I'd love it if they had more customization options! If they made the other Khajiiti subraces (bipedal only) playable that would also open up more ways to customize our Khajiit.

But yeah, I'd love to make a fluffier Khajiit and to have the option to give our characters (of ALL races) two different eye colors. I also wish we could customize our tails (especially length). I'd love more ear options (I think their ears are too small honestly), eye/fur/hair colors, tail options, markings, fur types, ect. Wish we could choose/change the iris/pupil shape too (make them look more like a lion's, leopard's, or house cat's)

So, I'm all for this! Plus, it's lore-friendly! Khajiit come in many different forms, shapes, and sizes.

You can never have too many options! It's nice to make a unique character! Makes the game more enjoyable!

I do wish we had tail adornments. Let Argonians have spikey tails and Khajiit have nub/fluffy tails!

Playing as the bigger (Cathay-raht, shorter Pahmars) or smaller stock (Dagi-raht) Khajiit for use in overland/PvE content would be great to see, given they all have VO for fighting/dying/etc, so why not? And if you do Cyro for example, there would be a secondary setup for use so nobody can use the Dagi-raht for lower ground advantage (shorter than min height Bosmer)

Seeing Naga Argonians would be lovely to see too, given they're the same height range as the ones we use in the game.

SilverBride wrote: »

Khajiits are as strong and powerful as any other race. They are not fluffy house pets and should not look like one.

khajiits are cute and people can play it as cute if they want, if they want to be an adorable khajiit it's already possible so no harm in adding more like those tiny khajiits at elswhere they are already cute

TheMajority wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Khajiits are as strong and powerful as any other race. They are not fluffy house pets and should not look like one.

khajiits are cute and people can play it as cute if they want, if they want to be an adorable khajiit it's already possible so no harm in adding more like those tiny khajiits at elswhere they are already cute

I don't find them cute at all. I find them strong, and powerful, and proud.

If someone wants to play then as cute that is their choice, but I find it a great disservice to the race to portray them that way.

Hollyniss wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

TheMajority wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Khajiits are as strong and powerful as any other race. They are not fluffy house pets and should not look like one.

khajiits are cute and people can play it as cute if they want, if they want to be an adorable khajiit it's already possible so no harm in adding more like those tiny khajiits at elswhere they are already cute

I don't find them cute at all. I find them strong, and powerful, and proud.

If someone wants to play then as cute that is their choice, but I find it a great disservice to the race to portray them that way.

Just going to leave these here, lol

Those aren't Khajiit playable characters, but even they do not have cutesy cartoony looking faces like the example in the original post.

Khajiits are not house cats and they absolutely should not chase their tails or any other house cat behaviors.

@SilverBride They're still Khajiit...Alfiq to be exact. There's A LOT of them in Northern and Southern Elsweyr. Which are sadly presented as talking housecats. When they can be really good spies because of their appearance (they may look like housecats, but they possess all of the dignity, intelligence, and guile same as all other Khajiit) and they're particularly good at magic.

I agree that they should absolutely NOT have housecat behaviors. I hate that so many npc khajiit act like that in this game. There's some that talk about yarn (Adusa-daro, who's a Vampire no less), leaving dead mice at someone's door as a show of affection, talk about making one's back arch and purring (when happy, it's NOT how it sounds, lol), ect. Then there's the Skooma issue...

I wish they were portrayed as serious, DANGEROUS, intelligent predators. As well as an intelligent, proud, and civilized (until provoked) people. They should be scarier, especially since they can turn into demons (dro-m'athra). Vampire Khajiit should be especially dangerous and feared (even more so than other races). This game in my opinion does NOT present the Khajiit well. Doesn't help that the devs based some of the Khajiit npcs on their cats...

I try REALLY hard to make my Khajjit look like Lions, Leopards, Jaguars, and Tigers. But it's actually kind of hard with the game's limitations. I also wish they could have digitigrade (beast) feet (they could just hide the shoes/boots on costumes/armor/disguises). Khajiit are my FAVORITE race in Elder Scrolls (second being Argonian) and I HATE how they're portrayed in ESO (goofy, cute, not-too-bright, meme kitties).

