Ah, that’s easier to explain. We’ll set aside for a moment what Ayellin stated. They are right, in that in lore there has been no instance of a Half Elf siring or bearing a child, but whilst I too remember reading that they are sterile (In much the same way as mules in our world are), I cannot now find the Source.
Realistically only Alodi and Arator would be old enough to have sired children, though neither did/have, Vereesa’s boys are still children, early teens perhaps. This could just mean that No Half elf has had children yet, however, not that they -cannot-.
So it isn’t really the same as in the real world, as I pointed out in that humans of different ethnicities can and do have mixed race offspring, which is all fine and groovy in most developed nations. We’re talking two different -Species- here, which obviously isn’t a scenario we have in our real world.
Now, there is a difference between genetics and hereditary, so best to use the terms ‘Bloodline’ and ‘Line’ to differentiate the two.
Obviously Vereesa and Alleria’s Sons are of the Windrunner -Bloodline- as in genetically their parents were both Windrunners.
In terms of the Windrunner Line, so as in the hereditary dynasty, they would not.
The reason I made the distinction, is that the Windrunners -are- a Dynasty, having an associated rulership role in Quel’thalas. That being the position of Ranger-General. Quel’thalas however, a) Would not accept them, and b)have now moved on to the much more sensible system of choosing Ranger-General on merit, rather than Hereditary Lineage. (Source for the Lineage thing being the Thas’dorah Artefact knowledge in Legion)
So Alleria and then Vereesa in order, would, theoretically be the ones to carry on that Dynasty and have the ancestral role of Ranger-General. Their Sons could not further that Dynasty, that Line by virtue of not being Elves.
If you think of it like English Royal Line’s, There are almost certainly people knocking around now with Plantagenet blood in them, Tudor blood, and so on, however their Dynastic Line has ended. No one could crop up and go "I’m related distantly to Richard III (The last Plantagenet King of England) and expect anyone to take their claim to that dynasty seriously.
So that’s what I meant, that unless one of the living Windrunner sisters makes an interesting lifestyle choice, the Dynastic Line of Windrunner’s dies with them.
Their Genetic stock will of course carry on, -assuming- that their sons are fertile, however the likelihood is that it will become further and further ‘Humanised’.
That’s what I meant.
That plus Elves seem to be colossally racist towards Human-Elf hybrids, even Lor’themar Theron, who is otherwise a pretty chilled dude, loses his rag with Kalecgos in human form (Unaware he is a dragon in humanoid form) and grabs hold of him calling him a ‘Filthy Half-breed’
No idea why they are so racist towards Half Elves, it could be either the whole ‘Uncanny Valley’ thing, or it could be more psychological, that half elves -look- a bit like elves, but are a stark reminder that they too are mortal, given the half elf’s truncated lifespan.
Either way, the Hereditary Dynasty of the Windrunners dies with Alleria and Vereesa.
