Raised in bruma, fled to morrowind after bals invasion

I think it basically comes down to one of three things:

1) They were living in Pact lands when the war broke out and had been for long enough that they considered themselves more a citizen of Skyrim/Morrowind/Black Marsh than High Rock and so stayed and (maybe) fought for their home rather than the place their ancestors come from.

2) They objected to the Daggerfall Covenant for some reason, strongly enough that they chose to go to another alliance and fight against them.

3) They are or were a merchant/adventurer/pirate/other personage of no fixed abode and they happened to end up in Pact lands and didn't object to the Pact enough to up and leave immediately. This one mainly works if you're not going to play them in Cyrodiil, so they're not actively fighting against the other alliances except when the stumble into the middle of an active warzone. The new Morrowind tutorial actually helps with this, especially since you can now go to any starter city to pick up the Coldharbour quest and then be dumped out of Coldharbour into your alliances zone, so it's less like a deliberate choice and more like you just ended up there and got caught up in events.

Ajaxduo wrote: »

Neither a borrower or lender be.

*Flies into a psychotic rage at Angier Stower.*

You should consider that Reachmen are technically biologically Bretons and are pretty tied to Skyrim. They don't have to be loyal to the Reach necessarily and could easily blend into Nordic cultures and live in Nordic cities.

On top of that the guilds recently came into their countries and could easily be made into a 'moved here for the job' kind of situation. You could also have an interest in researching nordic ruins, dunmer heritage, or all the various mysteries in Black Marsh. They could have an interest in Dwemer studies, daedric runes/worship in the 1st era, etc.

The Dunmer sometimes adopt people of various races into their great houses if it has merit. House Hlaalu would value traders, Dres would appreciate someone skilled at slave hunting, maybe a translator, or someone skilled at agriculture or magic that benefits plants. Redoran appreciates great warriors and would adopt someone who is pious to the three and has proven their worth through great, selfless deeds (specifically for the dunmer). Telvanni in canon adopts slaves if they're talented in magic. Indoril appreciates piety and diplomacy and anyone could really worship the three for their great deeds, even if they aren't dunmer.

You could also justify the existence of Breton-like people in black marsh. Remember that not only Argonians had cities and governments there. The Kothringi (a nedic/imperial race that lived there for many generations) and the Ayleids had civilizations there. The Bretons were formed by a union of Direnni and Nedic cultures, and it's possible the same could have happened in black marsh, either in secret, or they had ancestors that went to live elsewhere and were able to survive the Knahaten Flu. They could just be as 'breton' as their similar characteristics but not technically be from High Rock, basically.

Bretons are just vertically challenged nords, when you think about it.

Nord may view you with distaste because of your mer heritage. The Dunmer would think you weak and exploitable; Bretons seem to be among their favourite slaves. And i imagine the run of Argonians will be suspicious and resentful towards you, as their experiences with men and mer have been troubling to say the least.

Knowledge wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

How would an Italian person fit into the United States of America during WWII? Seems like you are making this more complicated than needed. Just like in real life, people immigrate or their ancestors immigrate and they become emotionally and culturally connected to their new home. Your Breton living in EP lands might be just as "EP" (or more so!) than one of the ethnic groups native to the EP zones. If your character feels at home in EP lands and feels loyal to EP, I don't think you need to explain yourself to anyone.

Counter argument would be being a Japanese person in the USA during WWII. They were all rounded up and sent to internment camps. If the same was happening in EP to Breton's, it would be a bit lore-breaking to be "cool with everyone."

That isn't happening in ESO though. Besides what the Dominion was doing to Argonians in Shadowfen, there isn't really that much racial tension that I can see in the games. Besides a few crazy people their isn't and state sponsored hate groups or racisim. Any race can be explained into the faction seemlessly, I think.

Take Sun-in-Shadow, or whatever her name is. She wants to be a Telvanni mage and even though the Telvanni still keep Argonian slaves the other Telvanni magisters aren't overwhelmingly against her. A few are, but if an Argonian can live in that political climate, then I don't really see a barrier anywhere.

If you look at NPCs, there are different races spread all throughout the world.

Interestingly shortly after reading this topic I started exploring Chorrol in Cyrodiil. Even though it's in the area typically held by the Daggerfall Covenant, and right in the heart of the warzone it seems to be inhabited by people of almost every race in Tamriel.

The tavern is run by an argonian and cleaned by two khajiit, there's a bosmer bard playing music outside, an altmer upstairs reading, a khajiit merchant, a couple of dunmer around the place, plus bretons, orcs and redguards and Imperials of course. And they all seem fine with each other being here.

The only racial tensions I've seen is one guy saying he hopes the fissure through the town swallows all the non-Imperials and one orc claiming the only reason she can't get a place to stay (in a town that's mostly ruins) is racism.

VaranisArano wrote: »

They backed Ranser in his rebellion against Emeric and it was, ahem, politically expedient for them to leave on a sudden vacation to other climes when Emeric won.

Ranser you madman! Ah. Good times.

In 246 years, Hjalti Early-Beard won't have a problem with that.

To support the argonians. Because Emeric isn’t fit to rule. Because they only believe in the pact. Because they want provinces to be independent and not controlled by the empire

What class is he or she? My Redguard Templar is in Pact territory for the purpose of preaching under the Tribunal's collective noses. "Forsake your evil ways, embrace the Eight!"