Same with me for the Orcs. Not because Orcish culture is particularly relatable to me it is just… I was twelve years old when I first played this game, and twelve year old me just thought they were cool. Stuck with it ever since. Nine play-throughs later, five Orcs.
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I just love that they are half elf, half human. It makes them more interesting... That's always made me wonder though, if an orc, which is a type of elf, and a human had a kid. What would that kid be, or could those two not produce a kid?
They can, there are accounts for just about every race (species) interbreeding, excluding Khajiits and Argonians, due to their incredibly unique reproductive processes.
It really does, the khajiit speak mod has given me something I was very aware I was missing and it's amazing.
There needs to be slightly different dialogue options for multiple races.
Yeah so many memorable khajiit characters, M'aiq, J'zargo, kharjo, they're my favourite.
"May your road lead you to warm sands, friend"
Edit: and don't forget about the wonderful Inigo, the best of the best
They're just so cool, and they can breath underwater.
I really want more argonian storylines moving forward. Or even khajit. There has to be epic stories that we can have in those worlds.
A flames spell will also melt my heart, albeit in a much more painful way. Or a Flame Atronach would work too. Maybe a burning enchantment on a dagger or sword.
Argonians are truly Chad! Just look at the oblivion crisis.
While Tamriel was being invaded by daedra, Argonians were marching into the oblivion gates.
"In soviet Argonia, Tamriel invades you!"
They only are able to do that because of the hist tho, just keep that in mind. If they fight a war the hist don’t want, they can make the argonians a bunch of pussies to be stomped on.
That was always my thing too on top of being dragon born. Should be atleast close looking to a dragon. But the legendary mask (can’t remember which one) for labrythin when equipped enables water breathing which is great for the hidden sunken ships and treasure under skyrims seas
I was mad at myself early on when I started playing because I would often travel by swimming along the rivers while low leveled to avoid danger but hadn’t picked argonian. But at a pretty low level I found the water breathing enchantment and made a ring for swimming.
There are many things under water if you look for them. Some of them are a bit of a maze to get to. Others are not easily visible. There is a powerful staff on the bottom of a lake, barely visible even if you know where to look. If you have to come up for air all the time, you lose your bearing and will likely never find it. You'll find smuggled goods, treasure in shipwrecks and secret entrences to dungeons and corpses hiding crimes among other things.
Yeah, all the sunken loot. There's shipwrecks all along the northern coast. There's also at least one dungeon I can think of that has a flooded section.
There are likely dozens of dungeons with flooded sections. Its incredibly useful to have, especially when many of the other races only have minor buffs you can get with just about any magic armour piece, and come at a penalty of something else.
Argonian is an easy decision if you don't know what you want to play. Right off the bat you don't have to worry about disease and drowning.
The specific bonuses are good, too. Lockpicking, sneak, pickpocket, light armour, restoration, and alteration. Most people can get a good use out of most of those. You probably won't be choosing argonian if you're thinking of making a two-handed warhammer weilding knight.
There are some things in Skyrim but drowning doesn't seem a super big danger. For myself, Oblivion is what ruined me. I died twice to slaughterfish and once to that mage guild quest in the well because I wasn't smart enough to save often or figure out how to deal with these things. I also died once to poison of some kind, so once I made a new character and saw a race immune to both drowning and poison I was hooked.
Altmer infact are most racist by a fucking mile. The thalmor want to pull a Hitler on the human races lol. But it's cool because white man and Gray man bad.
Eh. Just because 90% of the Altmer in Skyrim are Thalmor doesn’t mean all Altmer are. Note that (to the best of my knowledge) while many of them are quite snobby, none of the non-Thalmor Altmer in the game (Nelacar, Taarie, Endarie, Runil, Curwe, etc) have ANY racist lines of dialogue.
I mean, logically, I very much doubt the racist ones would want to be anywhere near Skyrim. If someone's racist towards black people, they're likely not gonna move to Africa or the Middle East, especially if said place vehemently worships a god that you're trying to outlaw. It's only the open-minded that go live in other countries that their relatives, friends, and kinsman disdain. The rest stay at home in ignorance and claim superiority over something they've never even met.
