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  • Piers Anthony:
    • In Apprentice Adept, such hybrids were thought to be impossible... right up until someone thought to check the Book of Magic for a solution. A fertility ritual was found,note  and along comes the half-human/half-unicorn Flach, and later the half-troll/half-vampire Al.
    • Xanth, which is filled with Interspecies Romance (including much Love Potion-induced romance) as it is, has a number of Half-Human Hybrids; such hybrids are always fertile, and in some cases entire new races are created this way. It can be taken to ridiculous extents, such as a character who is 1/2 brassy 1/4 human 1/8 ogre and 1/8 nymph. In cases where the two species involved are otherwise physically... incompatible, love springs have an inherent magic that overrules the laws of biology, allowing for even more bizarre blendings. When the two species are simply too different to coexist in a single form, they become were-creatures, able to transform from the one species to the other.
  • Neil Gaiman:
    • In American Gods, Shadow is the son of the god Odin and a mortal woman. Similarly, Charlie and Spider from Anansi Boys are the sons of the spider god Anansi and a mortal mother.
    • Zig-zagged in Stardust. Tristran's father was mortal, and his mother was a fairy, but Tristran and Yvaine get married despite their inability to interbreed. The Film of the Book, however, ends with mention of Tristan (different spelling) and Yvaine's children and grandchildren.
  • Diana Wynne Jones has played with this several times.
    • Justified in Dark Lord of Derkholm, in which Derk is a magician specializing in genetics and creates griffin children using his and his wife's DNA as well as cat and eagle DNA. However, it is implied that Derk's griffin children will have no problem having children with the "real" griffins that turn up in the second book (well... their dad can help them out).
    • In Deep Secret, a couple of centaur characters have human fathers. It's pointed out that it has to be that way round because a hybrid foetus would be too big for a human woman to carry.
    • In House of Many Ways, the insectoid lubbocks reproduce by laying eggs in humans. If the victim is male and doesn't have the eggs surgically removed, he will die, and the resulting offspring is another lubbock. If the victim is female, the victim will usually die in childbirth, and the resulting offspring will be a lubbockin (a Half-Human Hybrid that can interbreed with humans).
    • The mysterious gualdians of A Sudden Wild Magic. It's not very clear how they're not human, but they consider humans to be a different species and prefer not to interbreed, although it's definitely possible and humans often consider it desirable (to the extent of having very nasty plans for a captured gualdian).
  • Mercedes Lackey:
    • The Bedlams Bard series by Lackey and varying co-authors has half-human, half-elven characters, but also states that the species are not cross-fertile unless deliberate actions are taken to make them so. One plotline in one of the books is Beth and Kory searching for a means to accomplish this without resorting to the means used by Perenor to father Ria (which involved forcibly draining other humans of magic, with frequently lethal consequences).
    • The Half Blood Chronicles focus mainly on characters who are the results of elven lords impregnating their human slaves. The half-bloods/wizards are implied to be infertile, though it's never directly stated. The wizards find and save new half-bloods in order to perpetuate themselves as a society; they are never seen to have children of their own loins.
    • Vestakia from The Obsidian Trilogy is, by definition, hellspawn. Around eighteen years before the start of the books, a powerful wildmage discovered she had been seduced and impregnated by a demon who styled himself a Prince of Shadow Mountain. Casting something halfway between a prayer and a spell, she was given a choice between making sure the child would be born looking normal and hoping a mortal upbringing would counter the evil in its soul or making sure the kid's soul was free of demonic taint while dealing with the outward effects of its parentage. She chose option B, confided in her sister, and (with said sister's help) ran.
  • H. P. Lovecraft would commonly use this trope. There's a bit of subtext reflecting Lovecraft's famed racist views in how the interbreeding is portrayed as so extremely unnatural:
    • The Jermyn family in "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" are descended from an explorer who found a race of ape creatures and married one of them.
    • This is one possible explanation for Brown Jenkin in The Dreams in the Witch House, a rat-like creature with a human face.
    • Under his roomy clothes, Wilbur Whateley from The Dunwich Horror is equal parts giant anthropomorphic goat and Humanoid Abomination. He isn't nearly as strange as the Horror, which is a large, invisible monster later revealed to be a mass of tentacles in the shape of an egg, with inhuman mouths and eyes everywhere and a humanoid face on top. The twist at the end, if you'll forgive the spoiler, is that Wilbur and the Horror are fraternal twins, the offspring of a human woman and an Eldritch Abomination, with the Horror simply resembling their father Yog-Sothoth more than Wilbur does.
    • The inhabitants of the eponymous town in The Shadow Over Innsmouth are the result of interbreeding with Fish People.
  • Arthur Machen:
  • S.L. Viehl is fond of this trope. Humans can interbreed with all kinds of freaky aliens, from blue-skinned humanoids to avians to something that looks like a human-sized three-way hybrid of a mudpuppy, a catfish, and a lamprey. The aforementioned blue people seem to be able to hybridize with even more races... including some that are really bizarre.

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  • Alterien: The children the Alteriens have with humans are half human/Alterien hybrids. Ara, Lyra and Li'nia are also hybrids, though they are half human, half Shanda'ryn.
  • In The Android's Dream, an attractive pet shop owner turns out to be 18% sheep (specifically, of the Android's Dream variety). Despite this, she looks and acts completely human and doesn't even suspect that she's not 100% human. Her mother was a genetically engineered Half-Human Hybrid to satisfy the kinds of zoophiliacs. Meanwhile, the followers of the Church of the Evolved Lamb (a self-admitted Scam Religion) see her as the culmination of their prophecies.
  • The Nephilim of Angelology who are descended from Fallen Angels called Watchers. They look like tall, pale and beautiful humans, have lifespans measured in centuries and have wings like their fathers. They also have a warrior caste called Gibborim who are pure white with red eyes but red wings which they can use to create an incendiary wind.
  • Animorphs: Tobias' father was an Andalite (specifically Elfangor) Shapeshifter Mode Locked in human form. While this would seem to make him all human, in the book The Illusion, he is able to see a Genetic Memory of his father, which Andalite legend says can happen when one is near death. This could be a side effect of having acquired Andalite DNA from his uncle, Ax, in the same book.
  • Area 51: The Ones Who Wait are artificial humans created to serve Artad, with some DNA from his Airlia species in the mix. Usually, the only sign is having red eyes, which they cover by contact lenses.
