Asian characters?

hamgatan

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

Metal10957

I have a female Breton that looks asian... because Bretons are like half-elves, you can slant the eyes without looking too elvish.

BigInGlenumbra

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

OP kind of suggest he was Asian, but you have a point. Although, the creators of the ES world copied some cultures and races and mismatched them randomly together (like Redguards have Arab culture but happen to be some kind of Black-Caucasian hybrid).

It just so happens they left out many human races like the East-Asians (although it seems like they're more Akaviri) and for some reason moor/gypsy culture was applied to the catmer, with the occasional, odd slavic accent thrown in haha.

Anyway, there should be no attempt to "equally" incorporate every human identity group into a fantasy world setting. People whine about that too often nowadays under perceived oppression or something.

Mivryna

I'm mixed east-Asian and European, and I find that Dunmer match my facial structure quite accurately, albeit I do need to tone down the brow a bit to get it to match.

The Elven religious perspectives are quite eastern as well.

hamgatan

BigInGlenumbra wrote: »

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

OP kind of suggest he was Asian, but you have a point. Although, the creators of the ES world copied some cultures and races and mismatched them randomly together (like Redguards have Arab culture but happen to be some kind of Black-Caucasian hybrid).

It just so happens they left out many human races like the East-Asians (although it seems like they're more Akaviri) and for some reason moor/gypsy culture was applied to the catmer, with the occasional, odd slavic accent thrown in haha.

Anyway, there should be no attempt to "equally" incorporate every human identity group into a fantasy world setting. People whine about that too often nowadays under perceived oppression or something.

yeah but so am I (on paper anyway - dual citizen in HK), but that doesn't mean I think the game should emulate real life. It's fantasy - knock yourself out! Let the imagination run wild (provided its within the scope of Lore)

BigInGlenumbra

hamgatan wrote: »

BigInGlenumbra wrote: »

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

OP kind of suggest he was Asian, but you have a point. Although, the creators of the ES world copied some cultures and races and mismatched them randomly together (like Redguards have Arab culture but happen to be some kind of Black-Caucasian hybrid).

It just so happens they left out many human races like the East-Asians (although it seems like they're more Akaviri) and for some reason moor/gypsy culture was applied to the catmer, with the occasional, odd slavic accent thrown in haha.

Anyway, there should be no attempt to "equally" incorporate every human identity group into a fantasy world setting. People whine about that too often nowadays under perceived oppression or something.

yeah but so am I (on paper anyway - dual citizen in HK), but that doesn't mean I think the game should emulate real life. It's fantasy - knock yourself out! Let the imagination run wild (provided its within the scope of Lore)

Ya, definitely. Who cares!

dsalter

technically the khajhiit are the closest thing to "asian" your going to get with their 5 claw elites

AngryNord

God-eater wrote: »

Have to agree. While I'm all about racial and cultural diversity IRL, so far as we know it doesn't exist in Tamriel (even mixed marriages don't produce hybrid kids - they come out one or the other - which makes no sense, but anyway...).

Actually, they take on their mother's ehtnicity.

madchuska83

They should really add some way to alter your character after starting the game. I'd pay a few grand for some extremely dangerous cosmetic surgery for my character.

hamgatan

....well, until we get the Akaviri brought into the game anyway. Remember all of this takes place AFTER 2E 430, which if we go by lore, the Akaviri only stepped foot in it after the Raid on Morrowind in 2E 572.

So the only way I could foresee them introducing that race is if they actually opened up the Akavir Continent as well..

..ooh that's giving me ideas for DLC!

Gidorick

Dahkoht wrote: »

PBpsy wrote: »

Natjur wrote: »

With full armor, how can you tell?

What are those horrid things on their head. I am sure that such atrocities do not exist in the game. Helmets on ridiculous.

Honestly I think it should be a debuff if you have show helmet turned on.

I'd be cool with that and I never play with a helm showing.

Kuroinu

hamgatan wrote: »

....well, until we get the Akaviri brought into the game anyway. Remember all of this takes place AFTER 2E 430, which if we go by lore, the Akaviri only stepped foot in it after the Raid on Morrowind in 2E 572.

So the only way I could foresee them introducing that race is if they actually opened up the Akavir Continent as well..

..ooh that's giving me ideas for DLC!

That's actually a small part of what sold me on playing an online elder scrolls game. As the game expands and the map fills in and all "lore" content releases. There's only one place to go to re-new the experience, and to be honest if ESO ended up introducing Atmora, Akavir and Pyandonea; that would draw so much curiosity for people fans of TES games but avoiding online thus far and I doubt they could resist peering into this world, lol.