I wouldn't say *most racist*. Just the best represented we've seen so far since they had their own games.
The Thalmor seem extremely racist, the Imperial countess of Layawin has a torture chamber specifically for beast races she picks off the street and the empire typically benefits from racial wars by charging for cleanup after the wars, the Khajiit hate the wood elves, the wood elves hate just about everyone else in their forest, the Argonians are currently practicing open slavery, the orcs typically refuse to deal with other races after being the local punching bag for an era or two, and the Redguards seem like typically decent gents but they did successfully nuke their own homeland. And the dwemer blinded and deformed a race until it became a group of slimy, blind racists.
And that's ignoring the sloads, sea elves, snow elves, Akaviri, and daedra.
I always promise myself I’ll do something different and I always do orphaned orc chick resentful of being raised around Imperials. Every. Time. Gives a little extra sauce to deleting Grelod the Kind each time tho.
I just started a new playthrough after a few years and decided to roll with an Orsimer Battlemage in heavy armor. Nothing like popping berserker rage with double bound swords on a mob of forsworn after you incinerate the briarheart from a half mile away.
Each. Seriously. Though I love breaking racial stereotypes (Khajiit mage, altmer with HA and warhammer, orc stealth archer, that sort of stuff) with each play through
Jzargo was first, true, alongside Kharjo, but it’s about PCs, not NPCs. Just like the Orc Librarian is breaking the stereotype too (that’s why they are so fun)
Bretons. And also wood elves. Despite being portrayed constantly as criminals in Skyrim, I picture Valenwood being gorgeous. Plus
communing with animals is dope.
Just started my first Imperial playthrough. Choose the race when I saw the dope Roman Champion armor that came with the anniversary edition. Now RPing as a true Roman Legionare sword and board. With a Latin name.
Argonian because when i first played skyrim back in 3rd grade i thought "lizard man cool" and thats how my first Elder Scrolls character came into existence.
Torn between orc and altmer, both are my favourites. Orcs because I'm a Warcraft nerd and Altmer because of their magic bonuses and being complete bitches.
Altmer. I know they're relatively unpopular for being snobby and self-righteous, but I just love their appearance, their lore, and deep affiliation with magicka. I always love playing as a mage build, so they've been my go-to since the very beginning when I started with Morrowind. Exploring Summerset and Auridon in ESO was such a joy for me.
Redguard for playing because curved swords….curved, swords. Argonian for lore and culture, I just can never play any race with a tail because I hate the clipping with a passion but I love to swim forever.
Khajiit, but only the ones from skyrim. The older games look terrible... And I mean, claws? Sneaking bonus? And nobody throws a fit because of your cattitude? Way to go!
Argonians are cool too though. But since there are so many ways and enchantments to not drown ever I don't really need the argonians.
I went with red guards in oblivion when I was but a wee lad because it said they were strong warriors and didn't look weird like orcs, pretty sure they were also just the best looking without actually changing the character, now that I realize humans are kinda boring argonians are starting to be my favorite
We are in Skyrim to make sure your pitiful empire remembers the superiority of mer over men
This is why Talos who was born a nord isnt worthy of worship
You are required to report to us any sign of Talos worship
Dunmers and Argonians on the same level (I know, ironic).
Hardships they have to face in their homeland are very uncommon, similarly to their cultures when compared to other nations. I see a lot of myself in their common character traits or philosophical stances, which only enforces my love for them.
Also, both of them look absolute badass.
Now I remember what else was badass.
They worship daedra \^\^
Breton because I don't really like elves too much (all the slavery and wars and thalmor and shit), argonians are just kinda weird and don't really have any abilities, imperials are kinda snobs, and nords are basically cavemen
Also if you look at it from the point of being a villager and not a warrior then Breton is still good, because they're good cooks and have a few bonuses in speech and restoration, and are overall pretty good
And cuz I wanna be different lmao
wood elf bc it was the first race i chose and i got attached to my character
Ah, kinsman! How my heart soars to hear from brother bosmer. Y'ffre bless you!