  • Arrivals from the Dark:
    • Paul Richard Corcoran from Arrivals from the Dark is the son of Lieutenant Abigail McNeil, who was captured by the Faata in the first novel Invasion and impregnated with the genetic material of a high-caste Faata with Psychic Powers. To maintain secrecy, the child was officially recorded as the son of Abigail McNeil and her lover Lieutenant Richard Corcoran (who was killed aboard the alien ship). Paul grew up to hate his biological father and the entire Faata race. His latent Psychic Powers manifest themselves when he is 37, right when the humans are preparing a strike force to pay the Faata back for the millions of lives lost during the failed Alien Invasion. Strangely, the fleet higher-ups don't consider Paul to be a liability and give him command of a frigate sent with the strike force, figuring his abilities may allow him to infiltrate the enemy. The subsequent books feature Paul's descendants as protagonists, as his genes begin to spread through humanity, and some of them exhibit his Psychic Powers and the "Corcoran curse". One of the descendants, Sergey Valdez, even manages to telepathically sire a child with a Lo'ona Aeo female name Zantu. The resulting child is genetically Lo'ona Aeo, but exhibits some human personality traits, such as desire for adventure and an ability to handle being near aliens (Lo'ona Aeo are xenophobic pacifists).
    • Mikhail Akhmanov's Trevelyan's Mission series takes place in the same 'verse but about 500 years after the last Arrivals book. The main character Ivar Trevelyan eventually discovers that he himself is a distant (about 1000 years) descendant of Paul Richard Corcoran, around the time he begins to manifest Psychic Powers and even gains the ability to teleport from world to world.
    • Averted with the other races of Human Aliens. The Haptors aren't even sexually compatible with humans. Many other humanoid races are sexually compatible but can't produce offspring together.
  • Artemis Fowl: Played with. In The Lost Colony, Artemis (human) and Holly (elf) accidentally switch out an eye due to time travel shenanigans. In The Last Guardian, Artemis gets trapped in the center of a spell that's set to kill all fairies in range but is harmless to humans. However, because Artemis has a fairy eye, the field sees him as fairy and ends up killing him. This event classifies both Artemis and Holly as this trope.
  • Apparently, a human can produce viable offspring with anything in Atlan. The invader from the first novel, The Serpent, is the product of a reptile mother and a human father, and later impregnates the heroine, Cija. In the fourth installment, The City, a red ape breeds with Cija, but her mother urges her to abort the resulting fetus.
  • One of the protagonists of one of the first science-fiction novels, Auf zwei Planeten (On Two Planets, 1897) by Kurd Laßwitz, is Friedrich Ell, the son of a Martian explorer stranded on Earth (his spaceship crash-landed in Antarctica) and a German governess living with a family in Australia.
  • Aurora Cycle: It is revealed in the second book that Tyler and Scarlett Jones are half-Syldrathi, though they appear fully human.
  • Black Dogs: Humans seem to be able to hybridize with almost anything, from elves (plausible) to dragons and demons that vary wildly and possess more random body parts in otherworldly dimensions than you can shake a stick at. A couple of these hybrids are even main characters.
  • Discussed in Robert J. Sawyers' Calculating God when Tom Jericho shows Star Trek to Starfish Aliens. The book itself ends with the creation of a three-species human/alien/alien hybrid via divine technology.
    Jericho: [Spock's] mother was a human; his father was a Vulcan.
    Hollus: That does not make sense biologically. It would seem more likely that you could crossbreed a strawberry and a human; at least they evolved on the same planet.
  • Averted entirely in Catteni. There's only one species humanoid enough to be attractive to humans, and it's outright stated that they can't have children together. The children the heroine and her love have are from affairs on her part and a previous marriage on his, both with their own species.
  • A Chorus of Dragons: Most of the humanoid races are cross-fertile with one another, and while hybrids are relatively rare, they're common enough to be seen as little more than mildly exotic in most situations. Among other characters, Thurvishar is half human and half vordreth, while Kihrin is half human and half vané.
  • The Chronicles of Amber: Merlin's father Corwin is (mostly) human, while his mother Dara is a (mostly) shapeshifting demon.
  • The Chronicles of Narnia:
    • Caspian's tutor, Dr. Cornelius, in Prince Caspian is secretly part dwarf, and it's implied that Caspian's childhood nurse is also descended from dwarfs who'd avoided Telmarine pogroms by passing themselves off as short humans. Caspian's own son is half star, stars being glowing humanoid beings in the world of Narnia. Furthermore, The Magician's Nephew states that the children of Narnia's first human king and queen married wood-nymphs and river-spirits.
    • In The Magician's Nephew, we also learn that the White Witch — and, indeed, all people of Charn — are part giant. Subverted in Jadis/the White Witch's case, as she only pretended to be part human to assert her claim to the throne. Her non-giant blood is actually genie (jinn), not human.
  • Half-elves form a whole race in Chronicles of the Emerged World, while true elves aren't really present but said to be extinct. Also, the Big Bad is part half-elf and part human.
  • In Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, Max and her brother are half human, half "Martian". (The aliens definitely come from much farther away than Mars, but the name stuck.)
  • A Thousand Words for Stranger, the first book (publishing-wise) in The Clan Chronicles, mentions rather offhandedly that there are three known species with which humans can have offspring. In all cases, medical intervention is required, and the child is infertile. It is implied but never confirmed that the Human Alien protagonist and her human love interest may also be inter-fertile.
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses: Rhysand is the product of a High Fae father and an Illyrian, aka a "lesser Fae", mother.
  • Crescent City: Bryce has a human mom and Fae dad.
  • The Crimson Shadow: Siobhan is a half-elf child of an elven father and human mother.
  • Robert Bloch's Cthulhu Mythos story "The Brood of Bubastis" features an ancient Egyptian cult that'd managed to bring their animal-headed deities into being in the flesh by quite primitive methods.
  • In The Culture, the titular civilization comprises a number of humanoid species who were genetically modified at the Culture's founding to be able to reproduce with each other. Humanoid species from outside the Culture who lack such modifications would not necessarily be able to do the same, sometimes finding that the Culture humans look a little unattractive. As masters of genetic tinkering and straight up body re-engineering, there's very little to stop the average Culture citizen from seeking out exciting new alien races as the gender of their choice...
  • Myrren Kahliana from Dark Heart is the daughter of a human father and a succubus mother given to him by the priests of Vraxor as a reward for his military service.
  • Darkover: The World Wreckers includes a romance and eventually a child between a human and an alien chieri (one of a race of Space Elves). It's explicit in a number of the books that the Chieri and humans have been interbreeding infrequently for a long time now. In fact, the breeding program that created powerful psychics as well as leaving the nobility inbred with a number of "lethal recessives" was brought about to strengthen the psychic gifts inherited from the Chieri. Also, a number of Chieri features show up now and then in the noble families, particularly the ruling Hastur, including abnormally long life, tall slim builds, six fingered hands, and low fertility rates, even compared to the already low norm.
