» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:41 am The main reason the Nords hate Elves is because of a mytheo-ideological conflict between men and mer.
The Nords worship Shor (Lorkhan), the deity responsible for creating the world, and they see his sacrifice and creation as bestowing the great gift of potential to them.
The mer, on the other hand (excepting the Dunmer), think that Lorkhan stole their previous divine perfection and trapped them as fallible, temporal mortals.
Men think they're the rising ape, Mer think they're the fallen angel, to be loose with an anology, and both attribute their state to Lorkhan.
This opposed view leads to endless animosity. And they do have a history of conflict and antagonism.
(So yes, mirglif, this was planned long before Skyrim.)
And yeah OP, the Nords aren't too fond of the Bretons, as the Bretons originated as the offspring of captured Nord slaves and Aldmer. They've got elf-blood in them, and the Nords dislike it.
Historically, the Dunmer and Nords have been enemies because of territorial disputes, but I'll be interested to see how that changes with the Dunmer becoming refugees.
As for Orcs, some of them are attempting to become more civilized, and are turning away from Malacath worship (God of Pariahs and Outcasts) to once again worship Trinimac, their leader from the days when they were a group of Aldmer, and not hideous green monsters.
Most of the Orcs outside of Orsinimium think this is traitorous heresy.
So there'll be some good conflict there, hopefully, although that was taking place two hundred years before Skyrim... Hopefully it will have developed in that time.
The Nords worship Shor (Lorkhan), the deity responsible for creating the world, and they see his sacrifice and creation as bestowing the great gift of potential to them.
The mer, on the other hand (excepting the Dunmer), think that Lorkhan stole their previous divine perfection and trapped them as fallible, temporal mortals.
Men think they're the rising ape, Mer think they're the fallen angel, to be loose with an anology, and both attribute their state to Lorkhan.
This opposed view leads to endless animosity. And they do have a history of conflict and antagonism.
(So yes, mirglif, this was planned long before Skyrim.)
And yeah OP, the Nords aren't too fond of the Bretons, as the Bretons originated as the offspring of captured Nord slaves and Aldmer. They've got elf-blood in them, and the Nords dislike it.
Historically, the Dunmer and Nords have been enemies because of territorial disputes, but I'll be interested to see how that changes with the Dunmer becoming refugees.
As for Orcs, some of them are attempting to become more civilized, and are turning away from Malacath worship (God of Pariahs and Outcasts) to once again worship Trinimac, their leader from the days when they were a group of Aldmer, and not hideous green monsters.
Most of the Orcs outside of Orsinimium think this is traitorous heresy.
So there'll be some good conflict there, hopefully, although that was taking place two hundred years before Skyrim... Hopefully it will have developed in that time.
Fascinating background, thanks for sharing this.
