Is it possible?
From the documentation:
QuoteGith are a race of hunched-over humanoids which are apparently descended from elves. Any such evolutionary branching assuredly occurred sometime in the very distant past, for there are few similarities between them save their long-limbed frame and great height.
Seems like you could have half-gith/half-elf....except they utterly despise each other.
Quote from: Bilanthri on August 11, 2010, 12:41:00 AM
From the documentation:
QuoteGith are a race of hunched-over humanoids which are apparently descended from elves. Any such evolutionary branching assuredly occurred sometime in the very distant past, for there are few similarities between them save their long-limbed frame and great height.
Seems like you could have half-gith/half-elf....except they utterly despise each other.
Rape. How do you think half-elves come about? ;)
Then again, I can't imagine either race being attracted to each other enough to consider rape, and besides, who
really knows what's beneath a gith's loincloth, anyhow? They might reproduce by rubbing noses or something.
Quote from: Aaron Goulet on August 11, 2010, 01:10:07 AM
I can't imagine either race being attracted to each other enough to consider rape,
Rape is not about attraction, it's about power. So...in that sense, I wouldn't be surprised. Gross but true.
I wouldn't doubt it if some gith force themselves upon anything warm.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 11, 2010, 03:00:31 AM
I wouldn't doubt it if some gith force themselves upon anything warm.
Or anything warm forced themselves upon some gith...
Then I guess it all boils down to how dissimilar gith are from the various races? I'm no biology expert...
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 11, 2010, 03:00:31 AM
I wouldn't doubt it if some gith force themselves upon anything warm.
I know if I was a gith, I wouldn't want to screw another gith. That's like saying you prefer to screw lepers because you're a leper yourself. In FightClub logic at least.
This thread is hot.
I don't doubt you can have a character who looks part gith. Wouldn't advise keywording it, though!
Rape is about power, not attraction.
I believe there has been one in the past, in game. If not, then the PC was just damn ugly, and a damn good liar, because he had most of Allanak fooled.
This would have been somewhere near 2002, or 2003... though I can't, for the life of me, remember the PC's name.
There are also certain cultures who would perhaps have a higher chance of this happening, and not through force.
I thought they were called Red Fangs.
Quote from: Spoon on August 11, 2010, 11:52:57 AM
I thought they were called Red Fangs.
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I could see a Breed being a half-gith. I mean, you would be extra hated. So probably not a good idea. I mean. Most people hate elves, Everyone hates a gith. PLus, You'de stink.
Yet if you were female, I bet you would still get hit on...
Quote from: Fredd on August 11, 2010, 12:21:19 PM
Yet if you were female, I bet you would still get hit on...
Very sad, but probably true.
Quote from: Aaron Goulet on August 11, 2010, 04:53:12 PM
Quote from: Fredd on August 11, 2010, 12:21:19 PM
Yet if you were female, I bet you would still get hit on...
Very sad, but probably definitely fucking true.
FTFY
I think Gith are half elf / half desert lizard.
So it would be like saying, could you make a Half-Mul, or a Half-Half-elf, because it's already a crossbreed.
I have seen entities within game which I strongly suspect are half-gith. Exercise to the reader, I guess.
Quote from: Obeliskocism on August 13, 2010, 03:42:31 PM
I think Gith are half elf / half desert lizard.
So it would be like saying, could you make a Half-Mul, or a Half-Half-elf, because it's already a crossbreed.
You couldn't make a half-mul.
Muls are sterile.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 11, 2010, 03:00:31 AM
I wouldn't doubt it if some gith force themselves upon anything warm.
Ever heard that expression "Have your cake and eat it too"? Heh, maybe that's why we don't see any half-gith offspring.
Quote from: 3kanks on August 11, 2010, 09:48:05 AM
Rape is about power, not attraction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw
it depends on their ploidy number of chromosomes
i could tell you all about it
TGIF
Quote from: Bilanthri on August 11, 2010, 12:41:00 AM
From the documentation:
QuoteGith are a race of hunched-over humanoids which are apparently descended from elves. Any such evolutionary branching assuredly occurred sometime in the very distant past, for there are few similarities between them save their long-limbed frame and great height.
Seems like you could have half-gith/half-elf....except they utterly despise each other.
The Red Fangs?
Quote from: jstorrie on August 13, 2010, 04:24:19 PM
I have seen entities within game which I strongly suspect are half-gith. Exercise to the reader, I guess.
