Which race would you wipe out?

Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:57 am

If you had to wipe one of these races off the face of Nirn which one would it be? Comment to elaborate on your answer.

By the way I didn't pick all the races because most people would probably say High Elves and it would be too easy.

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Tessa Mullins
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:21 am

Nords, for reasons not in game or in universe but from interactions with the hardcoe nord fans.
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Luis Longoria
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:26 am

I'm not exactly brimming with a desire to commit genocide against any of my fellow humans.

Not even Atmer, as much as I'd like to.

Maybe Dwemmer if they ever returned. They seemed to be a universal race of [censored].

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Chantelle Walker
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:49 am

What did the Dwemer of Morrowind and Hammerfell ever do to be labeled a "universal race of [censored"?

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Conor Byrne
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:36 pm

I could swing maybe the Dominion, but that does not include all Altmers, as far as I know.

I can't imagine having enough rage to want to kill off an entire race, even in a game. Just... a bit too much.

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RUby DIaz
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:10 pm

I could swing maybe the Dominion, but that does not include all Altmers, as far as I know.

I can't imagine having enough rage to want to kill off an entire race, even in a game. Just... a bit too much.

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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:32 am

Apparently my internet is being dumb and not letting me delete the second post. Will resolve it in the morning, if a mod comes across it in the meantime, feel free to delete the duplicate.

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Matt Fletcher
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:46 pm

Nords. Stupid Padomic influences messing up an otherwise peaceful world. If it weren`t for their genocide, raids, and general upsetting the status quo, the Mer may have escaped by now.

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Mrs shelly Sugarplum
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 4:39 am

Redguards. I just don't see their purpose.

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M!KkI
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:32 pm

I tend to think of them all as one group given they all went along with the Heart of Lorkhan project with rare exceptions. So, one government which enslaved the Falmer.

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SUck MYdIck
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:42 pm

Hmmm, wiping out the Dwemer would be Reeeeally easy.

In my opinion, I wouldn't miss the Nords one bit. They're the only race in TES that I had absolutely no interest in even making a character for. In Morrowind, they're rude, generally stupid, and extremely arrogant, and it obviously gets them in trouble frequently (especially with witches).

My favorite Nord-related tidbit in Morrowind is in one of the series of books, where the one Nord the author meets in a Valenwood village is badmouthing almost everyone, and when asked why he's in Valenwood, he mentions that he's a diplomat. If that's the most tactful and diplomatic individual that the Nords could send, it doesn't say a whole lot for the rest of the sorry lot.

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NAkeshIa BENNETT
 
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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:50 pm

They re-make the joke in ESO, with a Nord diplomatic party being portrayed as a bunch of gullible stooges who you trick into wearing gaudy comical outfits, and carrying tourist knick-nacks as Argonian Totems.

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Ernesto Salinas
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:51 am

Where are the Bretons? I never liked their snooty attitudes.

Redguards are chill. Nords are too dumb to hate. Imperials ...well... They're good for business, I guess.

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Post » Tue Aug 26, 2014 8:26 pm

I hated the Nords in every game until now. Now I have Lydia, Aela, Serana (she's kind of a Nord), and Igrond so it's hard to want them gone now.

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Alisia Lisha
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:39 am

Why those three specifically? *Actually reads OP* Oh.

Ugh, I dunno, Nords I guess, cause I like them the least out of the three presented. If Skyrim's anything to go by they'll all be Colovians soon anyways, so that's okay.

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Jessica Nash
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:53 am

I side with the legion in skyrim but would wipe out imperials in a heartbeat, they're a totally redundant race. You could easily still have the imperial legion without a race of imperials. All races should have an ancient primitive backstory which their name and adaptations nod towards, then you can have cliques and societies and empires and etc etc separate. The imperial legion by definition should be extremely multicultural. That tenth race could have been so much more.

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Matthew Barrows
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:20 am

Redguards and Nords I quite like playing. I still have fond memories of my Nord Witch Hunter in MW. It was a bad time to be a Breton, female, wear robes and/or black or read a book in Vvardenfell.

Imperials are too uninteresting to care about.

So none of them.

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Jeffrey Lawson
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:35 am

I can't think of a good reason to get rid of any of them.

Imperials weren't supposed to be a race originally, so perhaps that's a reason, but not a particularly good one IMO. Though one has to admit the portrayal of them is rather uninteresting in Oblivion and Skyrim. Nords OTOH are rather stereotyped in Morrowind and to some extent in Oblivion.

Edit: Now that I think of it, the Nords are pretty diverse in Oblivion in terms of personalities. I guess it's that all the male Nords have this booming voice, that makes them seem stereotyped.

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luis dejesus
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:40 am

All of them.

;)

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Dawn Farrell
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:30 am

None of them, is there a point to this?
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Doniesha World
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:54 am

OP got you to answer, right? Methinks that was the point. ;)

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Matt Gammond
 
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Post » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:11 am

Oh right, fair enough! :D
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