Anyone else think of Dilated Peoples?

So then Half-Elves could be a human mammal in the process of an Elven education, and particularly adventurous humans may risk waking up as a halfling one day…

The Goron race in the Legend of Zelda lore already works like the dwarves on this example - they’re naturally spawned from rocks, and as such, don’t have a concept of parenting or sex. The closest thing to a family that they have is their “rock brothers” - fellow Gorons that happen to have spawned from the same rock they did.

Dwarves: “Humans do what now to reproduce?”

Love it. I headcanon that goblin sorcerors are born when somebody chucks some psychedelic mushrooms into the cauldron