Are there any gay NPCs in ESO?

Saphayla

I did every quest on Khenarthi's Roost, in Auridon, Grahtwood and Greenshade. I think I've seen two or three gay couples, and one quest I did in Reaper's March seemed to hint that the NPC was bisexual. Or the devs just didn't bother making alternate quests based on gender.

Hiruda

Well someway, Naryu is bi

Since she got interest in the heroes, female or males

TheShadowScout

Caitsith wrote: »

I've seen 2 npc that made me think to transgender peoples,

...and yet you did not think of that when meeting the "bearded lady" among the circus performers you assist over in Malabel Tor?
Though I have to admit, my favorite encounter in this category is still Dragon Age-IIs "Serendipity"...

Caitsith wrote: »

The breton mage during the quest for kill the werewolf Faolchu. Our choice while we are in the past change the gender of the mage.

Its not just one, the orc mage and some others also changed gender depending on your choice in the past. But that's more a time travel thing then a trans thing...

Caitsith wrote: »

And the argonian who want to become a khajiit and he's trying to find a potion for accomplish his wish.

Dunmer who wants to become Khajiit, but ends up becoming Argonian instead when messing up the transformation potion, you mean, right? In greenshade...
Though I suppose that one is mess transgender, and more... transracial? Or possibly even a fantasy-world furry - going for alchemy options rather then dressup, though there is a reference to latter in one of the orsinium dailies as well... (why do you think they always need more werewolf pelts?)

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Leogon wrote: »

There are a lot of gay npcs in ESO. You've been in the ESO community for a while now so you should know that unless you've strictly been playing PvP.

Why should I know?

I haven't read/seen any threads on it, majority of my time on ESO has been: dungeons, trails, levelling new character, Vma, PVP, crafting, grinding for gear.

My sincerest apologies for not doing all solo questing, talking to NPCs to find this out to appease you!

Tbh (not to start a new topic) the solo questing in this game just feels lacklustre to me, I've tried it but I always find myself skipping through the dialogue. I'm not like that in other single games but in this I guess I lost my sense of quest immersion a bit

Maybe there is so much other stuff to do is why I feel this way?

MajesticHaruki

Balmora. North West gate. There is a male npc that sits down and another male npc that walks inside the gates and every now and then walks outside and sits on the ground right next to the other man. Their proximity screams love

Also in bangkorai, North east there is a quest with a gay werewolf and his husband who is worried about him.

Jaimeh

Oh, and the two NPCs in the Hollow City (enchanter and weaponsmith, I think) that the hero kind of plays matchmaker for

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

MajesticHaruki wrote: »

Balmora. North West gate. There is a male npc that sits down and another male npc that walks inside the gates and every now and then walks outside and sits on the ground right next to the other man. Their proximity screams love

Also in bangkorai, North east there is a quest with a gay werewolf and his husband who is worried about him.

I will try out some of the interesting quests when I get chance

mb10

Why do you care?

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

mb10 wrote: »

Why do you care?

Why do you care about me caring?

Vahrokh

There are plenty, just do the full storyline and you'll meet plenty of NPCs telling you their same sex love / struggle / separation / rescue etc. story.

Penguinfan

Sixty5 wrote: »

Mara says love is love, and no one has any right to say that.

Dibella says **** all the ***** because ***** goes in the ******

And Vivec says "Oh Molag, what a big spear you have"

Point is the divinities in Elder Scrolls don't have any problem with that sort of thing, so there is no ingrained religious taboo against it in Tamriel.

This is well said....

Soleya

Caitsith wrote: »

platonicidealgirlfriend wrote: »

trying to stick to some that haven't been mentioned so far,

- Naryu will flirt with characters regardless of gender
- Guards will roll their flirtatious lines regardless of gender, pretty random.
- A Breton man in Cyrodil (forget where exactly) will discuss having fled Daggerfall due to prejudice.
- A Dunmer woman in Suran's House of Earthly Delights will make some pretty overt gestures to *** your character regardless of gender, implicitly for payment....
- Pelinal Whitestrike from the Song of Pelinal, added during last year's pvp event, has a gay relationship. IIRC, it was cut from the draft of the books that were included in Oblivion, but I never got around to checking ESO's.
- Dark Seducers in general.

