The Big Fat Altmer Poll!

Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:27 am

My dear Vadagar.

Honour of the ancestors upon your path. May your way be well lit.

As a fellow Altmer I could not help note the ruthlessness in your personality and the singualirity of your path.
While keeping in respect the full lineage of your ancestry and the purity of your blood I do feel it is my obligation to gently chide you and remind you of the other roads.

The lessons of your house have taught you the proper veneration and rituals, and you are strenghtened in the ways of the world. I feel, however, that your experience is a singular one and that you judge on experience instead of potential.
Mind your Father and his house, mind the corners.
You have met many adversaries obviously out for your blood, so the words you do not write tell me. And the words you do not write explain the most.
But these same hidden words to me speak of a one sided experience.

When you visited the walking tree of the Bosmeri, did you try to accustom or did you lock yourself from the strange qualia, not least the smell, that came upon you?

Oh, the ways of wisdom are such: Wisdom is a pearl, a cube, a bag of salt. It is all these things and one. When one approaches from the way chosen, one does not see the other facets. When the centre is reached, only then will all paths have lead to the same, and all the truths revealed as facets of the same immutable.

Head the words of the old.

Take from the other races what they deem wise. Do not seek strife or dominion.
As you were taught when you were young, wisdom comes in many guises. Take this wisdom from he who came before.
That wich is given freely comes at less cost than that wich is taken.

There are many ways to glory.
But they are all empty unless recognised.

May those that walked the path before you leave you a guiding star,
Merari.


I'm humbled by your wisdom, and I shall try to keep a more open mind as I go, I fear that all the battles I fought on my long journey have hardened my heart, but I shall try to be wiser in my future endeavors.
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Jesus Lopez
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:42 am

Ha! No Altmer brother worth his salt would travel through the forest at night without a reliable Detect Life spell activated. You'd need to do better than that, Dunmer. :thumbsdown:


lol alright ill play, before i put the daggers in ur back i saw ya on the road outside town and thx to my invis spell and the fact i was some yards away
from u and ur detect life spell. while in stealth mode and invis spell i took out the bow witch was also covered in paralise poison and took aim and down u went, to ur horror both daggers i had on me had the same poison on them.....fin :toughninja:

P.S Altmer skin makes for a good lamp shade :goodjob:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:38 am

lol alright ill play, before i put the daggers in ur back i saw ya on the road outside town and thx to my invis spell and the fact i was some yards away
from u and ur detect life spell. while in stealth mode and invis spell i took out the bow witch was also covered in paralise poison and took aim and down u went, to ur horror both daggers i had on me had the same poison on them.....fin :toughninja:

P.S Altmer skin makes for a good lamp shade :goodjob:



You are.. an Orc?
I am humbled upon you prowess with the blade.
I mean, you could teach me a thing or two.

I am always available for a friendly chat at an inn of your choosing. And after 5k years, really, money isnt a problem, I will pay.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:57 am

You know, I keep telling myself to use an Altmer for a mage character, I just can't stand that weakness to magic, though I suppose in practice it probably doesn't come up that often.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:05 am

Bahahahaha! You foolish Altmer snobs are blinded by the glow of your artificial skin tone! Many an Altmer made the foolish decision of relying on a petty poisoned dagger to end me when he discovered that I was near. I thought you Altmer were smart? Argonians are immune to your fancy poisons! Not to mention all the zealous fools I lead to the bottoms of lakes only to strike them with a simple dispelling and silencing poison and then leaving them to drown with their precious water-breathing spells deprived of them! And lo! The countless necromancers and conjurers I have undone with a simple spell of frenzy, causing them to vaporize their comrades and be left in utter confusion before their life was ended by my bow. Granted, I have met High Elves who's heads are not obstructing one of their bodily orifices, but for every one of them, there was at least one of you prissy snobs prancin' about preaching of their superiority. By the Hist! It's no small wonder why so few Altmer survive long in the Brotherhood.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:43 am

The very idea that Altmer are superior is blasphemous to the core. Perhaps some lesser souls may have fallen to the mundane fools who consider themselves descendants of gods, but in all my years of walking the grounds of Nirn I have yet to meet such an Altmer who did not fall to my blade.

May Mara have mercy on your demented souls.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:37 am

Bahahahaha! You foolish Altmer snobs are blinded by the glow of your artificial skin tone! Many an Altmer made the foolish decision of relying on a petty poisoned dagger to end me when he discovered that I was near. I thought you Altmer were smart? Argonians are immune to your fancy poisons! Not to mention all the zealous fools I lead to the bottoms of lakes only to strike them with a simple dispelling and silencing poison and then leaving them to drown with their precious water-breathing spells deprived of them! And lo! The countless necromancers and conjurers I have undone with a simple spell of frenzy, causing them to vaporize their comrades and be left in utter confusion before their life was ended by my bow. Granted, I have met High Elves who's heads are not obstructing one of their bodily orifices, but for every one of them, there was at least one of you prissy snobs prancin' about preaching of their superiority. By the Hist! It's no small wonder why so few Altmer survive long in the Brotherhood.