Content like this would be very far down the line of course. But I can see it being a possible major expansion pack per continent, The Elder Scrolls Online: Akavir etc.

And keeping this thread on topic, Altmer are Asian right out of the box with their golden hue skin tone!

Cry_Wolfe

i always thought the Dunmer were the *nod* towards an asiatic culture, you could even go so far as to opine that all the mer are asiatic.
Wood elves are S/E asian tribal
Dunmer Japanese
High elf classical era chinese

((I am half chinese.))

Cry_Wolfe

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

Bretons are a fairly obvious Gaul.
Nords Tutonic.
Imperials totally Roman.

yes why indeed do they need to emulate Earthen geographic ethnography?

BigInGlenumbra

Cry_Wolfe wrote: »

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

Bretons are a fairly obvious Gaul.
Nords Tutonic.
Imperials totally Roman.

yes why indeed do they need to emulate Earthen geographic ethnography?

Probably because of our cultures, and of course race ties in with many cultural identities. Basically why not, who cares.

Cry_Wolfe wrote: »

i always thought the Dunmer were the *nod* towards an asiatic culture, you could even go so far as to opine that all the mer are asiatic.
Wood elves are S/E asian tribal
Dunmer Japanese
High elf classical era chinese

((I am half chinese.))

Really? I always saw the elves were simply just elves when it came to their architecture. But when it comes to how they look, I think everybody just pegs them as Asian because their eyes are slanted (although too much) and have high cheek bones, but really they look like an extremely weird mix of European exaggerated European peoples- prominent brow ridge yet sloped forehead, high nose bridge and really pointy, and especially the pointed chins.

Dunmer are pure comedians tho

Cry_Wolfe

@BigInGlenumbra ,
My opinion is that when TES was originally in its design phases, that the decision to emulate ethnographic groups was indeed to cue cultural identifiers within the player, and though i find it cringe worthy nowadays, back in the day it wasn't. I guess High Fantasy has moved on a bit since then.

Much of the graphic design that ESO has inherited comes down from the fact that previous titles were made quite a few years ago, before such niceties as multiple core CPU's, dedicated GPU ram, etc. The critters from Morrowwind in particular are easy to spot, they tend toward the angular, and Dunmer are no different.

and yeah not a fan of pointy chins =/

AngryNord

Cry_Wolfe wrote: »

i always thought the Dunmer were the *nod* towards an asiatic culture, you could even go so far as to opine that all the mer are asiatic.
Wood elves are S/E asian tribal
Dunmer Japanese
High elf classical era chinese

((I am half chinese.))

Bosmer and Altmer have obvious Tolkien inspiration, both in their names (Bosmer - Sindarin, Altmer - Silvan) and culture. I'd say Dunmer are more Chinese than Japanese though

AngryNord

Cry_Wolfe wrote: »

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

Bretons are a fairly obvious Gaul.
Nords Tutonic.
Imperials totally Roman.

yes why indeed do they need to emulate Earthen geographic ethnography?

Nords are far more Norse (with some Scots inspiration) than Teutonic

Swen_von_Walhallion

well here is my try, female breton templar. I was creating her about generic picturo of japan woman face :-)

PBpsy

Hey this is ZOS forum none of that filth allowed.To much skin. To much skin. Hide your children ,Hide your women ,hide your pets.

Metal10957

^^^Good job Swen.

Blud

Telel wrote: »

Isn't the majority of Russia on a certain continent that begins in A?

So is the rest of Europe -- excluding Great Britain and Ireland, of course.

waterfairy

Thanks for suggesting and sharing. Asian elf is a good idea but would ruin the character concept I had in mind so I guess I just have to scrap the idea altogether.

hamgatan wrote: »

err.. this is Tamriel not Planet Earth.. why do characters have to emulate Earth humanoid traits?

i smell yellow fever.

ha what? I'm not gay, I just like creating different kinds of characters. All of the human races and cultures in games are based on real life and I'm pretty sure the Akaviri are "asian" as the Japanese inspiration is obvious.

Hypertionb14_ESO

Telel wrote: »

Isn't the majority of Russia on a certain continent that begins in A?

If so then Telel thinks that perhaps someone got what they asked for, just not what they thought they were after.

ha!

Robbmrp

Vigarr wrote: »

Has anyone made a successful asian looking character? If so can you kindly share a shot of them and what race you used to create them?
I attempted to do it with a Breton as I was able to make an asian looking Breton in Skyrim but I ended up with a guy that looks like a prettier version of myself with a better body and different beard style


I see a slight Cao Cao thing to him but I'm not really satisfied with how he turned out...we need a face sculptor added to this game to correct mistakes instead of starting fresh.

My name tis IVAN and I CRUSH YOU....