» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:15 am
Can't do it for the life of me.
Morrowind, you make it in Azura's shrine and what do you find as failed prophets? Exclusively Dunmer, yes.
However, Morrowind at least had this tone of "Pssssh you can't be the Nerevarine, you're a damn outlander." It seemed friendly towards the idea that someone nobody expected was the Nerevarine. It took that possibility/conundrum, embraced it, and addressed it DIRECTLY in NPC dialog. (Note I don't think anyone ever said "you can't be the Nerevarine you're a Khajiit" but they did scoff at your claim because you were an outsider not native to Morrowind (if you were a Dunmer, you still weren't a native, so they scoffed all the same)) You felt ok as a Khajiit Nerevarine because everyone had been looking at you funny and doubting your claim the entire game, with the only people giving you a chance being those who HAVE to because the loony Emperor commanded them to OR the Ashlanders who look at the qualifications of the Nerevarine objectively, which speak nothing of race.
Skyrim? Skyrim tries to plug it's ears and look the other way instead of really addressing that possibility. Yes, I know there's that damned book saying "ANYONE CAN BE DRAGONBORN!!" but I still think it's pretty damn odd that my Argonian can absorb a dragon's soul and the Nords all say "yeah he seems legit" instead of "wait wtf a lizard can't be dragonborn" followed by some NPC attempting an explanation. Then I eventually end up in Sovngarde with exclusively Nord NPCs (who talk about how Sovngarde is for honorable Nords only even!), and again, no explanation is given.
And another thing: who's idea was it to ban Khajiit from the cities? For me, that makes roleplaying a Khajiit especially hard, since wtf I'm the ONLY Khajiit that can get into the cities, 'cept J'Zargo, but it's obvious he made it in the city because he's mother****ing J'Zargo.
And Again, instead of addressing this issue and providing an explanation as to why I can get in, the game plugs it's ears and looks the other way, the guards say "WHAT'S THAT LALALALALALALA YOU'RE A NORD? SURE GO RIGHT IN LALALALALA."