There's actually a mountain of gay representation in this game, tho tbh I'm still waiting for unabashed trans representation played by transgender voice actors. There's already ample room for this in the lore, so................................

I've seen 2 npc that made me think to transgender peoples,

The breton mage during the quest for kill the werewolf Faolchu. Our choice while we are in the past change the gender of the mage.

And the argonian who want to become a khajiit and he's trying to find a potion for accomplish his wish.

Wasn't it an argonian that wants to be an alligator? Or is that a different one.

TheShadowScout

Soleya wrote: »

Wasn't it an argonian that wants to be an alligator? Or is that a different one.

That one is less "transracial" since she is not "I am an alligator inside and now want to become one outside as well"; but instead more shamanistic in an "my life as an argonian is at an end, it is time for me to pass on and become one with nature - as alligator".
Compare to stories of druids, native amercan shamans, skinchangers and such; the concept of a shaman passing their spirits to live on as animal or physically turning into an animal and forgetting they ever were human in the end is not that uncommon from what encountered in my readings...

FrancisCrawford

fastolfv_ESO wrote: »

the thieves guild quest line is actually 100% gay npcs, the dark elf the khajit the argonian, i think only the original quest giver isnt. Other than that every zone has a ma 1 gay npc minimum

Zeira has a confirmed heterosexual relationship. Quen seems straight, but I don't think there's any confirmation of that. The males seem rather flitty, I'll agree, but that doesn't actually prove they're gay/bi. Indeed, at a guess I'd think Silverclaws is straight and Walks-Softly bi.

What we know for sure is that they're all at least bi-friendly. At one point you can hit on any of them, and none of them thinks that's out of line no matter what sex you are, but none of them accepts either. (Are there any exceptions to those rules?)

FrancisCrawford

Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »

MajesticHaruki wrote: »

Balmora. North West gate. There is a male npc that sits down and another male npc that walks inside the gates and every now and then walks outside and sits on the ground right next to the other man. Their proximity screams love

Also in bangkorai, North east there is a quest with a gay werewolf and his husband who is worried about him.

I will try out some of the interesting quests when I get chance

This game actually has some great quests as those things go. The typical quest line is that you arrive at a town where things are going wrong, solve a little mystery, and set things to rights. That allows for many plot twists, and occasionally one of those is pretty good.

• On the whole DC quests are better than AD ones, and AD are better than EP.
• Rivenspire is particularly good, both in the main quest line (3 skill points) and some of the side quests.
• The Stros M'Kai main quest gives an easy skill point. The quest are blech but the characters are wonderful.
• The first skill point quest line in Stormhaven (Alcaire Castle) has a great story line, but it is quite long.
• I enjoy the third skill point quest line in Glenumbra well enough to repeat it on a number of characters.
• Daggerfall City has an extra skill point. The initial quest giver is a barking dog. Those quests (skill point line or side) are easy, with a bunch of decent characters making brief appearances.
• Bangorkai has a LOT of plot twists in its quests, main quests and side ones alike. I don't think the characterizations in that zone are particularly strong (except when King Emeric shows up), but there are a lot of ideas there.

TheShadowScout

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

This game actually has some great quests as those things go. The typical quest line is that you arrive at a town where things are going wrong, solve a little mystery, and set things to rights. That allows for many plot twists, and occasionally one of those is pretty good.

• On the whole DC quests are better than AD ones, and AD are better than EP.

That's a matter of perspective and personal opinion.
Some are, some aren't - in my opinion.

Personally I love the EP questlines, since they give some -background- to the three banners war. Some reason for EP characters to want to PvP against the others, yelling battlcries like "Remember Bleackrock" and "For Bal Foyen" or "Die, dominion hatchlingkillers!". Makes one think they are fighting for the right side, in an "Defend our homelands!" kind of way, while what was the others casus belli again? "Fight so I can plant my royal ars... uhm... rear on the ruby throne"? I swear, PvPing ojn the DC side makes me feel like a mercenary, and on the AD side like a elven supremacy fascist...

Also, the EP quests feel more like a generallly tied together storyline then the DC plots sometimes... like the starter isle invasion continued in stonefalls questline... the eastmarch instability leading to the weakened situration that allows the trouble in the rift to grow, etc.
AD has similarly interconnected storylines, with how things go from grahtwood to greenshade and greenshade to malabel tor, etc. DC on the other hand... not so much, each region kinda seems like its a standalone kingdom with its own particular (often homegrown) troubles...