  • In The Dark Profit Saga, humans are the "default" for the races of Man capable of interbreeding (elves, gnomes, and sten). Any Union between these produces humans, which is how humans came to be and why they now make up the majority of the races of Man. First-generation humans can frequently be distinguished by their heterochromia.
  • The Dark Tower:
    • The Can-Toi, or the "low men", are half-human, half-taheen.
    • In the final volume, The Wind Through the Keyhole, Mordred is the child of two full-blooded humans, one demon elemental who was turned human by Magitek, and one Physical God who had at least one human ancestor and may be as much as half-human.
  • A Deal with a Demon: At the end of The Dragon's Bride, Briar Rose and Sol's daughter is a half-human and half-dragon hybrid.
  • In Deryni, some characters have one Deryni and one ordinary human parent. The arcane abilities are a dominant trait, so having only one Deryni parent is enough to make an offspring Deryni, and the power isn't additive (in other words, having two Deryni parents doesn't make one more powerful). Sadly, this doesn't prevent Half-Breed Discrimination.
  • Zig-zagged in Deverry. Dwarves and elves are infertile with each other. However, both races are fertile with humans. And a half-dwarf is shown bearing twin daughters to a father of half-elven heritage. What really messes with your head is when said half-elf is turned into a dragon... and has a son with another dragon. Several aspects of the hybridization are played with — there are three half-elf/humans shown in the cast. One is a weak, unstable character and magic/dweomer user, one is a strong dweomer user, and the third is a powerful warrior (but he probably would have been such regardless of his heritage). It is hinted that the human mother of the strong dweomer user may have had some elf-blood in her makeup, as well.
  • A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove takes place in a world where homo erectus are the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. In one chapter, a human man impregnates a homo erectus woman.
  • John's daughters in Dirge for Prester John: Sefalet (half-blemmye) and Anglitora (half-crane). Anglitora is considered fairly lucky to be a human-looking woman with a crane's wing while Sefalet has no face, instead having eyes and mouths in her hands.
  • Though hybrids have yet to appear prominently in Discworld, it's mentioned a couple of times that humans with dwarf or elf blood exist. Nanny Ogg is the most prominent human character with a trace of dwarf blood, which may explain her short stature and hard-headed ability to survive ballistic farmhouses (not to mention her son Jason's near-supernatural skill at metalwork). It's also mentioned that humans can interbreed with werewolves, with unpredictable results, and at least one major character is a demigod. There is also Susan, Death's granddaughter. While she is only related to Death by adoption, she nonetheless has some of his powers and traits (normal genetic rules apparently do not apply to Anthropomorphic Personifications).
  • In Doom Valley Prep School slow witted, ten foot tall and extremely strong Rocks For Brains, has a human father and a rock giant mother. Rock giants aren't made of rock, but they are extremely tough and like rocks. It's not clear how his parents met, but Rocks For Brains has said his father is a famous caver.
  • Dragonlance: The original Chronicles trilogy starts off with one of the main characters as a half-elf. The conflicting emotions he feels stem from the mixture of his two races and serves as the character's main plot for most of the books — his name is Tanis Half-Elven. "Among the Elves... I am Half-Man."
  • Dragonvarld:
    • Vengeance, son of Melisande after she was raped by Grald, is roughly human-shaped, but has scaled legs and clawed feet like a dragon. He also likes caves, which the dragons usually live in, and develops telepathy like them.
    • It's revealed all humans capable of dragon magic, which includes Melisande, have some dragon ancestry as well. This results from Grald and Maristara, dragons in human form, breeding with them secretly. Then their descendants were bred too, spreading this further, to serve them.
    • Grald has fathered many more half-dragon children by women with the dragon magic, who have various draconic features, it's revealed later.
  • In David Eddings' series The Dreamers, That-Called-the-Vlagh (or just the Vlagh) is a giant female insect who creates thousands and thousands of eggs, and whenever she sees a characteristic she likes, she mixes and matches animals with the characteristics she likes... creating the craziest creatures ever. But very, very, deadly.
  • The Dresden Files has a couple of variants on these.
    • Changelings are the scions of humans and one type or another of the Fae. Outwardly, they look human, but as they grow older, they take on characteristics of their Fae side; for example, a scion of a human and a troll would become large and brutish and with odd-colored hair. Eventually, the changeling has to "Choose" whether to embrace their faerie heritage and become a full-blooded faerie, or to remain human and lose the faerie powers.
    • Jared "The Hellhound" Kincaid, a centuries-old hitman who is the scion of a human and something from Down Below.
    • Thomas Raith, who's the son of the King of the White Court of Vampires and a human wizard called Margaret LeFay Dresden, making him Harry's older half-brother. It's implied that most if not all White Court vampires are the offspring of a human/White mating.
    • Even Harry's dog Mouse gets in on the action, since he is a Fu Dog, scion of a Tibetan Mastiff and a canine guardian spirit.
  • Dr. Franklin's Island has a Mad Scientist who's tampered with a small zoo's worth of animals, giving them various human features while perfecting his LEGO Genetics technique. Having gone as far as he cares to on animal subjects, when a plane wrecks on the shore of his island he gladly makes use of the few teens who survived, planning to make them into a girl with wings and a girl who can breathe underwater. The transgenic process is unpredictable though and the kids end up more animal than human - Miranda is 'human enough to horrify', a black bird as big as an eagle with unsettlingly human limbs and Handy Feet, and Semi is a small rayfish with human eyes.
  • In The Clan of the Cave Bear from the Earth's Children series, Ayla is raped by Broud, and their son Durc is half Cro-Magnon and half Neanderthal.
  • The Empirium Trilogy: Marques are beings that are half-human and half-angel. They're born with wings, but because of the prosecution against them, their wings are usually cut off.
  • Fablehaven has Kendra, who is part human, part fairy. Curiously, this was because fairies kissed her. Seth and the Sphinx are also like Kendra, although with traits on the other end of the spectrum.
  • Feral: The Story of a Half-Orc has a half-Orc named Char as the main character, mostly to his detriment considering how humans in his world feel about orcs. There is also a half-dwarf assassin, and research into 'hybrids' is apparently a thing.
  • In The Fey and the Fallen, Liam is the child of an Irish faerie called a Puca and a human woman. While there are other half-fey hybrids running around, it's stated that most of them don't make it past childhood, either because they're killed by the Church, or they go mad because of their dueling natures and wind up killing themselves.
  • Fortunes of War: Discussed in Dreadnought! when a native of Palkeo Est introduces herself to the lead character and jokes that her species is a lot like humans but can't successfully mate with them... and they've tried.