Me, too, twice. I think there are race options hidden from the unwashed masses. Not like the normal hidden ones. They're hidden-hidden.
I also want to point out that the most likely half-gith isn't half gith, half elf. It's half gith, half Bynner.
Quote from: Sephiroto on August 13, 2010, 05:28:02 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on August 11, 2010, 03:00:31 AM
I wouldn't doubt it if some gith force themselves upon anything warm.
Ever heard that expression "Have your cake and eat it too"? Heh, maybe that's why we don't see any half-gith offspring.
For giths skinning a human woman:
Tattered skin, chunk of meat and some eggs
skinning a man:
Tattered skin, chunk of meat, a set of mountain oysters
served with a side of gith giz sauce, hmmm mmm
If magick can wreak a half-giant, it can probably wreak a half-gith.
Question's why the heck anyone would want to. ???
Quote from: Kalai on January 01, 2011, 09:36:17 AM
If magick can wreak a half-giant, it can probably wreak a half-gith.
Question's why the heck anyone would want to. ???
Yeah. Eww.
some freakish amalgam of all the race's best abilities, taking many innocent and semi-innocent random lives in the process, in order to create a creature with elvish agility, half-giant strenth, dwarf endurance, etc. etc.
Or you may just get an amalgam of bad traits.
Gith stank, HG ratardation, dwarven focus, etc...
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
Other gith.
It's definitely possible to create someone who's two-halves gith.
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
Because, Lord knows, PCs just don't hate on mutants and elves very much.... Maybe if I go half-gith, I'll get the harsh prejudice from other PCs I'm looking for. :/
No, probably not.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on January 02, 2011, 01:53:09 PM
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
Because, Lord knows, PCs just don't hate on mutants and elves very much.... Maybe if I go half-gith, I'll get the harsh prejudice from other PCs I'm looking for. :/
Nope. Just tons of mudsex.
lisping the yellow-eyed man says to the wrinkled-skinned brutish female, in sirihish, " Gith men on tha lip, ya sand-which."
Quote from: Kalai on January 01, 2011, 09:36:17 AMIf magick can wreak a half-giant, it can probably wreak a half-gith.
Question's why the heck anyone would want to. ???
The combination of 'gith' and 'giant' and them getting babies... and the word I thought you used was 'wreck'. I couldn't stop laughing there for a bit.
On topic, though, the only people I can see trying to make half-gith are those wacky sorcerers and their magick experiments. Presumably that's how half-giants came about. I do not think sex would be involved while lots of duress would be.
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane.
Sarumon. He'd do it.
Quote from: Spoon on January 03, 2011, 06:36:32 AM
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane.
Sarumon. He'd do it.
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Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
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"Good news, everyone! I've created something even worse than half-elves!"
Quote from: Niamh on January 02, 2011, 07:40:43 AM
You've also got to take all the racial prejudices on Zalanthas in mind, because Zalanthans are VERY prejudiced. The only person who would truly honestly WANT to create some kind of gith halfbreed is someone who can't possibly be sane. What kind of person really likes gith?
a mad scientist.
the zalanthan equivalent: a highly-born noble, templar or even a combo of a noble born a magicker, or a collaboration between two of these types, with the money, spare time, and insanity (though really, only the person holding the gun to or pulling the strings of the other person need be insane) to wish to do something like this. maybe someone from house winrothol or someone else who would already have a knowledge of how to get slaves for the experiments.
this just sounds nice IG, i'd like to be in allanak if this were to happen at some point, just so i could watch some festering heap of body parts attempt to climb over the elementalist's quarter wall and try to flee the city. or a success that escapes the city with incredible ease, and then goes on to kill, or simply to hide and become a rarity or a race of them, which will be always hunted by allanak.
/starts being quiet
Geeze.... for the sake of the Highlord, they are called Red Fangs and are already in game.
:D:D:D
i propose, to an inappropriately old thread which is half relevant, the following ideas for races.
1. due to the following, the idea that humans are breedable with all other races and are the only that are so.
2. half-gith
3. half-mantis
4. half-... halfling.
thus dropping half-elves from the bottom rung of common (? depends on the proper background and likelihood of these occuring) and replacing them with half-gith. half-mantis are virtually unstoppable when it comes to speed, and half... halflings can and crave corpse meat.
i realize the futility of the bull i am saying and stop here in the hopes that i inspire someone to come up with something saner.