Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Pistilpeach 11-06-05, 02:11 PM	Topic. It seems to me I read something somewhere, though I can't find it now, that suggested the answer was yes. For instance, Vol is only half-elven but has the mark of death. On the other hand, half-elves have their own unique dragonmarks. So what's the truth, or the closest thing to it?
Isran_Imrador 11-06-05, 02:22 PM	Vol is not a half elf like the lyrandars, she is a half dragon... NO half elfs cannot have human or elven marks...
Edymnion 11-06-05, 02:46 PM	No, Vol was a full elf with the half-dragon template. That is VERY differant from being a half-elf-human. But ignore the flavor, look at the rules. Each dragonmark is a feat. One of the prereqs for the feat is to be the proper race. A feat that requires "Race: Human" cannot be taken by anyone but a human. Same thing here.
Pistilpeach 11-06-05, 02:56 PM	Alright, thanks!
Tom McCarthy 11-07-05, 03:36 PM	Clarifying where none is needed... Only the Mark of Finding is known to cross race boundaries; half-orc children of marked humans and human children of marked half-orcs (hm, better check that's possible) can manifest the mark. No other mark is inherited unless the race of the child matches the parent. I can't recall anything officially preventing a kalashtar child of kalashtar-marked human meeting carrying a human dragonmark, but I still wouldn't allow it. It likely runs against the themes of the setting, if not some unspoken rule.
Pistilpeach 11-07-05, 05:13 PM	Yes, I think the Mark of Finding was what I was thinking of in terms of more than one race possibly having the mark. As for kalashtar, I'm pretty sure their description in the ECS says something like, "Kalashtar never manifest dragonmarks."
Gurv 11-07-05, 05:20 PM	As for kalashtar, I'm pretty sure their description in the ECS says something like, "Kalashtar never manifest dragonmarks." It does. The reason there is a lot of confusion (aside from people thinking that everything in the game should be an inheritable trait), is that some of the flavor text for the dragonmarked houses mention having members of other races. What this means is that just as many members of a house do not have dragonmarks, some of these unmarked members might not even be of the racial norm for the house. House Phiarlan might have half-elves amongst them, as might House Orien or Deneith for that matter. House Tharashk includes full-blood orcs in the organization. But in all these cases, these members are bunched with the unmarked members, because they cannot inherit the dragonmark.
Edymnion 11-07-05, 06:28 PM	Yes, you can be a member of a house without being a blood member. If you marry into the house, you're part of the house, even if you're the "wrong" species. If you show ability in areas that would benefit the house, you may be invited in. You could have a Warforged Artificer as a member of House Cannith, for example, but that obviously doesn't mean the WF could manifest the Mark of Making.