» Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:54 am
According to the wiki, if you're an Altmer, you'd supposedly get the opportunity to walk around with impunity in certain areas of the embassy if you're wearing Hooded Thalmor Robes. You supposedly even get a little unique dialogue option where you can tell a guard to leave his post. I say "supposedly" because I've never tried this myself, and I've yet to see anyone post for whom this has actually worked. Some people say it's bugged, and it doesn't work even for Altmer. Some people say that they didn't get Hooded Thalmor Robes as a dropped item, getting plain, unhooded Thalmor Robes (which won't work) instead. I seem to remember getting the correct version on at least one playthrough, but never tried using them (never played an Altmer).
However, once you get past a certain point in the embassy, everyone goes hostile on you no matter what your race, so in the end, the differences in this particular quest would be minor, and I don't know if there are enough unique dialogues in the entire game to justify using an Altmer character chiefly for that reason.
You could try searching YouTube; maybe someone has tried this and recorded the results.