There has been lots of talk about the 10th race being the start of pay-2-win

(I think this is complete rubbish)

Surely the only basis for this is imperials having different passives ( the rest is cosmetic )

consider this:

There are 3 armour classes

There are 6 weapon types

There are 9 races....

Each race gets ----NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA-----

(I think I can type that line, but not sure if that information is MENT to be available on the web)

SO, at character creation when you choose imperial it will ask you:

Heritage, place of birth, or something else that links your imperial character to another race

Giving you that races passive line

Its not particuly lore friendly, but If it does work something like this, The CE bonus are just cosmetic and all the whining haters can shut the hell up

It will be something like this:

Passive: Fighting in Cyrodiil will give +50% damage and +50 % armor/resists.

Passive: Learn all skills 25% faster.

Passive: Unique title in huge bold letters displayed above your character and your character glows bright so everyone in town can see how special you are.

Just so I can watch people nerdrage about p2w

Not lore friendly at all, bad bad bad

If you look at it, it is really just another race, people saying p2w have no clue what they are talking about since no other info then the race itself has been given.

I never understood the meaning of p2w also, but I am not a big player of mmos in general, but I have played alot of f2p shooters and skill eats money in those, even though it becomes easier to be "good" with better gear.

I would certainly prefer something lore friendly aswell, and I don't even care if there is a minor advantage.

But i think there is a chance I'm right, 9 skills/10 races ....

If its not that and is lore friendly it has to be about gold ( shop prices probably )

or --NDA NDA-- for all skills

The haters will go nuts over that

i was talking to my friend about this. since each class has 1 leveling skill and all skills are taken i figured the imperial will level in everything a bit faster, 1-2% maybe. as for the rest? maybe mounted speed is faster? extra gold from item sales? bonus health/stamina?

ye in other tes games imperials tend to get more gold drops, would be awesome voice of the emperor twice better deals when selling and buying ^^

I used to think it was going to be some kind of special dialogue option, but now that I have seen the passives for the other races (which are very similar to each other), I think it will have something to do with light/medium armor.

Well, you can have both. Everybody gets one passive for free, but there are a few more you can invest points in.

If I had to guess Imperial racials, I'd say the first one would be more experience with sword and shield

Then maybe something to get more gold from transaction (don't know if that would work well)

Imperials always had bonus in some magic so maybe a boost to destruction spells like altmers and maybe something about medium or heavy armor.

The Red Guard has that already.

This is useful:

http://eldersouls.com/elder-scrolls-online/skills

Yes, but as you can see, "Gift of Magnus" is shared by the bretons and altmers, so it's not impossible

Oh, true enough, and ... well puncture rocks eh'. There are some wicked combos.

They are traditionally versed with sword and board so I guess they'll be getting bonuses to that.

That's what I think too, but they also normally have skills with spells, like the Imperial battlemages, so I guess we shall see.

none of the xp boosts are shared though, only the skills that require a skill point

I guess you're right.

I did not make my guesses out of what I knew of other racials though, only from what I remembered from Imperials from previous Elder Scrolls Games.