Okay, so which real life human races remind you of each TES race? Also, which race do you think would be most alike Australians?

No offensive comments toward anybody, please.

Here are mine:

Argonian - Undecided
Breton - Irish
Dark Elf - Undecided
High Elf - Undecided
Imperial - Romans
Nord - Swedish
Wood Elf - Undecided
Khajiit - Undecided
Redguard - Somalian
Orc - African American

I can't decide which races is most similar to Australians. I'm thinking Argonians, because they live in the harshest environment, which is a common perspective on Australia. But Khajiit live in deserts, and that is also a common perspective. Even though we don't live in deserts.

Orc African American???? What?

Redguards are not Somalian other than making great pirates, Hammerfell was one of the first nations in Tamriel to form somewhat of what can be considered a 'Republic' and major cities like Sentinel likely embarrass anything you saw in Skyrim.

Swedes are nothing like the awful stereotypical 'drunk white working class' portrayal the Nords got in Skyrim despite lore stating otherwise.

These races are said to taken inspiration from ancient/historic civilizations and even then there are many that are likely incomparable. If Anyone is the "US/China/EU" It's the Altmer and Imperials simply because they are the most advanced and 'cultured' races in Tamriel, as well as being the most powerful militarily. Not sure what else I can say about the rest of this question/post as 'African Americans', 'Swedes' and 'Somalians' are not even races.

As for the other part of your question I'm not sure but Morrowind certainly is Australia since just about every piece of flora and fauna there wants to kill you.

Argonian - Undecided
Breton - French
Dark Elf - Greek (huge stretch, only because of their views on slavery)
High Elf - British
Imperial - Romans/Italian
Nord - Scandinavian
Wood Elf - Native American
Khajiit - Saudi Arabian/Middle Eastern
Redguard - Persian
Orc - Mongolian

My take on it.

I'd say this is as close as it gets. Except I think High Elves also take some inspiration from the Ming Dynasty and Bretons seem to be a bit like the Celts. Altmer used to appear to have somewhat of an Asian look and voice especially the females in Morrowind.

I'd put it more historical than geographical...

Argonian - Ukrainian (abit of a stretch, just because of the Marshes)
Breton - Gallic (Circa the Roman Empire, because of the magic)
Dark Elf - Germanic (Circa the Roman Empire, because of the magic and the Imperials/Romans saw them as indomitable)
High Elf - Chinese (Like the person before me said, circa the Ming Dynasty)
Imperial - Romans (I think everyone can agree here)
Nord - Viking/Norse (Again, I think everyone can agree here)
Wood Elf - Iroqouis/Sioux (Basically Native NORTHERN American)
Khajiit - Berber/Moorish (Desert, stigma and that sort of vibe...)
Redguard - Middle Eastern (Just because of the desert and their being the cradle of civilisation)
Orc - Kievan Rus (Basically, 9th C Russian)

Also, why do you want to know which is Australian, just curious.

Argonian- The reptillians from underground...
Breton- humans that look 20 years older than what they are.
Dark elf- People that live near a Volcano.
High elf- Stoners.
Wimperials- humans that look 30 years older than what they are.
Nord- Scandinavian.
Wood Elf- Cannibals.
Khajiit- Cats.
Redguards- people with BIG Curved Swords.
Orcs- Savages.

Eh, which "Australians" are you referrring to? Do you mean the native, aboriginal Australians that have been there since time immemorial? Or the Anglo-Celtic ones from Britain and Ireland who colonized and founded the Commonwealth of Australia? Or perhaps you were referring to the 2nd or 3rd generation Australians who are sons and daughters of immigrants from China, Greece, Lebanon, Polynesia, et cetera that came to that country over the course of the past 50 years or so?

tl;dr You'll need to be more specific.

Meh, let's not do this...

It is erroneous to try and label TES race with our own.

Give me your opinion on all of those then.

I agree lets not do this.

Okay, then I have an idea. Let's not do this if you don't want to. And allow the people who wish to participate proceed.

Why do people keep comparing Bretons to French, Irish etc., instead of, you know, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretons?

It would help if you explained your reasoning. Why are Redguards like Somalians of all people?

Pirates.

I think because of the pirates and the skin colour... I had them down as mesopotamian, persian or middle eastern.

Problem with these threads is that sooner or later, someone steps over the line. I dont think any of these threads ever reached the post limit.

And op, not all Somarians are pirates, in fact, I would say a good majority of them aren't. In fact, it's that kind of stereotyping that got previous threads closed.

Obviously none are perfect anologues, and shouldn't be, but it's still fun to spot the influences.

Breton - British/French (maybe the most perfect anologue, from the pagan primitives to the cultured civilisation and perfectly british appearance)

Imperial - Meditaranean (italian, spanish, greek)

Nord - scandinavian

Redguard - Sub-saharan African people with middle eastern/japanese culture

Dunmer - Tough one but I think a little bit indian/chinese, with a lot of alien on top. The way they're treated badly and work hard as merchants and etc seems very indian/chinese.

Altmer - German (aryan supermen anyone?), french and jewish (contradictory to the german, but yeah)? Maybe a certain swiss elitism.

Orsimer - I honestly see orcs as the anologue for primitive tribal cultures, their advanced smithing and armour being the only contradiction which is perhaps mongolian/russian inspired, but primarily I see them as an homage to tribal west africans, polynesians and melanesians. Melanesian highlanders especially with the tribal chief having multiple wives and selling off women with a dowry/bride price, not to mention the powerful build, the living in the mountains, the alchemists, the seeing-red berserk mode even, common practice for PNG highlanders to take a drug that makes their mouth and eyes red before going crazed into battle.

Bosmer - british peasants mostly, with some american indian (north and maybe more so south) aspects to their culture

Argonian - Maybe also british peasants, australian convicts? South american shamans with the drug abuse? All a stretch, they don't give me a solid vibe to be honest, I don't feel like they match anyone that well.

Khajit - middle eastern/gypsy

My goal is not to reach the 'post limit', my goal is to spark discussion. I'm glad you have participated in said discussion.

It is not stereotypical. Not all Redguards are pirates either. Somalians are some of the most prominent contributors to piracy in the modern day, just as Redguards are the biggest contributors to piracy in Tamriel.

Interesting that.

Disclaimer: In real life I think we are all part of one race, the human race. Though this is a fantasy game, it is difficult not to see some similarities. Here goes.

Argonian - undecided
Breton - Caucasian - gonna go with Breton
Dark Elf - undecided
High Elf - Asian
Imperial - Caucasian
Nord - Caucasian - Scandinavian
Wood Elf - Native American
Khajiit - undecided
Redguard - African
Orc - undecided - Russian?

Exactly.

Nobody is labelling, we are comparing and identifying similarities.

I'd say that the Nord race is a combination (Scandinavian) rather than a Swede.

But I don't really see a point in this, Redguard Somalian? I would take that as a insult lol, or Orc African American.

If you would take that as an insult, maybe a Scandinavian would take being compared to a Nord as an insult, but that didn't stop you.

That's because I am a Scandinavian, but I'd not compare Skyrims races to real life's.

Modern 'Scandinavia' is very, very, very different to Skyrim and the Nords if you're using contemporary cultures such as 'Somalian' or 'African American' as examples. If anything Skyrim is a bit like some of the ex-USSR states or parts of Eastern Europe. Possibly Russia.