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Akaviri mount?

swook33b16_ESO
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Yo.

Lorewise what would be the Akaviri's racial mount?

Is it horse or some other creature?

Do we have something ingame that would be close to Akaviri's racial mount?

Is it something Kevin or Gina could ask the devs? Or do we have to wait the day when we go to Akavir in ESO to find that out?
  • LunaFlora
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    Akaviri are not just one race, but what are the Tamriellic races' racial mounts?

    we have Akaviri Potentate mounts from the crown crate.
    https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Akaviri_Potentate_Crate
    there are horse, wolf, senche, bear, guar, and camel mounts.

    i believe Akavir is off limits to keep it mysterious, but maybe an island in-between Tamriel and Akavir could be added eventually like Esroniet.
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    I tought someone was going to sa that but Akaviri Potentate is from the empire when Akaviri had taken over cyrodiil empire for a time. They don't really match with the Akaviri armor.
    The armor styles we have are Akaviri and Tsaesci and...sure Akaviri Potentate but not really as its a mix between Akaviri and the cyrodiil Imperials. But nothing about the mounts. I was hoping for a picture or something but it seems to be a mystery.

    The racial mounts for each race? Well that's easy.
    Welwa and Bears for the Orcs.
    Altmer: Horses, gryphons, indriks
    Imperials, Bretons are Horses.
    Wolves, bears, Ram and Sabre cats by Nords
    Camels, Horses for the Redguard.
    Senche for Khajiit.
    Nix-Oxes or Guars/Kagouti for Dunmer, alongside Dwemer constructs.
    Guars or Lizard-Steed for Argonians
    Bosmer its either Senches, wolves well anything connected to their forests really.

    Akaviri...what would be their racial mount or to be close enough. Maybe snake like creature or lizard but since nobody been there, we don't know what creatures live there with the Akaviri. We know their culture is similar to Asians and Akavir is unexplored land in elderscrolls.

    But so is Atmora (Nords ancestral home)
    Aldmeris (all Mer's ancestral home except Maormer, Snow elves and Ayleid)
    Pyandonea (ancestral home of the Maormer)
    Yokuda (ancestral home of the Redguards)
    Kamal (Unknown land to the North east of Tamriel)
    Akavir is the half the size of Tamriel.

    Atmora yes the lore says it to be uninhabitable due to it being to cold you freeze to death. However smugglers continues this tale/myth, but what if they are lying? They would have Atmora's coastal regions to themshelves and also Zenimax does not follow the Elderscrolls lore completely. Some things they have changed and like Dragons were only in Skyrim before but now there was even Dragons in Elsweyr. Its like they have the Eldersrcolls lore as base but they can go anywhere they want with the lore.

    So maybe one day we can explore Atmora and meet ancient nords tribes and Half-giants like Lyris Titanborn. I mean also the Sea half-giants that we see in Skyrim has to come from somewhere as they arrived with boats when we explore western Skyrim.

    Akavir, since its close to Black marsh and Morrowind maybe it has jungle and mountain regions. Also their culture may have become different when the Snake like creatures/people conquered them.

    Well sure either an island or just parts of Akavir when we ever go there since Akavir is half the size of Tamriel. Just like in Tamriel not all of Tamriel is open for players to explore and may never be.

    Edit: Hmm I found a text saying Tamriel invaded Akavir at least once...then there got to be something on what creatures lived there. Or...we just have to wait until the day ESO takes us to Akavir.
    Edited by swook33b16_ESO on 17 September 2025 18:48
  • Soarora
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    Like LunaFlora said, Akaviri isn’t a race. There’s multiple races on Akavir. Aside from the Akaviri Potentate crates, I don’t think we have any lore, so you’re free to headcanon wildly and decide for yourself. I’m not well versed in east asian culture so anything I say might be offensive… but my best guesses for the Tscaesci would be:
    Horses, but a different species than Tamrielic horses
    And/or
    Something Kirin inspired, though it seems Kirins value peace which is not at all what Tscaesci are known for
    And/or
    Some kind of land drake, like a dragon but smaller and not a dragon.
    There might be a better cultural option that I don’t know of because it’s not popularized in the West by pop culture.

    The Kamal I presume would make like Maormer and just summon in frost atronach creatures.

    Ka Po’ Tun same boat as the Tscaesci unless they are wayward Khajiit in which they’d also have Senche-Raht.

    Tang Mo might not even have mounts or just horses.
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    But there had to been humans on Akaviri. well first of all the armors that the blades use would not have fit them if it was not human made as they just reusing Akaviri armor and weapons. Also the design is human so. Also in Elsweyr when we play that chapter we meet descendants of Akaviri. I don't have in my head what they wer called. They lived for a time in cyrodiil until they decided to moved to Elsweyr. Imperials mingled with these Akaviri that got left behind from the first invasion as they could not kill them. and if they were not humans I doubt the Imperials still look human considering the Bretons are mix between elves and Nedic humans, then you The Reachmen which mixed by many different kinds of elves and humans and daedra yet kept their human look. As it says the Akaviri was attacked and conquered by vampiric snake people some time after the first invasion of tamriel...says that the Tscaesci was those vampric Snake people. And Ka Po’ Tun could not have had those armors that the blades uses as they are too big. And the Blades said they haven't recreated them, they are using ancient old akaviri armors and weapons they recovered from when the Akaviri invaded Tamriel.

