What playable race would you like to see added to ESO?

Nighn_9

For the most part, we have used the same 10 playable races in almost every TES game, but ESO is the perfect game in the franchise to finally add a new one. If we ever did get a new race, what would you like to play as?

For me, I think a Minotaur race would be awesome!


Or perhaps the Tsaesci from Akavari that look similar to Lamias.


(Let's keep it lore friendly as much as possible)

Apache_Kid

Dwarves/Gnomes would be cool. Always liked them in other games.

Sparr0w

Dragons

rumple9

Dothraki

generalmyrick

Daedra--the humanoid looking ones or the weird ones.

tell me a flame atronach wouldn't be cool though?

KiraTsukasa

A custom race that allows you to pick which passives you want and which body type to have. I have like five Breton characters just because I want a mage or other magic based character that's not an elf and all the other "human" classes are pointed toward stamina or non-mage type characters.

coop500

Lilmothiit!

Also this sentience is incorrect: TES games have always used the same 9 playable races

We have 10 races at the moment and orcs were not always playable in the older games beyond Morrowind (I forgot which one)

But that's just me nitpicking lol

Sadly if we are to get any race, it'd be the damn sea elves, as if we need anymore elves....

But I'd fall head over heels for a beast race of any kind, even a new subspecies of khajiit, but Lilmothiit would be amazing.

Lynx7386

Khajiit.

All the ones we can't currently play.

Asardes

Xyvkin. You could make a separate intro, since it doesn't really make sense that Molag Bal kidnaps one of his own. Maybe a fugitive/rebel one like Lyranth instead.

strangeradnd

Riekling, no forget I said that. How about Snow Elf.

Alqu

Guar

Jade1986

Dremora. Simple.

Alqu

seriously though Daedra
With something similar to thieves mechanics.

Cazzy

I guess technically Daedra polymorphs exist so you can play as them already. Kinda.

Everything I can think of would work as a polymorph but not really a "race". So constructs, ghost etc. Intelligent troll race? xD

CardboardedBox

Imga, lamia, goblin.

Also throw sload in there, even though it has like a -5% chance of happening in ANY game lol

Kodrac

Wookiees.

TrinityBreaker

Minotaurs.

Tryxus

Reachmen or Imga

Twenty0zTsunami

Tryxus wrote: »

Reachmen or Imga

aren't reachmen just.. breton? According to the wiki, yes they are. They're more like a sub-faction than a new race.

Zalicius

The Akaviri and Daedra.

ElFonz0

I've always wanted to see the Imga, due to them being described as one of the beast races of the Empire, plus they dont have that issue of either not being distinct enough from other races(reachmen), not being extinct(snow elves, kothringi, dwemer to name a few), and not being from "out of state", so to speak(akaviri, sloads, maormer to an extent)

Though apparently they're wherever Falinesti is, so who knows?

strangeradnd

ElFonz0 wrote: »

I've always wanted to see the Imga, due to them being described as one of the beast races of the Empire, plus they dont have that issue of either not being distinct enough from other races(reachmen), not being extinct(snow elves, kothringi, dwemer to name a few), and not being from "out of state", so to speak(akaviri, sloads, maormer to an extent)

Though apparently they're wherever Falinesti is, so who knows?

Snow elves can't be extinct, just ultra rare. They exist is Skyrim well into the future so they would have to exist in this time frame as well. (Not that you would be able to find one.)

QuebraRegra

GOBLINS and REIKLINGS

animations for GOBLINS already in game. Treated like IMPERIALS in terms of "faction". Lore wise it works.

The true hero of TAMRIEL is the unknown goblin that laid Molag Bal low

M_Volsung

Dwemer.

ElFonz0

strangeradnd wrote: »

ElFonz0 wrote: »

I've always wanted to see the Imga, due to them being described as one of the beast races of the Empire, plus they dont have that issue of either not being distinct enough from other races(reachmen), not being extinct(snow elves, kothringi, dwemer to name a few), and not being from "out of state", so to speak(akaviri, sloads, maormer to an extent)

Though apparently they're wherever Falinesti is, so who knows?

Snow elves can't be extinct, just ultra rare. They exist is Skyrim well into the future so they would have to exist in this time frame as well. (Not that you would be able to find one.)

While technically true, Snow Elves as we know them(the intelligent ones, not the blind goblin-like) are functionally extinct.
There's always the possibility of some hidden group of them existing during ESO, but I considered them in the same category as Dwemer and Kothringi.

Pastas

Hobbits

TheNuminous1

ElFonz0 wrote: »

I've always wanted to see the Imga, due to them being described as one of the beast races of the Empire, plus they dont have that issue of either not being distinct enough from other races(reachmen), not being extinct(snow elves, kothringi, dwemer to name a few), and not being from "out of state", so to speak(akaviri, sloads, maormer to an extent)

Though apparently they're wherever Falinesti is, so who knows?

Ive pondered how they could implement them often. first off Imga should have been in the base game. second. if falinesti is really where they all went, and it is in a pocketrealm of rahjiin.

then it will likly be way down the road they will do a small bosmer dlc with rahjiins realm and falinesti. the gimmick for it will be adding an imga as a playable race.

i mean how else would they be able to do a bosmer dlc if all of valenwood is in game?

Froil

Okay so first off, that initial statement is very incorrect. From Arena to Daggerfall, you only have eight races, Altmer, Argonian, Bosmer, Breton, Dunmer, Khajiit, Nord and Redguard. Orsimer and Imperial were the only races to be added to the games starting in Morrowind, while in Battlespire, you could only pick from six races (they left out Argonians and Khajiits).

But if they were to ever add a playable race to ESO? The most likely one is the Imga, as they're not extinct, but hiding within Falinesti, wherever that damned tree currently resides...

Snow Elves (Falmer) are virtually extinct, save for the two you actually meet in Skyrim/corrupted monsters.
Moarmer doesn't seem plausible as they don't really care for Tamriel or helping any of its inhabitants and would rather just sack Summerset and try to claim it for themselves.
Lilmothiit, while probably a cool race, are extinct from the Knahaten Flu.
Dwemer are, to put it plainly, gone.
Dremora (humanoid daedra) just doesn't make sense.
I honestly like the idea of playable Minotaurs, but they're regressed into beasts. A shame as they were the children of Alessia and Morihaus-Breath-of-Kyne.
Nedes, from various tribes, such as the Kothringi, the Orma, and so on wouldn't make much sense as, over time, those peoples have died out and/or been assimilated into modern day Breton, Nordic or Imperial cultures.
Goblin-ken (Goblins, Reiklings) wouldn't make for sense as they're, at best, slaves (see Dunmeri and Altmeri culture) but mostly monsters).
"Akaviri" is a broad term for any race of Akavir, the Tsaesci (possible snake people, maybe humanoid like Argonians, or more like the Lamias or maybe humans from Akavir), the Kamali (snow demons), the Ka Po'Tun (tiger folks, akin to Khajiit) and Tang Mo (monkey people, akin to Imga).
Adult sloads collapse under their own weight without spells or water...

Jayman1000

Different types of insects, that would be pretty awesome.

QuebraRegra

Pastas wrote: »

Hobbits

it's just you and me buddy!

*waiting for ESO reskin to a LOTR game so I can give them even more money for re-used assets.. not even joking*

SydneyGrey

Maormer
Maybe Lilmothiit (fox people).

... No, I'm not a furry, so don't start that nonsense. I just think they'd be neat.