But in the end, I like each of them, even some of the less surprising ones. And its not like EP quests don't have their own share of plot twists, right?

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• Rivenspire is particularly good, both in the main quest line (3 skill points) and some of the side quests.

Rivenspire IS one of the better one, agreed. The court intrigue is classic, the vampire connection a nice new twist, the doomcrag assault for resolution an interesting direction to take on it.

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• The Stros M'Kai main quest gives an easy skill point. The quest are blech but the characters are wonderful.

Eh. No more then other characters, and no more then other starting isles. Only high point is that they start off with some interesting characters right away, while in other lands you meet most of the interesting ones only later on (Razum-Dar being a notable exception)

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• The first skill point quest line in Stormhaven (Alcaire Castle) has a great story line, but it is quite long.

It is neat, though I was vexed that there is no option to avoid the duchess murder, especially when I recalled "Waitaminit, I saw that in the Betnik visions... that knight shi... uhm... sir hughes is gonna kill her!". I mean, why the warning if you cannot act upon it, right?

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• I enjoy the third skill point quest line in Glenumbra well enough to repeat it on a number of characters.

I found that one not at all that great... but as I said, personal preference. I still repeat all of thjem with all my characters eventually. (I only ger selective about DLCs - my "honest" characters will never do the TG and DB lines for example...)

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• Daggerfall City has an extra skill point. The initial quest giver is a barking dog. Those quests (skill point line or side) are easy, with a bunch of decent characters making brief appearances.

I for one found the "Daggerfall" quests rather boring, in an all too classic "stop the assassination plot" kind of way.

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

• Bangorkai has a LOT of plot twists in its quests, main quests and side ones alike. I don't think the characterizations in that zone are particularly strong (except when King Emeric shows up), but there are a lot of ideas there.

I always thought Emric a annoyance in that one. Especially his stupid "let's not get any reinforcements and maybe some mages of our own when going out to face the -magus general- as to get all nicely killed by magic and/or abducted for the vestige to rescue..." I mean, what's the point of being king when you rush headling to your death? Boneheaded nords can get away with it because... nord, but a breton king???

As for surprises and plot twists, those are generally a good thing. Not always (cough, Tovisa, cough), but generally. And Bangkorai does not nearly have a monopoly on good ones...

In the end, it all depends.
Each should make up their own mind about what they like, and let others like whatever they want.
In both quests, and the OP topic

platonicidealgirlfriend

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Quen seems straight, but I don't think there's any confirmation of that.

this is such an interesting remark. like, based on what?

Kierro

I don't know if it was mentioned, but there is a lesbian Argonian in Shadowfen, during a quest to the far South West. There's a side quest to retrieve her bow. She may even be bisexual, because her commander replies to your question "Who's <female Argonian's name>?" and the CO will whisper "The little shy Argonian, watching you from the pyramid." Once you give her back her bow, she says it was a gift from her wife.

I remember seeing a lesbian Argonian and Dunmer couple, too.

In the AD area, at some gambler outpost, a male Khajiit asks you to help his husband/mate.

There's a gay Dunmer couple in the brothel in Ebonheart. One's a prositute and other is his client.

I'm still wanting to see a gay Argonian couple. There's the flamboyant Argonian in the Thieves quest, but is he gay or just fancy, I don't know. I heard regardless of gender you can ask him out on a date, and he reacts happily regardless of gender. But I also heard he's even happier if your a male PC. I don't know.

Lastly, Vivec isn't a transgender. Transgenders are someone born as one sex but feel comfortable being the opposite. Vivec is a hermaphrodite or intersex, pansexual, he was born with both gen itals <(Why was this censored?) and doesn't give a damn about what you call yourself.

Reddkatz

emily3989 wrote: »

Whole quest line in Reapers March with some gay cats if I remember right

Not the whole quest line, but there is a side quest in Hadran's cavaran with a Kjhajiit and his husband or boyfriend.

Fang_of_Lorkhaj

Also the main female Darkelf protagonist in Thiefs Guild DLC has a khajit female lover

ktdotexe

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Wrecking_Blow_Spam

PetiteFire wrote: »

teladoy wrote: »

If there are NPC that are gays or not it is a personal decision to say it or not. Or is it that those who are heterosexual go around saying that they are heterosexual?

