Khajiit species in ESO

vrine

I've seen a few sources saying the playable Khajiit race is Suthay-raht, but Suthay-raht have digitigrade legs. The playable Khajiit have plantigrade legs, like the Cathay.


Suthay-raht (and their digitigrade legs)

Is there any confirmation on what species we're playing as specifically? Surely they're Cathay?

Ghanima_Atreides

I'm not sure it's ever stated which Khajiit sub-race our ESO characters are; at least, I don't remember it. Where did you see this? In any case, the digitigrade feet have been eliminated from the games since I believe Oblivion, because it interfered with players' ability to wear shoes and such.

Rohamad_Ali

We are playing the Khajiit that did not mate with the Akavari Kangaroos .

Rohamad_Ali

This is my cousin Hector . He did not get the memo .

ArchMikem

Just looked it up, and one of the Wikis also stated that the Khajiit are meant to be Suthay-Raht.

The leg style may just be a design choice so ZoS doesnt have to model a whole set of Khajiit specific armor pieces, makes it easier if everything is universal.

vrine

Ghanima_Atreides wrote: »

I'm not sure it's ever stated which Khajiit sub-race our ESO characters are; at least, I don't remember it. Where did you see this? In any case, the digitigrade feet have been eliminated from the games since I believe Oblivion, because it interfered with players' ability to wear shoes and such.

Yeah, which makes me believe its safe to assume we're playing Cathay, or so I hope!

ArchMikem wrote: »

Just looked it up, and one of the Wikis also stated that the Khajiit are meant to be Suthay-Raht.

The leg style may just be a design choice so ZoS doesnt have to model a whole set of Khajiit specific armor pieces, makes it easier if everything is universal.

I hope not, I'm super flexible lore-immersion wise in game but that would really hurt my immersion. I really hope they're Cathay, then my mind can rest easy.
Nothing against Suthay-raht but I'd want them portrayed properly and sadly that'd be very difficult to do armor wise as you stated.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I kind of wonder if Star (the cat we follow as part of the Narsis questline) is an Alfiq; she seems too smart to be a normal housecat.

vrine

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I kind of wonder if Star (the cat we follow as part of the Narsis questline) is an Alfiq; she seems too smart to be a normal housecat.

Definitely agree, she seems too clever for a regular cat too.

max_only

Hm, in one of the Bosmer maps I met a Khajiit who spoke to this senche (and I guess it spoke back) of course they tried to convince me that Khajiit was innocent of a crime. so he could have been talking to a normal senche and not that other kind of Khajiit, sench-raht. It was Cindertail and Gobani in Grahtwood.

Rosveen

Digitigrade legs have most likely been completely retconned and will never be seen again.

ArchMikem

max_only wrote: »

Hm, in one of the Bosmer maps I met a Khajiit who spoke to this senche (and I guess it spoke back) of course they tried to convince me that Khajiit was innocent of a crime. so he could have been talking to a normal senche and not that other kind of Khajiit, sench-raht. It was Cindertail and Gobani in Grahtwood.

I believe Gobani is one of the more intelligent Senche. In Khajiit society theyre used as guards or for labor. Or Gobani is jusy a run of the mill pet senche that he talks to all the time, cant really know. However it does say the non Humanoid Khajiit can understand speech perfectly but not speak it.

vrine

Rosveen wrote: »

Digitigrade legs have most likely been completely retconned and will never be seen again.

So you reckon we'll never see Suthay-raht again?

zaria

vrine wrote: »

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I kind of wonder if Star (the cat we follow as part of the Narsis questline) is an Alfiq; she seems too smart to be a normal housecat.

Definitely agree, she seems too clever for a regular cat too.

Many cats in Khenarthi's roost has Khajiit names, other places they are mostly named cats.

Misses digtigrade legs but don't think we will see it again.


The Ohmes-rath from Daggerfall on the other hand is plausible as its easy to add and the cat girl look would be popular.

Creegz

Perhaps we're a split version of that race that hasn't been classified yet in the current time period in the game.

Enodoc

vrine wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Digitigrade legs have most likely been completely retconned and will never be seen again.

So you reckon we'll never see Suthay-raht again?

I don't think Rosveen meant that; rather, Suthay-raht now canonically do not have digitigrade legs. Or, perhaps more accurately, digitigrade legs is not a required feature of the Suthay-raht.