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To this day Skyrim remains one of the most based depictions of a refugee crisis/assimilation problem ever put to videogames. You have the stormcloaks, who are bigoted yes, but in a fairly realistic way that is charitable.

The residents of Windhelm are distrusting of and dislike the dark elves because of legitimate grievances with them shitting up the city and feeling entitled to even better treatment, despite being unwilling to take part in Skyrim's problems. They are an ungrateful minority resentful of the citizens and nation that took them in, unwilling to assimilate culturally or socially, crying victimization while acting ten times as bigoted to their own oppressed minority group.

The real cherry on top are the high elf citizens who shit on the dungmer for being too lazy and stupid to realize that the ostracization by the nords is the darkies own fault.
 
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Mega Black said:
The real cherry on top are the high elf citizens who shit on the dungmer for being too lazy and stupid to realize that the ostracization by the nords is the darkies own fault.
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Altmer are the apex racists. If Bretons didn't make such good spellcasters, all my mage characters would be Altmer. Shame we'll never get a good depiction of Summerset.
 
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Molly White's Breast Milk said:
They were also supposed to look like a human/knife-ear hybrid with pointy ears and longer fingers but that would make TES interesting and unique so Emil had to toss that out and make them humans who can use magic a bit better. I use a mod that give Bretons back their knife ears and I couldn't believe how many there were in Skyrim.
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Nah, that's TESO fandom wank so they can have their precious half-elves. In lore especially by the time of Uriel Septim Breton blood has been so diluted by intermingling with Nedes, Nords and the various other humans inhabiting the Iliac Bay that they 100% are human, and that's been true since Arena and Daggerfall.
 
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Mega Black said:
The real cherry on top are the high elf citizens who shit on the dungmer for being too lazy and stupid to realize that the ostracization by the nords is the darkies own fault.
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she is a criminal but she has a point
Asian tech support said:
Altmer are the apex racists. If Bretons didn't make such good spellcasters, all my mage characters would be Altmer. Shame we'll never get a good depiction of Summerset.
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Bretons are technically Nedic Altmer. My favorite race because their existence itself is acknowledged to have been from generations of slave fucking to the point even the rules of the setting were overwritten by the Altmer love of white skin. The Reachmen are a close second for me: being the mongrel mix of Orcs, Bretons, and Nords with another spin on the world's cosmology.
 
Molly White's Breast Milk said:
They were also supposed to look like a human/knife-ear hybrid with pointy ears and longer fingers but that would make TES interesting and unique so Emil had to toss that out and make them humans who can use magic a bit better. I use a mod that give Bretons back their knife ears and I couldn't believe how many there were in Skyrim.
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HeyYou said:
Nah, that's TESO fandom wank so they can have their precious half-elves. In lore especially by the time of Uriel Septim Breton blood has been so diluted by intermingling with Nedes, Nords and the various other humans inhabiting the Iliac Bay that they 100% are human, and that's been true since Arena and Daggerfall.
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Interesting, I didn't realize this was in ESO. Is this like how bosmer in ESO have antlers for some reason?
 
scathefire said:
Is this like how bosmer in ESO have antlers for some reason?
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They have them in Morrowind, just as part of the texture so its easy to miss. They probably removed them in Oblivion because the face software they used doesn't support it and then just kept that with Skyrim. Probably the same reason they made khajiit and argonians have human legs.
 
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Epoch said:
They have them in Morrowind, just as part of the texture so its easy to miss. They probably removed them in Oblivion because the face software they used doesn't support it and then just kept that with Skyrim. Probably the same reason they made khajiit and argonians have human legs.
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Buoyant Armiger said:
Antlers haver been a thing for Bosmer since I believe Morrowind. Good on ESO for bringing them back.
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I found at least one Morrowind bosmer with them so I'll take your word for it. I know there's also a mod for SSE that gives the bosmer in the game antlers like in ESO.
 
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Interesting, I didn't realize this was in ESO. Is this like how bosmer in ESO have antlers for some reason?
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Bosmer having antlers is in Morrowind, as stated, and Kirkbride drew a lot of crazy concept art for their appearances in Morrowind with the idea that they could have animalistic physical attributes. MW-concept-Early_Bosmer.jpg
I don't go hard on the bosmer fans who are obsessed with antlers and shit for that reason, because it does have precedent. Bretons being noticeably half-elves, meanwhile, has had absolutely no basis up until ESO fans kept begging for it. In every mainline game they have been humans and only humans and in the lore them even having elf blood at all is explicitly a bragging thing for nobles in the same way "I'm 1/64th Cherokee because my grandmother was an Indian princess" is for Americans. Except even more diluted because the human/elven interbreeding in High Rock was literally thousands of years ago, even by ESO's time. It gets absolutely absurd with the mod that @Molly White's Breast Milk mentioned, half the Breton population in Skyrim would not have extremely noticeable pointy ears. The only Bretons that would have pointy ears are the ones that are directly descended from the Direnni that are still hanging out on the Isle of Balfiera.
 
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Bretons being noticeably half-elves, meanwhile, has had absolutely no basis up until ESO fans kept begging for it
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I once was mad that ESO was going to ruin the Elder Scrolls lore and aesthetic. I now don't care because Bethesda is going to ruin it anyway. Still, I find the fanbase's obsession with having half breeds, catgirls, and pretty elves obnoxious.
 
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I've been playing a small bit of daggerfall. I don't know how how the fuck a game released in the 90s that uses the "paper doll" format with visible pixels has better graphics than Morrowind and Oblivion.
 
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SwanSwanson said:
I've been playing a small bit of daggerfall. I don't know how how the fuck a game released in the 90s that uses the "paper doll" format with visible pixels has better graphics than Morrowind and Oblivion.
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I could see the argument that Daggerfall's sprites are more charming and have aged better than the early 3D jank of Morrowind's models but I wouldn't say it looks better. When you've been to both a High Rock and Hammerfell town and been in one dungeon you've seen everything Daggerfall has to offer graphics wise. It definitely doesn't look better than Oblivion, Oblivion was the first game in the series where you could actually see more than 10 feet in front of you.
 
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Got a build challenge for you guys; was going to be going through Skyrim again, giving Survival Mode another shot for an extra challenge, and I had the idea of making a sort of "Champion of Humanity"/monster hunter build. Basically, I was wanting to run a build that was not just really good for survival, but also as role-playing as a warrior fighting against the various monsters plaguing mankind; dragons, vampires/the undead, the Thalmor, basically anything that threatens humanity.

That being said; I need to figure out the actual build. I've got the Anniversary Edition, but I haven't been able to go through absolutely everything on it as of yet, and I'm still searching for stuff on Survival mode. Hence, I've got a few questions to ask you guys.

- 1: For Survival mode, what armor set has the highest possible Warmth rating? Focusing primarily on the Warmth stat, Weight and the actual Armor Rating is stuff that I can handle with perks and such; I always had the most difficulty with Warmth in previous runs, so what do you recommend? I've read that the Skaal armor is best for Warmth; is that true?

2: What melee weapon type do you guys recommend? What weapon type - greatswords, battle axes, knives, maces, etc. - do you guys think best fits a "Champion of Humanity" fighting dragons, undead, genocidal elves, etc.?

3: Was needing a ranged option; do you guys think either Bows or Crossbows are better? Or does it boil down to personal preference?

4: What magic should I be getting? Should I focus on fire, ice, lightning magic? What about enchanting or alchemy? Restoration?

5: Any other tips that you guys might want to share?
 
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