How different would the ES series if Khajiit where Dog people ?

JamieAubrey

Hard to imaging

pdblake

The streets would be a lot messier.

Kaunas

Thats illegal

Jhalin

Werewolves

The word you’re looking for is werewolves

Ye_Olde_Crowe

I would probably like them better yet.
But they aren't so I have to remain good friends with Barbas.

Jaimeh

You could have dealt with enemy Khajiit NPCs just by yelling 'Bad boy/girl!', or thowing a stick. Also, imagine the Alfiq!

Ye_Olde_Crowe

Jaimeh wrote: »

Also, imagine the Alfiq!

Awww, now I wish I had such a d'alfiq...

SantieClaws

Well no one would want to travel to Elsweyr for sure!

Moon sugar would probably be moon … things from under the bin.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Diabolus1989

They'd probably still end up becoming enslaved by the Dunmer. But unlike the Khajiit and Argonians, the Dog People would love their masters unconditionally.

Also, they'd be great at fetch quests.

Skorro

Would we get a passive that anything you pee on gives you more crit against it?

starlizard70ub17_ESO

If Khajiit were dog people, this is an example of the types of memes we'd be getting.

albesca

Razum-dar would be just as handsome

Nestor

You could never talk to a quest giver long enough to get the objective because.....


Squirrel.....

Tommy_The_Gun

Interesting question. It very much depends on how they would be depicted in the Lore. My guess is that they would be less annoying for sure...

Khajiits, up to this point it were one of my favourite races in Elder Scrolls Lore. But, after almost a year of story focused around dragons cats I am kinda fed-up.
Enough is enough. Khajits in eso already got good & charming NPC that was more or less involved in main plot point of previous chapter (Summerset & Razum-dar).

Other beast race, Argonians got tiny DLC (that was given for free btw.), and after that, they got a wave of nerfs, that made their racial passives useless in all type of ESO content (PvE & PvP).

So, to all Khajiit mains & cat fans: You have no idea how lucky you are.

TheShadowScout

JamieAubrey wrote: »

How different would the ES series if Khajiit where Dog people ?

Langdon64

Elsweyr would just be a giant dog park of green rolling hills and trees to pee on.

DragonRacer

Imagine the overwhelming smell of wet dog if it's raining in Rimmen...

Wolfpaw

Hopefully a new race to play sometime
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lilmothiit

Bobby_V_Rockit

Wasn’t the Lilmothiit dog people that all died out from some plague?

Cloudless

We'd have a whole culture centered around eating each other's poop instead of moon sugar.

Skorro

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

Wasn’t the Lilmothiit dog people that all died out from some plague?

cat flu?

xxthir13enxx

Wolfpaw wrote: »

Hopefully a new race to play sometime
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lilmothiit

https://youtu.be/_PVjcIO4MT4

phermitgb

If Khajit were altered to be dog people, nothing would HAVE to FUNCTIONALLY change - they could still have the same culture, same architecture, same accent and cultural speech quirks and whatnot...but I don't think they would.

For whatever reason, we (western/eastern gamer culture) are comfortable with the idea of cats (and by extension cat people) being quirky, sneaky, thiefy-type people as a whole culture. We also seem to be quite comfortable associating them with more african/middle eastern desert-style motifs (probably cuzza the whole egyptian cat culture expectation we have).

I suspect, that if we altered them to be dog people, we'd have different basic expectations about the Khajiit culture - we'd expect them to have different cultural priorities (that we more commonly associate with dogs), like pack behavior, and alpha chiefs, and such. We'd probably pick architecture and a biome of the world to call home that we more commonly associate with dogs (maybe we'd go wolf-like and associate them with northern wastes and snowy climes, or we'd go domestic dog and, I dunno, maybe associate them with the more temperate european-like zones).

I dunno where we'd go with speech styles, but I suspect we'd make the dog-people less cagey, and probably more straightforward, if not downright doofy like scooby doo or any of a hundred other comical dog stereotypes that we're used to.

Sadly, I feel like western/eastern gamer culture tend to see dogs as simple (if not downright dumb), or, alternatively, loyal and upright (probably almost to a fault). I'm not quite sure how we got these visions of dogs, and people with strongly ingrained cultural perspectives from outside the mainstream us, europe, and china/japan, might have...significantly different expectations about anthropomorphized dog-people, but it might be interesting to hear the expectations some people have from other cultures about what an uplifted dog-like race would be like in a fantasy setting

SeaGtGruff

The Doggiit? Pronounced as in "Let the big Doggiit"?

Rain_Greyraven

Probably be just as irritating to be honest, I always thought that anthropomorphism in fantasy writing was trite at best.

But beyond that the type of people it attracts is an issue with me personally, I have yet to see a Furry that wasn't also a thespian gamer, which can get ridiculous at times.


There is something demented about a player that refuses to break character.

svartorn

I'm guessing that would mean khajiit pugs would be able to follow commands better because dogs listen and cats don't.

TheShadowScout

Wolfpaw wrote: »

Hopefully a new race to play sometime
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lilmothiit

Been there, posted that: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/422285/new-player-race-possibilities/p1

ArchMikem

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Hard to imaging

You mean the Lilmothiit not having been eradicated by a plot device?

Rain_Greyraven wrote: »

But beyond that the type of people it attracts is an issue with me personally, I have yet to see a Furry that wasn't also a thespian gamer, which can get ridiculous at times.

There is something demented about a player that refuses to break character.

Allow me to break the pattern, hi I'm Mike. I don't roleplay but I do like me my cat girls.

TheShadowScout

ArchMikem wrote: »

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Hard to imaging

You mean the Lilmothiit not having been eradicated by a plot device?

While that is what happened, it only happened a mere twenty years before the times of ESO. It is not inconcievablke that -some- of the foxies survived by being elsewhere in Tamriel, or in an oblivion plane... yet just like with the Kothringi, the race itself is gone, if some did survive, the are not enough to repopulate, and will die out soon enough.

But yes, as I mentioned elsewhere, that means they -could- be done as ultra-rare player race unlock, if someone wants to milk the "last survivors of a dead race" cliché for their ESO enjoyment! But I expect IF the powers that be ever go there, the racial unlock would come at an insanely high cost of crowns, or more likely crown gems, or an crown crate rarity exceeding apex-mount rarity...

Verbal_Earthworm

Sounds Rough!

HappyLittleTree

albesca wrote: »

Razum-dar would be just as handsome

So handsome!