Elvin Lives

Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:14 pm

Swords? Really, guys? How clich? can you get?
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Jeff Turner
 
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Post » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:00 am

I was very disappointed when I found out TES gave into the stupid cliche that elves live longer than men.


Given all the other, more annoying race cliches TES avoids/subverts complaining about elves living longer than men is really petty.
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Carlitos Avila
 
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Post » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:54 am

Yeah, from a lore standpoint TES actually has the coolest elves ever.

Altmer: Purity-obsessed haughty magicians who in ages past murdered most of their own children for being "impure."
Bosmer: Carnivores and cannibals who would kill a man before they would trim branches from a tree.
Dunmer: hardcoe xenophobes, religious fanatics, and traditionalists. Plus, they live above ground, sound like they gargle gravel every day ([censored] you Oblivion Dunmeri), and don't have any irritating dual-wielding rangers in their race.
Maormer: The Fremen from Dune, but with sea serpents instead of sandworms.
Orsimer: ORCS!
Dwemer: "Dwarves;" agnostic bearded artificers who use bizarre steam technology interwoven with magic and divine metaphysics, who in an attempted apotheosis mysteriously disappeared.
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Kayleigh Williams
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:15 pm

Yeah, from a lore standpoint TES actually has the coolest elves ever.

Aldmer-The original elves. Not much is known about them.
Altmer: Purity-obsessed haughty magicians who in ages past murdered most of their own children for being "impure."
Bosmer: Carnivores and cannibals who would kill a man before they would trim branches from a tree.
Dunmer: hardcoe xenophobes, religious fanatics, and traditionalists. Plus, they live above ground, sound like they gargle gravel every day ([censored] you Oblivion Dunmeri), and don't have any irritating dual-wielding rangers in their race.
Falmer-The snow elves which the Nords destroyed when they took over Skyrim. Even their ruins but their might be a few left looking for revenge...
Maormer: The Fremen from Dune, but with sea serpents instead of sandworms.
Orsimer: ORCS!
Dwemer: "Dwarves;" agnostic bearded artificers who use bizarre steam technology interwoven with magic and divine metaphysics, who in an attempted apotheosis mysteriously disappeared.


You forgot the Falmer and Aldmer I added them for you. I just got an idea for the next MQ if it takes place in Skyrim!
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