    Can't have been the Tang Mo neither as the Nords or Imperials never mentioned the Akaviri looked like monkeys. And if I remember correctly, the second invasion of Akaviri that took place...was it 100 or 1000 years after the first invasion. It was mentioned they looked like they had snake-like skin. If they looked like snakes and if the Imperial mingled with them then Imperials would not look human anymore.

    "but my best guesses for the Tscaesci would be:
    Horses, but a different species than Tamrielic horses" Hmm I don't think they had horses. Unless the mounts had shape of a Horse but was not really horses. Akaviri Potentate is the armor they used when Akaviri conquered and rule the Imperial city for a time and the Imperials got help from the Nords to drive out the Akaviri from the Imperial city and out of Tamriel. (Hence why the armor is mixed Imperial and Akaviri) But not all Akaviri managed to leave Tamriel and instead of killing the remaining Akaviri, the Imperials let them become part of the Empire. Hence the Akaviri "humans" from Elsweyr that wants to honor their ancestors as they are suppose to be Half Imperial/Half Akaviri.

    https://i0.wp.com/eso.mmo-fashion.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Akaviri-Potentate-Male-Close-Side.jpg?w=225&h=722&ssl=1

    https://i0.wp.com/eso.mmo-fashion.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Imperial-Galatite-Sword.png

    Notice the armors have some similarities? Mix of Imperial and Akaviri designs.

    https://i0.wp.com/eso.mmo-fashion.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Akaviri-Potentate-Male-Close-Front.jpg?w=344&h=722&ssl=1

    "Some kind of land drake, like a dragon but smaller and not a dragon." Dragon you say...you mean like the Ornaug, they are kind of a dragon on land. I have two of them and they have scaly skin and fins. Would be cool if there was a version of the Ornaug had armor on them. That could be a Akaviri mount.

    https://eso.mmo-fashion.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Amenos-Ornaug-Side.jpg
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    But there had to been humans on Akaviri. well first of all the armors that the blades use would not have fit them if it was not human made as they just reusing Akaviri armor and weapons. Also the design is human so. Also in Elsweyr when we play that chapter we meet descendants of Akaviri. I don't have in my head what they wer called. They lived for a time in cyrodiil until they decided to moved to Elsweyr. Imperials mingled with these Akaviri that got left behind from the first invasion as they could not kill them. and if they were not humans I doubt the Imperials still look human considering the Bretons are mix between elves and Nedic humans, then you The Reachmen which mixed by many different kinds of elves and humans and daedra yet kept their human look. As it says the Akaviri was attacked and conquered by vampiric snake people some time after the first invasion of tamriel...says that the Tscaesci was those vampric Snake people. And Ka Po’ Tun could not have had those armors that the blades uses as they are too big. And the Blades said they haven't recreated them, they are using ancient old akaviri armors and weapons they recovered from when the Akaviri invaded Tamriel.

    The Tsaesci are presumed to be human shaped. If something's "Akaviri" it's usually Tsaesci. The Tsaesci being portrayed both as humans and as "vampiric snake people" is part of the mystery and there's multiple routes that you could go down with it. It could be a lycanthropy situation, it could just be a myth, it could be like the Khajiit. The Elder Scrolls total conversion mod for Crusader Kings III has an interesting take on it-- individuals start as humans who look East Asian but as they gain power, they grow golden scales until they appear as a serpent-person.
    "but my best guesses for the Tscaesci would be:
    Horses, but a different species than Tamrielic horses" Hmm I don't think they had horses. Unless the mounts had shape of a Horse but was not really horses. Akaviri Potentate is the armor they used when Akaviri conquered and rule the Imperial city for a time and the Imperials got help from the Nords to drive out the Akaviri from the Imperial city and out of Tamriel. (Hence why the armor is mixed Imperial and Akaviri) But not all Akaviri managed to leave Tamriel and instead of killing the remaining Akaviri, the Imperials let them become part of the Empire. Hence the Akaviri "humans" from Elsweyr that wants to honor their ancestors as they are suppose to be Half Imperial/Half Akaviri.

    In all honesty, the only reason I mentioned horses was because of Mongolia.
    "Some kind of land drake, like a dragon but smaller and not a dragon." Dragon you say...you mean like the Ornaug, they are kind of a dragon on land. I have two of them and they have scaly skin and fins. Would be cool if there was a version of the Ornaug had armor on them. That could be a Akaviri mount.

    https://eso.mmo-fashion.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Amenos-Ornaug-Side.jpg

    Supposedly Dragons come from Akavir but they're also sons of Akatosh so they wouldn't have sister species. We don't really have land dragons though-- closest thing I can think of are Wamasu... so, could be over there.

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