Now, something I've noticed is that Mer have a bit more difficulty growing facial hair that other races. In Morrowind's character creation, the Atlmer had no option for facial hair what so ever (At least, to my knowledge). However, we see that several Bosmer and Dunmer walk around with varying lengths and thickness of their impressive facial hairs. Come Skyrim, all these races have less facial hair options than the races of Man. Now, this may just be a gameplay thing, but why is it that Mer do not have as thick beards, sideburns, mustaches, etc than the races of man? And what allows the Orismer to have such ease in growing facial hair? Could it be part of Boethiah's curse?

Seriously, and maybe you won't believe this, but there's a story to this.

Words could not describe the sound I just made when I saw that you posted in this thread of all threads.

I think I just choked.

But two Hunt the Amaranth threads, and the mighty Elk chooses to post in a thread about mer and facial hair?

Auri-El shaved while Lorkhan grew a magnificent beard. Due to this, a schism was driven between Man and Mer, where Mer rarely grew large beards while men paraded around their facial hair. The Dwemer grew beards because they didn't care about Aldmeri myths, while the Orsimer grew beards to signify their status as pariahs.

Maybe it was my lucky day.



This has to be one of the most delicious pieces of Monkey Truth I've read.

....And now I regret not mentioning the Dwemer earlier.

Cleanliness is next to godliness

The elves think themselves the descendants of the gods.