For me, whenever I think of dragonborn I think of that guy in the background of this website. I dont think of a lizard dragonborn or a human cat as one, it just seems ridiculous for me now. Todd said you can be any race and be dragonborn, but for me I only see the human looking races as the more realistic races to play.

What do you lot think?

Doesn't bother me at all.

I loved playing Nords before, so undoubtedly that will be my first race, but I'm sure Bethesda will make the story work out and make sense. We've only really gotten a small percentage of what exactly is going on in Skyrim, maybe by the time you've put 2184792847 hours into it a Nord Dragonborn might seem cheesy.

My Dragonborn will be a Nord-slaughtering Dunmer. :flamethrower:

........... :facepalm: ............. I think it will be more realistic if a lizard is a dragonborn, scales and such.
The human in the trailers and gameplays are only a show guy, he is a Nord because Skyrim is the Nords place.
http://images.uesp.net//c/c4/Fishystick.jpg

I think they have used the typical Nord Dragonborn in the same way as http://www.gamewallpapers.us/wallpapers/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/elder-scrolls.jpg and http://www.webwallpapers.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/oblivion-2-1600.jpg. They are poster boys, based on the region the game takes place,

Right now it is for me just because that's the only race we've seen so far play as Dragonborn but once the game is out and I start playing it won't make any difference to me.

I have nothing against that Nord Dragonborn. Yeah, when thinking about 'dragonborn', he comes to my mind first, but it doesn't bother me.

Honestly the only reason this bothers me is now everyone thinks I'm being a Nord Warrior just because of the PC shown...... I've been a Nord Warrior since Morrowind! I can't help it that I prefer that race .

So, no, it doesn't bother me really..... Since that is kind of what my first character will look like.

But after that? I'll make 9 more Dovahkiin's that look quite different.

He's just the poster boy. I'm going to make my character look cooler.

Lol if you are serious and this actually bothers you, just lol.

Its kinda like the imperial champion of cyrodiil and the dunmer nerevarine shown in all the pictures for oblivion & morrowind..

My Bosmer Assassin Dragonborn will still take down dragons just as well as any Nord. All races will shout the same Dragon Shouts!

Well I'm not a beast race fan but to those who are of beast race, Skyrim is the home of the Nords so obviously, any poster would have Nords as the logo since any Elder Scrolls fan could see that "Oh it's Skyrim!" by just looking at the guy even if there's no logo.

I will still be playing as my Imperial since Oblivion Romans are professional.

The human character is just for marketing purposes. He's the sort of typical heroic fantasy big guy with a sword. I don't make my Shepard look like the ad campaign, because I understand that Shepard look is made and kept for the sake of consistency. Can't go around confusing people about how many characters there are, etc.

So I wouldn't say it's a stereotype. Just a marketing decision.

Also, Skyrim has a Nord demo character for the Nord province. The last two games followed suit, with an Imperial "poster child" for Oblivion (named Bendu Olo) and a Dunmer for Morrowind. I'd imagine if we go to Elsweyr next we'll have a Khajiit.

Well Khajit and Argonians always were a bit unrealistic. I mean, it's not impossible (even if it's rarely done well) to do alien-looking races and have it be believable, but certainly in Oblivion they were ridiculous and looked like they'd just pasted lizard / cat heads onto human figures.

They look to be somewhat less silly looking and more respectable in Skyrim, though - at least one screenshot shows a Khajit who actually looks like another race etc. I suppose we'll have to see when the game comes out.

I could probably stomach a Nord / Breton / Imperial / High Elf / Wood Elf Dragonborn.

But basically the human guy is just the marketing character (also he's a Nord because the game is Skyrim after all).

Im just going to do what I do with all my first characters. race is based on where the land is. Morrowind I played a dark elf, Oblivion an imperial, and now for skyrim a nord.

Seen any elves? AHAHAHAAHAHHAAHHAHAAA


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Although he won't be my main character, I have the urge to make mr. prisoner Nord man my first :shrug:

Yep, it's for all those who have never played their games before.

Just imagine if they chose the poster boy to be a skinny, little Bosmer with a battle axe bigger than his body? Those people would be saying, "Ahh, I don't really like the character they make you play as, not interested." Howard would then have to say, "oh, you don't have to, you can make your own character", and he would have to say that over and over and over again.... Plus, it doesn't make sense for a Bosmer because the game takes place in Skyrim.

It's all marketing.

You see with Morrowind, they could get away with showing a cool looking, but weird humanoid Dark Elf thing because TES was still unknown. In fact, I had never heard of it until my brother saw it at the store, read the back and thought he'd give it a try. He got it for a good deal too, so why not? When I first saw the cover I thought, "What the crap is that weird looking purple dude with the Kramer like hair? Nice armor though." Turned out I loved the game and so did he and many other people who spread the word. Morrowind is what made TES popular and when things become popular you got to start worrying about all the marketing even more.

Speaking of little Bosmers, I wonder what they're going to do about the poster boy for Valenwood? Probably going to be an attractive and young Bosmer woman with a bow, maybe some knives, you know that "rouge look". That would be my guess anyway.

It's just as realistic as not playing a Dunmer Neveraine or an Imperial champion of Cyrodill...

I bet if they do Bosmers, Khajit, Argonian etc they'll break from their paradigm of featuring a native as the character you play.

That's very possible.

Here's to hoping the series really does go that far!

I've got some friends, intelligent friends, who I had to reassure many times that Skyrim will have more than one playable race. Yes, Bethesda's overdoing the whole Nord thing, in my opinion. I'm very much aware of them having done the same thing with Morrowind and Oblivion... but they didn't do it quite so over-the-top before.