Yes, my cousin, but you must open your eyes.
Those "Altmer" you met and defeated? Outcasts one and all.
Do you think that a well raised child fails the speechcraft to engender himself upon the other races?
His true profession speaks for him, be it a master smith or enchanter.

No, those you meet in the wild are.. abhorrants. They have chosen their path.
May you blade be swift, cousin.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:10 pm

Bahahahaha! You foolish Altmer snobs are blinded by the glow of your artificial skin tone! Many an Altmer made the foolish decision of relying on a petty poisoned dagger to end me when he discovered that I was near. I thought you Altmer were smart? Argonians are immune to your fancy poisons! Not to mention all the zealous fools I lead to the bottoms of lakes only to strike them with a simple dispelling and silencing poison and then leaving them to drown with their precious water-breathing spells deprived of them! And lo! The countless necromancers and conjurers I have undone with a simple spell of frenzy, causing them to vaporize their comrades and be left in utter confusion before their life was ended by my bow. Granted, I have met High Elves who's heads are not obstructing one of their bodily orifices, but for every one of them, there was at least one of you prissy snobs prancin' about preaching of their superiority. By the Hist! It's no small wonder why so few Altmer survive long in the Brotherhood.


Poisoned dagger?! Perhaps our amusing little cousins the Bosmer would rely on such mundane and primitve weapons. Try hiding in your disgusting watery hole when an Altmer wizard decides to electrify the water, ending your depraved antics once and for all in a slimy pool of Argonian gloop! :woot:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:46 am

Two words: biased poll. :thumbsdown:
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:28 pm

And yet a single Dunmer managed to eradicate them. I guess that means Dunmer are the most superior XD


Nerevar was Chimer. but indeed, Dunmer Ftw
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:20 am

Incidentally, why must you slaughter Redguards and Argonians?

A friend of mine constantly talks badly of Nords, and argues that redguards and argonians are superior... so I guess you can that... I... systematically eliminate anyone who disagrees with me :flamethrower:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:27 am

For some reason, when I go stumbling about caves, and I hear the voice of an Elf, I go, well, time to fight." But when the light reveals that it was just a deranged Altmer, I get kind of relieved, then after sounds of distressed moaning, I continue walking through the cave... Gosh the sight of Altmer is pleasing to see in caves, even more so when they lie dead at me feet.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:11 am

A friend of mine constantly talks badly of Nords, and argues that redguards and argonians are superior... so I guess you can that... I... systematically eliminate anyone who disagrees with me :flamethrower:

Scholar Visari would be proud.
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:16 pm

This poll is full of ridiculosity. :rofl:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:47 am

Nords > Altmers true story.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:07 am



As for why I don't choose High Elves (pertaining to the poll), it's because they're too arrogant. And I'm not an arrogant person at all.

Though they also do get on my nerves with Oblivion + T.I.E. Being cowardly mages by staying in the back and launching devastating spells at me and all.

That is almost like saying the dunmer are to raceist which they are...
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:19 am

Altmer are my second favorite elf race, behind Orcs.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:08 pm

For some reason, when I go stumbling about caves, and I hear the voice of an Elf, I go, well, time to fight." But when the light reveals that it was just a deranged Altmer, I get kind of relieved, then after sounds of distressed moaning, I continue walking through the cave... Gosh the sight of Altmer is pleasing to see in caves, even more so when they lie dead at me feet.


Ha! Another deranged fetcher with delusions of grandeur! As if an Altmer brother would be scurrying around a cave like some demented Wood Elf!
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:18 am

Dunmer :flamethrower: Altmer :D

On a serious note, I have to admit I have never played as an Altmer yet, really should give them a try.

I believe you have this backwards, seeing as the Dunmer are the ones who have the fire resistance, while the Altmer actually have a weakness to it.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Races

So it would really be more like this.

Dunmer----> :flamethrower: :flamed: + :bolt: <----Altmer

Altmer ----> :flamethrower: :whistling: <----Dunmer
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:11 am

Well I feel I have been issued a challenge to knock all HIgh elfs of there High horses. :stare:


HAHA Agreed!
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:32 am

I as a nord welcome our worthy altmer friends on the frozen fields of skyrim. :celebration: I look forward to cleaving there invading mongrel hides in two. :toughninja:
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:44 am

This thread really made me consider making an Altmer mage...(Well that, and the new spell system) And I was so sure of being a Nord barbarian.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:32 am

This thread is relevant to mah' interests.

I've never beaten any of the games as an Altmer, so I intend to play through Skyrim as one.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:39 am

I have never EVER played as a altmer, i don't like them. Bretons on the other hand pwns the altmer in every way possible.

And they don't have the color yellow wich is the most horrible color in the world.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:28 am

Big Fat Altmer? Never seen such a thing :P

I've never played as one, as i keep saying i'm with the Khajiit :D However if they make them less banana looking in TESV i may give them a chance.

Seriously Bethesda, IMPROVE YOUR CHARACTER MODELS! :stare:
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