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Iyer

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Generational outlanders
« on: May 15, 2019, 01:20:28 PM »
So if two outlanders have a child, would that child be considered native? How many generations would it take, if at all?

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2019, 01:37:19 PM »
IMO depends on Domain and whether you mean socially versus legally.

Socially, locals might have varying standards. Reactions to Outlanders are based on things like behavior and appearance. Someone could always try to pass as a Native, regardless of birth or ancestry.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2019, 01:57:22 PM »
Yeah, that’s going to depend on a lot of factors, none of which can be easily defined OOC.
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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2019, 02:10:08 PM »
Well, here's an example. Say two people from Oerth have a child, and that child has another child from an outlander from say Ebberon or something. Now, if that child gets taken in by a coven of hallowed witches, would that child, being born in the core still not qualify for the class. This is all hypothetical curiosity by the way.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2019, 02:45:00 PM »
In your example, no. As a native bloodline is what is required not naturalisation.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2019, 03:41:43 PM »
Yeah, you have to apply a little common sense here.
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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2019, 04:50:09 PM »
No, I refuse to apply any common sense, but my curiosity is sated with the above excerpt. Thank you. The answer is too complicated and situational for an ooc answer like Arawn said. It is interesting none the less to question what makes one a native, with Ravenloft being so diverse from a constant flow of beings getting trapped in the mist.
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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2019, 05:13:31 PM »
That being said, if an Outlander Father and a Native Mother conceived a child, would the Native Mother's bloodline be enough to qualify for the class?

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2019, 05:18:05 PM »
That's a great question. It sounds like a question best answered through rp.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2019, 05:18:10 PM »
That being said, if an Outlander Father and a Native Mother conceived a child, would the Native Mother's bloodline be enough to qualify for the class?

Obviously it would—do you think that all Halans are 100% descended from the original thirteen? Because uh... inbreeding.
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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2019, 05:46:08 PM »
I think the gist here is, a Halan is meant to be a native; using the possibility of outlander ancestry as a way to import outlander culture, and therefore effectively play a Faerunian Halan or whatever, goes against the intent of the Prestige Class.
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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2019, 07:14:34 PM »
I would not call the influx of outlanders anything resembling a large number comparative to overall population.  Thats a case of perspective bias, as who we see in game tends to make up our perspective of the overall population.  In truth, outlanders make up a tiny percentage of the population, they just tend to be the noisiest part of it.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2019, 02:33:20 PM »
That being said, if an Outlander Father and a Native Mother conceived a child, would the Native Mother's bloodline be enough to qualify for the class?

Obviously it would—do you think that all Halans are 100% descended from the original thirteen? Because uh... inbreeding.

Inbreeding never stopped a Targaryean or a European Noble. Though, granted, it's usually from a slightly more diverse pool of genes.

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Re: Generational outlanders
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2019, 10:03:53 PM »
That being said, if an Outlander Father and a Native Mother conceived a child, would the Native Mother's bloodline be enough to qualify for the class?

Obviously it would—do you think that all Halans are 100% descended from the original thirteen? Because uh... inbreeding.

Inbreeding never stopped a Targaryean or a European Noble. Though, granted, it's usually from a slightly more diverse pool of genes.

Unless you're arguing that all halans are solely descended from those thirteen, then it's moot. Thirteen people could take thirteen spouses and none of the descendants of those parings ever cross again. Said descendants would still all be descended from the thirteen, there would just be very little trace of the genetics in question left.