bah, Akaviri propaganda.

Actually I have been creating my own parallel explanation (though intellectually disastrous) to the diversity of races. My lunatic view (which I really don't believe in) is that either khajit and argonians are the original inhabitants of Nirn who were conquered by men and mer (timespace travellers), or that beast people were men who were genetically altered (by themselves or by some divine beings) to better adapt their environment (desert and disease-ridden marshlands). If humans were to leave earth someday and resettle on on a new planet (or if earth was to be rendered unlivable) one way to withstand the hostile environment would be through genetic alteration. This crazy theory of mine also includes the notion that the human races are descendants of people of our time/world and the Mer are our distant descendants who have ended up on Nirn through some rift in the time-space-continuum or perhaps Mundus is a creation of theirs into which they escaped the eventual death of our own universe. All of this of course consciously gangraqes the lore in a big way, but as you can see, I really want to believe the Mundus is real. Yeah, it's crazy and I'm crazy too.

Doing a bit of thread necromancy: I found in http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/songofpelinal.shtml a reference to "Never did Pelinal counsel Morihaus in time of war, for the man-bull fought magnificently" which implies that Morihaus was a minotaur, rather than simply a bull. So I'm discounting the theory that Belharza was the first. This makes things a little less extreme for Alessia, as a minotaur for a consort would be ... er ... less daunting when they have the head, tail and hooves (in Oblivion, that's up past the knees, but so what?) of the bull, but the rest is kind of human.

I'm assuming that the compatibility of minotaurs with humans and elves remains, if you can get past the irrational aggression. Of course, since all the ones you meet are oxen, they may have a score to settle!

Sorry, guy who thought him up said Bull.

Which already is a less extreme version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedu

Tell that to the son of Sheen-in-Glade and Count Vitharn. http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/sebookfallofvitharn.shtml

What is this why I never....Oooohh, it's from Oblivion.

No...it's from MK, who is frigging brilliant, and it just happened to make its way into Oblivion because of said brilliance.

Shh! Just be glad that, of the various Arena enemies Bethesda has reinstated over the series, the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Monsters#Lizard_Man never came back. :whisper:


The Argonian portrayals are purely artistic license, especially so considering that the first Elder Scrolls game was effectively an interactive medium for Bethesda's own little cliche'd DnD-esque tabletop. Interestingly enough, some aspects of Argonian visuals from the earlier games were later reinstated, for example, males and females always had specific eye colors in Arena, and in Morrowind they followed suit. Oblivion's Argonians I'm just going to blame on sheer developer laziness, although I would like to know why they've all become a hellish orange color.

The Khajiit, well, you can just be lazy and go with the moon cycle concept. Of course the problem here is that the Ohmes and even Ohmes-raht are supposedly meant to be the most common Khajiit outside of their home province. Makes sense, doesn't it? They look more like Bosmer than cats, the other races would find their appearance more appealing. Bethesda kind of contradicts this however with how the Khajiit in each game get progressively more animalistic - in Morrowind, fine, it's a frontier province full of slavers and smugglers and fugitives, but in Oblivion you'd expect most of the Khajiiti to be Ohmes diplomats or something of the sort.

I would have honestly preferred Ohmes to the Khajiit we had in Oblivion, provided they weren't too furry.

I was under the impression that MK didn't work on SI. :shrug: