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[darrylzero]

SilentK wrote...

I think this is a very interesting idea. Personally have thought a lot of about how you fit in with the people surrounding you. Would the the PC grow up with the elves, or with the humans? Would this character feel at home at either place? Would the PC feel a connection to other elves out in the world, or would this be a shameful secret never to be mentioned.

Could be interesting. I mostly play human characters, but this could be fun to play just to see where it would end up.

Especially if the character is from Tevinter, born to an elf mother.  Or the bastard of an Orlesian noble with his elven not-quite-slave.  There's some very evocative stuff here.  I'm into it.

How are the "human" offspring of elven mothers in Tevinter and Orlais dealt with, anyway?  What kind of legal status do they have?  Or even in Fereldan.  You can't tell me Vaughan doesn't have a few running around.  What happens to them?

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

darrylzero wrote...

SilentK wrote...

I think this is a very interesting idea. Personally have thought a lot of about how you fit in with the people surrounding you. Would the the PC grow up with the elves, or with the humans? Would this character feel at home at either place? Would the PC feel a connection to other elves out in the world, or would this be a shameful secret never to be mentioned.

Could be interesting. I mostly play human characters, but this could be fun to play just to see where it would end up.

Especially if the character is from Tevinter, born to an elf mother.  Or the bastard of an Orlesian noble with his elven not-quite-slave.  There's some very evocative stuff here.  I'm into it.

How are the "human" offspring of elven mothers in Tevinter and Orlais dealt with, anyway?  What kind of legal status do they have?  Or even in Fereldan.  You can't tell me Vaughan doesn't have a few running around.  What happens to them?

Unless they are born into an incredibly liberal society by Thedosian standards (I am uncertain that such things exist) they live as a pureblooded human while hiding from anyone who knows they aren't. I don't think the elves accept them easily, and the humans certainly won't if they know the truth.

[Maclimes]

I will support you, if we can also add in one of the background options as "raised by dwarves" and I can express belief in the Paragons. (It can even be surface dwarves, I'm not picky).

[silentassassin264]

Please let us have a Dalish Half-elf background. It would mitigate my sorrow for not being able to be a complete Dalish again.

[Vicious]

But if i'm not repressed what's the point??

[darrylzero]

Riverdaleswhiteflash wrote...

darrylzero wrote...

How are the "human" offspring of elven mothers in Tevinter and Orlais dealt with, anyway?  What kind of legal status do they have?  Or even in Fereldan.  You can't tell me Vaughan doesn't have a few running around.  What happens to them?

Unless they are born into an incredibly liberal society by Thedosian standards (I am uncertain that such things exist) they live as a pureblooded human while hiding from anyone who knows they aren't. I don't think the elves accept them easily, and the humans certainly won't if they know the truth.

Agreed, but they still have to be raised by someone.  Perhaps some Orlesian lords might try to pass off their bastard by an elf servant-slash-pseudo-slave as a bastard by a human servant or something, but perhaps not.  And in Tevinter?  

Maybe, but suppose a guardsman of a Tevinter magister had an affair with (or raped) an elven slave of his?  The magister might or might not know exactly what had happened, but he would know that this seemingly human baby came from an elven womb (unless the truth was carefully hidden somehow, which could be the kernel of a pretty interesting background in its own right).  And he might well attempt to claim that this descendent of his slave was also his slave, unless there are clear laws about this in Tevinter.  I, for one, would *love* to see this dynamic explored.  

Vicious wrote...

But if i'm not repressed what's the point??

I guess what I'm saying is that you might well be pretty repressed.

Modifié par darrylzero, 23 octobre 2012 - 10:16 .

[darrylzero]

Maclimes wrote...

I will support you, if we can also add in one of the background options as "raised by dwarves" and I can express belief in the Paragons. (It can even be surface dwarves, I'm not picky).

I support that, though any surface dwarf character I played would likely have some pret-ty hostile thoughts about the paragons. 

Modifié par darrylzero, 23 octobre 2012 - 10:28 .

[silentassassin264]

Vicious wrote...

But if i'm not repressed what's the point??

My same response when Shale asked about why I was unique.

"Well I am Dalish.  We are better than everyone else."

[AddieTheElf]

darrylzero wrote...

Maclimes wrote...

I will support you, if we can also add in one of the background options as "raised by dwarves" and I can express belief in the Paragons. (It can even be surface dwarves, I'm not picky).

I support that, though any surface dwarf character I played would likely have some pret-ty hostile thoughts about the paragons. 

I can see this, possibly an human orphan practically taken in by the local dwarven merchants? (like they look after the PC or maybe adopted) ... would it be frowned upon for dwarves to adopt a human?

[Plaintiff]

Half-elves don't really "count" as human. Genetically, yes, they are human, but in a societal sense they are still considered inferior scum and have all the same restrictions on them that full-blood elves do.

That said, I suppose Bioware could potentially make it work.