- Joined
- Oct 1, 2018
I honestly think it has far less to do with making the alliances believable, and more with ESO actively sanitising the player factions to discourage role playing as the Altmer nazi party.It’s also funny because I’m replaying Morrowind right now and I just got to the Imperial Cult quest where you have to collect alms for the poor from the Argonian Mission in Ebonheart. Half the Argonians there won’t even talk to you and the guy in charge only begrudgingly donates after reminding that you that they’re still upset over the Empire letting the Dunmer literally enslave and murder them. Hell, after Oblivion happened Black Marsh was literally taken over by seething Argonian nationalists who seceded from the Empire and began attacking Morrowind because of the whole millennia of slavery thing that the Imperials never stopped.
But hey man, remember that time the Argonians and Dunmer just teamed up to fight off a bunch of Daedra in the Second Era? Just don’t think about it bro we needed three factions for gameplay purposes
The Dunmer allying with the Argonians to resist a common foe makes way more sense than the Bretons and Redguard allying with the Orcs when all of their shared history up until this point boils down to, Orcs declare themselves a kingdom, the men took offense to this and slaughtered them.
The Dunmer do away with slavery, the nords no longer raid their neighbors, the kahjiit are no longer skooma sucking gypsies, the altmer try not to be racist, the orcs act uncharacteristically civilised, etc.

