Once upon a fine day, a decision arose in my head, I came to the conclusion that I was to make a Dunmer character, a nightblade specifically. Fast forward I few hours and I'm upon a boat, leaving an Island, an Island I experienced as "A good wholesome Nord Island." Nord culture and pride were everywhere, as expected. We were headed towards Morrowind, and there I expected Dark Elf jargon, political intrigue, racism for the race most notorious for it in Tamriel, and most of all, tons and tons of pride. I was only slightly disturbed when I heard Captain Rana speak so admiringly about the other races of Tamriel, speaking in an indifferent and textbookish tone when the subject was brought to her own people.

I should have taken that as a warning sign, because when we landed in Morrowind, the first thing I saw was something entirely unexpected and alien, an exclusively Argonian village, no Nords and certainly no Dunmer. The story behind it was that the Great Houses gifted that patch of land to the people who were their slaves a few years prior, understandable, since they were dealing with a newly freed race of people whom they hated, what better way to keep them out of Dunmer cities. So still I persevered, even though I had met few Dunmer, even in Morrowind, none of them seemed to have a high opinion of themselves or their race. On the other hand, Argonians seemed to openly criticize and make jeers at the Dark Elves. "They say the daggers are coming, a few years ago it was the Dark Elves are coming"

As I entered Davon's watch, I Nord and Argonian merchants, an Argonian fighters guild master, and worst of all, every bureaucrat, leader and noble Dunmer I've seen had nothing but good things to say about the Argonians.

What is up Zenimax? In the Auridon, a lot of quests were focused on the "Veiled Heritance", a racist and isolationist group that seeks an end to the Dominion and an age of Altmer isolationism, as such was before. In the Daggerfall covenant, the quest line of Betnikh focuses on an Island conquered from Bretons by Orcs, there's quite obviously a huge tension in contact between the two races, and the savagery of the Orcs, as well as the repeated burnings of Orsinium are mentioned aplenty. Though in the Ebonheart pact, the Alliance in which these tensions would be at a MAX level, everything is all smiles with the Dunmer, nevermind the fact that they're forced to be in a union between a race of Humans that have invaded and occupied Morrowind many times, and an a race that had been slaved and exploited over centuries. The Temple Ordinators look like they're wearing Easter Islands heads over their faces, and no longer refer to me, or anyone else as "Scum" or "Outlander". There are no N'wahs, and one of the most unrealistic things, the pact is ruled by a HUMAN king, who wasn't even supposed to be a King in the firstplace, a Human with a short life compared to not 1, not 2, but 3 living immortal gods that could rule the Ebonheart pact in the most successful way possible.

Why?