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Inter-Lineage marriage in the Kingdoms

In the setting of the Last Goblin Queen, there are five Lineages: Human, Goblin, Ogre, Elf, and Naga. Only Humans are capable of having children with other Lineages.

While inter-Lineage marriages are rare among the Kingdoms, still how do the Lineages remain distinct over the centuries without becoming a gradient of different Lineages?

In the Last Goblin Queen setting, it is only possible to be half-Human or 100% one Lineage, like a single-gene or single-chromosome trait.

So the children of a Human and a Goblin would be half-Human, half-Goblin (called a Hobgoblin). The children of a Hobgoblin and a Human would all be entirely Human, and the children of a Hobgoblin and a Goblin would all be entirely Goblin.

This leads to a number of possible romantic outcomes...

The children of two Hobgoblins would be, on average, 50% Hobgoblin, 25% Human, and 25% Goblin.

The children of a Hobgoblin and an Ogre would all be half-Ogres.

For a Hobgoblin and a half-Ogre parents, on average, one third of the children would be Hobgoblins, one third would be half-Ogres, and one third would be entirely Human.

I hope this clears things up.



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