Are you on PC perhaps? Cause looking at the "Thalmor Gloves" in the game they aren't even Heavy/Light Armor and they have a base Armor of "0". How sir is your statement possible?

According to historians and leading researchers into Gypsy (Romani) identity such as Ian Hancock, Gypsies originate from Rajput style warriors of the Thar desert of region of Rajasthan in Northwest India who protected India but eventually fell against the massive Islamic invasion in approx 1026ad by Muslims Turks from Afghanistan. After defeat they were re-enlisted in to the Muslim army (much like Gurkha were into the British) and sent to the western front on the Islamic Empire with their wives against Armenia. Here they disbanded and sought refuge from the Greek speaking Christian Byzantine Empire in what is now Turkey which is how they then came to be in Europe. Most Gypsies can still speak a Rajasthani originating language to this day.

Try imagining the warriors of Elsweyr more like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82Umn4g8MI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZ0_uLySmA

As for their look in Morrowind. Beast folk were rubbish as they could only where part armor. The new look is ace.

Sell me the khajiit.


that's gonna be 2000 septims each, cheers

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!

Nobody breaks the law on my watch!

Ahkari was the first Khajiit caravaneer I ever spoke to. She told me that the caravans were not allowed inside the cities because the Nords thought they were all thieves. When I asked her why she was in Skyrim, she told me that she had to flee Elsewyr because she was a wanted by the law, and that she had to flee Cyrodiil for the same reason. Kind of makes me see why the Nords do not trust the Khajiit caravans...

lol fine you caught me, take me to jail

I talked with her but it was a ling time after I had spoken with Ri'saad. First impressions are what stick with you and I had a different first impression when I spoke with Ri'saad. Now I was playing a Khajiit at the time so that may also have affected my first impression. I am going back to talk to Ri'saad next time I see him and Ysolda as well, since those were the first two I spoke with to see what those two really said. It has been a while sine I have spoken to either of them about Khajiit.

Night-eye is nice if you use sneak. I find the Khajit's tail movement almost hypnotic when your character walks or runs. I also had a lot of fun creating the face/head of my feline character, Klaaz.

Sure. We're a bit full up right now, so you'll have to share a cell with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqGH0lm4vc. We're not sure how he's hovering like that.

I just talked to her again out of curiosity. She does not say it is the caravans specifically the Nords do not allow in the cities. She just says "us". So it is not clear if she means all Khajiit, or just the caravaneers. She goes on to say that it is because the Nords think they are all thieves and skooma dealers.

I've -never- been able to sustain my archers from kills alone. The Drunken Huntsman in Whiterun is pretty much my sole source (The fletcher in Solitude is useless, he sells like 8 arrows at a time)

Anyway, fairly certain you can come up with some kind of characteristic that would allow your 'jiit entry.
For example; don't dress in leathers, at all. Makes you look like a thief. Enter towns in some of the most normal or "fine" clothing possible. A stop at the Radiant Raiment might be necessary.

...You know. This idea makes me want to roll a Khajiit now, too. But I've tried, and it's hard for me to make a face I like. I hate to sound racist, but they all look the same :/

this scent is new

My Khajiit is a jack-of-all-trades meaning he uses swords, bows, maces, axes, and wears heavy amour, light amour, is an assassin, mage, thief, warrior, and trader, and a Master smith member of every playable faction and a were-wolf
and no stands in his way, hes related to all my other characters from all the other TES games
the Khajiit are a great race to play as and i love their accent

Humanoid enemies telling you they're going to skin you. Skin them first.

Well, I went back and spoke to Ysolda. She said that Khajiit were not trusted because they had the reputation of being thieves and skooma smugglers and for this reason they were not allowed within City "walls." Although the conversation started off discussing caravans, she seemed to talking about Khajiit the race, when she said they were not allowed in the "walls",

Your theory is plausible and there is a lot of support for it, but like many things in TES lore, there are contradictions and support for another view. Sure, there is some inconsistency about the PC being allowed to enter cities and the fact that the PC is the Dragonborn is not a perfect explanation since the PC can go to other cities before going to Whiterun and be allowed in, although typically only after they bribe or pursuade a guard. Although most players will go to Whiterun before other cities, where they are let in because they are an eyewitness to a Dragon attack and then help the jarl, discover they are Dragonborn, etc.