Why you don't have interest in know who are the heterosexual NPC but yes in those who are gays???

I hope you think twice next time before do some kind of homophobic question.

...What are you smoking? His question wasn't homophobic in the slightest. He was asking out of positive curiousity, and this thread has been filled with nothing but positive answers.

Get your head out of your own backside and enjoy the sun once in a while.

Yes this thread is filled mostly with great answers and as you say it was out of curiosity, I'm glad most here got that. Unfortunately there's always one or two who have to cause drama.

ParaNostram

TES games, including ESO, have a long history of LGBT representation be it intentional or not (Daggerfall through programming quirks).

Here's a good post on it.

http://ladynerevar.tumblr.com/post/92855271360/lgbtq-in-the-elder-scrolls

JKorr

Soleya wrote: »

Caitsith wrote: »

platonicidealgirlfriend wrote: »

trying to stick to some that haven't been mentioned so far,

- Naryu will flirt with characters regardless of gender
- Guards will roll their flirtatious lines regardless of gender, pretty random.
- A Breton man in Cyrodil (forget where exactly) will discuss having fled Daggerfall due to prejudice.
- A Dunmer woman in Suran's House of Earthly Delights will make some pretty overt gestures to *** your character regardless of gender, implicitly for payment....
- Pelinal Whitestrike from the Song of Pelinal, added during last year's pvp event, has a gay relationship. IIRC, it was cut from the draft of the books that were included in Oblivion, but I never got around to checking ESO's.
- Dark Seducers in general.

There's actually a mountain of gay representation in this game, tho tbh I'm still waiting for unabashed trans representation played by transgender voice actors. There's already ample room for this in the lore, so................................

I've seen 2 npc that made me think to transgender peoples,

The breton mage during the quest for kill the werewolf Faolchu. Our choice while we are in the past change the gender of the mage.

And the argonian who want to become a khajiit and he's trying to find a potion for accomplish his wish.

Wasn't it an argonian that wants to be an alligator? Or is that a different one.

Different one. There is an argonian who wants to become a crocodile. There is a dunmer who wants to be a khajiit, but the alchemy potion doesn't work quite the way he intended it to.

ProfesseurFreder

Have you not played the game at all? Because there are MANY. Hard to miss 'em.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

MakeWaySenche

This one collected flowers for a husbands husband in Greenshade. It made me smile. Come to think of it. So far all the love stories that I've come across have made me smile.

After joining a exceptionally honest guild in Hews Bane, I asked Silver-claw to be my date for a certain wedding. He said yes! Could this become my own love story? Khajiit can only hope ♡

16BitForestCat

As a slight tangent, something I love about ESO is that not only is there LGBT+ representation, but a few characters even have established gender preferences that don't change even if you talk to them with player characters of different genders. A lot of games go the "everyone is bi" route so they don't have to create new dialogue, and I love that ESO didn't do this every time. It gives the impression that the writers involved were keen on not taking the lazy path when it comes to important topics like LGBT+ representation and gender preferences.

I can only think of two examples offhand, but here they are:
--There's a random male NPC (Windhelm, I think? It's been a few years) who will flirt with female player characters, while just making small talk about the town?/festival? with male player characters.

--Darien Gautier will flirt with female player characters sometimes, but not male characters. At one point, I was doing a quest on my female* main at the same time as my boyfriend was doing the same quest on his male main. At the end-of-quest dialogue, Darien was basically just like "Good job, dude" to the male player character, but he asked my female character out on a date. Last time I checked some months back, even the UESP wiki only listed the dialogue for Darien talking to a male player character on that quest, so I guess it's not immediately obvious that his dialogue changes based on gender. Unless you're playing on multiple characters across genders and happen to notice he's not saying the same thing to your ladies as your dudes.

*She/they're actually genderless, but I had to pick "male or female" at character creation and she/they look more feminine, so....

Waffennacht

@WakeYourGhost "he" is not trans he is a hermaphrodite

Again I saw it.

No "he" (Vivec) isn't a "he" he is both.

He is the embodiment of duality.

Both sexes.

Both fair and unjust

Both a poet and a warrior.

God and Mortal

Demycilian

Darien is way too hot to be purely straight.