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[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I cut my teeth on Morrowind, where everyone hates you just because you're not from the island; even if you're the same race as they are.

Another fun fact I learned more recently and never knew before was that High Elves are the tallest race in all the games, and because your movement speed is based on height, they are also the fastest.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 8 hours ago

I love that dark elves don't get a buff for other dark elves because you can easily be the wrong kind of dark elf

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Proof that it's a fantasy game, IRL Bretons and Nords (Normans) have hated each other for centuries : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton%E2%80%93Norman_war

(Just in case, it's just a joke about an old neighboring rivalry)

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 12 hours ago

The orcs are out here being cool with everybody and everybody else looks at them like "THE HELL YOU WILL"

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Imperials: Solving racism by not giving a shit

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Orcs solve by being victims.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 36 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Racism in Oblivion is child’s play. Morrowind had full on race based slavery.

There’s a quest where slavers/drug smugglers ask you to escort a Khajiit slave who has been forced to swallow a bunch of moon sugar. If you choose to complete the task, they’ll just kill her when she arrives to get the drugs.

There’s a couple quests where you can also return freed slaves back to their owners.

Funnily enough, even you play as a Dunmer lots of the Dunmer will still hate you because you have some kind of imperial accent.

Playing Telvanni can have you putting down slave rebellions.

The main antagonist of the game literally wants to create his own ethnostate.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wish the Twin Lamps were a full, proper faction.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

You can do a few quests for Ilmeni Dren if you free enough slaves on your own - I think involvement with the Imperial Cult(?) can also get you the pass phrase. I also recall a decent faction mod that added to them.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Based and Dagothpilled.

I always thought the natives know your dark elf is an outlander because they don't have the raspy, 3-pack a day voice.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

One time I used the Farming mod and Fliggs Slave mod to buy out every plantation in the Ascadian Isles. I had an empire with hundreds of Khajiit and Argonian slaves, which enabled my Princess (mod, alternative start where you are Helseth’s illegitimate child) to live a life of luxury. Thousands of septims on imported fancy dresses (mods lol), luxury houses, it was glorious.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, interesting.

Checks box for "Straight to the re-education camps after the revolution"

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I make up for the fucked up things I do in video games with good praxis in the real world.

My Oblivion/Skyrim mod lists are far worse.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I start to make evil empires in stuff like that, RimWorld, and your Crusader Kings type games and inevitably get bored and annoyed because competent honesty with a modicum of mutual respect is usually so much more effective at exploiting the masses of the value of their labor.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 hours ago

Drag created a socialist utopia in Democracy 3 without all that much trouble. The trick is to start with prison reform to lower crime, and then implement policies which turn more of the population into environmentalists until there's enough support to ban cars.

Then drag tried to make a fascist dictatorship, and it's hard. Every policy which makes the core base happy ruins the economy! Debt, debt everywhere!

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago

I don't recall the exact racial tensions in Oblivion, but if this were the Morrowind chart the Dunmer would have negative disposition towards everyone, including other Dunmer.

I think this is also the canon reason the Nords are racist towards them in Skyrim.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 13 points 17 hours ago

A bit surprised there is no self-loathing race

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 14 points 18 hours ago

Orcs are based.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

i love how noone dislikes wood elves or khajit, and imperials don't care for other imperials

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Huh, my two favorite species to play are dunmer and orsimer