So I'm making this poll with regard to a thread that I made over in the Players Helping Players forum, and haven't gotten a whole terrible lot of feedback on.

I'm a new player to the game, and at the moment I'm sitting and staring at the character creator trying to decide whether I want to play a male or a female orc templar, as I'm the sort of indecisive person who will go into the game, play about five minutes, consider what might be cooler about the other option, go back, remake as said option, play five minutes, repeat ad nauseam. When faced with this problem, I like to go around and ask opinions from the community for what they feel would be more interesting or cooler or just whatever opinions they might have on option A vs. option B.

I like to roleplay, and I already have something of a backstory worked out for the character, but as mentioned, can't decide if male or female is a better fit. The gist of it is that they're a follower of Trinimac (as espoused by either the new religion in Orsinium by King Kurog or those in the Aldmeri Dominion) who believes in strength, order, and justice (very paladin-y) and metes out said justice with a two-handed axe. Smithing being important to the orcs I figured I'd throw that in with the character too, and plan to do crafting as well.

Any suggestions for further backstory improvement as well as where they might fit best alliance-wise for RP purposes are appreciated and encouraged. Make sure to place your vote!

Pictured below are the options, pictured with some stuff from the gear preview...thing in-game.

those are different genders?

I woud go for the male. Not so fond on female orcs.

Edit for typos. Spelling predictor can be weird sometimes.

my personal vote is female orc

but

a big male orc in a wedding dress is kind of an eso classic at this point.

they are actually good looking orcs and the female one is quite sexy... but kissing her must be a b*** with those thieves

They both look awesome.
If you're playing on PC you can get access to the test server (the PTS) and try the characters out on the test server first before you play them in your game. The test server gets "wiped" every once in a while, though, so whatever character you make on there won't be permanent, but it's a great place to try out characters for a while before you put them in your game.
I use it to tweak my character's appearance before putting them in my live game.

Male
Orcs males in dresses are pretty

The way you described your backstory, it resonates more with a female Orc for me, since they oftentimes seem to be the ones who are more involved with smithing and this sort of thing. Or at least I immediately pictured a female Orc from what you wrote.

On the other hand I agree that the female Orcs are kind of too... cute in ESO, compared to, say, how they looked in Skyrim. In Skyrim they were badass, imposing warriors - here, whenever I see an Orc girl with pigtails I just can't help but shake my head and silently go: Wtf... It just looks... wrong, I don't know. Visually I vastly prefer the male Orcs.

So, yeah, sorry for the ambivalent answer, probably not very helpful. If you don't care about how they look, I'd go for female, though, personally. But ultimately that's really your decision, and, as someone else mentioned, maybe just try them both out for a while and see which one 'feels' better?

I voted female because the name is better and I like female characters but after seeing your male and female characters in the screenshots I prefer the male character.

gold_silver_masterb14_ESO wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

They both look awesome.
If you're playing on PC you can get access to the test server (the PTS) and try the characters out on the test server first before you play them in your game. The test server gets "wiped" every once in a while, though, so whatever character you make on there won't be permanent, but it's a great place to try out characters for a while before you put them in your game.
I use it to tweak my character's appearance before putting them in my live game.

I am on PC, so may have to give that a try as well. Most of the time this kind of indecision only happens with first characters with whatever game I'm getting into for the first time, since I assume the first ones will be my main, and thus the ones I'm spending the most time on/with, so I want to make sure it's something I'm really really happy with.

No reason that the first has to be your main! I think I created five characters at least when I started because I wanted to try everything and even then, those that I thought would be my mains haven’t turned out to be as a character I created more on a whim just happened to really click with me. And in a way, I would say I currently have two “mains” — my main crafter and DPS NB who I do most story and achievements with and my main for endgame as I’ve always enjoyed playing healer/support most in such content. But I love all the characters I have and am working on developing each into different roles.

gold_silver_masterb14_ESO wrote: »

Which option would :you: pick?

Orcs dont use silly ' in their names, should be gro-Barosh and gra-Barog

Wow, 50 votes and it looks like Lazhka's ahead by a hair.

The sorts of things I can envision the character saying are starting to sound a lot more natural coming from a female mouth than a male one (naturally this is open to interpretation):

"Long have we suffered, long have we endured! But brothers and sisters we are being held back! I tell you now that Trinimac, hero god of our ancestors yet lives, trapped by falsehood that our people perpetuate to this day.

How do I know this, you ask? It is told that Boethiah ate Trinimac through treachery and then excreted the being we call Malacath, the one we call Mauloch. Did not Boethiah also take on Trinimac's appearance, and their own voice to fool their followers? How are we to know that the Prince of Plots truly expunged that which they had consumed? It would be a trifle to concoct some ploy, a pretender in their place to subvert us, to watch as we continued in ignorance and suffered at the hands of a usurper.

Boethiah's joy would be boundless, watching through the ages as an entire people muddle through the dark, listening to the teachings and guidance of a false prophet intended only to prolong our trials. Can you see it now, friends? The air of the Queen of Shadows hangs heavily over this story, and we had only to look for the truth to see it plainly."