New races or Motifs?

Phantax

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AlexDougherty wrote: »

Phantax wrote: »

Dwemer - bit obvious really.

And maybe something bear based, I don't know... panda maybe....lol


(2nd option obviously a poor joke)

Dwemer are gone, all gone, except one Dwemer ghost, and he was on a different plane when he died, or he'd be gone too.

Polar bear could work, just need to white out the black patches. (just as bad a joke as Phantax's)

Well if I can't have Dwemer as a race, there is no reason we can't have a Dwemer Motif. All those ruins about the place, bound to be a few copies of their armor designs lying around somewhere !

Dwemer motif would work fine, might be a bit strange with materials other than Dwemer metal, but it could work.

Strange ! ? Just wait till dyes come in and we get tanks with 'my little pony' colour schemes, then you're gonna see strange....lol

But Dwemer, with a nice gold / bronze based colour scheme I think would look awesome

Phantax

Oh and of course we need a motif for Glass Armors !

Surinen

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Falmer: Are you planning on limiting the number of players who are allowed to play Falmer?

no, why? it can be million mer worth underground city. we do not know much about the numbers of Falmer survivors in total. we only know about the surface. I see it as light separated dimension, paradise of ice (beyond memory) created through their prayers; 'paladin selectives' of a sort, playing on the icicles (water-memory-ESO-lore-thing)

jonpaul

Something I will always remember from Skyrim were the chaurus. Now here me out, this is a creature I haven't seen in game , unless I missed something and I don't know if there are lore reasons for this but those creatures ALWAYS creeped me out!
(Hearing their clicking sounds around a corner always made the hair on my neck stand up)

Maybe they could put them in and they could have a special type of armor made in a similar liking to them.

nerevarine1138

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nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Falmer: Are you planning on limiting the number of players who are allowed to play Falmer?

no, why? it can be million mer worth underground city. we do not know much about the numbers of Falmer survivors in total. we only know about the surface. I see it as light separated dimension, paradise of ice (beyond memory) created through their prayers; 'paladin selectives' of a sort, playing on the icicles (water-memory-ESO-lore-thing)

Actually, if you played Dawnguard, we're quite aware that there were almost no Snow Elves who were not corrupted. Those that did survive were not seen on the surface until the 4th Era.

Surinen

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Actually, if you played Dawnguard, we're quite aware that there were almost no Snow Elves who were not corrupted. Those that did survive were not seen on the surface until the 4th Era.

there is only one uncorrupted Falmer that we know: Paladin Knight Gelebor. he himself knows nothing about other living Falmer and their enclaves, although he speculates that there might be some. There is nothing in the lore that prevents them from surviving through some heavy miracle. ESO happens during uneasy times, some knowledge was lost from these times. dragonbreaks jump like happy goblins after Altmeri style whipping.

Evergnar

Just new motifs. No more playable races (for now at least).

nerevarine1138

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nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Actually, if you played Dawnguard, we're quite aware that there were almost no Snow Elves who were not corrupted. Those that did survive were not seen on the surface until the 4th Era.

there is only one uncorrupted Falmer that we know: Paladin Knight Gelebor. he himself knows nothing about other living Falmer and their enclaves, although he speculates that there might be some. There is nothing in the lore that prevents them from surviving through some heavy miracle. ESO happens during uneasy times, some knowledge was lost from these times. dragonbreaks jump like happy goblins after Altmeri style whipping.

Again, he speculates that there might be some. Some. Not enough for hundreds of thousands of Falmer to inexplicably come up to the surface and then disappear again.

The dragonbreak doesn't mean that anything goes. It just means that the details of this period haven't been set down as accurately as others. It gives the developers flexibility without allowing them to completely change the history of Nirn.

Tabbycat

It would feel really weird playing a race that isn't available in the single player TES games.

rynth

why? (not trying to be rude or anything)

So your saying since it wasn't in a current TES game we can't add it? By that definition if they came out with a TES game for after skyrim then it could be added for ESO? Why not just create some book or post something giving the back ground and saying this is the history of the race or whatever it is they want to add that wasn't in the TES games.

Zorrashi

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nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Actually, if you played Dawnguard, we're quite aware that there were almost no Snow Elves who were not corrupted. Those that did survive were not seen on the surface until the 4th Era.

there is only one uncorrupted Falmer that we know: Paladin Knight Gelebor. he himself knows nothing about other living Falmer and their enclaves, although he speculates that there might be some. There is nothing in the lore that prevents them from surviving through some heavy miracle. ESO happens during uneasy times, some knowledge was lost from these times. dragonbreaks jump like happy goblins after Altmeri style whipping.

Don't forget, guys, that we can bend the lore at least a little bit by using the "Dragonbreak Principle". You know, that whole 'break in time'/ 'alternate timeline' scenario.
It just has to be that those untainted Falmer die or something in the timeline that actually leads to the 4th era...or something along those lines.

That being said, I personally don't like the idea of a playable Falmer race. It doesn't really make sense lore-wise right now. Even if we do use a few loopholes, it would just be slightly irritating to me. Besides, people are already playing as white elves anyway.

Even if they are created, which alliance would they belong to? If they are Dominion only, the other two factions would complain that they don't have another race of their own. Cross faction? Seems even more lore-sketchy, and would it be available to everyone or just the people who spent the extra 20$ for the explorer's pack (or was it some other addition? I forget.)?

Surinen

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Again, he speculates that there might be some. Some. Not enough for hundreds of thousands of Falmer to inexplicably come up to the surface and then disappear again.

The dragonbreak doesn't mean that anything goes. It just means that the details of this period haven't been set down as accurately as others. It gives the developers flexibility without allowing them to completely change the history of Nirn.

indeed, he speculates. there can be 1 more or million. bigger things happend in TES lore than this.

it means exactly this. one of the most popular theory on Akatosh is dragonbreak, yet you have problems with accepting race of Mer appearing from some place. for the sake of agument, it may even be Numidium that brought them or another fancy Ayleid artifact. they could be separated from time and space by the grace of Auri-El, living in what I have described as light made ice Cathedral city-state. there is so many possibilities to explain their brief come back in TES, so many possibilities to do it great.

rynth

well the whole faction thing and race thing, add it in like the Imperial they are not apart of any faction. And like any race you want you can make them apart of any of the factions

Surinen

Zorrashi wrote: »

Don't forget, guys, that we can bend the lore at least a little bit by using the "Dragonbreak Principle". You know, that whole 'break in time'/ 'alternate timeline' scenario.
It just has to be that those untainted Falmer die or something in the timeline that actually leads to the 4th era...or something along those lines.

That being said, I personally don't like the idea of a playable Falmer race. It doesn't really make sense lore-wise right now. Even if we do use a few loopholes, it would just be slightly irritating to me. Besides, people are already playing as white elves anyway.

Even if they are created, which alliance would they belong to? If they are Dominion only, the other two factions would complain that they don't have another race of their own. Cross faction? Seems even more lore-sketchy, and would it be available to everyone or just the people who spent the extra 20$ for the explorer's pack (or was it some other addition? I forget.)?

Well, now as exactly in this point of ESO, there is no reason for them to be. Next Daedric Prince, next plot, who knows.

don't even remind me that Altmer can choose white human skin. who in the right mind has decided to implement it.

yes, I see them as Aldmeri Dominion. give maormer to Dagger, as in coalition, defensive pact against Aldmeri navy and akaviri beasts to Ebon