Any Race Any Alliance purchasers, why did you choose the alliance you did?

MafiaCat115

For ARAA purchasers who have a character in an alliance other than that race’s default, why did you choose the alliance you did? Feel free to comment and elaborate!

OBJnoob

PvP

I made my first character by picking a race I thought was cool, having no real idea about alliance. But all the "spy" drama in guild and zone chat cyrodiil quickly got me to.buy any race any alliance. Never meant much to me, just seeking to avoid the paranoid scrutiny lol

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO

Other (if so, state why)

Simple really....because Ebonheart is the best 🤘

Sylvermynx

Other (if so, state why)

First, for EP, I really don't like any of the default races - I have about 4 dunmer total (across 2 accounts both pc megaservers), and no nords or argonians; I fill out a few spaces when I want EP for something (not often) with other races: imperial, khajiit, occasionally bosmer.

And the other reason is that when you look around a world, any world, including Elder Scrolls and our real world, you don't see in any given area just one or two or three disparate types of people, or races, or cultures - many areas have widely varying population demographics. That's how I like my game worlds as well.

VaranisArano

My PVP guild is EP. So nearly all of my characters are EP.

Drammanoth

PvP

Because the best faction in whole Tamriel - EP ofc, what else - does not have those stealth-detection passives like AD has by virtue of Bosmer.

phaneub17_ESO

Other (if so, state why)

I have characters on every faction.

KlauthWarthog

Guild/friends are a different alliance

I have characters on all alliances now, but I started playing on launch, and back then being on a different alliance made a big difference on how you could interact with your friends.

RaddlemanNumber7

Roleplaying

Lhajiito-jo is an escaped slave of the Telvani. He is supportive of the Pact because of its anti-slavery decree. He hopes the decree will soon be enforced on the Dres and Telvani too.

He speaks like a Telvani slave who went on to get an Imperial City street education. He doesn’t use the Khajiiti inflection. He has had little to no exposure to Khajiit culture. He feels uncomfortable around Khajiit who were not born as slaves of the Dunmer.

Erebear

Guild/friends are a different alliance

I started a little after launch on console and one Tamriel was not a thing. Playing with friends was a little difficult if they chose a different alliance.

Ragnarok0130

Other (if so, state why)

My first few toons were all Imperials at launch so I couldn’t join my default alliance. Instead I joined the what I considered to be the next best alliance.

Rasande_Robin

Roleplaying

A true Orc is in the red faction with a Dragon Herald!

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Other (if so, state why)

Blood for the Pact!
I have played EP and/or a dunmer is all previous TES games.

ZeroDPS

PvP

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO wrote: »

Simple really....because Ebonheart is the best 🤘

@defcon.dealer1b14_ESO

Dominion will rule all!

emilyhyoyeon

Roleplaying

AD is IMO the best alliance, so all my characters are either AD supporters or neutral in which case I have them as AD by default.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Roleplaying

Queen Ayrenn and Razum-dar > High King Emeric, so most of my characters are AD. Plus my Breton main has relatives in Summerset and my second (Argonian) character doesn’t trust those mer not to re-enslave him so of course he went to the Covenant.

Blinx

Other (if so, state why)

I purchased the "Special Offer" for 2k crowns because I wanted to change a characters name, and it was a much cheaper option than purchasing a name change alone which costs 2500 crowns

I never changed alliance, still have the race change token, doubt I'll ever use it, plus it came with alliance war horse, dog, and outfit(rarely use any except the horse every now and then)

Kiralyn2000

Other (if so, state why)

I got AR/AA with my boxed "Tamriel Unlimited" edition of the game, before One Tamriel.

Races, I pick by aesthetics. (I've got 2 bosmer, 2 dunmer, 2 nord, 1 breton, 1 redguard; never unlocked Imperial)

Then Alliance, I picked by various things - the first three characters were one per Alliance, so I could play all three storylines (as I'd done in previous MMOs, gotta try everything; and I didn't understand how Cadwell's Silver/Gold worked at that point. Plus I wanted the ability to jump between at will, rather than having to wait until I finished each in order)
Others were picked by how convenient the starting zone of that Alliance was for various things (like thievery in Daggerfall, or writs)

Post-One Tamriel, it doesn't matter at all, because I don't PvP. Since I can go anywhere and do whichever storyline, I don't really pay attention to the Alliance when I create a character. It doesn't mean anything. /shrug

DMuehlhausen

Other (if so, state why)

Almost always choose Ebonheart. Like the mix of races more than the other ones.

ectoplasmicninja

Other (if so, state why)

The Daggerfall Covenant is my default alliance, to which every character I make belongs except the ones I made before I got ARAA. Emeric is my favourite ruler, Bill Nighy gave the best performance of the three IMO, and going through the DC questline I feel like you form the closest bond with him of all the leaders. I don't PvP much, but when I do I'm proud to bleed (read: die) for the Covenant.

