Iccotak wrote: »

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Same way you would justify an Breton, Redguard or Orc in EP during the Bleakrock-Bal Foyen-Stonefalls storyline, or an Altmer, Bosner or Khajiit din EP during the Shadowfen storyline, or an Orc in EP for the Eastmarch storyline or in AD for the Malabel Tor storyline, or an Imperial in DC for Bangkorai or AD for Reapers March... or all those friggin Vampires showing their corpse faces everywhere and noone driving a stake through their shrivelled little hearts!

They really need to work on that.
There are Wood Orcs and Aronians who defected from EP that you could justify as an origin story for AD.
But having any race play in any alliance was a terrible choice imo. Getting rid of borders sure, let everyone play with everyone. But keep some semblance of world building.
This is why at this point the storylines of Tamriel need to be updated and relevant with all that has happened after Molag Bal's invasion and current events.

They made the decision, back then it was a rare thing... an unlock for those who preordered ESO.
And not everyone agreed with that (for example, I had that one from the start, and I never made a out-alliance character. Lore matters to me!)

But I truly wish they had done -something-. Like... programmed the game to take notice! And react. Have non-alliance races get different dialouge, have them be greeted with fear and suspiscion, require them to do extra quests to prove their loyalty at every corner, etc. And occasionally when it is applicable, allow them some benefit too, like "infiltrating enemy camp" kind of stuff.
Would it not have been nifty if the game reacted to our character choices in such ways?

rfennell_ESO wrote: »

The problem, in general, is that Skyrim (which takes place 1000 years in the future) only had the same 10 races.

Wrong.
They had other races as well, just... either not playable, or not in skyrim. I mean, even in that era the maormer were still around - on the other side of tamriel. Akaviri races were still around - in akavir. Imga were still around - in valenwood. Gobbos were still around... in places noone else wanted. etc.

Urvoth wrote: »

Giraffon wrote: »

I'd rather see them expand the class offerings.

If they added class change tokens, I'd be all for that. If not, they may as well just add new skill lines or spell crafting.

They have stated back when the racechange, namechange and appearance change tokens came out that they do not intend to ever offer class change, so until and unless they change their mind on that one... S.O.L.
...which is why I keep talking about other ways to expand the class system then adding new classes which would vex people: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/369966/class-morph-idea-mk-ii

SilverIce58 wrote: »

arasysb14_ESO wrote: »

Lyserus wrote: »

Several options like Dwemer, Falmer, Ayield, Daedra may sound interesting, but they just don't fit into the game lore.

I always wondered if some Ayleids managed to come back to Summerset or somehow lived with other High Elves? There are also remaining Ayleids who turned into Wild Elves, it's not for certain if they really disappeared. There are few books about them mentioning their hidden and colorful culture.

When I was in a RP guild, my main was curious to see if there were any Ayleid traces in his lineage. I wish ZOS gave us more clues about at least Wild Elves.

Its thought that the Ayleids reintegrated themselves into altmer culture after Alessia attacked them. Personally my headcanon is that they either went back to the SS isles and interbreeded with altmer, or stayed on the mainland and interbreeded with the altmer/direnni that were already there.

From what I know of the lore, that is pretty much it.
The ayleids or wild elves as they were called back then as well had a huge empire... which fell in the alessian uprisings (note to all empire builders - slavery is baaad, mm'kay?). The ruins we often explore are all that is left... but it makes a lot of sense that some fled to other lands, namely high rock where they resisted alessian incursions with the direnni and eventually were absorbed into the bretons, and the altmer lands where they were absorbed into the altmer (in my headcanon, every black-haired altmer has ayleid blood from many generations back, since it seems black hair is not exactly altmer-tastic considering how the chargen doesn't let us have it! )
Now as for the rumors about "hidden wild elf villages"... I see them a bit like the elvis sightings of Tamriel. Someone's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate swear every oath they sometime found one such somewhere near someplace... but when anyone goes there to check, the presumed "Ayleids" are nowhere to be seen...

CyberSkooma wrote: »

Grayfax wrote: »

All the elves... *cough* Mer... I meant Mer...

But how do you balance it on Factions? You almost have to add one for each or it doesn't work.
Of course, I'm still confused that Imperials have to choose one of the other factions, but, hey...

Why can't you just make the Maormer in the same fashion as Imperials?

There's really no reason not to have Maormer playable at this point. They're already very common in the game, why can't we use them as PC's?

Exactly what I have been thinking since the first time a character of mine played through Khenarthi's Roost!

And if the powers that be at ZOS ever decide to do it... that would be -exactly- how. Maybe at an increased price from imperials, to keep them artificially rare, but... crown store unlock that allows you to make a character for every alliance storyline (or refit the race to one of your existing ones through a racechange token)