/tes/ - The Elder Scrolls Discussion

>>3031

/pol/ can stay, you fuck off.

>>7716

>Cats are awesome

>Drug abuse a positive quality

You are a plebeian and should go back to fucking Reddit before it ceases to exist. Once it does, don't come back.

>>7752

nobody cares about your uneventful straight edge lifestyle, you fucking bore.

>>7753

>Implying that not believing drug abuse to be a positive quality makes you straight edge

ayy lmao

1. The Klingon cultured Dremora

2. The Technomancer Dwemer

3. The brave yet stupid Nords

4. The resilient Argonians

>>7716

Aye.

I usually tend to prefer Nords and Bretons, but I'll play as any race except Khajit.

>>7828

Gameplay: they're my go-to mages.

>but what about Altmer?

Altmer are great mages, but they have weakness to magic except in Skyrim, of course.

Bretons have a better focus to defend from magic and dish it out.

Lore: I like the French aspects of the Bretons, being a ouiaboo.

I also like how they're supposed to be the best cooks, artists, musicians, etc.

Plus, the internal politics of High Rock is right up my alley.

I used to always play for male Dunmer, and sometimes as Argonian.

But it was before I got into waifufetcherry.

Divines Tier:

>anything but Altmer

Elf Thalmors with Shitty Racial tier:

>altmer

>>7752

cats were a chan thing before reddit even existed, you literal turd.

>>8417

>not quite so kickass weapons but still good

It's not the orcs' fault that skyrim contradicts its own lore by making their weapons shitty. "Hurr durr orcs are amazing smiths look at this sword that looks like it's from the stone age isn't it cool?!" Thanks Todd.

Dunmer, but it was before waifufetcherry.

>>8419

I think he might be referring to the fact Orcish weapons are inferior to Dwemer ones, whilst it's the opposite for armor.

But also that. That's was pretty fucking lazy on the art team's behalf. I like most of what Adamowizc & Lederer made, but some is shit. I think Lederer designed the orc armour.

>>7716

I like how their heads in that illustration look less anthro and more like real cats

Khajiits are in interesting concept, but unfortunately furrydom exists and kinda soils the khajiits image

>>8439

So where do reiklings fit in? Are they just another breed or subspecies of goblin?

>>8456

I choose to interpret it as such, that they are simply Goblinken. They are clearly intelligent, maybe even more so than the Falmer though not by much.Speaking of, I do think that when they made Morrowind, the rieklings were supposed to be the "Snow Elves" of old, turned as they are now, basically proto-Falmer.

Just a feeling I've got, thought its of course not canon and I'm very ok with that. Getting high on scathecraw and shit.

>>8452

Argonians have a way of looking really cool, but I could never get "into" their mindset for roleplay purposes. Too alien. Same with Khajiits.

>>8439

>>8464

I've never really thought about goblins, but I've just realised they and ogres are actually people but they don't fit with the theories of racial evolution.

Are they closer to elves or men? Anuic or padomaic?

Do they have black souls or white souls?

This also raises a tangential question: sapient souls are recycled in the dreamsleeve and then reincarnated, but are animal souls recycled and how do goblins and ogres fit into that hierarchy?

>>8471

I vaguely remember a guy in the Shivering Isles expansion bringing up evolution in order to disprove god (Sheogorath). The joke being that an atheist in the Elder Scrolls universe fits right in Sheogorath's madhouse.

I don't know how i'd personally fit in the elder scrolls universe. I'd probably be a redguard raised in Cyrodiil.

Now, my most played-races are Nord and Dunmer respectively. Whenever I play Nord I try to roleplay as a Scaldic-tradinionalist Nord, this is because I prefer my fantasy heroes to be versatile like Conan the Barbarian.

Dunmer I personally think they're savages, but I can't help but to like them and their culture, morrowind being my favorite game sure made a great impression on me.

I wish I could play argonian, khajiit and Orc more often because them being so alien and unique, it's worth the experience, sadly that can't happen with either oblivion or Skyrim where lore-immersion is shit.

>stealth archer tier:

Bretons

Bosmer

Orcs

Dunmer

Khajit

Argonians

Imperials

Nords

Redguards

>terrible stealth archers tier:

Talmor

>>8818

Does someone have the image for this? It's pure gold.

>>2646

n'wah lover

>>2640

Depends on game and class and the aim of my playthrough.

Morrowind:

Gamebreakingly retarded thief:

>khajiit

>bosmer

non-magical generalist:

>nord

>imperial

break the game and acheive CHIM class:

>altmer

All of the other races are pointless.

Bretons focus skills on being basically NPC healers, and are shit overall.

Orcs are basically nords with shitty racial powers and uglyness.

Redguards are too black.

Argonians aren't particularly good at anything, so why would you ever play as a filthy lizard?

>>8827

thank you sera

>favorite race

I tend not to judge people based on something so superficial. Even though it's my favorite genre, I am a bit concerned that RPG's promote these kinds of topics.

>>8970

Fucking Thalmor go the fuck away.

>>8970

I completely agree. I also think that sex should be replaced by gender, AKA what we identify as.

>>8971

Racist! Misogynyst!

>>8972

Thalmor! Hlaalu!

>>8973

What censors to Hlaalu?

>>8974

J E W

>>8975

Thank you sera

I'm torn between Altmer and Orsimer. Though the High Elves are the superior choice for all except combat, I still fucking love the Orcs. It's not just TES either. I'm pretty biased for them in most media. Not Tolkien Orcs though, they're disgusting little fucks and they should be slaughtered en mass.

I love how Orc society works too. Promotes a strong people and an honoured code. The Orcs work hard to lift themselves up above the other races. Morally and socially. They're quite content with isolating themselves and letting everyone else commit genocide on each other as long as nobody bothers them.

If nothing else, they're the best warrior race in TES. Orsinium is a pretty great example of that. Even though it has been destroyed before multiple times, the Orcs didn't go down weak. The first time took 30 years with the combined forces of two nations and a fucking battlemaster. Orsinium fell, but the Orcs were the objective winners in that fight. And Orsinium rises again, and once more it is defeated. Only to rise again.

Just like the Orcs themselves. They can be stomped on all you want, but they'll pull themselves out of the mud and come back just as strong. They're the unstoppable force on collision with the immovable object.

I'm pretty impressed over their relationship with Malacath too. Most other gods couldn't give two shits about their patrons, but Malacath actually cares for the Orcs as his children. He even sees ogres as his little brothers. I don't remember Talos ever seeing the Nords as family with his divinity.

Orcs are fucking based. And they realise it the least of all. They're an unopened box that just needs the wrapping to slide off. Then the box is opened, and the contents are freed to the world. And when that happens, you better be an honourable sort and not some fetcher Breton.

>>8990

Now I want to see TES VI set in orsinium

>>8990

You're very biased. Orcs aren't that great and most of what you said is stretching stuff.

They have good traits, but then again so do Wood Elves and they're Wood Elves.

>>8993

>Bosmer

>Good for anything that isn't a punchline

Go back to Valenwood and take your Napoleon complex with you.

>>8974

No way, testing:

Kike, coin grinder, oven dodger, Hlaalu, Hlaalu, J E W

Thank you.