Alicorn, I believe, has said that half-vampires can breed with either vampires or humans (or, presumably, other half-vampires) and create hybrids of different fractions of vampire-ness. Thus, any children Elspeth has will be at least one-quarter vampire, which if I recall correctly is above Alicorn’s threshold for “still technically part-vampire” as regards the on-or-off abilities of hybrids (males venomous, immortal are the ones I can think of).
It is also hypothesized that male wolves imprint because their imprints are capable of passing on the wolf gene. I’m not sure of the degree of certainty attached to this, but it seems a reasonable supposition.
Given these questions, what happens if Elspeth and Jacob have a child? It’s quite probable that the child would be a wolf, since Jacob imprinted on Elspeth. The child would also be at least one-quarter vampire. Can you have a hybrid wolf? If the child is male, presumably he would also be venomous—how does this interact with the wolves’ very negative reaction to vampire venom? This seems to be a question that would come up even in canon Twilight, and I wouldn’t necessarily expect Meyer to have thought about it, but it would be interesting if Alicorn had a perspective.
I haven’t decided. I’m not planning for the story to go on that long. However, my first-pass approximation at an answer is that the wolf would be like a quarter-vampire in “human form”, and like a slightly souped-up wolf in wolf form. I don’t think I said anywhere that a quarter-vampire could be venomous, and if I did, I retract it: the quarter-vamp wolf would not be venomous regardless of gender. However, the quarter-vamp wolf would be better able to recover from venom-related injuries than standard-issue wolves.
Hm. Would a quarter-vamp non-wolf be venomous or immortal? (Presumably a quarter-vamp wolf would be just as immortal as a wolf; would they also be immortal if they quit their wolves?)
Allirea’s children (the only quarter-vampires who currently exist in the world of Luminosity) will not die of old age. Neither would a hypothetical wolf-quitting (or inactive) quarter-vamp wolf.
Some thoughts about heredity.
Alicorn, I believe, has said that half-vampires can breed with either vampires or humans (or, presumably, other half-vampires) and create hybrids of different fractions of vampire-ness. Thus, any children Elspeth has will be at least one-quarter vampire, which if I recall correctly is above Alicorn’s threshold for “still technically part-vampire” as regards the on-or-off abilities of hybrids (males venomous, immortal are the ones I can think of). It is also hypothesized that male wolves imprint because their imprints are capable of passing on the wolf gene. I’m not sure of the degree of certainty attached to this, but it seems a reasonable supposition. Given these questions, what happens if Elspeth and Jacob have a child? It’s quite probable that the child would be a wolf, since Jacob imprinted on Elspeth. The child would also be at least one-quarter vampire. Can you have a hybrid wolf? If the child is male, presumably he would also be venomous—how does this interact with the wolves’ very negative reaction to vampire venom? This seems to be a question that would come up even in canon Twilight, and I wouldn’t necessarily expect Meyer to have thought about it, but it would be interesting if Alicorn had a perspective.
I haven’t decided. I’m not planning for the story to go on that long. However, my first-pass approximation at an answer is that the wolf would be like a quarter-vampire in “human form”, and like a slightly souped-up wolf in wolf form. I don’t think I said anywhere that a quarter-vampire could be venomous, and if I did, I retract it: the quarter-vamp wolf would not be venomous regardless of gender. However, the quarter-vamp wolf would be better able to recover from venom-related injuries than standard-issue wolves.
Hm. Would a quarter-vamp non-wolf be venomous or immortal? (Presumably a quarter-vamp wolf would be just as immortal as a wolf; would they also be immortal if they quit their wolves?)
Allirea’s children (the only quarter-vampires who currently exist in the world of Luminosity) will not die of old age. Neither would a hypothetical wolf-quitting (or inactive) quarter-vamp wolf.