Thats illegal

I would probably like them better yet.
But they aren't so I have to remain good friends with Barbas.

Jaimeh wrote: »

Also, imagine the Alfiq!

Awww, now I wish I had such a d'alfiq...

They'd probably still end up becoming enslaved by the Dunmer. But unlike the Khajiit and Argonians, the Dog People would love their masters unconditionally.

Also, they'd be great at fetch quests.

If Khajiit were dog people, this is an example of the types of memes we'd be getting.

You could never talk to a quest giver long enough to get the objective because.....


Squirrel.....

Imagine the overwhelming smell of wet dog if it's raining in Rimmen...

Wasn’t the Lilmothiit dog people that all died out from some plague?

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

Wasn’t the Lilmothiit dog people that all died out from some plague?

cat flu?

If Khajit were altered to be dog people, nothing would HAVE to FUNCTIONALLY change - they could still have the same culture, same architecture, same accent and cultural speech quirks and whatnot...but I don't think they would.

For whatever reason, we (western/eastern gamer culture) are comfortable with the idea of cats (and by extension cat people) being quirky, sneaky, thiefy-type people as a whole culture. We also seem to be quite comfortable associating them with more african/middle eastern desert-style motifs (probably cuzza the whole egyptian cat culture expectation we have).

I suspect, that if we altered them to be dog people, we'd have different basic expectations about the Khajiit culture - we'd expect them to have different cultural priorities (that we more commonly associate with dogs), like pack behavior, and alpha chiefs, and such. We'd probably pick architecture and a biome of the world to call home that we more commonly associate with dogs (maybe we'd go wolf-like and associate them with northern wastes and snowy climes, or we'd go domestic dog and, I dunno, maybe associate them with the more temperate european-like zones).

I dunno where we'd go with speech styles, but I suspect we'd make the dog-people less cagey, and probably more straightforward, if not downright doofy like scooby doo or any of a hundred other comical dog stereotypes that we're used to.

Sadly, I feel like western/eastern gamer culture tend to see dogs as simple (if not downright dumb), or, alternatively, loyal and upright (probably almost to a fault). I'm not quite sure how we got these visions of dogs, and people with strongly ingrained cultural perspectives from outside the mainstream us, europe, and china/japan, might have...significantly different expectations about anthropomorphized dog-people, but it might be interesting to hear the expectations some people have from other cultures about what an uplifted dog-like race would be like in a fantasy setting

Probably be just as irritating to be honest, I always thought that anthropomorphism in fantasy writing was trite at best.

But beyond that the type of people it attracts is an issue with me personally, I have yet to see a Furry that wasn't also a thespian gamer, which can get ridiculous at times.


There is something demented about a player that refuses to break character.

albesca wrote: »

Razum-dar would be just as handsome

So handsome!