That's the beauty of the lore, it could well be true, but it might not be, we have to make our own decisions what to believe. From UESP : "Early literature by man painted the High Elves in poor light, though the reliability of these accounts is questionable given the racial tensions at the time. It was suggested that the Altmer practiced eugenic infanticide, putting to death nine in ten of their newborns for being of impure bloodline, that Altmeri names are simply combinations of numbers in their own language, and that the Altmer culture revolves almost entirely around displaying social status. Later writings contain no mention of any of these practices. Whether this is because they don't exist any more, never existed, or do exist but simply go unmentioned, is not known."

Make your own mind up.

That's just silly. I would find that funny to watch.

I voted for the bottom, and the top! Everyone needs a upgrade from time to time.

i want them to look more like Asians, thats just my opinion

Agreed. Every race needed a revamp, and it's looking good so far (although I must say the Argonion makeover has impressed me the most).

I hope not every single high elf is a noble this time around.
I think there was only two commoners in the imperial city, and the rest were all filthy rich or had a major rank in a guild.

Have you ever watched NBGCUSTOMS Oblivion Lets play, He has the hottest Altmer I Have seen
Anyway, I Agree with you the NPC Altmer were Ugly in Oblivion.

I personally bloody like Asian girls.....but enough of my private habits

there a picture of altmers in skyrim that released

http://www.google.co.il/imgres?imgurl=http://static.flatplanet.tv/movies/96278.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flatplanet.tv/%25D7%259C%25D7%2595%25D7%25A2%25D7%2596%25D7%2599/%25D7%25A1%25D7%2599%25D7%2593%25D7%25A8%25D7%2594/%25D7%259E%25D7%25A9%25D7%25A4%25D7%2597%25D7%25AA-%25D7%25A1%25D7%2599%25D7%259E%25D7%25A4%25D7%25A1%25D7%2595%25D7%259F-%25D7%25A2%25D7%2595%25D7%25A0%25D7%2594-1-%25D7%25A4%25D7%25A8%25D7%25A7-10/&h=303&w=440&sz=23&tbnid=pjvskbY4tN5JTM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=131&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsimpsons%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=simpsons&docid=GCuSJ7VtHeojiM&hl=iw&sa=X&ei=h59KTru6I8LJhAerx-30Bw&ved=0CGoQ9QEwCA&dur=335

Indeed, my lady.

^

Almost everyone was ugly in Oblivion. And not ugly in a good, intended way, ugly like serious birth defects or skin afflictions.

Well; I hope that with the right face gen and mods I can make one looking pretty; also gonna go a little offtopic and say: So...What about the males?

Awkward... :sick: Anyways yeah, by the looks of it every single race has gotten a great face lift, Unfortunately Bethesda doesn't have the technology to make that goldfish looking race pretty. :teehee:

ahhhhh

your being sarcastic.... right

cause female Altmer look like old grandmothers in all TES games ALL OF THEM they svcked the males svcked the females svcked, they looked like crap.

hope they look more lore friendly this time, as in very beautiful.

I guess I'm one of the few "No, I think they're okay the way they are" votes. I think my Oblivion high elf female (Igodah Go^Pe) was hot, matter of fact, she placed well in the "http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1117278-am-i-hot-or-not/page__p__16413853__fromsearch__1#entry16413853" contest I started last year.

[img][IMG]http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/Photo-0032.jpg[/IMG][/img]

Bethesda's female high elf NPCs are mostly not the prettiest, but this never really bothered me personally.

yah sure Altmer killed babies herp derp.

what a load of imperial propaganda crap, how can a species survive if their birth rate is below 2.2, if Altmer killed 9 out of 10 new borns THEY WOULD NOT BE HERE NOW, use your brains people :facepalm:

I swear to God I will end the empire single handily if I have to, those arrogant self proclaimed barbarian idiots :flame:

If they didn't kill their babies, YR would have called it out. It may have been an exaggeration, but since he whined about everything else he would have likely said so if it was an outright lie.

And female Altmer should look alien, and beautiful by their own standards. Not like sixy Nord girls with pointy ears. An Altmer would probably consider that the worst abomination ever born.

I hope they get prettier hair too. In fact every single mer race had the ugliest hair ever! It's like wtf where you thinking when you did your hair. Its fugly!
Altmer ladies should have hair like this in the vanilla game, people shouldn't have to mod it.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=model+hair+blonde&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&sa=N&tbo=d&tbm=isch&tbnid=_oZbXk82-IoTZM:&imgrefurl=http://evathehairdiva.com/site-pics/fashion-model-with-long-blond-hair/&docid=9jGLxHcjhBWPwM&w=303&h=456&ei=UKdKTsPSGtCisQKbvYWkCA&zoom=1&biw=1024&bih=690

I agree Altmer should look ... well like Altmer but they should have some human beauty features in them, cause I'm sure spiders think they are pretty and we svck, so Altmer and humans should have some similarities in beauty standards

YES PLZ

the crazy cone/spike crap was ugly as hell. :disco:

Why? Altmer believe humans are the worst thing since Sithis and Lorkhan. They wouldn't want to look anything like them.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:SI-npc-Muurine.jpg
Ew she looks like she has a pin head.
They need a major hair improvement.

Vadagar, if you looked at my earlier posts in this thread, you would see I already called this Alessian propaganda.