  • Hybrids ("breeds") are so common in Garrett, P.I. that they sometimes outnumber the human characters. Exempting non-humans from military conscription, then inviting them in to work while your human subjects are off fighting a hundred-year war, can have unintended consequences...
  • The Godless World Trilogy: The world in question contains four sentient species (previously five, before the werewolf race got wiped out). Of these only two are humanoid, the Huanin (humans) and Kyrinin (elves, but not as long-lived, wise or peaceful as elves tend to be.). The two races can interbreed, but the offspring, called Na'Kyrim, are always sterile and generally conform to real-life hybridization in terms of appearance and shared traits. They also develop a form of magic, known as the "Shared", which (given the primary way to become a powerful user of it) tends to cause a great deal of mistrust in the average person. By the way things are looking by the end of the second book, they are very, very justified.
  • Subverted in The Golem and the Jinni. Jinn are spirits of fire and have water as a Kryptonite Factor, so when a woman becomes pregnant by a Jinni bound in human form, the hybrid is miscarried within weeks and leaves her quite ill.
  • In Griffin's Daughter, half-human/half-elves — like the title character, Jelena — are known as hikui among the elves and are treated as second-class citizens at best. This is still far better than half-elves are treated in the human-ruled Soldaran Empire, where the local religion says that elves are demons looking to steal human souls and that half-elves are creatures of evil.
  • Bruce Coville's book Half Human is a collection of short stories all about this trope. These half-human creatures range from the traditional to the unexpected, with just a few examples being a girl who discovers one morning that her hair has turned into snakes overnight and that her mother doesn't wear a turban all the time just for the hat factor, another girl who was conceived when her mother drank dragon blood and begins exhibiting dragon-like mannerisms and sprouting ridges on her back when she grows up, and a tree transformed into a man who must learn how to be human.
  • Arguably the basis for the Nephilim in Hand of Mercy though interestingly the human-angel hybrids don't get any powers or advantages. Instead, they get horrific bone deformities, since the bones of angels are light as chalk in order to aid flight.
  • In Harry Potter, these are generally treated with a lot of prejudice from much of the wizarding world.
    • Hagrid had a human father and a giant mother. Madame Maxime is also at least part-giant but trying to pass as "pure human". Both are gigantic in human terms but utterly tiny in giant terms.
    • Fleur Delacour is a quarter Veela. She doesn't inherit their ability to transform into birds but does inherit the natural charm that makes men attracted to her. She eventually has three children with Bill Weasley who are 1/8 Veela. One of them is a boy, which is interesting because Veela are exclusively women.
    • A few comments are made about people being part troll, but given the context (Ron in regard to some Snatchers, Harry about Marcus Flint), it's obviously just meant as an insult (as trolls are renowned for their brute strength and lack of intelligence), although part-trolls could still exist.
    • Professor Flitwick is "human with a dash of goblin", according to Word of God, though it's more like "remote goblin ancestor". In the movies, it's much more obvious, largely because the same actor plays several of the goblins.
    • In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks conceive a son, Teddy, who is half-werewolf and half-metamorphmagus (natural shapeshifters). One of Lupin's insecurities is having his lycanthrophy passed to his son, because of the stigma werewolves receive from wizarding society. Teddy ends up being a metamorphmagus only, however.
  • Averted in The High Crusade, which includes an instance of the humans finding one or more green-haired, feathery-antennae'd space babes. In the words of the narrator, "Nor was there any possibility of issue between [the Space Babe's] species and our own." Nevertheless, he indicates that the complications didn't stand in the way of Interspecies Romance... though, being a priest, he does worry that "the prohibitions of Leviticus might apply", i.e., that it counts as the sin of bestiality.
  • In Hurog, half the cast have a dragon ancestor several generations back (dragons can assume human form). There's also Axiel, who is half-dwarf, and his claim to be the dwarf king's son is actually true.
  • InCryptid:
    • Elsie and Artie are lilu, better known as Succubi and Incubi. Their motheir is a human, and their father Ted is an incubus. Thanks to Dominant Species Genes, so are they.
    • Sam Taylor is the son of a fūri and a human woman. Likewise, he considers himself fully fūri (despite never meeting any others of his kind) and has all the abilities of one.
    • Frances Brown, great-grandmother of the main characters, was the daughter of a human and a Kairos, a species whose hat was being Unluckily Lucky. She never knew this however, and it was only revealed decades after her death.
  • In K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices, the village of Dampford is populated by inbred denizens who have rather "piscine" features. With their bulging, protuberant eyes and fishy faces and low intellect, the Dampforders find that their daughters are often conned into being taken to London where they're made into "green girls", grotesque prostitutes for jaded rich men. The source of their Dampford's odd looks, they're half Selkie. When the Brown Leather Man, last of the full-blooded Selkies, goes to see if the Dampforders can be used to bring back the race, he finds that their bloodline is so degenerate that the only result is a sickly sludge.
  • Gwynn Ella Ashbow from the Inferno Series is a half-elf, apparently the last one in her village. She identifies more with her human father and is emphatic that she be referred to as human. It seems that she might be able to do some things better than either humans or elves.
  • In Kit Whitfield's In Great Waters, all the royal houses of Europe (except Switzerland, which is landlocked) have Deepman blood. Any hybrid not of royal blood is termed a Bastard and summarily executed, usually by burning. All hybrids have small, needle-like teeth, black eyes with no white, clawed and webbed fingers and "legs" that are actually bifurcated tails which force them to use canes to walk. Because of inbreeding royals sometimes exhibit other Deepman traits like bioluminescent blue skin (rare even among Deepmen) like Anne or tails that are whole down to the knees like Philip.
  • Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir is a field guide of beasts unseen to almost all humans. One entry is the pluricorn, a quadriped beast that has coexisted with humans since the beginning. Pluricorns have many winding horns and males use these to battle each other for mates. While the males are buys battling, bored females will sometimes go out to entice a horny human man with a sultry wink and turn of the hindquarters as depicted in ancient cave artwork. The result is after a mating battle, the child of the winner and his supposed mate just might have a lot of human DNA in it.
  • In "Iron Shadows in the Moon", Olivia dreams of a godlike being arriving to where a partly human, partly godlike being was tortured to death and turning the torturers to stone.
    "The youth they tortured was like the tall man who came?" he asked at last.
    "As like as son to father," she answered, and hesitantly: "If the mind could conceive of the offspring of a union of divinity with humanity, it would picture that youth. The gods of old times mated sometimes with mortal women, our legends tell us."
  • John Carter of Mars: The eponymous hero has two children with Dejah Thoris, a red Martian princess. Martians lay eggs. Go figure. Then again, John Carter may not be human; he says he is very old and can recall no childhood. There is no mention of the other human/Martian couple in the series (Ulysses Paxton/Valla Dia) having children. The whole thing's made even stranger because it's strongly implied the various Barsoomian Human Aliens can't even fully interbreed with each other; in The Gods of Mars, the White Martians try to expand their gene pool with outbreeding and get a bunch of pitiful monstrosities that are kept hidden away.
