Figure I'd see if any folks have an answer to a somewhat odd question. Lets say you have a darkelf sorcerer that wears heavy armor, in the imperial style.

What does it look like?

I saw a video, from a character creation screen showcasing imperial armor. It shows Sorc/nightblade/DK/templar all having *different* looking vet gear. Does this mean that a sorcerer could never have a closed face heavy helm? (in the imperial style, like a templar)

Anyhow the video in question (Note that each classes vet armor appears differently, and recall that only light,medium,heavy armors exist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yzLv6Vi7U

No, it's an IDEA of how they CAN look, all armor, in all its forms, is available to every race and every class.

They're examples of light, medium and heavy Imperial armour, though not all light, medium and heavy Imperial armour look the same.

The armors are not bound to certain classes at all. I thought that they were but found it they aren't. So you can be any class you want and can wear any of those armors you've seen.

It is available, but not accessable until you learn racial crafting abilities by reading books that are world drops. Each racial is learned individually when you loot the book.

@Bucpar, except the racial crafts to whatever race you choose. Like if you play as a Wood Elf, you automatically know the "recipe" for Wood Elf weapons and armor with the use of Bones.

And since you all share the same bank, you literally only need the imperial book if you haven't bought imperial edition and early on you can use all type of armor by simple making a new character.

Once you know traits and find secret crafting locations however, you may want to farm these book if you want the looks.

but it is a money maker for those who don't know that you can share the bank, and especially good for imperials, since they can say its only them that can make it and no one else, and of course out of millions of players some will fall to that trick.

@Lenthas, that's a good idea. But I thought when you read a book, it consumes it in TESO?

That was not my experience in the beta. I created four characters and although I had discovered racial crafting books with each, the skill did not carry over to other characters.

And as Eulogy said, the books are consumed when learned.

Yes it does, all i meant is that early one armor traits aren't as critical, meaning that if ANY of your characters learns the imperial book (consuming it), the rest of the styles are "unlocked" by simply making a new character.

Of course if you have imperial race, you literally don't need any books, and you can choose to sell them for a huge gold injection early on, or actually learn it since you will "need" it later on.

Until your main crafter knows traits and can make use of hidden crafting stations, you can easily mix armor types with no consequence, once traits become a little more than "just helpful" and almost become a requirement, you can't simply do the same since not all your characters know these traits.

Also you can farm the same trait and give it to all your characters, and theoretically have crafting on ALL races & all characters, but the time investment isn't worth it, far better to buy blue books later on if you are really unlucky with finding them on your own.

Pro tip: The last room from coldharbour usually has a LOOOAADDDD of containers, and you can also relog and get a few more, usually I never leave until I get 1 blue book, I assume this will be semi-fixed in the live client, but for now, it seems that you can make an infinite amount of characters and just loot that room until you got all the books. Once I even found 2 books on the same character. The ones I didn't need I could sell for absurd amounts of gold.

You miss understood, you make a wood elf>make wood elf set>put in bank, now your main (lets say orc) can use a wood elf set.

Want a nord set? Make a nord, now ur orc has nord set.

Etc.

Want a Daedric set? Make a... oh wait.

Got it . . . except because of the shared bank, it is stuffed full of crafting mats.

Thought I'd give you some low lvl examples.

Just look the cuirass

Lvl 1

http://s1.postimg.org/nkq6u3fpq/Screenshot_20140301_021820.jpg

lvl 4

http://s8.postimg.org/t5tn363pf/Screenshot_20140302_040729.jpg

adds a lighter color trim

lvl 8

http://s28.postimg.org/cp0wpmq6z/Screenshot_20140302_160807.jpg

notice the gold trim and black leather instead of brown much better looking.

Now this was made on my Breton templar but I did equip the same armor on my bosmer sorc and it was the same color.

@Lenthas, I misunderstood you before, thanks for the explanation. So I guess having a main and branching off to other races is a good idea.

@kujako, you need to find a Daedric style book in order to make Daedric stuff. But, if Lenthas's theory is correct, you just need one character to learn it then you can make Daedric stuff and ship it to your other characters through the account bank.