Wish they'd be presented more like this:
Proud, civilized, dignified, regal, intelligent, and cunning (similar to Altmer but with feline senses, reflexes, and instincts)
But unlike Altmer, Khajiit turn into absolute BEASTS when provoked

SilverBride wrote: »

wilykcat wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Hollyniss wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

TheMajority wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Khajiits are as strong and powerful as any other race. They are not fluffy house pets and should not look like one.

khajiits are cute and people can play it as cute if they want, if they want to be an adorable khajiit it's already possible so no harm in adding more like those tiny khajiits at elswhere they are already cute

I don't find them cute at all. I find them strong, and powerful, and proud.

If someone wants to play then as cute that is their choice, but I find it a great disservice to the race to portray them that way.

Just going to leave these here, lol

Those aren't Khajiit playable characters, but even they do not have cutesy cartoony looking faces like the example in the original post.

Khajiits are not house cats and they absolutely should not chase their tails or any other house cat behaviors.

It snot exactly a house cat behavior.

They aren't leopards, or lions, or tigers either. They are an intelligent race with humanoid characteristics. It would be completely immersion breaking to have them act like simple felines.

just let people have fun, it's not going to affect nobody if one person has a cute khajiit and isn't even playing with you. nobody will all have the same things and its just options. its not a disservice to anything no one is saying to take away what khajiit already have and its not some kind of emergency. they just want a few options that not even everyone will use. so hopefully we get it and people will have options for diversity instead of forcing a steryotype on the khajiit

SilverBride wrote: »

TheMajority wrote: »

just let people have fun, it's not going to affect nobody if one person has a cute khajiit and isn't even playing with you. nobody will all have the same things and its just options. its not a disservice to anything no one is saying to take away what khajiit already have and its not some kind of emergency. they just want a few options that not even everyone will use. so hopefully we get it and people will have options for diversity instead of forcing a steryotype on the khajiit

Having Khajiit players chase their tails would be forcing a stereotype. I find it demeaning to the Khajiit race and those that choose to play them to turn them into mere house cats. This would definitely have a huge negative effect on immersion.

Maybe it doesn't have to be immersion breaking though - there could be a lore related reason.

Maybe khajiit act like housecats and chase there tails because of the brain damage caused by all the moon sugar and skooma.

That could also tie into why their once great culture is on the decline.

What someone chooses to do with one of their khajiit characters really hasn't any affect on anyone else.

wilykcat wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Hollyniss wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

TheMajority wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Khajiits are as strong and powerful as any other race. They are not fluffy house pets and should not look like one.

khajiits are cute and people can play it as cute if they want, if they want to be an adorable khajiit it's already possible so no harm in adding more like those tiny khajiits at elswhere they are already cute

I don't find them cute at all. I find them strong, and powerful, and proud.

If someone wants to play then as cute that is their choice, but I find it a great disservice to the race to portray them that way.

Just going to leave these here, lol

Those aren't Khajiit playable characters, but even they do not have cutesy cartoony looking faces like the example in the original post.

Khajiits are not house cats and they absolutely should not chase their tails or any other house cat behaviors.

It snot exactly a house cat behavior.
I just think it would be funny to have khajiits chasing their own tails 🤣.

My cat, Athena, used to do this when she was bored and didn't have anything to hunt. She'd chirp and put her tail in her mouth and spin around in circles, lol. It goes to show you, doesn't matter how fierce, dangerous, or big a cat is...they're still a kitty lol. Even big cats can be cute and do cute things.

I think as nice as this is, I would rather see a focus on improving the layering of already in-game features than additions of more customization.

We can't wear tattoo's and our pelt designs at the same time for one. I'd much rather that become a priority personally.

I also agree some of these suggested features feel like they belong more in a game that is... for lack of better words 'polly pocket'. At the end of the day for all the jokes and light humor in ESO it is supposed to be less 'cutesy' oriented.

Khajiit only emotes feels wasteful and unfun to the general playerbase. Do we really want to open the door to devs having to make custom emotes for every race and diminishing the total amount of emotes available to every one? I'd personally say no.

Gotta love the casual ignorant racial stereotyping throughout this. SilverBride single-handedly fighting off bigotry from every side. And using AI to make your point definitely doesn't help your stance at all.

More customization options for all the races would be nice, but probably not going to happen.

wilykcat wrote: »

Khajiits should get their own set of emotes like cat nip, sit in box, chase tail, etc.

