviewing the rules! So that -is- a +!

Even I forgot about that rule. Thanks.

[Bovel]

Welp. Look at this way. Have you ever been physically attracted to any of the races on WoW? I'm being serious here.

I know some people would answer yes, so, there's your answer.

I see how you are thinking here, but I do not think it is a fair point cause I don't think it would be the same thing in real life if there were another bipedal and intelligent race. Imagine living with the prawns from District 9, attraction to them would be deemed as a sexual deviance going under the necro/pedo/and so on -category.

It was not too long ago that homo- and bisexuality was taken away from DSM and schoolbooks, before that it was deemed just as deviant as wanting to 'fudge' (Thanks Jidd) a horse or something.

[Hawk]

Orcs said, at some point, that they found quillboar more attractive. I lol'd. I can't for the life of me remember where it was from, but it said.

Now, this is my personal view coming up: As Humans IRL, if we find a different race attractive it's safe to assume it probably won't be outlandish for your Human IC to think that Night Elves have a nice rear or whatever. But would they return the favour? Of course Maybe Well... Proooooobably near to never. You have to remember that races such as Night Elves and Draenei... they think COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY. They are an -entirely- different race who think of Humans as strange little people. Especially Night Elves.

And I'll also note that if in the modern world the majority of people find black/white relationships taboo... it doesn't make sense for a Troll to get with a Night Elf. At all. Especially Night Elves who can only rival Trolls in their xenophobia.

Yes, half races exist. Majority of them being lore figures. They're also -extremely- rare, and for a reason. There's risk of being executed for treason (in case of crossfaction). If the child was offspring of the same faction, well, the child could rarely be happy for the amount of hate already thrown upon it. Same for the parents.

On topic of Half-Races I'll extract a few quotes from the WoWWiki page. Warning: If rape is a sensitive subject for you, then stop reading.

Half-Draenei (Half Draenei Half Orc)

Spoiler:

The birth of Garona was orchestrated by Gul'dan, who "bred" one of his orcish warriors to a draenei female (which in itself implies rape).

Half-Human/Ogres and Half-Orcs

Spoiler:

Half-human half-ogres are rumored to be products of ogre aggressions on human villages.APG 7 Half-orc genesis is usually violent and perverse, they are usually born to abused or victimized parents

The half-orcs' genesis is usually violent and perverse

Half-Elves

Spoiler:

Most half-elves are the hybrid offspring of both a human and a high elf, a human and a half-elf, or of two half-elf parents (a half-elf of high elf and half-elf descent is unlikely due to high elven prejudice)

Half-Night Elf (I can't believe Blizzard made them exist DAMN YOU BLIZZARD)

Spoiler:

This does not mean that half-night elves do not exist, though they would be far rarer than half-elves. If any exist most would only be young children

There's no info on Half-Trolls... but Lelior could have been one. He was the only one before he died, so remember that.

Pages used:

Spoiler:

http://www.wowpedia.org/Sexuality
http://www.wowpedia.org/Half-draenei
http://www.wowpedia.org/Half-elf
http://www.wowpedia.org/Half-ogre
http://www.wowpedia.org/Half-orc
http://www.wowpedia.org/Half-night_elf

[Ironside]

I agree with the general opinion: Yes, it exists. It has been proven in WoW to exist, and no matter how absurd you may find it, there's not much you can do to argue with set, existing lore. However, it is also proven to be extremely rare, as most races in WoW are xenophobic to high extents, and many races have suffered genocides, enormous wars and sieges, ext. Races like the elves (Night, Blood, High), draenei, gnomes, tauren, trolls, ext; have all had some tradgedy befall them that had a toll on their population.

That being said, we can't forget that probably the most populous races in WoW would most likely be Humans, Orcs, and Undead (Forsaken or otherwise). The frequency of breeding in certain races should also be considered. In races that live longer, reproduction is usually rare, hence it may go to say that sexual activity would also be a rarer occurrence. Which ties in with the fact that only out of deep emotional attachment do races like Night Elves and Draenei reproduce. And it's seen as a HUGE event. Because it happens so rarely. So, one can infer from this that many of the older races rarely reproduce, making the chances for cross-species reproduction even slimmer.

[Piroska]

Well, extremely rare might be the incorrect word to use for some of those pairings. There are at least 8,000 half-elves (human-high elf pairings) in Stormwind City alone. Sure, that's only 4% of the total population of that city, but there are more half-elves in Stormwind than there are night elves and gnomes. 8,000 in a single city is hardly extremely rare. I remember reading once that the second largest population of half-elves was in Theramore because they found less prejudice with the so-called "new" Alliance, but I read that some time ago and can't seem to find the page again. Ah well!

Remember, a blue dragon posed as a half-breed while traveling the lands of the mortals. If half-elves were extremely rare (as in only a handful exist), it would have been a really bad disguise.

[Lynnora]

What I find "slightly" worrying is how draenei and orcs can have children with each other and Azerothian people: they both come from two completey separate plants and one of the two are one-part fish and one-part goat. It seems like everything and everyone can reproduce with each other in WoW eww :(.

[Amerason]

I am not intending to upset anyone by asking what I am about to ask. But we know that interracial things happen, and now we have proof from Piroska that it isn't as rare as everyone may believe... then why is it such a big deal if players RP out interracial things, I mean after all they represent only one person out of a population, making it rare... so it fits the lore. But meh, whatever.

[Piroska]

Where did you read that, out of curiousity? I have never ever heard of anything like that existing in Stormwind!

One of the roleplayers' handbooks for the RPG; I usually have a copy of it and a couple of other books on my desk because I flip through them for fun. Fortunately, the Stormwind City article on WoWWiki says that exact same thing!

Many half-elves currently live in Theramore, having moved there during the third war.

That's not quite the quote of which I was thinking, but at least the half-elf article doesn't prove my memory too wrong. I'll find it one day. I know I read a good long paragraph or so about the half-elves in Dustwallow Marsh.

[Cressy]

I am not intending to upset anyone by asking what I am about to ask. But we know that interracial things happen, and now we have proof from Piroska that it isn't as rare as everyone may believe... then why is it such a big deal if players RP out interracial things, I mean after all they represent only one person out of a population, making it rare... so it fits the lore. But meh, whatever.

I think it is because once one person starts doing it on our server, then it becomes the norm. And honestly, this IC luv luv luv crap is getting a bit boring. But that is just /my/ opinion.

[Amerason]

I think it is because once one person starts doing it on our server, then it becomes the norm. And honestly, this IC luv luv luv crap is getting a bit boring. But that is just /my/ opinion.

See, that's understandable and all, it's just that I don't personally believe there is any real problem with it if people are doing it to strengthen their RP. Whatever happens, happens, I believe that should be left up to the individual players, personally... but it is not my decision in the long run. Oh well. :P

[Etmosril]

Heh. It's an interesting thing to think about, especially with all of those forbidden lover types running around.

I'm not sure what to think. One of my characters is horribly, horribly racist against anyone other than Night Elves and Tauren, the second hates everyone except dead Death Knights and Forsaken (because they're dead/cold/are like her), the third tolerates any race as long as they're 'good'.

And well... the fourth.. she's busy being an immature brat for her age. She'd probably screw around with anyone short of a Tauren or Gnome - especially if it was some race she was supposed to despise.

What I want to ask is; is the last character reasonable? I make it abundantly clear when I play her that she's not being rebellious for any good reason (just shallowness), and she's a pervert.
That actually makes it more fun.

[Beltharean]

Just as an FYI...

There's a half gnome, half human in lore. *shudder*