What would prevent chimeras from reproducing with each other?
There exists a polymerization spell that allows distinct animals to combine with each other, creating an entirely new creature. The beasts in question are held in transumutation circles linked by ley lines and surrounded by specific ingredients to make the spell work. Ingredients are specific to the creatures in question, or setting will go wrong and you will end up with a messy, organic blob.
After many hours of ritual chanting, the summoner finishes the spell with the phrase "FUSION!! HA!!, which combines the animals. These creatures are not like tigons or ligers, beings that have numerous biological problems due to their unnatural situation. Instead, it is a true fusion of two or more creatures, a symbiotic joining that gives the creature the best traits of its parents.
The chimera, such as a sphinx, a sharktopus, or a piranha-conda, is a fusion of the components of both creatures to create a unique biological system. Due to this factor, they are unable to breed with either species, as the resulting animal looks completely different from both parent races. However, it has also been discovered that chimeras of the same type cannot breed with each other either. The creatures were not made sterile, but are simply incompatible with each other despite them being the same species. This makes the business of making these things expensive, as they must be custom- built each time.
How could chineras be prevented from reproducing with each other?
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The Gods determined that taboos must be broken.
- Just as in Greek mythology, the Sphinx -
Σφίγξ- was most often depicted as female with a human head, a lion (or other great cat) and wings:
treacherous and merciless
In Egyptian mythology it would have been without wings and male.
Such archetypal creatures have been common in mythologies of the world since these creatures were first known, many are transgender, many are homosexual or lesbian and thus unlikely to procreate.
The Sirens of Greek Myth were always depicted as female, seeming to have but one purpose, to lure sailors to their death on the rocks (for who knows what purpose - spiritual energy, food, maybe out of spite for their loneliness). Female spirits.
Centaurs (human/horse) and Minotaurs (human/bull hybrid) were most often portrayed as male only, these liminal creatures symbolizing the untamed aspects of our social nature. Male spirits.
To sum-up: each creature has a purpose in the mind of peoples, each reflects a certain aspect of either the female psyche, or the male's - most often to do with the taboos of that society, most usually centered around death and sexual/social boundaries rather than normal reproductive life.
The Gods made them so to reflect humanities's foibles, weaknesses, desires and fears back to them (or perhaps to reflect their own) - often setting people traps to fall into to their shame and death (The Gods also made it possible for only such creatures as fulfilled this requirement to exist - all others are forbidden).
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