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* Al-Qadim, being [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|quasi-Arabic]] setting, has polygamy limited by tradition to four wives. That being ''Al-Qadim'', this number is justified by the legend about the first sha'ir, who had four [[Our Genies Are Different|genie]] wives -- one per element. Marriages between a mortal and a genie are not quite stuff of legends, though of course rare and many are troublesome -- given how capricious and powerful genies are, few can hope to hold one's interest for long, let alone be a more or less equal match. Mortals of Zakhara are immune to [[Fantastic Racism]], so romance between humanoids happens now and again, though rare except human-elf and human-orc pairs -- they are known to be inter-fertile, so it's much less of a big deal.
* While it doesn't get a lot of mention, the novels for the [[Dragonlance]] setting admit outright that humans can cross-breed with just about any of the humanoid races. Not only is a half-elf one of the main characters of the first trilogy, but several mentions have been made of half-kender, and at least one half-ogre, half-dwarf, half-goblin and half-gnome has each turned up over the course of the novels.
* One example of this Trope that ended ''very'' badly is part of the backstory of the ''[[Dungeon (magazine)|Dungeon]] #44'' module "Train of Events". One of the villains is a [[Lamia|Lamia Noble]] who once fell in love with, married, and even had a child with a human male. (The monstrous equivalent of a she-wolf falling in love with a male sheep, at least from the typical lamia's point of view.) Problem is, she used her shapechanging ability to pose as human almost all the time, and one day he saw her in her true form. He was both repulsed and terrified, and she became enraged at such a reaction. (As the text states, [[Black Comedy| "after all the years of giving up raw human flesh for boring roast beef, this is how he treated her?"]]) In her rage, she killed him by shoving him out a third floor window, and fled. Her ultimate goal in the story is to find and reclaim her son with the aid of factions of derro and duergar. There's even a portrait of her son in her private quarters, placed for the DM to use as a [[Sequel Hook]].
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