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"If there is to be a revolution, it is best done by a King."

Jagar Tharn freaking melts

Art asset for The Elder Scrolls: Arena

pics under the cut in case youve forgotten any of these baddies

As we mentioned, the Chinese version of Oblivion Mobile included music, unlike the known English versions. This was a MIDI version of Reign of the Septims, the main theme of Oblivion, which in-game plays as this 16bit-esque rendition of the song.

Do you think Skyrim should have had a class system?

They can hold their breath for a long time, run long distances, have higher or lower pain tolerance, are often fast sprinters, etc.

It’s absolutely possible to make humans interesting without getting racist about it. Make it due to culture or geography if you’re so worried about it. That’s essentially the difference between high elves and wood elves in most media anyways. Just environment.

Another great example of something similar is the Reachmen of Skyrim. They're natives of the Reach and are more or less being genocided by the Nords there. And they're just other humans! They're naturally gifted in magic and it's a huge part of their culture because they're Druids! But even then the Nords themselves have a rich history, descending from the ancient Nedic people who were slaves under the ancient Aldmer, who would later become the Altmer.

But we are going to acknowledge that how Elder Scrolls applies the logic of DnD racial and subracial buffs to humans is...bad, right? That it exacerbates the same kind of racial essentialism extant in normal DnD fantasy races? The 'cool adrenaline rush ability' in Elder Scrolls is not a cultural trait for a warrior culture. It's the Redguard black people trait. You get to be better at running and hitting things when you're black; you cannot be black in Tamriel without having that trait. Skyrim does not allow for a theoretical Nord (blonde and white) or Imperial (brunette and white) raised in Redguard-dominated Hammerfell to have the adrenaline rush instead of their respective racial abilities. Because they are racial abilities. And that's just the modernized take on it; older games just gave black people a straight buff to physical abilities and a straight debuff to anything related to magic. You know, because you learn magic from books.

Like, we realize fundamentally that the reason why humans are usually the genericized milquetoast race of DnD fantasy is because most of the common fantasy races are distortions of real-life social and racial groups, right? Humanity is boring so white roleplayers can enjoy the colorful exoticism of the hard-drinking dwarves and holistic elves and blithe halflings without having to actually identify with them if they don't want to, so they never have to feel like they're different from the norm if they don't want to.

You can get the sort of differentiation inside of a fantasy population that OP's talking about from cultural and geographical differences, but that does mean taking the effort to explain why we're not just doing DnD racial abilities but again. I've not seen Elder Scrolls take that effort. Maybe they did since the last time I checked but I don't think they did.