Elder Scrolls race most similar to Scots?

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:24 pm

:whisper: Check the compass at the bottom left; North isn't vertical.

Shh :slap:
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Heather Stewart
 
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Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:28 pm

Are you playing on PC? I believe i once saw a mod which added a Scottish-like race,
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based on the old sheogorath
i think, have a go if you can.
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Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:05 pm

Additionally, to the best of my knowledge, the Roman invaders were unable to conquer all of Scotland as they did with England and Ireland(?). As such, I'm assuming the Highlanders are among those tribes that were not assimilated as heavily as their counterparts in Britain.


The Gaels weren't in Scotland at the time, and wouldn't be culturally divided until the 1000s ;)

But we were in Ireland, which wasn't approached by the Romans, so you're essentially correct.

The British culture, or the Scandinavian culture?", which would you choose? If we think of British culture as in "teatime, red buses, red phone booths, stiff upper lip, Queen Mum", then it's just as far away as the drunk vikings that live in the snow.


Scots are just as British as the English, you know - we founded the United Kingdom to start with.

Ah, thanks for bringing that up. I guess it's another part of my Dunmer point - they weren't conquered by the empire they became a part of, but were incorporated through diplomat means.
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Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:53 pm

Gallowglass - Please be aware of the fact that I was talking in stereotypes. Because what we get from Tamriel's races are stereotypes, and we have to compare them to similar stereotypes from our world to get a scope of how wrong they are, and thus how flexible one can be when interpreting them. The stereotype Europeans have of British people doesn't have anything to do with the one of Scots. I could have said "English culture", but the very point of my argument was that the Scots don't fit in our idea of British people, even though they are part of them.

:whisper: Check the compass at the bottom left; North isn't vertical.

Yeah, but rotating the map still won't make it right :P It's just not "canon", or whatever you say to that. The Iliac Bay looks waaaaay different.
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Post » Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:51 am

Yeah, but rotating the map still won't make it right :P It's just not "canon", or whatever you say to that. The Iliac Bay looks waaaaay different.

Right. Pay particular attention to the position of Wayrest, as well as the general curvature of the "gulf" the Isle of Balifera rests outside of.
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