I was describing this game to my wife to gauge her interest in playing it. She's never played any of the Elder Scrolls games but she is a big fan of the fantasy genre. So when I was describing the races to her, I used generic descriptions like:
High Elves, Dark Elves, Wood Elves (lol, these are already tropes so she knew what I meant just by naming the race)
Cat people, Lizard people, Orcs (straightforward)
and for Nords, I said 'Vikings'. Not completely accurate but close enough.
The last three though were a bit tougher. For Redguards I said "Middle Eastern-y or Nomads maybe?". Imperials were just 'Humans' and Bretons were 'Magic Humans'. All three of these I felt could have better 'Generic descriptions' but I can't think of any. I think the problem is that most fantasy games have a single 'human' race whereas Elder Scrolls has 4.
Any ideas? Or are those three destined to be the un-describable human races?
Edited by KAJ3D on June 20, 2018 5:34PM