It would make a pretty easily doable crown store race, just like Imperials. They have their visals, and crafting style, and lore and everything. So, who knows... maybe someday the people at ZOS will decide to make it so.Pixel_Zealot wrote: »Moarmer as a playable race?
You believe wrongly.Pixel_Zealot wrote: »I believe ESO is currently in between the second and third era, so the Second Aldmeri Dominion has made allies with the Moarmer, but they still have the Sea Vipers attacking Altmer coastlines...
However, you will never be able to "start on Pyandonea"... that would just either mess with the storylines, or take way too much work to not mess with them. Just like imperial do not start in cyrodil... Instead you will escape coldharbour just like any other vestige, and end up in one of the three alliances. And occasionally having to fight your cousins, who consider you a "traitor" for joining with the groundwalkers... just like imperial characters sometimes have to fight against their imperial peers who consider them traitors for joining with one of the three alliances instead staying loyal to the empire even when it crumbles into deadric cults...
There could be a Pyandonea DLC sometime though - where everyone gets to swim with the sea elves, so to speak...
ESO is set right in the middle of the second era, this is the first aldmeri dominion, founded only a few years before the events of ESO, which is sort of hostile to the maormer at the moment... not quite war, more like... raiding and border skirmishes as the balance of power shifts to a new equilibrium and the maromer raiders test the waters, so to speak, to see what the new dominion is made of, and if they can take a bite out of it in the confusion of its formation.
Snow elves have been sort of extinct for a very, very long time. or rather, mostly mutated into blind underground Falmer as we know them from TES:Skyrim thanks to the betrayal of the Dwemer... so... nope on them. Same for the other elven subraces... no Chimer (all turned dunmer except sort of the tribunal) no Dwemer (all vanished save one NPC), no sinistral elves (all killed by the ra'gada and the survivors absorbed into the Ayleids), no Ayleids (fallen in the wake of the alessian rebellion, you meet the last one during the story).Also snow elves and more!
The Maormer had a treaty with Kenarthi's Roost. The Dominion was there to bring the Khajiit of that isle into the dominion, which worried the Maromer, thus the events of that questline as their reaction...Pixel_Zealot wrote: »Oh, I was under the impression that the Dominion and Moarmer had some kind of a treaty or at least trying to sort one out (with ambassador Ulondil being in Kenarthi's Roost)
The Maormer had a treaty with Kenarthi's Roost. The Dominion was there to bring the Khajiit of that isle into the dominion, which worried the Maromer, thus the events of that questline as their reaction...
Its all in the shift of power. Before, the Maormer faced three seperate kingdoms - The Altmer of the Sumerset Isles, who were seen as equals/rivals as they had the second strongest navy in these waters; the Bosmer of valenwood, who had no navy anyhow (no surprise, what would they build a navy with, green pact and all), and the Khajiit of Elsweyr, who had mostly merchantships. And suddenly... these three band together. And now the once equal/rival Altmer have the bosmer and khajiit backing them... the maormer are worried they migth go and forcibly add them to the Dominion, and are too proud to join as "lesser partner", so they are looking to create buffer zoned by conquering isles like K.R. - and they try to break apart the still fragile dominion by raiding auridion, and working with the veiled heritage... as you see in the AD questlines.
I kinda like how these things make such nice sense in the TES games...
Konstant_Tel_Necris wrote: »Was they was Maormer in Lore? Or OP just wants moar elves in game?

Yup.Pixel_Zealot wrote: »Oh I see, we're in the Three Banners War in 2nd Era...
Nevah!Don't we have enough elf races?

Except the white eyes - didn't understand that feature, since IRL cataracts leave people blind - the Maormer are very similar to Altmer both physically and culturally, talent-wise. They are tall, pointy eared, they use magic, preferentially lightning - Altmer passives cover that too. So you can simply make an Altmer character, dress them in Ancient Elf style gear and pretend he's Maormer even now.
Yeah, we have quite a few of them. But the point is - little extra work on behalf of ZOS, since they are Already in the game! Little investment, and earning them profit... thus greater chance to get made then something they'd have to invest more in, right? Even if only to test the waters, see if enough people would buy those extra races (and I know I would)Another Mer race?
Pass.
I'd love to see Tsaesci - especially since they obviously were the main force in the pact invasion ten years before ESO from the little things we pick up in the questlines, iten descriptions and such... though I am not so certain how they would translate into ESO. I mean... legs or snake-tail? The lore generally seems to support snaketail... but if snaketail, then no leg and feet armor??? Or convert the leg armor to snaketail plates, and the feet armor to a tail spike? Or maybe have two "castes", ohne snaketailed and remaining NPC stuff, one more humanoid and optional for players?Akaviri, maybe?
Can't use Dragons or Kamal.
We already have a cat race, so the Ka Po' Tun would just be a derivative of them.
Which leaves the Tang Mo ( monkey-people ) and the Tsaesci ( vampiric snakes ).
I vote on monkey people.

I always thought that an Nictitating Membrane kind of effect...Except the white eyes - didn't understand that feature...
Altmer have golden-ish skin, Maormer are more silvers... white eyes due to the membrane... and likely some passive shift, giving up some of the magica adaptation for some sea adaptation stuff (they might swim as fast as argonians!)...the Maormer are very similar to Altmer both physically and culturally, talent-wise. They are tall, pointy eared, they use magic, preferentially lightning - Altmer passives cover that too. So you can simply make an Altmer character, dress them in Ancient Elf style gear and pretend he's Maormer even now.
Don't we have enough elf races?
Altmer
Dunmer
Bosmer
Even Bretons have Mer blood ....
Absolutely not, in ESO at least.
But I mentioned a possibility for a future TES (TES6?) Game already, which lets say plays in the next Era and where the Maormer managed to conquer a part of the sunmerset isles, and established colonies or something.
Pixel_Zealot wrote: »Absolutely not, in ESO at least.
But I mentioned a possibility for a future TES (TES6?) Game already, which lets say plays in the next Era and where the Maormer managed to conquer a part of the sunmerset isles, and established colonies or something.
@Birdovic
That would be against the lore. In the 3E, their fleet was annihilated hard enough to never recover by the Psijic of Artaeum.
Pixel_Zealot wrote: »Absolutely not, in ESO at least.
But I mentioned a possibility for a future TES (TES6?) Game already, which lets say plays in the next Era and where the Maormer managed to conquer a part of the sunmerset isles, and established colonies or something.
@Birdovic
That would be against the lore. In the 3E, their fleet was annihilated hard enough to never recover by the Psijic of Artaeum.