Why is it that all the so-called “races” of this world can produce viable offspring with one another despite clear morphological, magical, and cultural divergence? My dear friend Esriella, herself a half–high-aelv, now carries her first child from a human man, Levak; this is but one of many such unions I have observed. If we were truly separate species, such consistent fertility would be improbable at best. I am increasingly persuaded that our differences are not the result of natural divergence, but of some primordial artificial shaping (magical, divine, or otherwise) possibly imposed upon a single ancestral people.
— from the research notes of Zyr’Magi Tes’Lothen, “Magi the Blade”, high-aelv scholar, mage, and swordsman
