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I like it when fantasy settings do interesting things with humans. The elder scrolls continues to be one of the better fantasy series out there unironically.

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Other series: We have humans. You know. Humans?

The elder scrolls: We have magic French people but some of them are actually a displaced indigenous group and we have guys from a desert with singing swords and there are these humans down south that are grey and live in the jungle and also we have singing berserkers that are immune to the cold and

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The elder scrolls ruined me when it comes to all other fantasy games tbh. You look at dnd and it’s just like. Humans. You can be a human.

What do you mean I can’t get cold resistance due to my ancestors coming from essentially the North Pole or a cool adrenaline rush ability due to my culture’s focus on warrior training? I don’t even get a magic power that makes everyone around me shut up and calm down for a minute? Lame.

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There’s like too many types of elves and dwarves and even gnomes tbh and yet they can’t get creative with the humans.

There are mountain dwarves. Logically there could be mountain humans. Maybe they can’t get winded as fast or don’t get debuffs in high altitude I dunno.

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Real life groups of people on average have certain things they can do due to genetics or cultural practice.

They can hold their breath for a long time, run long distances, have higher or lower pain tolerance, are often fast sprinters, etc.

It’s absolutely possible to make humans interesting without getting racist about it. Make it due to culture or geography if you’re so worried about it. That’s essentially the difference between high elves and wood elves in most media anyways. Just environment.

Humans are super interesting! They don’t have to just be impulsive babies who don’t live very long or whatever elves usually say.

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Sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of the wood elves being cannibalistic little freaks and the Khajiit having different body types based on the phases of the moon

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Imperials are actually my favorite elder scrolls race. Unironically.

They have a power they can use once a day called voice of the emperor that depending on the game can make either one person or everyone in a large radius around them completely non hostile for a full minute.

Like every imperial basically has the power to call on their ancestors’ gift of gab and military prowess to magically scream “QUIET” so well that it stops entire armies in their tracks. And if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit ever then idk what it takes to impress you.