Mixed
It is very, very common for a sentient to have children with another sentient (or sometimes even mystic) race. The term for this in the international language is a “mixed” child, though some cultural pockets may use more localised terms.
When referring to a mixed person’s bloodline, you use their mother’s lineage before their father’s; so someone with a wolven mother and maren father would be a wolven / maren mix. If either parent is a mix, the same applies. So someone with a wolven / avio mother and a maren father would be a wolven / avio / maren mix.
Because Sentient races are so different genetically, it can sometimes lead to unexpected features. Mixed children can be born with strange combinations of their racial traits that affect them later in life. A good example of this is when nurlak mix with winged sentients; often the genes for the nurlak’s extra limbs get confused with the wing genes, and the children can be born with a variety of strange combinations of arms and wings.
Mixed children are not always symmetrical. This is especially common with mixes that have a wolven parent; it is very common for half-wolven children to absorb each other in the womb and come out with uneven features. This can be as simple as an uneven jaw or different coloured eyes, but sometimes it is more serious, such as when they have different length legs or different ears types.
Though most births conform to the mother’s gestation period some mothers are shocked to give birth up to 6 months earlier than expected when mixing with races that develop faster, such as harpies.
Notable Mixes
There have been many mixed Sentients throughout history. Some of them famous for their rarer or more notable inherited genetics; while some of them famous for their great deeds and characters.
Colla’colkort
A dassen / harpy mix named Colla’colkort (born 7,361 AE in Ayaka’Doka Nuk to the banished Ginageko and the runaway Fen’okat) went down in history after she was taken as a slave by the Coto prince. She single-handedly started the well-known Coto Civil War by convincing the prince to free Coto’s slaves and was a key contributor in the dethroning of the Coto king and rewrite of the Coto laws.
One of her most amazing physical features was what originally caught the prince’s eye: she had no arms, as the dassen wing and harpy wing genetics had mixed and she was left with draconic wings where her arms would have been. She was nicknamed “The Wyvern” during the civil war.
Distro Nigelle
Distro Nigelle is a foxen / wolven mix who was born appearing rather unremarkable. She spent the majority of her life hidden away from the world with her son, Ka’harja Nigelle.
In 10,053 AE Distro called the goddess Klict using a well-known foxen ability known as dragon-shifting. However, unlike most dragon-shifters, she didn’t fully shift back and stayed in a part-dragon form. Shortly after taking her new form she inherited the throne of Canis La’Can and discovered she had become ageless; learning later that she was truly immortal during an attempted assassination.
She has since used her immortality to create stability in her kingdom and, though her age seems to have made her susceptible to boredom and scattered her memory of faces and time, she has not become cruel and does her best to maintain peace.