Hiyah, Cabius.

It's been quite a fun week for my main character, as well.
As for being an outsider, perhaps you could roleplay your character as a descendant of one of the original settlers.
Imagine a miner or the first Factor was an ancestor...on your mother's side. The current crop of Dunmer (exiled from the eruption of Red Mountain) see anyone not from their close-knit enclave as an outsider. They have no idea what you may or may not know. So you can quietly go about your questing, letting them talk to you as though you're a fetcher...all the while secure in your own family's history.