Are the Haruchai human?...and...

[onewyteduck]

Isn't the definition of species that 2 individuals can mate and produce fertile offspring? If that is the case then there is no reason any Haruchai/anyone else mating wouldn't result in children though these children won't necessarily be able to reproduce themselves and may have other problems

Spoiler

as we know Esmer has plenty of problems

Such as.....you breed a horse to a donkey and get a mule. The mule is sterile? (Alynna can correct me if I'm wrong)

[Buckarama]

Yes, 99.9% of all mules are sterile.


(Yes, I'm an old farm boy.)

[Stokio]

I think that they are human, just different. Just look at how people have adapted to different environments in real life. The haruchai come from the mountains were it is cold, has harsh/drastically changing weather, and the air is thinner. Were they live the just walk around in a tunic, so they have obviously adapted and become very tough. Their society is also very demanding as we all know, so along with developing their own martial art they develop this toughness.

To make it easier to think about, consider this. The haruchai, compared to us, seem very different. But let say you moved to a remote moutain, trained all of you life to fight. You too would become tough, your endurance would increase dramatically because of your training in the mountains thin air. Your body itself would be tough to because of all of the fighting and the harsh weather. Now imagine generations of people like you living on the mountain, your children and your children's children would be tougher than you.

The haruchai are human, it is just that they come from a place that demands they have certain qualities. Humans are a very flexible species as we can tell by looking at examples in real life, so it isn't a big stretch to have a group of people that are different then us.