Poll Which ES Race is your favorite?

francesinhalover

Please Say why , only playable races!
This ain't about passives or meta. just fun!

Starlight_Whisper

Bosmer

I love their lore. Also they look good 😝

Sylvermynx

Redguard

Wait. Didn't we just have one of these?

VaxtinTheWolf

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Wait. Didn't we just have one of these?

I suppose someone wanted a thread with this theme that was less of a joke.

VaranisArano

Most of my characters are Dunmer, Altmer, or Imperial.

Dunmer benefit from being one of the most well-developed and interesting races in the TES franchise thanks to TES 3. It's very easy for me to create Dunmer characters that fit into a niche in their society or that go counter to the culture in various ways because that race is so well developed.

Sylvermynx

Redguard

VaxtinTheWolf wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Wait. Didn't we just have one of these?

I suppose someone wanted a thread with this theme that was less of a joke.

? Oh.... okay. Answer's the same as last time: Redguard, followed very closely by Khajiit, Breton, Bosmer.

phaneub17_ESO

Khajiit

They're cute and cuddly, I want to scratch them all behind the ears!

Ratzkifal

Dunmer (Darkelf)

While all the races/cultures have their own splinter groups and factions, only the Dunmer are really splintered in a meaningful way. The Nords in Western Skyrim are the same as in Eastern Skyrim. The Bretons should be even more splintered, but they aren't and neither is any of the other races. If you have met one Altmer you've pretty much met them all.

But with the Dunmer you have the scheming businessmer in House Hlaalu, the grumpy land-owning Dres, the devout Indoril, the honorable Redoran and the individualist Telvanni mages. And then you also the have Ashlanders and the Morag Tong. Dunmer society has many ugly sides - slavery, legalized murder, inquisition, xenophobia and suppression of "wrong-thinkers", but there are beautiful sides to it all and valuable lessons to be learned.

The other races feel like flat stereotypes by comparison, even if they have their interesting sides as well.

francesinhalover

Imperial

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Wait. Didn't we just have one of these?

I'm sorry if that's the case , i didn't know

the1andonlyskwex

Argonian

I generally find that Argonians have more levelheaded personalities than members of the other races.

Also, I like the faster swimming.

Eiagra

Orc

Because orcs got a monopoly on all the sexiness. Plus they have some interesting lore.

Ratzkifal

Dunmer (Darkelf)

francesinhalover wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Wait. Didn't we just have one of these?

I'm sorry if that's the case , i didn't know

The other one didn't have Imperials, called Khajiit "furries" and Argonians "lizard people". Instead of Imperials it had "Gnomes".
So don't be sorry! This one is a lot more insightful.

Destai

Dunmer (Darkelf)

I'm going with Dunmer for the time being, even though most days I'm all about the Altmer. Dunmer just have so much nuance and diversity.

Icy_Waffles

Dunmer (Darkelf)

Dark elf. Cool lore and backstory. I like the aesthetics of the dark elf.

DreamyLu

Bosmer

Bosmer for me. The only race with which I did achieve to build up a char looking good (to my taste).

tomofhyrule

Orc

I always used to go Bosmer since I liked playing short characters, but since Skyrim I've always been drawn more to the berserker playstyle (even though in Skyrim we all ended up with stealth archers by the end). ESO's height slider finally let me be the smol swole Orc of my dreams.

And he's awesome. Never looking back.

Still favor the Nordic lore and aesthetic, but that's easily remedied - my Orc's just from Skyrim. Done.

ShawnLaRock

I stand by my post in the previous thread about this topic: Imga.

S.

TheImperfect

Khajiit

Khajiit because moonsugar.

VaxtinTheWolf

A copy of my other post; Beast races in general. Animalistic or non-human features are interesting, and tails are amusing.

Asardes

Nord

I played Nord in all TES games starting with Morrowind, and when I started ESO I started out with a Nord as well, which is still my main character 6 years later.

Zodiarkslayer

Breton

Asardes wrote: »

I played Nord in all TES games starting with Morrowind, and when I started ESO I started out with a Nord as well, which is still my main character 6 years later.

Same here, only with Breton.
I used to dislike Altmer, Dunmer and Argonians until ESO. Now it is just Argonians.

Folkb

Bosmer

Bosmer girls are the cutest 😍 hands down.

Mayrael

Khajiit

Probably the most recognizable and distinctive race in the entire Elder Scrolls canon, characterized by very distinct differences and yet fairly well assimilated with the rest of the world.

This one thinks the Khajiits deserve first place, yes.

Andre_Noir

Breton

Never payed attention on a beast-mers in single games, also disliked orcs and redguards and used to play most of the time as altmer.
After ESO:
hate all cats with a passion - the most disgusting race in a whole game world,
followed by most lizards that are bad-looking altmers with no real culture but with the same arrogance.
Next are dunmers that are even more vile that in Morrowind.
Ofc altemers follow dunmers. But with many exceptions

But I changed my view on orcs, bretons and redguards.
The last on is an interesting case because they are eqiualent of cultures of the fertile Crescent and no one of them were black

Tommy_The_Gun

Argonian

Beasts-races in general. In every TES game I always played as an Argonian & Khajiit. And the reason for that is simple: not many cRPG games allow to play as such. Every time it is a human dude, an elf (human with longer ears) or dwarf (human that is short). And that's it. It is so generic that it is just boring.

The only game so far that made "regular" races look interesting was DOS2. Each race had different model and visually it looked just better. Elf looked different than human. Also, lizard race looked way better as they had different animations set. The attention to detail is important and DOS2 devs knew it. It is kinda similar to how beasts-races were shown in TES 3 Morrowind. In that game those also had different skeleton & animations set and imho were best amongst every TES game so far. Attention to detail is important. Morrowind devs also knew it. It is kinda shame that since then Argonians & Khajiits are made in kinda lazy way as basically it is same model as human but with different head and tail glued at the back... but at least it is something different & less generic.

I picked Argonians as they are the most unique playable race, but I like Khajiits too (my 2nd favourite race). I am kinda jealous (idk if that is the right word ?) for the amount of attention & love Khajiits received from ESO dev team though. I hope that one day Argonians will also get this much attention in some kind of chapter with some recurring Argonian characters from the base game.

Princess_Ciri

Altmer (Highelf)

eso community confirmed as furries

francesinhalover

Imperial

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I stand by my post in the previous thread about this topic: Imga.

S.

Are people supposed to know what you are talking about?

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Argonian

I like all of the main races in TES. But argonians, bosmer and imperials are my favourites.

Voting on argonians, though. Because they usually don't get the love and attention they deserve. They are unique, mysterious, have interesting lore and:

Sylvermynx

Redguard

francesinhalover wrote: »

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I stand by my post in the previous thread about this topic: Imga.

S.

Are people supposed to know what you are talking about?

Imga == huge gorilla standing mostly upright.

francesinhalover

Imperial

Sylvermynx wrote: »

francesinhalover wrote: »

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I stand by my post in the previous thread about this topic: Imga.

S.

Are people supposed to know what you are talking about?

Imga == huge gorilla standing mostly upright.

oh you mean this? https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Imga
yah would be cool if we get to see them ingame... but i doubt it

Sylvermynx

Redguard

Even if there's a new race someday (but consider: if it's not extant in the later games, then some lore has to be developed to account for WHY it isn't there....) it's not likely to be something that's not human/mer sized - because there's the whole issue of clothing, armor, how to size stuff for sitting, what to do about mounts.... and lots more....