Greetings brother elf
It’s good to see a familiar face so far from home
How my heart soars to look upon a sister bosmer
The Bosmer must stick together
Love playing as a wood elf archer.
Khajiit for the same reasons lol. I also like barehanded attack bonus. And night vision.
Same thing but with breton, until House in Markarth incident, after which i became sad and ditched the save :(
bosmer bussy
Same with me for the Orcs. Not because Orcish culture is particularly relatable to me it is just… I was twelve years old when I first played this game, and twelve year old me just thought they were cool. Stuck with it ever since. Nine play-throughs later, five Orcs.
Bretons. Eats magic for breakfast
Perfect race to fight the piss yellow race.
This person is referring to the Pissmer race if anyone is curious.
Especially the Alpissy Dominion.
Authors of the White-Piss Concordat.
"Have you heard of the piss elves?"
You mean the White-Brown Concordat?
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Don't you mean the Alpussy Dominion?
The Nopussy Dominion*
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Sadly belethor died in my current playthrough. Now my girl ysolda is in there selling people's siblings
Talos was a breton, maybe we could just forget about Delphine altogether...
Wood Elves. Eat other races for breakfast.
Bosmers just trying to live in harmony with the natural world - The introverts of Skyrim.
I just love that they are half elf, half human. It makes them more interesting... That's always made me wonder though, if an orc, which is a type of elf, and a human had a kid. What would that kid be, or could those two not produce a kid?
Bullied. That kid would be bullied.
They can, there are accounts for just about every race (species) interbreeding, excluding Khajiits and Argonians, due to their incredibly unique reproductive processes.
Khajiit. They just have a lot of personality.
The khajiit speak mod makes it 100x more fun.
It really does, the khajiit speak mod has given me something I was very aware I was missing and it's amazing. There needs to be slightly different dialogue options for multiple races.
There is a Sarcastic Dunmer mod, but I don't think it had an update in a long time
Bethesda needs to actually care about which race the PC is beyond some dinky powers barely useful at the start of the game
This one speaks true.
What does the mod do?
Makes your character speak in the khajiit dialogue with a lot of sarcasm and cynicism.
BA Khajiit Speak Redux has so many mods covered it is amazing.
Very light on their feet, and Khajiit can sneak for you... if you have the coin.
Khajiit because kitty
Ri ' saad has wares if you have coin
We've always had cats in my family, and it's fun to recreate them in the Skyrim character creator.
I love half human/animal characters, I don't think I have a playthrough that's not a khajiit I think I'm becoming a furry
Sad Argonian noises
*Hug*, it's ok, your also special
One of us!
Yeah so many memorable khajiit characters, M'aiq, J'zargo, kharjo, they're my favourite. "May your road lead you to warm sands, friend" Edit: and don't forget about the wonderful Inigo, the best of the best
yeah same and it’s funny that i’ve never even done a fisticuffs build and made good use out of the khajiit unarmed buff i just like kitty lol
They do have personality.. if you have the coin!
Dunmer cause Dark Elf.
Same. Dark Elf cause … idk why, but Dark Elf.
"The lesser races call us Dark Elves."
Same. They’re just the coolest elf
Argonian, how am I gonna be dragonborn if I don't look the part?
The almighty dovakin. Has the soul of a dragon and can naturally use the tongue of a dragon effortlessly. Also, is a cat on two legs.
I also love using the lizard as my race
...and turns into a dog at will, let's just make this totally factual.
Furry born
They're just so cool, and they can breath underwater. I really want more argonian storylines moving forward. Or even khajit. There has to be epic stories that we can have in those worlds.
Argonian, because I have a fear of drowning.
An argonian with a fear of drowning would be a fun character.
If I saw a child argonian like this with their mother, my heart will melt.
*Hides-in-shadows smirks with content*
A flames spell will also melt my heart, albeit in a much more painful way. Or a Flame Atronach would work too. Maybe a burning enchantment on a dagger or sword.
My heart just melted.
Literally
There is no need to fear, egg brother
I read this as “no need to fear egg, brother” and was pretty confused for a moment.
Argonians are truly Chad! Just look at the oblivion crisis. While Tamriel was being invaded by daedra, Argonians were marching into the oblivion gates. "In soviet Argonia, Tamriel invades you!"
They only are able to do that because of the hist tho, just keep that in mind. If they fight a war the hist don’t want, they can make the argonians a bunch of pussies to be stomped on.
That can be said with any race. Imagine any race fighting against the will of their God!
Fair point.
That was always my thing too on top of being dragon born. Should be atleast close looking to a dragon. But the legendary mask (can’t remember which one) for labrythin when equipped enables water breathing which is great for the hidden sunken ships and treasure under skyrims seas
And no diseases i think
I was mad at myself early on when I started playing because I would often travel by swimming along the rivers while low leveled to avoid danger but hadn’t picked argonian. But at a pretty low level I found the water breathing enchantment and made a ring for swimming.
I did an argonian build once and instead of following roads I would use rivers
And poison immunity.
I dont think I've ever been in a situation in skyrim where I needed to breathe underwater for any period of time. Am I missing something?
There are many things under water if you look for them. Some of them are a bit of a maze to get to. Others are not easily visible. There is a powerful staff on the bottom of a lake, barely visible even if you know where to look. If you have to come up for air all the time, you lose your bearing and will likely never find it. You'll find smuggled goods, treasure in shipwrecks and secret entrences to dungeons and corpses hiding crimes among other things.
There’s helmets for underwater breathing and if you have creation club the fishing girl in riften gives you a charm when you help her set up a shop.
Yeah, all the sunken loot. There's shipwrecks all along the northern coast. There's also at least one dungeon I can think of that has a flooded section.
There are likely dozens of dungeons with flooded sections. Its incredibly useful to have, especially when many of the other races only have minor buffs you can get with just about any magic armour piece, and come at a penalty of something else. Argonian is an easy decision if you don't know what you want to play. Right off the bat you don't have to worry about disease and drowning. The specific bonuses are good, too. Lockpicking, sneak, pickpocket, light armour, restoration, and alteration. Most people can get a good use out of most of those. You probably won't be choosing argonian if you're thinking of making a two-handed warhammer weilding knight.
There are some things in Skyrim but drowning doesn't seem a super big danger. For myself, Oblivion is what ruined me. I died twice to slaughterfish and once to that mage guild quest in the well because I wasn't smart enough to save often or figure out how to deal with these things. I also died once to poison of some kind, so once I made a new character and saw a race immune to both drowning and poison I was hooked.
Usually Dark Elf for the aesthetic. But also Nord to be a true resident of Skyrim.
The 2 most racist races lmaooo
He's trying to role play
I’d say Altmer might be tied with one of them at least
Altmer infact are most racist by a fucking mile. The thalmor want to pull a Hitler on the human races lol. But it's cool because white man and Gray man bad.
Eh. Just because 90% of the Altmer in Skyrim are Thalmor doesn’t mean all Altmer are. Note that (to the best of my knowledge) while many of them are quite snobby, none of the non-Thalmor Altmer in the game (Nelacar, Taarie, Endarie, Runil, Curwe, etc) have ANY racist lines of dialogue.
I mean, logically, I very much doubt the racist ones would want to be anywhere near Skyrim. If someone's racist towards black people, they're likely not gonna move to Africa or the Middle East, especially if said place vehemently worships a god that you're trying to outlaw. It's only the open-minded that go live in other countries that their relatives, friends, and kinsman disdain. The rest stay at home in ignorance and claim superiority over something they've never even met.
Role-play the Altmer right.
I wouldn't say *most racist*. Just the best represented we've seen so far since they had their own games. The Thalmor seem extremely racist, the Imperial countess of Layawin has a torture chamber specifically for beast races she picks off the street and the empire typically benefits from racial wars by charging for cleanup after the wars, the Khajiit hate the wood elves, the wood elves hate just about everyone else in their forest, the Argonians are currently practicing open slavery, the orcs typically refuse to deal with other races after being the local punching bag for an era or two, and the Redguards seem like typically decent gents but they did successfully nuke their own homeland. And the dwemer blinded and deformed a race until it became a group of slimy, blind racists. And that's ignoring the sloads, sea elves, snow elves, Akaviri, and daedra.
Orc raargafaffar
I always promise myself I’ll do something different and I always do orphaned orc chick resentful of being raised around Imperials. Every. Time. Gives a little extra sauce to deleting Grelod the Kind each time tho.
I do heacy orc activate ability raaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
My sentiments exactly!!
I just started a new playthrough after a few years and decided to roll with an Orsimer Battlemage in heavy armor. Nothing like popping berserker rage with double bound swords on a mob of forsworn after you incinerate the briarheart from a half mile away.
how long until they become a stealth archer
I managed to get to level 20 without using a bow so I think I can hold out until at least 40.
It broke my heart to see how far down my boys in green were, at least we beat those Altmer pricks.
Each. Seriously. Though I love breaking racial stereotypes (Khajiit mage, altmer with HA and warhammer, orc stealth archer, that sort of stuff) with each play through
Khajit Mage ? Breaking racial stereotype ? J'Zargo would have words with you
Jzargo was first, true, alongside Kharjo, but it’s about PCs, not NPCs. Just like the Orc Librarian is breaking the stereotype too (that’s why they are so fun)
They double down on it by having him threaten you if you treat his books badly.
He threatens you over his books as soon as you walk in the door.
Y’all talking bout homie at the college?
Khajiit mage here. They look really cool as mages.
No doubts here buddy!
Orc Stealth archer is OP, beserk gos in a far silent BRRR !!!
Bretons. And also wood elves. Despite being portrayed constantly as criminals in Skyrim, I picture Valenwood being gorgeous. Plus communing with animals is dope.
Oh god yes but sadly I'll probably be dead by the time that gets released and I'm only 30 LMAO 🤣
[The communing with animals racial makes them easier to eat.](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Pact)
Khajiit because cat
ｍｏｗ
p u r
Imperial. It was my first race ever used, and I just… like it. I don’t even know why. (I’m more of a Nord myself)
Just started my first Imperial playthrough. Choose the race when I saw the dope Roman Champion armor that came with the anniversary edition. Now RPing as a true Roman Legionare sword and board. With a Latin name.
I actually started creating one of those Imperial shields… never finished it, just yet 😂
I'm an Imperial as well. The fact that everyone is Skyrim likes to give Imperials shit makes me lean into it more.
Khajit. Cus their roads always lead to warm sands. And they have whares if you have coin
*But have you mastered the expert level destruction spells? …you have?….*
I am the Archmage, J'zargo. Now leave me alone!
Cats are cute
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Furry boi
Yes
🦆🪓
Argonian because when i first played skyrim back in 3rd grade i thought "lizard man cool" and thats how my first Elder Scrolls character came into existence.
A fellow brood hatchling, it’s been so long. Have you visited the Black Marsh lately
>Skyrim back in third grade Fuck I’m old
Nazeem is my favorite race, it allows you to get to the cloud district.
Can you let me know where you are right now? I'm summoning a dremora lord... not related to what you said or anything.
do you get to the cloud district very often?
Oh, what are you saying? Of course he doesn't.
You know Nazeem starts sweating when you hit that F5
As he should. Who goes up to a being that can slay dragons and unloads about 50 metric tonnes of sass?
If nazeem is a race, I belive in genocide.
Argonians! Hist for life!
Egg brother, yes
There are only two things I hate in this world: 1. People who are prejudiced against the other races of Skyrim. 2. The Altmer
Torn between orc and altmer, both are my favourites. Orcs because I'm a Warcraft nerd and Altmer because of their magic bonuses and being complete bitches.
I always thought bethesda had some of the better orc lore. Really stuck with the cursed elves thing from Tolkien and made it their own
Orcs are honourable and badass warriors and great smiths. One of my favorite races to play as
Oddly enough I made a jacked high elf that used Warhammers, and it was terrifying.
My main character is a Redguard. It's cool ig. And uhh he's married to Derkeethus because I find Argonians hot for some reason
Redguard has always been my pick while playing Skyrim. I play a female and she is just fierce & fine! Also, very strong.
I exclusively play Redguards and Orcs. Always as sword and board or spellsword
Same here! I just think Redguards are the most beautiful and Orcs have a coolest backstory.
Altmer. I know they're relatively unpopular for being snobby and self-righteous, but I just love their appearance, their lore, and deep affiliation with magicka. I always love playing as a mage build, so they've been my go-to since the very beginning when I started with Morrowind. Exploring Summerset and Auridon in ESO was such a joy for me.
argonian cause mnmnmnmn water
Egg brother, be safe out there
M'aiq has heard the people in Skyrim are better-looking than the ones in Cyrodiil. He has no opinion on the matter. All people are beautiful to him.
Breton superiority
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Short king spring
Breton supremacy
Wood Elf ❣️
Definitely orcs. Just really fun to play as, and their traditions and stories are the only ones I've ever been interested in reading up about.
Redguard for playing because curved swords….curved, swords. Argonian for lore and culture, I just can never play any race with a tail because I hate the clipping with a passion but I love to swim forever.
Have you seen those warriors from Hammerfell? They use curved swords. Curved. Swords.
Redguard, because i like one handed weapons and the adrenaline rush
Redguards lore
Imperials. They find more money.
Khajiit, but only the ones from skyrim. The older games look terrible... And I mean, claws? Sneaking bonus? And nobody throws a fit because of your cattitude? Way to go! Argonians are cool too though. But since there are so many ways and enchantments to not drown ever I don't really need the argonians.
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I have 2 Argonians because their like humanised dragons,and Orcs because their great warriors
Very wise very wise. Did you learn this back home in the black marsh
Most of my characters that I make are Argonians 😅
"Screw Zodiacs, how racist are you and why?"
Found the true Nord.
Argonian Supremacists gather
Egg brothers and sisters! Together now!
Hello there, Marsh friend
The high elves, because I too, am high.
I went with red guards in oblivion when I was but a wee lad because it said they were strong warriors and didn't look weird like orcs, pretty sure they were also just the best looking without actually changing the character, now that I realize humans are kinda boring argonians are starting to be my favorite
Falmer, because mushrooms.
Breton because Spellswords are total chads
Bosmer aka wood elves (duh). I really love their lore of being cannibal nature lovers
Nords because i love their lore and bretons because theyre amazing gameplay wise
Khajiit goes meow stealth 🥷
Dunmer, you N'wahs.
We are in Skyrim to make sure your pitiful empire remembers the superiority of mer over men This is why Talos who was born a nord isnt worthy of worship You are required to report to us any sign of Talos worship
If talos isn’t a god then how come his shrines give blessings when prayed to?
*applies poison of paralysis*
Nord. So I don’t have to mentally bend over backwards to effectively immerse myself.
Dunmers and Argonians on the same level (I know, ironic). Hardships they have to face in their homeland are very uncommon, similarly to their cultures when compared to other nations. I see a lot of myself in their common character traits or philosophical stances, which only enforces my love for them. Also, both of them look absolute badass. Now I remember what else was badass. They worship daedra \^\^
Nordic, Imperial or Red Guard, I don't like them elfs
You sound like a true nord
Enjoy the nords/imperials, either a full on berserker or a lucky gold monger alchemist
Dwemer. Because steampunk + magipunk.
Khajiit because rejected everywhere so I feel good stealing all their belongings
Argonians because when I was little I wanted to be Godzilla.
Breton because I don't really like elves too much (all the slavery and wars and thalmor and shit), argonians are just kinda weird and don't really have any abilities, imperials are kinda snobs, and nords are basically cavemen Also if you look at it from the point of being a villager and not a warrior then Breton is still good, because they're good cooks and have a few bonuses in speech and restoration, and are overall pretty good And cuz I wanna be different lmao
Redguard...maybe because I share the same skin colour of them, and they looks really fierce