Plus my keyboard has Chroma, which makes my backlighting the colour of my character's alliance, and my favourite colour is blue.

wolfie1.0.

Other (if so, state why)

Choose ep because they are red and I am colorblind. The other two factions icons were/are easier for me to spot

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

Just like the aesthetic

I originally chose the Daggerfall Covenant because of the architecture and then made all my characters part of DC

Necrotech_Master

Other (if so, state why)

i made all my toons AD because back in the early days before one tamriel, faction mattered in PVE too, and i didnt want to be restricted from playing with my friends because of my faction, and so i just made all of my toons the same faction

even when ive made new toons way after one tamriel, i still make them AD out of habit lol

xDeusEJRx

Other (if so, state why)

I just chose daggerfall covenant originally because I like blue and their shield is blue. I knew zero eso lore obviously when I started so I just picked based off what I prefered(in this case color).

Though I bought ArAA because I wanted access to all races which is better for PVP, I also just started playing every faction because it's easier to PVP that way, you never have to worry about not having people to fight if you play each faction and just jump factions to whichever faction is losing at the time

Timorelle

Roleplaying

Though I now have multiple alts in non-default factions for varying RP reasons, my very first one (that made me decide to buy ARAA) is a Dark Elf who is Daggerfall Covenant.

I leveled him questing through DC storyline largely for Rivenspire story (he's a good-hearted vampire; loooong RP story I won't bore y'all with, heh), ended up just staying with the story and... after everything that happened with Emeric, I figured I couldn't bear doing the "Messages Across Tamriel" quest and having Emeric treat him like "What, who is this bozo, has he come to kill me?".

Essentially, he doesn't care about "factions" at all, and he's only DC because he has personal ties to the leader (the things you do for Emeric in the questline, and the "friend of a friend" thing, given his involvement with House Ravenwatch and Verandis and Emeric repeatedly vouching for one another).

tomofhyrule

Roleplaying

It's all about the story.


My character was orphaned as a baby when his stronghold fell to infighting and adopted by a Nord couple. They raised him as their own son in their little Nord village. His adoptive father died in the first Akaviri war, and he joined the Pact to keep supporting the people his father died for. He's been a Nord his whole life — he doesn't know anything else. Tbh the first time he met another Orc, it was when he fought the Covenant at Bleakrock.

I don't really care much about the PvP aspect, but there is an in-joke with my guild about them being AD-centric and a lot of my friends being EP, but PvP is always a sideshow for me in the first place. It's not really something that's part of my story.

Veloth_Redothril

Other (if so, state why)

I choose DC because the highest level areas for that alliance was in EP territory (Caldwell's gold)

I figured it I was going to farm endgame materials (I never did) then I wanted to spend all of that time in Morrowind.

Ratzkifal

Roleplaying AND PvP

Who says you can't enjoy both?

I knew I wanted to make a Necro-vampire and Altmer have a passive that benefits vampires by making them take 5% reduced damage during drain and Soul Assault, which is one of the few times that passive is even useful and Soul Assault gets buffed by Necro passives. And since I mainly PvP on EP and the Aundae vampire clan on Vvardenfell consists exclusively of Altmer it was an easy choice to make.
The build didn't work out and my character is actually not related to the Aundae clan at all (although they have interacted in the past) but the character is still there on EP now.

I have also made a DC Nord who comes from a made-up island around the halfway point between Tamriel and Atmora that's so far removed that nobody remembers it nowadays, especially since the ships from Atmora stopped coming in. Their last interaction with the Tamriel mainland was during the war with the Snow Elves and the Dragon War made it so nobody could visit anymore, leaving them completely out of the loop of what was happening and them assuming the Elves had won and killed all the Nords on the mainland. They are essentially still practising dragon worship without any dragons around and hate the elves more than any other.
So now they made contact again for the first time and hear that the Nords won but didn't write and instead have become buddies with Elves, leaving them completely alienated and sympathetic to Western Skyrim (before Greymoor), hence the affiliation with an Alliance other than the Pact. Since you can't pick no alliance and I have friends in DC who I occassionally do battlegrounds with but couldn't go to IC with I made the character on DC. The Dominion really wouldn't have made sense.
The character in question is now broadening her horizons, unlearning prejudice and exploring Tamriel while helping scholars answer questions about the dragoncult when possible.

Dojohoda

Other (if so, state why)

It's was seven years ago so I don't remember the details. I chose based on the description offered of each alliance.

Jarndyce

Other (if so, state why)

I started in beta. Wanted my main to be a wood elf female stamsorc so AD was it.

Khenarthi

Other (if so, state why)

I only want my main account to have Khajiit characters, but I wanted to experience the alliance zones with low level characters (pre one Tamriel). This was the only way to have an EP Khajiit and a DC Khajiit.