Elven races can interbreed but they don't. According to lore, Elves have a very high regard for their own specific race and would never taint it with another.

I'm not sure if that has ever been recorded... Ask Vivec about six with a Daedra if you are interested though.

Well, Altmer and Bosmer I can understand but how can you taint Dunmer blood even further? I
mean they're basically the embodiment of everything that's cursed and tainted.

Could breed with an Orsimer.

By the Nines... the horror! I can not unsee that mental image. D:

Make that an Orsimer woman for even more damage. With a puny little Dunmer male. Poor guy.

I remember reading in an in-game book (probably one of the Real Berenzariah [sp]) that she was impregnated by one of the emperors, but he forced a healer to abort the fetus. He said it was to stop fighting (she was his mistress). She was very upset about it (duh!). So from that I believe Dunmer are not concerned about "tainting" the race. At least the mommas aren't.

Barenziah wasn't any ordinary Dunmer though. And it's not as if being impregnated by Tiber Septim would have been much of a taint, he's not exactly some lowly human peasant. Also the pregnancy wasn't actually planned, it was a mistake, however since children are so rare among Dunmer women Barenziah was naturally very frightened of what an abortion could do to her chances of reproduction.

Also there's a generalisation that young Dunmer women are all s,luts (for want of a better word). Barenziah also had intercourse with a Khajiit..

Only arrogant racist snobs would worry about being "tainted" bu another race.

No they may simply be conservative, I admit tainted is a very negative word, but I don't think there's anything abhorrent about wishing to preserve your own race.

The only races that haven't been confirmed to be able to breed with one another are Argonians and the races of Man and Mer.

The races of Man and Mer stem from a common ancestor called the Ehlnofey and there are several cases of interracial breeding such as Bretons in general, the Grey Prince (Imperial-Orc hybrid), and Talos/Tiber Septim with Barenziah. Not sure if it really happened, but I read somewhere that Barenziah (after miscarrying from Talos' intervention) mated with a Khajiit. Don't know how that worked out, but I believe she got pregnant.

Argonians are the only race with absolutely no evidence suggesting they can breed with other races (they have eggs, for one, and evolved from a tree)

No she had intercourse with a Khajiit, he did not impregnate her though..

Now I've not read "The Lusty Argonian Maid" (I'M NOT A PERVERT, only joking I am), but this would certainly suggest humans and Argonians can certainly have intercourse.. I have no evidence suggesting reproduction is possible, but just because they lay eggs does not mean a human or elf couldn't impregnate her, remember the offspring always resembles the mother.

Although my lore is not up to scratch, im quite sure all races can inter-breed.
Its just that we don't see any hybrid races so far in the games.

Maybe something to think about in TES6 eh Beth?

No Phyber, all offspring takes the form of it's mother. That's why the Gray Prince was an Orc, and not a weird mutant Orc/Imperial. There are definetely many examples of races interbreeding in Tamriel within games, in books or through conversation with characters and quests.

Oh i didn't know children all take the form of the mother.
And yea i do see some different races couple together, humans/elves mostly.
Haven't yet seen any Orc/Any Race, Argonian/Any Race, Khajit/Any Race tho.

I know Orcs are considered Mer, but as for Argonians and Khajits, we can't call them "Races" anymore rite?
They're more like a different species??

In Oblivion, the Gray Prince had an Imperial father (who later became a vampire) and an Orc mother.

I don't know about Khajiit/Argonians breeding with Men/Mer.. I know there's examples of Argonians/Khajiit having intercourse with Men/Mer though.

Barenziah (dunmer) had two children with Symmachus (altmer), she also got pregnant by Tiber Septim(aborted) and is romored to have had a child with a Khajiit. She had another child with a fellow Nigthingale of unknown race who also entered into a relationship with someone of unknown race, the child of this union, Karliah, is the only dunmer in Skyrim with blue eyes.

In Skyrim itself we have at least one mixed marriage where one of the parties is an elf: Nivenor (bosmer) is married to Bolli (nord). There are probably more.

I thought Symmachus was a Dunmer.

I don't think she had a child with the Khajiit, I believe they just had intercourse (could be wrong though). From images of him Jagar Tharn appears to be a cross between a Dunmer and an Imperial.. Hard to tell though he could just simply be Dunmer (he has red eyes, I know that doesn't necessarily mean he's a Dark Elf)..

This topic turned out to be a pretty good read. I guess I'll switch it up with my backstory, having my mother be a wood elf huntress and my father being a half Altmer illusionist/conjurerer.

Good to know.

Damnit, was thinking about her daughter Morgiah. She had two children with Karoodil (altmer).

The entire race of Bretons are descended from man/elf hybrids. Aldmeri lords, Nedic concubines. Eventually the resulting offspring crowded out both races.

It's why the Bretons have such an affinity for magic.