  • In J.W. Wells & Co., Mr. Tanner (one of the partners) is half-goblin. (His shapeshifting goblin mother works as a receptionist for the firm.)
  • Efrel in the Kane Series novel Darkness Weaves has this as her backstory. Her mother was raped by ocean-dwelling demons Scylredi and lost her mind. As a result of her mixed blood, Efrel is very skilled at dark arts, not to mention very hard to kill.
  • The Kingdom Keepers has fairlies, which are human and fairy offspring.
  • Land of Oz: Princess Ozma is the daughter of King Pastoria and the fairy queen Lurline. Whether she was adopted by Pastoria or is his blood child is a matter of Depending on the Writer.
  • Alex and Conner from The Land of Stories are half fairy.
  • In Legends of the Red Sun, the leader of the Screams gang was born from the union of a human male and a banshee (banshee is this world are a human-like race that has the psionic ability to sense imminent death and they wail as a reaction to this). As such he's referred to as a banHe and while he can detect imminent death like a real banshee, he ends up vomiting explosively instead of wailing. This later causes his death during the Okun invasion, so many people die that he exploded from vomiting so much.
  • In Aleksandr Zarevin's The Lonely Gods Of The Universe, many humans are descended from a mix of the original humans and Human Aliens from the planet Oll (who pretended to be Greco-Roman gods). Unlike their non-human ancestors, the hybrids are not immortal (the immortality is not due to genetics, though, but due to consuming an alien plant named Ambrosia that gained different properties on Earth). The only thing that appears to be the result of these interbreedings is humans having different hair colors (apparently, original humans all had dark hair), thanks to the Ollans being redheads.
  • Nahlia Cole from The Lost Redeemer is half-human, half-Aeon.
  • In Loyal Enemies, humans can have children with elves. Among named characters, Little Miss Badass Virra and Bard Hraik are half-elves. There's a strange tradition in mixed human-elf marriages where the elf among the parents always names the resulting child by deciding whether it looks/feels more like a human or an elf. This resulted in the sisters Danka and Virra, who have the same parents, receiving a human and an elven name, respectively.
  • The German booklet series Maddrax has the mendrites, who are hybrids of humans and hydrites. They have gray skin, similar to that of a dolphin, and pointed ears, sharp teeth, as well as claws and swimming-skins on the fingers and toes. In the beginning, there are only single mendrites, who are usually neither welcome either among hydrites or among humans because of their nature. Later, however, there is a city where humans, hydrites and mendrites live together and have common offspring.
  • Trolls from the Malediction Trilogy can breed with humans and produce viable offspring. Mixed bloods usually inherit some magical power of their troll parent, but it is greatly reduced. In the troll society, they are invariably slaves, and their role depends on their level of magical power.
  • In Many Waters, the Nephilim actually seem to be fallen angels themselves, unlike in The Bible, though Oholibamah is strongly implied to be one of their offspring.
  • Mask And Dagger: Human/fairy hybrids appear prominently in Goblin Moon and The Gnome's Engine. They are prone to psychological instability and have unique responses to emotional stress, a fact which is central to the plot. A mixed dwarf/human marriage is also mentioned, although it's unstated whether children are expected to follow.
  • A Master of Djinn: Siti is half-human and half-djinn. She has a human mother and djinn father. She can shift between both forms at will. It turns out to be the source of her magic as well.
  • The Mermaid: Amelia, a mermaid who takes the form of a human when she touches dry earth, has a child with Levi, a human man. Their daughter Charity turns into a mermaid when she's immersed in water, just like Amelia. But Amelia's mer form is quite inhuman-looking, while Charity looks more like a traditional mermaid, with the upper half of a girl and the lower half of a fish.
  • In Mermaid Moon, protagonist Sanna is the daughter of the merman Bjarl and the human Lisabet. She has spent her life in the ocean, where she had many differences from the other merfolk - she was weaker and slower, her tail was shorter, her hair never grew past her waist, and her eyes were so sensitive that she had to close them in sandy waters. At the beginning of the book, Sjældent turns her into a human so she can search for Lisabet.
  • In Mermaids of Eriana Kwai, the tyrannical merman king Adaro is the product of a fling between Queen Medusa of the Atlantic and a human man who stopped seeing her as soon as he found out she was pregnant. Adaro's heritage makes him the only merperson immune to Cold Iron, but it also causes him to transform into a human during king tides, forcing him to hide out on land until he transforms back. When he was an adolescent, he searched unsuccessfully for his father, and was captured and tortured by fishermen, providing the Freudian Excuse for his hatred of humans. He founded his own kingdom because he felt his mother's policies were too friendly to humans. Meela eventually finds and kills him while he's in his vulnerable human form.
  • The eponymous Merry Gentry is Unseelie Sidhe on her father's side and human, brownie, and Seelie Sidhe on her mother's. In fact, about half the cast are hybrids, half-human or otherwise. This is to say nothing of her kids...
  • Mistborn: The Original Trilogy:
    • Subverted early on. There are the nobility and the skaa. While it's fairly obvious to the reader early on that they're all human (or, more technically, a variation of humans tweaked by the Lord Ruler to survive the increasingly Crapsack World) members of both the nobility and the skaa believe that there's an actual difference to varying degrees. The nobility are the ones that have Allomancy (read "magic") and are forbidden to interbreed with the skaa. But the sheer number of skaa with Allomantic powers (one of the jobs of the Steel Inquisitors is to root out skaa with Allomancy) shows this rule is largely ignored in reality although there are some references to nobles killing skaa after having sex with them to avoid "half breeds." It's later revealed that skaa and nobles started out as two different species and that the Lord Ruler put the laws in place to keep it that way, but that those laws have been broken so often over the last thousand years that the difference has become miniscule.
    • Although we don't see half-breeds among the other sentient species (the kandra and koloss) it turns out that they're both (mostly) human stock. The koloss are created directly from humans and the kandra are the descendants of humans warped by magic but breed true as non-sentient mistwraiths until given sentience.
  • Saaski, the protagonist of The Moorchild, is born among the Folk, who are the traditional Northern European idea of fairies (i.e., pagan Nature Spirits fond of music and games and completely amoral as long as something looks to be fun). However, she is actually the hybrid child of a Folk woman and a human man who wandered into their domain. As she's unable to exercise all the powers of the Folk, and seen as a danger to them, the Prince declares that she must be sent out among the humans as a changeling child. Naturally, she doesn't fit in there either, as the humans fear and hate her, and she retains a terror of everyday features of human life like crosses, yellow flowers, salt, and iron (particularly unfortunate, as her "adoptive" father is a blacksmith).