City "walls" are a protective barrier. The Khajiit in Winterhold is not living inside City "walls" because Winterhold has no walls. The Khajiit running the lighthouse is allowed to keep his lonely job well outside the City walls and away from most folk. Then we have the assassin Khajiit who enters Riften, a City with "walls" that is controlled by the thieves guild. The guards in that City are corrupt as evidenced by your initial conversation with Brynjolf. It is easy to imagine that they could be bribed to let a Khajiit enter the City for a limited period of time and limited purpose.

I am not saying that I am right and you are wrong. Far from it. All I am saying is that the information from the gameworld is not sufficient to make a definitive statement one way or the other and that there is room for differing points of view on the subject. The evidence that Khajiit as a race are not permitted inside the City walls is a lot stronger than the evidence that Talos was a Bretton, yet you still hear people defending that position. That is what is great about TES lore. It is not cut and dried.

I like Khajiit because they're definitely not afraid of the f**king police.
Also they're frequently too stoned to care if you put a collar on them.

Unlike Argonians... who are horrible, slimy, traitorous fetchers.
Only Argonian I ever liked was Big Head.

A lot of things in skyrim seem to be pretty inconsistant. Especially if they involve the player. It's possible either way I suppose.

One of those things I find hilarious about Elder Scrolls lore is that a HUGE amount of it is based on what NPCs have either said in-game or written in the in-game books... and so many people take these sources completely at face value. Like if Bethesda had added a note lying on the ground in some cave or other (by a skeleton, obviously) saying there was a fluorescent pink dragon spewing streams of flower petals... at least one person (probably several) would suddenly declare it canon and go to write an entire UESP page about pink, flower-spewing dragons like it is a foregone conclusion that the dead person's note wasn't, in fact, written on the cusp of insanity.

Personally, I remain rather skeptical of most Elder Scrolls lore that doesn't actually happen in real-time in the games themselves... as it is guaranteed filtered through several gabbing mouths and at least one insane dead person's diary somewhere. And I'm pretty sure the guys at Bethesda are aware that, on average, people talk a lot of crap..... especially fantasy-genre superstitious idiots.

Shavari and J'zargo are both allowed in the cities. Other than traders (the caravans) and bandits, you don't see a lot of Khajiit because there is as much reason for them to be in Skyrim as there is for a Nord to be in Vvardenfell. The climate is very different from their own homeland. But Skyrim has never been very welcoming to foreigners.

I don't get why Tamriel's only blatantly furry race comes from a desert anyway, especially given just how hairy most of them are in the first place. They look like they practically belong in Skyrim... yet they're the desert race. There are more Argonians about the place than Khajiit, and shouldn't they be cold-blooded? Well, I suppose they needn't necessarily be... but still... Bethesda's wanton disregard for biology is much akin to Shadowmere's wanton disregard for physics.

I think it would be weird to play a Khajiit, being the only one allowed in the cities would kill role playing for me.

They're no hairier than large African felines. Also, I'd like to see you survive one night in the Saharan desert wearing nothing but swimming trunks and a t-shirt.

EDIT: also, as you can see from my sig, the sale has been made!

Strangely enough the ones you do meet in skyrim complain about it being too cold for most khajiit.

Elder Scrolls physics and laws do not apply to Earth laws, always remember that.

Well, having fur doesn't mean that they would be hot, rather it protects them from the cold desert nights.

Argonians are descendants of a species of ancient trees, not lizards.

I've never played a Khajiit or an Orc. I remember in Oblivion I wanted to try an Argoninan because I'd never played a beast class in a single player game before so I made this red and black dragon looking Argonian who I decided to make him a Shadowscale and it was awesome. I loved it for some reason and I liked the fact I could jump into water without needing a potion, spell or equipment to breathe underwater. If I ever make another thief styled class which I probably won't I will make it a Khajiit just to try it out. Though I'd probably rather be an Argonian again haha.