Question about Orcs and Nords height

GraysonPower · April 30

In other Elder Scrolls games, like Skyrim, Nords were shorter than Orcs by about as much as Orc are shorter than Nords in ESO. It's like they decided to switch their heights around. I would say that Orcs are 6'5 and Nords are 6'8 at max height in ESO and in Skyrim they are switched around. They may have got the physiques right by making Orcs way more musclebound and bulky, but I think it would make more sense if the Orcs and Nords heights were switched in ESO. From what I've heard, Orcs should be taller than the human race. Does anyone know why the decided to switch their max height?

tomofhyrule · April 30

Well, it was actually Skyrim that switched them, and ESO put them back the way they were.

In Morrowind, Nords are marginally taller than Orcs (1.06 scale vs 1.05) but both decently shorter than Altmer (1.1). Oblivion bumped Orcs up to the same 1.06 scale as Nords, but they did have a flatter head so they still ended up marginally shorter than Nords. It was Skyrim that swapped Orcs to be taller than Nords at 1.045 to 1.03.

I've always preferred the Orcs shorter than Nords since that's the way it was originally, and ESO's got that nicely. However, I definitely wish we had a little more play with the height slider - my Orc's supposed to be a runt at around 5'5" so I did manage to get him the shortest of all my characters, but not extremely so. On the other hand, my Nord is supposed to be an absolute unit at about 6'10" (it's the werebear blood), and I can't get him that high naturally.

I did what I could, but I do have some switching in my lore heights than what is possible in my game.

(and yes, it took quite a bit of trickery to get that made, but I scaled them all based on an off-screen picture. And ZOS, pls give me one more Class so I can get that last character on his feet hooves)