  • In Mostly Harmless, Trillian vaguely assumed her daughter, created through in-vitro fertilisation, was this. It later occured to her how unlikely that was, and she realised the donor must be Arthur.
  • One of the major subplots in The Neanderthal Parallax is Mary and Ponter's struggle to have a child together. They eventually manage due to a gene-rewriting device and have a daughter.
  • Next has Dave, the son of a researcher who manipulated his DNA and a chimpanzee's donated cells. He displays both human and monkey aspects, especially in personality, as he flings poo. It's also implied that he's aging rapidly, in line with the book's theme of genetic engineering gone insane and people never expecting problems with their newfangled tech.
  • In The Night Land, the Giants are an extremely unpleasant example, "fathered of bestial humans and mothered of monsters". While generally humanoid in form, they're hideous, squat, furry, warty, and bigger than elephants.
  • In Nightrunner and the spin-off Tamir Triad, the Aurënfaie and humans can interbreed, and such interbreeding is the reason some humans possess the ability to use magic. Such mixed-race individuals are known as Ya'shel (they would be half-elves in almost any other universe). This is all made even more interesting by the fact that the Aurënfaie are themselves part-dragon.
  • In "No Need for a Core?", depending on the location it might be harder to find a 'pure' blooded any-race, though the possible mixtures are not limited to humans. Kitsune are noted as the biggest contender for most mixed bloodlines.
  • The Venn family in Obsidian Mirror is rumored to be half-Fae. The truth is a little more complicated. One of Oberon Venn's distant ancestors spent a night in the enchanted woods, where he made a deal with Summer. In exchange for what he was given, one of his descendants would one day choose to enter the Summerland and stay there.
  • The titular character of Olive Kennedy Fairy World MD is half-elf on her father's side.
  • Oliver Twisted: Toby Crackit is half-swamp goblin from his mother's side and inherited her tentacles. He appears as a small man with a hunched back, because he keeps his tentacles hidden in the back of his coat.
  • The D'Artigo sisters from The Otherworld Series have a human mother and a fae father. Additionally, Delilah was born with the powers of a werecat, and Menolly was turned into a vampire. Camille is a Moon Witch, but that's not exactly a species designation. Additionally, it would seem that interbreeding is reasonably common, since "ordinary" humans are referred to as FBHs (Full-Blood Humans).
  • In Eric Nylund's A Pawns Dream, all the Dreamers are half (or less) human, as a child born of two Dreamers is incredibly powerful and therefore forbidden, as it would disrupt the balance of power. In this case the intermarrying isn't very far-fetched, as the only differences from regular humans are the existence in both worlds and the ability to use magic.
  • The Nephilim from Penryn and the End of Days are children of angels and humans.
  • Prophecy Approved Companion: Qube was "the only half elf with magical abilities in the village". It's implied that the other half is human, as otherwise it'd be worth mentioning.
  • In Prospero's Daughter, Miranda learns that her mother was not who she thought she was, and therefore the demon that addressed a "nephilim" in her presence might have meant her.
  • Every single character in Quicksand House is this. Specifically, they're humans with some spliced-in genes from an alien race called Terramytes.
  • Red Moon Rising (Moore): There are plenty of half-vamps and half-wulves, as well as hybrids of the two non-human species.
  • The protagonists of Red Room, Derek and Penny Hawthorne, are a subversion in that while their mother was a dragon, she was transformed into a human at the time, and they are thus completely human. It still makes them subject to Fantastic Racism, though.
  • All of the Chimera of The Reynard Cycle are this to one degree or another, though their ability to breed with anything can lead to creatures who are only human in that their great-great-grandparent had a human head. To keep their kind from completely regressing into animals, many of them kidnap humans for use as unwilling lovers.
  • Mostly averted in The Riftwar Cycle: humans, elves, dwarves, goblins, dragons, etc. are different species, generally from different worlds. They may be mechanically compatible, but they can't produce offspring. Calis, the offspring of the Queen of the Elves and a half-human, half-Valheru father, is the only exception, and the impossibility of his existence is mentioned from time to time. (His father is pure A Wizard Did It, no breeding involved.)
  • Riordanverse:
  • Vignir, son of Arrow-Odd and the giantess Hildigunn, in The Saga of Arrow-Odd. At ten years, he is already much taller and stronger than his father and also appears much more mature and knowledgeable than one would expect from a human child of that age.
  • In The Saga of Darren Shan, there are half-vampires and half-vampanezes. However, because vampires and vampanezes are barren, they are not born normally — humans are "sired" and made into half-vampires. After a while, mostly when they have proved themselves in the fight for society, they are made into pure vampires. If this does not happen, half-vampires will one day turn into pure vampires by themselves. Pure vampires are much more powerful than half-vampires, but half-vampires can also run during the day without daylight doing anything to them.
  • Both protagonists of The Saga of the Noble Dead are Half-Human Hybrids. Magiere is a Dhampyr whose birth was only possible because an Evil Sorcerer intervened (and it took him years to get the spell right). Leesil is a half-elf, born the usual way. Later on, a family of noblemen is introduced whose ancestors mated with the merfolk. Almost everyone in their family is not a pure human being but rather partly part of the merfolk, even if they look almost completely human. Occasionally, however, one of them turns into a pure member of the merfolk and flees into the sea.
  • Invoked in Sam, Bangs & Moonshine. Sam is actually fully human, but she lies about her (actually dead) mother being a mermaid.
  • In Sandman Slim, it turns out that James Stark is half angel.
  • The eponymous Sebastian Darke is half-human (his father's side) and half-elf (his mother's side). As a result, he has Pointy Ears, causing most people to mistake him for an elf, and him having to awkwardly explain that he's only half-elf.
  • Secret City:
    • Played straight with Chud', Lyud' and Tat', who can interbreed with humans. The descendants are capable of using the respective Sources of both parents. While Chud' and Lyud' often shun such children, Tat' actively works on both safeguarding their own bloodlines and on raising the number of human mages by deliberately introducing Chud' and Lyud' genes into the population.
    • Averted with Moryanas. While a Moryana can bear children with a human, Chud' or Lyud' husband, she will only have daughters who will without exception be Moryanas.
  • The eponymous main character and narrator of Seraphina is half-human, half-dragon. Such union is possible, since dragons can take human form — however, it is explicitly forbidden by her country's law, not to mention religion. Half-dragons from the book can vary in appearance, from almost-humans with some draconic elements (like a patch of scales somewhere on their bodies) to misshapen monstrosities. And they all share some supernatural powers.
  • The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
    • Warlocks are the progeny of couplings between humans and demons. They are themselves generally infertile, though Tessa Gray can have children, as her human parent was a Shadowhunter. This was very difficult to arrange, as the runes Shadowhunters bear will kill any warlock children the Shadowhunter might possibly have, but Axel Mortmain eventually arranged to obtain a Shadowhunter without runes.
    • The shadowhunters or nephilims are also not pure humans but rather hybrids of humans and angels. However, they are not born naturally, but by magic. However, their genes are dominant. If a nephilim has children with a human, they are also nephilims, even several generations later.
    • Other than warlocks, the Downworlders are named as such because they have demonic blood in their veins. Vampires and werewolves are humans infected with demonic mutations, while faeries are said to be descendants of angels and demons who mated thousands of years ago. Faeries, in turn, can sire children with humans, such as the elf-knight Meliorn. A special case is Mark and Helen Blackthorn, because their father was a shadowhunter and their mother was a faerie. Hybrids are born in a blank slate, with their upbringing deciding which world they belong. Meliorn was raised in Faerie and became immortal, while Mark and Helen were raised in the human world and became mortal. In The Dark Artifices, it turns out that there are also common offspring of humans and werewolves. The "half-werewolves" cannot transform, but they are still significantly stronger, faster and more resistant than humans.
    • Then there's Jonathan Morgenstern. He became a shadowhunter, who was also to a large extent a demon, through magical experiments. His son, Ash, is born to a faerie mother, meaning he is a shadowhunter-demon-faerie hybrid.
    • Kit Herondale is a shadowhunter who has a faerie ancestor.
    • James and Lucie Herondale, Tessa Gray's children with Will Herondale, are part-demonic shadowhunters, since their mother was fathered by a demon. Although neither are immortal, James inherits an ability to access his grandfather's realm, while Lucie can control ghosts, likely an exaggeration of the Herondales' natural ability to see ghosts that was boosted by her demonic blood. By extension, this means that their descendants, which include the modern-day Herondales (Stephen, Jace) and Blackthorns (Julian, Mark, Helen, etc.) are part-demon.
    • Tessa Gray from The Infernal Devices is a warlock. Her father was a demon who fooled Tessa's mother into thinking that he was human.
  • Inverted in Clive Barker's "Skins of the Fathers", in which it's human males who are the product of hybridization. The Earth's original inhabitants were human women and the many-formed monsters which they took as lovers; the first male human children were the result of crossbreeding experiments Gone Horribly Wrong.
  • In The Sky Village, Mei/Dragonfly and Rom/Breaker are tri-human hybrids because they carry the "kaimira gene", which gives them beast (animal), human, and "mek" (robot) DNA.
  • Damsel from Soon I Will Be Invincible is not the actual child but rather the genetic combination of her father's DNA and that of the Green-Skinned Space Babe he fell in love with. This is actually addressed with Damsel confessing that the combination isn't stable, and she is constantly sick because of it.
  • Spice and Wolf: Selim and her brother are both half-human, half-wolf spirit beings. Myuri is the daughter of the human Lawerence and the wolf spirit Holo.
  • Subverted (and deconstructed) by way of Body Horror in Mickey Zucker Reichert and Jennifer Wingert's Spirit Fox. The heroine is usually a human woman possessed by the spirit of a now-dead fox; she sometimes shapeshifts involuntarily into fox form. During one of these shapeshifted blackouts, she's impregnated by a male fox. She later suffers a miscarriage because her grotesquely malformed half-human, half-fox twin fetuses are not viable.
  • Used early on but mostly averted in Star Wars Legends. Two unconnected characters are said to be "hybrids", and it's never explained exactly what species they're hybrids of. Since a lot of different species are related — humanity, for instance, has a long list of "near-humans", offshoots that can in some cases look very unusual — these hybrids might well be more plausible than some of the others on this page. There are also enough mentions of bioengineering that some species might well be able to make a hybrid. However, in the few examples of Interspecies Romance, it's generally proven true that "the parts match up just fine, but that's about it", as Gavin says of Asyr.
    • Boba Fett married a Mandalorian kiffar woman named Sintas Vell. Together with her he had a daughter named Ailyn, who was a half-kiffar. This daughter married a human, and with him had a daughter named Mirta Gev, who was a quarter kiffar and three quarters human. Sintas, Ailyn and Mirta were head-hunters. Kiffar are Near-Humans though (see below) so it's not as surprising they could interbreed.
    • In the X-Wing Series, a minor villain named Zekka Thyne is described as a halfbreed. It's never said what he is besides human, but he's got several Red Right Hands, namely very mottled skin, pointed teeth, and Hellish Pupils that catch the light.
    • The Han Solo Trilogy: Shug Nix is the son of a Human father and mother who is from another species. Han can tell right away from his looks, though they're not that different from a full Human. Shug admits to Han that he's not wholly of either species and is relieved when Han's okay with that, as because of anti-alien bigotry in the Empire, people with mixed ancestry like his often suffer as well.
    • The Legends continuity is filled with hybrids, due to the large number of "Near-Human" races, which aren't so much alien species as subspecies of humanity that descended from early space explorers who were cut off from the original human homeworlds thousands of years earlier, only to be rediscovered later. How far they diverge from regular humans varies; some just have different skin colors, while others have more extreme differences (the Miraluka, for example, have no eyes and see using the Force instead). On the other hand, species that aren't Near-Humans explicitly cannot interbreed with humans, no matter how human-like they appear to be... At least, this was initially true, as additions to the lore rendered the Near-Human argument moot as not only Near-Humans can interbreed with humans but also species like the Twi'lek, who aren't said to be Near-Human (although given they're pretty similar to humans aside from head tails, it could have been done).
  • In The Sundering, Ushahin Dreamspinner (one of Satoris' three lieutenants) is half-human, half-Ellylon.
  • Early in the first novel Rhapsody: Child of Blood from Symphony of Ages, there's mention that hybrids of whatever fantasy race are more common than pure-strain. Rhapsody herself is half-human and Lirin, that world's equivalent of an elf. Her companions, Achmed the Snake and Grunthor, are of Dhracian and Firbolg heritage and Firbolg and Bengard descent respectively.
  • The Syrena Legacy:
    • Emma looks like a human aside from her purple eyes, which are a trait of Syrena. When she's eighteen, she develops abilities that include holding her breath for superhuman lengths of time and talking to fish. Dr. Milligan runs some tests and X-rays on her and finds that her heart rate and bone structure are halfway between that of a human and a Syrena. He concludes that she must be a hybrid, even though it's strictly forbidden for Syrena to mate with humans. Genetic tests confirm that half her DNA comes from each species. It turns out Emma's mother is the long-lost Syrena princess Nalia.
