all my magic characters are altmer. I'll agree, some high elves are a little stuck up, and even though I've never played Skyrim, I can safely assume that Thalmor are female dogs. My feelings of high elves is based on their epic magical aptitude, not their past.

I actually like the thalmor sometimes depends on how I rp but I always found them interesting and i then found yhe altmer more intresting because of the thalmor that and theyre mer

There actually was a ton of Altmer hate when I first joined this site. It was more because of the way many acted. They always rubbed me the wrong way, as well. I just don't personally hate them. I love the pre-Skyrim male Bosmer for some reason. They are just so quirky and funny. I love the paranoid one in Skinrad or however it is spelled. He just seemed like a funny schizophrenic to me than some Bosmer male who is annoying.

Glarthir
Have you been inside his house? There's an unusual assortment of weapons in there ...

I had the impression that Altmer bias started in Daggerfall when gamers writing walkthroughs would discredit the Altmer as a playable race due to their racial attributes and heavy starting weaknesses. Noobs would follow these character creation guides claiming vehemently that the Altmer were too broken a race to be playable.

This continued through and was strengthened in Morrowind when new players were taken by the Dunmer dark elves, thinking they were similar to the D&D Drow. Then as the legend of Drizzist grew pulling more and more to play Dunmer in Oblivion something strange happened to the Bosmer. By the time of Oblivion they had changed from sly cannibalistic tricksters to charming little sneaky thieves. Given that in the lore Altmer were portrayed thinking of themselves as superior to the other elves, leading to further degradation of the Altmer image as elitist.

So now we have the Altmer being portrayed as a broken playable race plus a socially unacceptable race. All this culminates in Skyrim, where not having a clearly evil focus point like a runaway mad god or a daedra invasion you get the Thalmor, a minority opinion yet powerful political arm of the Altmer. Now you have The Altmer a broken, ostracized, evil race no one should consider playing.

Unless you're like me, of course. All in all, I think all this racial hate toward Altmer is misdirected. There is more to Altmer culture than just the Thalmor and many ways to role play accordingly. Playing an Altmer can be most challenging yet fun experience. I know, I've done so.

Yes, I have. I often wonded if those were his dinner knives, hmmm?

Because Bretons are just as good without the weaknesses