Timeline for How can an aristocracy be perpetuated between creatures that can't interbreed?
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| Dec 4, 2014 at 20:59 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | This. Your prince should have a Bluff skill. Use it. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 20:05 | comment | added | MEP | You don't need magic to convince people to believe in crazy things. Who says you can't convince a population that you've made a bugbear-human hybrid (that looks a lot like one, but not so much the other)? You don't need magic to lie convincingly. And people who know (or suspect) the truth? There's way to deal with them (buy them off or just off them). There's a lot less true blood heredity in the history of real world nobility than you think. Actual heritage very rarely got in the way of a good deal. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 16:18 | comment | added | user15987 | @HeyICanChan well, the power of magic required depends on how convinced the people are that the races cannot interbreed normally. This would depend on the setting (for example, there could be legends of fays abducting humans and having children with them like irl) | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | Hey I Can Chan | You're right, of course, that if magic's powerful enough to create offspring, it's certainly powerful enough to leave folks convinced that a legitimate offspring's been created. Then again, there's probably magic powerful enough to detect that convincing taken place, too. That's a big risk... probably too big. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 13:41 | history | answered | user15987 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |