The Elder Scrolls is wild because there's all these huge historical race wars and feuds but then you play the games and 95% of the time it'll be a Nord, his Dunmer wife, a Khajiit and an Orc co-owning a brewery or whatever together and vibing. Guess it's almost heartwarming in weird way.
this is a big failing, i don't know exactly how morrowind treats you if you roll an argonian but i suspect the game isn't made too much harder/impossible---the devs are too cowardly to put class/race into a game in a way that actually effects the player. oblivion is more cosmopolitan & apparently peacefully presiding over a whole continent with equality so it kind of makes sense.
skyrim is especially bonkers---"skyrim for the nords!" why yes of course there are a dozen elf-owned businesses and farms in stormcloak territory, we don't want it to appear as if the racism regime is racist! not just from not wanting to constrain the player, i think they tried to make the segregation seem tame so the player wouldn't be impacted by what segregation actually is like (and think something ought to be done). yeah there's a ghetto associated with the dark elves but they can leave whenever they like, there's 3 sympathetic nords to 2-3 racist ones, dark elves aren't barred property ownership. it's just the aesthetic of racial oppression without any substance, god forbid we make a player think or feel something about racism
If you truly build that kind of systemic racial oppression into a game then it's incompatible with allowing players to choose the race of their character because you're basically building multiple games in one, at least one of which is about doing systemic racial oppression. Game development is a business after all, there's no market for doing twice as much work to sell way less copies (because who really wants to play a KKK orc instead of more fun escapist fantasy)
Morrowind is slightly harder for Argonians and Khajits. But mainly because you can't wear any boots or some of the best helmets. There is however a lot of different dialogue if you're a Dunmer versus any other race. Espeically with Sleepers and Dagoth Ur. It is probably too easy for an Outlander, but technically even if you play a Dunmer you are obvious as being an non Morrowind native.
I mean isnt that real life also
I mean, yeah. That's pretty much canon.
I love that during the Oblivion Crisis the Hist went "Alright everyone huddle up. We're going to turn you all in to hulking, horrifying super-soldiers. Then we're going to counter-invade the Deadlands of Oblivion so hard that Mehrunes Dagon will shut down all the portals in terror that we're actually going to win. Everyone in? Okay, break!"
And then they did that.
But think of all the
chucklefuck capitalistsgusanosslaveowners who had everything taken from them!An-Xileel should not have stopped at Morrowind.
A one-page visit of a high population Elder Scrolls forum and all of its "hippity hoppity Argonians are property" le epic chud takes indicate you are right.
An-Xileel should not have stopped at Morrowind.
Uncritical support for our Saxhleel comrades in their just war against the Dunmer slavers. Also love the lore tidbit about the Imperial Legion trying to invade Black Marsh and getting absolutely clowned on before running back to Cyrodiil and declaring "nice work conquering those 5 square inches of Black Marsh boys, chalk up another W for the Legion!"
I refuse to take the side of lizards that also have mammary glands, no matter how many threads about the Hist you write!
A magical fantasy setting with walking trees and elves that can turn into carnivorous liquids and cat people that form ladders to climb to the moon is where lizards with boobs are too far
Everything about the Argonians is kind of a mess, though. Like there's lore that basically says they're mindless lizards if they don't get socialized into the Hist, but then there are tons of Argonians born outside Blackmarsh who mature into normal sapient beings just fine even without access to the Hist hivemind. There's lore that says they're cold-blooded, but they exist without issue in freezing climates anyways.
They're somehow less clear than the Khajiit, which are nonsense but coherent within their silly framework. Like Argonians pretty much boil down to "the Hist did it, and when the Hist clearly didn't do it they actually did do it somehow," which is the boring kind of nonsense explanation.
The canon lore tidbit of what happened in the Oblivion crisis always gets me.
The Daedra opened portals to Black Marsh for an invasion, the Hist just said "absolutely not". Every single military in Tamriel struggled against Dagon's Daedra, from the Nords to the Aldmeri dominion. The Argonians not only completely slaughtered the Daedra that stepped into Black Marsh, they pushed the Daedra back to the Deadlands and they had to seal the Oblivion gates from the inside to avoid being overrun.
They're def the best honestly
did you know they can canonically trans their gender with the Hist
sheogorath deserves some credit for the small moon
Such a prankster that one.
I heard pretty bad things about ESO Lore and Roleplay communities, so I put it "I am not in it, I dont need to engage" folder
