I'm really up for more race specific armors. Especially for non-magic races. Nords, Orcs, Khajiit are the main choices. I also want them not to be just a low level armor.

What do you think?

Would something like this be cool for Khajiit

http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/talking/images/main_imgs/wallace/rajput.jpg

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww71/chalklands/Armour/ArmorIndian702_hi.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/Nephtys/Oriental/Rajput_Armour_1.jpg

No because it has a helmet and boots

Also I hate the pauldrons on it, and the lower body looks baggy in general.

I never liked the look of rajput armor anyhow.

Race specific armor would be cool if it related to the race's home region and culture.

I like it, seems to go with the Khajiit... after some stylisation of course.

I wonder if what the Khajiit is wearing in the screenshot is Khajiit armour?

P.S. Redguard armour, I wonder...

looks pretty good.

And the reason they didn't where boots and helmets in Morrowind was because they were originally just going to be there as slaves rather than a playable race. Slaves could not wear helmets or shoes. There was an outcry and they were made a playable race. They can obviously where boots.

race specific armour is actually a really good idea.

like TAIL armour for beasts..

it would make sense for argonians to armour their tales and use it to thwack people.

I want Khajiit to have human style hands and feet. I also want them to have full armor. Otherwise they should be specifically hand-to-hand only and rely on claws as a weapon. I find it hard to see a paw wielding a human or elven sword.

I don't really like the idea of race-specific armour, if we're talking about armour that can only be worn by a certain race.

Designing armour with a certain race it would suit most in mind is fine on the other hand... but that armour should still be available to all other races.

It looks too bulky for a race that is supposed to be quick and agile. It looks like movement in that armor would be tedious. I think it would be more suited for an orc.

race specific armour is a good idea but then how good it would be compared to all the other armor

I don't think it's gonna be limited to that race, just of that race. As orcish, dwemer and elven armour have been done in past games.

I think thats what he meant . You could wear nordic armor in Morrowind and be any race you wanted.

It is Indian armor and to my knowledge Indian armor was quite light due to the hot climate, Rajput were quite agile warriors. Most of it is just chainmail with plates.

Ok how about the Wood Elves?

For Bosmer armor I thought of something like this:

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS-un1mF177uI8gFqk8PN1R4G8yvPzL8bjMM1t0Ip44F_4qZ9seA&t=1

To my knowledge it is ancient Khmer armor (from the jungle lands of Cambodia). Looks kinda similar to Samurai armor.

Let's save it for the Akaviri.

I play as a Bosmer a lot, and I really don't picture them wearing Samurai-style armour.

I would love it! Orcs got their own armour in OB...

When I first read the title I thought you meant armor that only the one race could wear, but now I realize that's not what you meant so, yeah that would be cool...

Heh, I was just thinking about making a thread like this except for Argonians.

Nords, Orcs and Khajiit don't really make much sense for having race specific armor. They're all roughly of a similar humanoid shape. Even the Khajiit have a somewhat flat face which wouldn't make wearing helmets a problem.

The real problem comes with everybody's favorite race, the Argonians. Simple helmets that only cover the top of the head would work. But what of the helmets that cover most of the face? Argonians, with their long beak-like faces, would have trouble wearing these. To ameliorate this problem, I propose having unique helmets crafted specifically for Argonians.

Idea is to have traditional armor these races wore in their homelands. Maybe not widely spread, but in general as such
Only exception is traditional nordic armor (since we are in land of nords), it could be spread across Skyrim

Orcs have had their own armor style since Daggerfall. Nords have their own style as well (Morrowind). Elvish armor is in the game already, and I picture that to be the armor of choice for Altmer battlemages. The Dunmer have multiple styles of armor available in Morrowind, and it would be nice to see some return, such as Chitin or Bonemold.

As far as races without particulars styles, I could imagine the Bosmer wearing light armor made of spider silk, and leaves for camouflage. The Bretons could have a fusion of plate armor with a robe lining the inside of it. I sort of like the idea for the Khajiit posted by the OP, since it is similiar to certain arabic armors as well. The Redguards I have a hard time thinking of a special armor for them, but they deserve one since their culture is very different than the other humans. The Argonians are also hard to think of for me as well. Perhaps something of a lighter material than metal, such as bones? I cant imagine anything too heavy for them since they live in a swampland.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/109/f/f/keyna__s_war_by_koutanagamori-d3eck64.jpg

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/041/f/0/mercenary_of_leopard2_by_koutanagamori-d3984yk.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/114/5/6/masquerade_costumes_by_koutanagamori-d3etq9i.jpg

Armor made out of Khajiit hide?

Fund it.

Do it! I LOVE those images, and pretty much THIS is what I always imagined Khajit should look like.

That appears to be a Heavy Iron set, tailored for the Kajhiit's body. Likely the same Iron armor that the Nord is wearing in the Riverwood screenshot.



It's probably just "Iron" cuirass, but with different meshes for each race, depending on how different they look. Or maybe we could take a leap of faith, and say that's a Kajhiit style iron armor, that any race can wear, and that's just how it looks, more or less, on every race?

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/330/c/4/wereleopard2_by_koutanagamori-d33mq3l.jpg