    • In Of Neptune, Emma and Galen discover Neptune, Tennessee, which is a whole town of freshwater Syrena who live in harmony with humans. Most of the inhabitants are of mixed ancestry. They live far away from the ocean so the sea-dwelling Syrena won't kill them all. Reder tells Emma that there are similar towns around the world, but he doesn't know how many.
  • Ia from Theirs Not to Reason Why turns out to be this. Her father was a Feyori.
  • Theriomorph Chronicles: A Theriomorph is described as a human-animal hybrid, engineered by Megiddo for minions via genetic engineering, cybernetics and other body modifications, enhancements and augmentations.
  • In The Three Worlds Cycle, there are four humanoid species: Charon, Faellem, Aachim and old human. Those with ancestry from two of the above are blendings, three makes a triune and four makes a tetrach. This may be slightly played with as the books state that many hybrids are sterile, have a short lifespan and various mental and physical problems, these worsening the more "mixed" the blood is. Also, at least some of these human species are directly derived from others. While it's likely there'd been enough genetic drift to make separate species, it's possible that at least a couple of these races are in fact from the same species. There are other non-human species in the series, but no-one's particularly keen to mate with them to see what happens.
  • Thursday Next: In Something Rotten, the Bradshaws explicitly avert this; they don't have any children because he's a man and she's a gorilla. For double irony, they are fictional characters within the story.
  • There are human-titan and titan-human hybrids in Titan Empire. They're produced as a side effect of life-extension treatments for humans, which make the species' DNA "compatible". (It's posited by one Terran scientist that the species must share a common ancestor.) As Titans are about 24 times taller than humans, it's best that the size of the offspring's basic size is the same as their mothers'.
  • Tolkien's Legendarium:
    • There are a few human/elf children. In one of his letters, Tolkien said that biologically, humans and elves are the same species (though they are spiritually different), which is why they can interbreed; since orcs are presumed to be degraded creatures originally bred from corrupted elves and/or humans, they would be able to interbreed with humans (and elves) as well.
      • The most famous Half-Elven family (descending from two separate mixed marriages, whose members married each other) that descended from Lúthien, Beren, and Eärendil. The early members of that family each had to make a choice to be counted among either Elves or Men, because elves and humans have incompatible afterlives for cosmic reasons. Not all members of that family chose the same, causing a lot of grief for them whenever close relatives were separated by the afterlife for all time.
      • As a further bit, this choice isn't binding on your descendants for the Half-Elven side. In the contemporary setting, the Half-Elven (mostly Elrond and the Rivendell folks) can choose to "opt out" of the Elven immortality and afterlife and instead take the Gift of Man (death). Arwen eventually chose this path to marry Aragorn and eventually dies a mortal death.
      • At least one Man outside the Númenórean royal line mentioned above, Prince Imrahil, has Elven blood. However, Prince's Imrahil's ancestry is largely debated, as one of the stories claim his ancestor was Nimrodel (beloved of Amroth) or one of her travelling companions, that after marrying and having children with a Númenorean, slipped out into the night never to be seen again—going strictly against Elven culture (leaving one's family). It is likely that the mention by Legolas in Return of the King was an oversight.
      • The Half-Elven unions and offspring mentioned in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings involve (on the elven side) descendants of Elu Thingol, a Sindarin elf and Melian, a Maia giving them all some Divine Parentage. Early notes on the story indicate that Tolkien originally assumed that being half-elven was not unusual, but no other ever appeared in his work.
    • Half-orcs exist, serving as spies or saboteurs for Saruman. Unpublished material described them as the offspring of orcs and humans reduced to an orc-like state. The Uruk-hai are also speculated to be bred by Saruman from orc-human matings.
    • Some of the men among the Haradrim's forces are described as being "like half-trolls". It's unknown if they are actually this, but some of the video games depict them as genuine.
  • Tortall Universe:
    • In The Immortals: Wild Magic, Daine Sarrasri is the child of a human woman (Sarra — thus the name) and the god of the hunt (Weiryn). Her mother later becomes a goddess in her own right (The Green Lady).
    • Aly and Nawat's baby from the Trickster's Duet books also counts, being half-human and half-crow.
  • Isaac Asimov's Tweenies short stories features Martian-Human hybrids. Their most noticeable features are large white mohican crests and high intelligence. They are outcasts of both species. In the stories a sympathetic human ends up looking after several Tweenies, later becoming a small commune. Once older, they leave Earth to have adventures colonizing Venus.
  • The titular Ukiah Oregon was created by the Ontongard as a human hybrid, so they could use his offspring as ideal hosts.
  • Unlimited Fafnir: Dragons have the ability to transform Ds (human girls with supernatural powers) into more of their own kind, in order to reproduce with them. Despite both parents being physically dragons, the resulting offspring inherit some human traits. Kraken Zwei, the child of Kraken and Miyako, resembles a human girl except that her hair is a mass of mithril strands, the same metal that composes the Kraken's body.
  • In Un Lun Dun, the character Hemi is half ghost, half human. It's implied that it's extremely rare, and frowned upon by ghosts and humans, for such a pairing to occur.
  • In Villains by Necessity, it turns out that Sam is half-elven.
  • The Wandering Inn: Ceria, one of the side characters, is a half-elf.
  • In The War Gods, humans have split into 5 separate species, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Hradani, and Halfings. It is possible for any of the species to interbreed although only Elf-Human hybrids (Half-Elves) are common — several of the other matches produce offspring that die young or are infertile, although most of the human population of the Axeman Empire have some Dwarf blood. Half-Elves consider themselves to be the fifth species (since they came about before Halflings); however, while breeding with each other and with full Elves preserves both the Human and Elvish traits, the offspring of a Human and Half-Elf will show a significant reduction in the Elvish traits. Finally, it is established that only Humans and Half-Humans can be wizards or magi.
  • In Warlock of Gramarye, Gwendylon Gallowglass of Gramarye is one-quarter elven (and her children are one-eighth). This is weirder than usual, because on Gramarye elves were originally an alien fungus shaped by the beliefs of humans with Psychic Powers.
  • The Water and the Wild: Lottie Fiske has a sprite mother and a human father. She was sent to live with the Yateses while her parents died from The Plague in the fairy world.
  • In V. Zykov's Way Home, elves are cross-fertile with humans, and half-elves are somewhat bound to elven laws.
  • Lampshaded in H. Beam Piper's short story "When in the Course". One human female character is reminded several times throughout the story that, even though the inhabitants of Freya appear human, the two races "started in two different puddles of living slime, seven hundred light-years apart". At the end of the story, she announces that she's pregnant by a Freyan.

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