Started my Elder Scrolls journey with a Khajiit, and have always played Khajiit since. Most of my ESO characters are cats - because I'm a Crazy Cat Lady!

However, I have a high elf vampire who I've played alongside all the cats and I remake him in every TES game, and manage to make him recognisably very similar each time. He has been with me since the beginning. He was - and still is - my main model when I was making clothing for my Goth Shop mods.

Morrowind - Altmer
Oblivion - Altmer
Skyrim - Altmer
ESO - started Altmer, have now characters of all races excerpt Imperial and Redguard.
3 Altmer
5 Dunmer
3 Khajiit
2 Breton
1 Bosmer
2 Argonians
2 Nords

So i guess i shifted a bit more to Dunmer. Think because they are so versatile. And yes, their lore has been growing on me.

Altmer, Bosmer, and Khajiit have always been my favorite. When ESO came out and they were in an alliance together I was thrilled. Still my same favorites. But in eso the Altmer have Summerset with its fancy graphics and furnishings. Same for the khajiit. But now the bosmer have only the base game assets and it blows.

I'd love to see a rework of the bosmer zones. Keep the quests and stories and same general build but give it all chapter quality graphics.

Or give me an aurbis zone with falinesti.

Back when I started playing TES, knowing nothing about the lore, I chose an Imperial. Charismatic diplomats, cosmopolitan traders, and good with the only weapon that doesn't make you look like either a brainless barbarian or some cheap cutthroat - swords. Sounded just like my cup of tea.
Playing the game, learning more about Morrowind, and how it used to function "on its own", I was happy about my choice.

Knowing more about the other races now, I instantly chose an Imperial again for Oblivion. I loved it ! Returning to serve my emperor one last time (albeit in another incarnation of my character), discovering just HOW important the Empire is for Tamriel (Dragonfires!), fighting in and for the true way the Empire should be, giving the Amulet of Kings to the true heir of Uriel Septim, and witnessing the Avatar of Akatosh fulfill his pact with my people. Just loved it !

Of course I played an Imperial again in Skyrim. And of course I sided with the Imperials. All the reason the Stormcloaks gave me for wanting "independence" was some wharbling that amounted to "I want to kill who I like when I like, and do as I like whenever the fancy strikes me to, and they won't let me ! And all the rest of Tamriel is stupid, anyway ! Oh, and Talos !" Gosh, grow up !

Faulgor wrote: »

[...]Playing Nord in Skyrim is just a no-brainer. [...]

That's true. Because the average Nord has next to no brain. Or at least they don't like to use it very much. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm afraid Skyrim ruined most Nords for me, and ESO didn't help to improve that again.
I'm sure the whole Dovakhiin thing made slightly more sense when playing a Nord, but this one time TES failed in capturing my heart with their main story, so no loss there.

Then ESO came. I was seriously irritated that I had to create a character so I could get to the crown store to buy the Imperial edition to create the character I wanted to play. Maybe I missed something, but that seemed like the only way to me to get an Imperial ??
I'm sad to see the Empire in shambles, far from its ideal of being a (positively) unifying force for Tamriel. But meeting people like Varen, Abnur Tharn (astonished how many people don't get that character, aside from him being difficult to handle), Prefect Calo, General Renmus and so on, I know I'm still right where I belong.

Although... From Morrowind to Skyrim all the TES titles didn't give me much about the Khajiit besides "thieves, tricksters, and skooma".
I'd say ESOs greatest achievement - in my book - was fleshing out the culture of the Khajiit in such a glorious way that I now love them just as much as the Imperials.

But still, once the next TES game comes, and I'll have to choose once more the one hero that will save Tamriel, it will be a true Imperial.

PS: No, game mechanics don't matter to me. As it should be in any good TES game, but alas, ESO being an MMO I see why it is mentioned here and there.

Oi, made a text wall. Short:
Morrowind: Imperial
Oblivion: Imperial
Skyrim: Imperial
ESO: Imperial
next one: Imperial

Always liked half elves in D&D, so when I came to ES I went with Breton.

However the beast races have caught my attention with ESO, so now my plan once I change a couple more guys is to have 6 argonian tanks, 6 khajiit stam dds and 6 breton mag dds, that way I'll have an even amount of each of my three favorite races.

Morrowind: Orc
Oblivion: Orc
Skyrim: Orc
Eso: Orc

Simple, just, ugly, depopulated and second to none - I love orcs but I prefer them in signle player games (stronger, closer to core lore - eso went far from how they are portrayed in single/core lore).

It was the khajiit then and it's still the khajiit now, but for different reasons. When I first played Morrowind (my first TES game) I was just intrigued by the khajiit and argonians because I'd only seen 1 other franchise with cat and lizard people as playable races, now I know more about their culture and personalities I have other reasons to like them (in addition to being cats).

I've changed my perspective on some of the other races too since I first played Morrowind. I think if I'd known then what I know now my first character might actually have been a wood elf or a breton, because they're a closer fit to the kind of characters I normally play in RPGs. But at the time the bretons seemed like the dullest humans going and high elves, dark elves and wood elves were a bit generic, the descriptions given didn't really make it clear how they're different to the typical fantasy interpretations and I'd gotten Morrowind to try something I'd heard was different to DnD.

so many n'wahs around...

Khajiit in TES:V. Khajiit in ESO now. That's never changed, no matter what. An anthropomorphic humanoid animal species will always be the most interesting thing to me over any of the other nine.

Daggerfall: I was all over the place. I don't think I had a favorite yet
Morrowind: Dark Elf. Since I didn't like how Redguards looked.
Oblivion: Bosmer. Since I really didn't like how Redguards looked.
Skyrim: Redguard
ESO: Redguard

Delete pls

Dark Elf. Because it's impossible to screw up when starting as DE.

I like to tank heal and dd on my necromancer. I still don’t know what race will be best any help ?