Magic Kin - what are they exactly?

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I have yet another question I feel I once knew they answer to, but am currently baffled by: Are Magic Kin meant to be designed as Magic Humans with Might or not?

At first, I assumed so due to their placement in RoP: M, but while looking over the examples in several supplements for inspiration, I found that many incorporate features that would only make sense if they lacked a Might Score - The most blatant example being Lost Children possessing the Unaging virtue. Furthermore, the Plinian Races from BS&S (who appear to be a similar sort of being) explicitly don't have Might so I'm not really sure what's going on at all...

Thoughts?

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To me it looks like magic kin can be either, some of them seem to require might while others have traits which indicate a lack of it. There are some versions of selkies in mythology where they must occasionally breed with humans or they will revert to being purely seals- I think the magic kin are supposed to inhabit this sort of middle ground.

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