Recently,I was reading a book called "Mysterious Akavir" again,and it calims that Akavirii,especially Tsaesci,could be Serpent/dragon-like people, so I decided to post these:

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Akavirri ? No? Coincidence? perhaps?

These are actually some pantings of NüWa(goddess) and FuXi(god), a divine couple from ancient Chinese mythology, two of the legendary ancestors of human,and they are all half human half snake(or dragon).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwaNüWahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa - The creator of mankind (mostly Chinese I suppose?)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Xi - NuWa's husband,the creator of BaGua and,of course,human.
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The Akaviri, specifically the Tsaesci, are oozing with east asian culture.

We only really know about the Tsaesci, but this is how I always envisioned the Akaviri races' relation to real cultures.


Tang Mo- Malaysian
Kamal- Mongolian
Ka Po' Tun- China
Tsaesci/Humans- Japan

This is all baseless headcanon on my part.

I suspect that the Tsaesci were based first and foremost off of the http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Yuan-ti, since most of Nirn's races have DnD tropes at their heart, bolstered by Bethesda's (and MK's) own creative vision and the incorporation of real-world cultures. With that said, I'd like for Bethesda to try to steer clear of Chinese mythology if they decide to flesh out the Tsaesci because there's already a hearty dose of Japanese cultural influence there, and otherwise they run the risk of pulling a Mists of Pandaria and just making a generic Asialand that offends some and impresses nobody.