The human races should get their own set of emotes like swing from branch, throw poop, smell arm pit, etc to make them more monkey like.

It's a mental cancer to look at khajiit as just walking talking cats. There's exponentially more to them than their feline appearances. And just about every single person on this post is ignorant to that.

Hollyniss wrote: »

I do agree though that they should absolutely NOT have housecat behaviors. I hate that so many npc khajiit act like that in this game. There's some that talk about yarn (Adusa-daro, who's a Vampire no less)

I loathe the stuff with yarn with a passion. We even got 2 furniture items that are balls of yarn, which is nothing wrong with, people knit and crochet, but both have a khajiit theme which is why I mention them.
There is two reasons to why I loathe them, one being that it adds this housecat behavior to khajiit, that they would play with yarn like a cat, and not use yarn like an intelligent sapient being and use the yarn for some hobby, or do some finger-game with.
The second reason is: yarn is horrible for actual cats to play with and is very dangerous for them, which these mentions kinda endorse. Even in housing people like placing those balls of yarn as some cat toy and not a material for some creative work, and all I can think of is all the cats dying or having to go through surgery from foolish owners.

Several races in the game are already not being treated seriously enough as it is, it should not be made worse.


And can people stop posting AI algorithmic image generation (I ain't calling it art)

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Hollyniss wrote: »

I do agree though that they should absolutely NOT have housecat behaviors. I hate that so many npc khajiit act like that in this game. There's some that talk about yarn (Adusa-daro, who's a Vampire no less)

I loathe the stuff with yarn with a passion. We even got 2 furniture items that are balls of yarn, which is nothing wrong with, people knit and crochet, but both have a khajiit theme which is why I mention them.
There is two reasons to why I loathe them, one being that it adds this housecat behavior to khajiit, that they would play with yarn like a cat, and not use yarn like an intelligent sapient being and use the yarn for some hobby, or do some finger-game with.
The second reason is: yarn is horrible for actual cats to play with and is very dangerous for them, which these mentions kinda endorse. Even in housing people like placing those balls of yarn as some cat toy and not a material for some creative work, and all I can think of is all the cats dying or having to go through surgery from foolish owners.

Several races in the game are already not being treated seriously enough as it is, it should not be made worse.


And can people stop posting AI algorithmic image generation (I ain't calling it art)

Right? I love the Khajiit but hate how they're portrayed in this game. They're little more than a meme. Look at that Pahmar-raht cowering in Southern Elsweyr behind a tiny twig from a HUMAN! I actually hated Southern Elsweyr (quest/story-wise) and had to mute it while doing it as the characters all sounded like Donald Duck...I think that's why there are so many people who view Khajiit as 'cute little kitties' because of how ESO portrays them. This is a lot of people's first Elder Scrolls game unfortunately. Most of the races in ESO are one-dimensional memes (Redguards, Nords, Orsimer, Khajiit, Argonians, Bosmer, even Altmer now. As are a lot of their characters (companions included). Created with modern standards... With all of the yarn props surrounding Khajiit I'm surprised there's not a laser light emote of some kind...

And yeah, yarn is VERY dangerous for cats (animals in general). They can choke on it, get it stuck in their intestines, ect. Deadly, but this game shows it as cute... Same with this game (media in general) showing cats drinking MILK (pasteurized cow milk) even though they're lactose intolerant. Talk about stereotype...They can drink raw goat milk (in moderation) though.

That being said, a tail-chasing emote and ect isn't going to ruin the lore or 'seriousness' of this game. That ship has sailed a LONG time ago, lol. Stick horse mounts, goofy emotes, beafy Orc men in wedding dresses, 'Necromancer' class, the entirety of Elsweyr story...I'm more concerned with the characters we actually interact with in the game (npcs). I wish this game had a grittier dark fantasy feel (similar to the Witcher games).

Emotes/Mementos are just there to socialize, pass the time (waiting for Dolmens or dungeons/battleground ques), and have a laugh (which is why 90% of them are silly). They're not meant to be serious. I try not to pay attention to the weird/silly things people do in the game as...yeah, lol. I just block it out and focus on what I'm doing. Much more enjoyable that way, you'll go crazy otherwise, lol.