Is there a missing race living secretly on Galen? [Spoilers]

RaddlemanNumber7

Is this an actual Imga?

It looks quite a bit bigger than a monkey to me. Female Imperial for scale.

It's in an appropriate environment for Imga, living high in the tree tops. Perhaps the Imga are the ones who made those swinging log traps.

You can find that one here...

There may be others swinging around in that jungle biome.

Are the devs funning with us? They gave us Druids based on a single line of lore, so now here's the Imga whose existence is based on little more.

What do you think? Am I just seeing things?

IsharaMeradin

I think I saw it only once in passing and just assumed it was one of the Faun. But honestly, that doesn't really make sense.

Anything is possible, I suppose. Could be as simple as an actor resize when using a particular animation. i.e crafting tables in TES 5 Skyrim. I wouldn't be surprised if that issue exists here too. After all mounts change size based on player character height.

Try to see if it changes size when it leaves the vine...

Grizzbeorn

I've seen those in two places. It's a just a monkey. Granted, Galen is the first time we've seen them swinging on a vine, but it's just a monkey, swinging on a vine.
They aren't as big as your photo makes it seem.

BloodyStigmata

I think there's Imga concept art somewhere that shows them quite a bit bigger than that.

RaddlemanNumber7

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

I've seen those in two places. It's a just a monkey. Granted, Galen is the first time we've seen them swinging on a vine, but it's just a monkey, swinging on a vine.
They aren't as big as your photo makes it seem.

There is at least one normal sized monkey swinging on a vine, but this one isn't normal sized.

The monkey is further away from the camera than my character is, so it is larger than it appears in the picture compared to my character.

RaddlemanNumber7

IsharaMeradin wrote: »

Try to see if it changes size when it leaves the vine...

Unfortunately it just disappears into a tree trunk or foliage at either end of its swing.

Dr_Con

I'm no Jane Goodall, but that like an adolescent monkey and is capable of being much larger. Please note that monkey was used intentionally over Ape as Apes have no tails, and that screenshot has a tail in it.

I would be happy to learn if it is a Tang Mo.

Lumenn

Tang Mo Monks! Next chapter! Woohoo!

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Imga wear clothes and armour as well as walks. They don't swing through the trees like animals and would be very insulted by your suggestion.

RaddlemanNumber7

OK, not Imga.

A race of large monkies living in a state of nature high in the tree tops of Galen, with tool use and a sense of humour. Safe from the malign influence of Altmer and the cooking pots of Bosmer, lucky them.

Perhaps it's a Planet of the Apes reference. "Galen" was the friendly chimp character I remember.