Yes, yes I will. I will shoot them from the skies and feed their corpses to the Nix hounds of the land. I will rend their corpses to the earth as ashes.

As someone who moved out of his homecountry because of this "courage in war" I can't really agree with that statement about "hardships". Not that I hate Americans, enough of "my" people are already preoccupied with that and I'm not really into racism in general, but in the modern age most western countries don't really know what real hardships look like. And if we go back in time a little, the western world has mostly shared the same hardships so neither the US-Americans nor the Brits, Canadians, French, Germans or anyone else really stands out.

Besides that, I don't really see the point in wearing the fact of having a "bad" life as a badge of honor. Having a good life is something to feel good about, IMHO.

Haha, I hope you didn't think that I meant other countries are cowardly. I just find ourselves getting into everyone's war . I'm glad to know that there are people out there who don't think we're all cheeseburger loving, obese bimbos XD

Nord through and through stay loyal to Talos and his empire.

This is very true. Take a look at African countries for hardships, others as well but Africa in particular. And I also agree we should not feel guilty about having a good quality of life in Europe, North America, Japan and various other parts of the world.

What country are you from if you don't mind me asking ?

They resemble Asiatic races.

Dunmer are like Turkic / Mongolian or Chinese --->

Ashlander are like the Mongol / Turkic as they live in a Turkic tent called a Yurt. Have parallel belief to Mongol / Turkic with shamans and ancestral spirits etc. They live a lifestyle hunting with a bow in a desert land similar to that of Mongol / Turkic people.
The Morag Tong which is a Dunmer underworld organisation is made up of a Chinese word.

Orsimer are like Huns as in they are are like the Asiatic influenced races but they live amongst European type races (The Huns were from Northern China but lived and moved around Europe). The Huns like the Orsimer were described as being ugly and stocky in appearance. They bwere decribed as being terrifying in appearance and attitude. The Huns was referred to as a race who centred on being being warriors.

Argonians are more like south east Asians or Amerindians than African.

Khajiit resemble Indians (as in the country of India) ---> jungle and desert region. Names sound Indian. Big cats such as tigers and lions habitat is in India. Tigers and lions act as the symbolism used by Indian nations for themselves. etc. The Khajiits of Skyrim resemble Romani Gypsies who also have their roots from India.

I'll just remove myself from the chat now, as I don't want to start an arguement. However I do find your comment ignorant. I wasn't wearing a badge of bad life, I was explaining that the U.S. has had its hardships, just like orsimer. It was my take on how Orsimer and Americans relate in similar ways, not a pity party being thrown for Americans. We've shared the hardships of quite a number of countries, making it our problem too. Just because it isn't affecting us doesn't mean it doesn't affect us when we get into it.

I'm part Scottish too, but do I feel anything like the Nordic culture? No, I HATE the Nordic culture we've seen in TES titles so far.

I don't think comparing your real life bloodline is a good idea since by that logic, no one would be an Argonian or an Orc. And what of my German blood? What race is that supposed to be?
Nah, it's best just to pick the one that most matches your own personality and culture.

I'd probably be Imperial or Altmer. Imperial because I usually talk most real life issues out, Altmer because I can NEVER know enough.



I don't think you understand how ignorant YOU probably sound to him right now, and I'm afraid you might've missed his point...

How about a http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w389/photoshooty/Excellebet-1.jpg

On top; i think i would be a Dunmer

Exactly, that's why I wouldn't use "hardships" as a factor to compare someone with Tamrielic races.

I'm originally from Serbia, although the region I lived in is now part of Kosovo.

I wasn't really going for "pity party", sorry if it seemed that way.

Longknife - I'd say Germans were a coin toss between Nords and Imperials. Depends on what part of Germany you're talking about I think.

True Scots are Celtic. The Bretons are based on Celts. (even the Forsworn of the Reach have some pagan style Celtic influences). The true Bretons in real life cultures are branch of British (Brythonic) Celt.

The magic aspect of Bretons come more from a King Arthur style Merlin the wizard influence who was supposedly a druid left from the old Celtic lifestyle.


I agree. The Colovian highlands are very German / Austrian. More so than Skyrim which is more Scandinavian / Baltic

I like Serbia.

individual hardships cant be summed up by the country as a whole...every country has rich and poor, weak and strong, hard and soft. Ive been to hell and back, fought many personal battles and am far from soft as american society has become. America isnt getting portrayed right by our messed up gov't or the dumb tourists that travel the world...trust me theres alot of us who arent the soft society members you see on tv or see mucking up your country.

I feel ashamed at times to admit my american birth because this country has lost so much of what once made it great and strong...i hate the system we have and the "average americans" that give us all a bad rep. We're not all overweight and weak, we dont all drive minivans and have money and a nice life. Everything i got is hard earned and everything i know is hard learned

Funny, the first people to settle Scotland were not under the sway of Celtic culture. That came much later from continental Europe just like the Germanic culture most of Scotland practices today. Unless you speak a Celtic language you aren't Celtic, it's simply a linguistic term, ethnically we'd be Scottish.

The only Celtic people in Scotland are the one's living in the far West of the country who still speak Scottish Gaelic natively, as well as the small Scottish Gaelic speaking communities in some of the major cities.


Are the English Celtic ? Are the Germans Celtic ?

Nord because at some point they always win.

That was more of a rhetorical question. As I said, to me it makes more sense to compare your own culture to the cultures of the 10 races.

That's why I would be a Skeever.

Or a bottle of Skooma.

I wish I could say the same.

My intention was not to insult Americans, I stopped with the hatred years ago as a side effect of growing up. And as I said, we're all red and squishy inside, dumb people are everywhere. The thing about hardships I mentioned was connected with the "real world country = Tamriel race" thing, since individual features are far too diverse to use in such "transitions".
And honestly, if we had such good television as you have I would probably pay more attention to the screen too.

I'd probably be one of the beast races just because their stereotypical lifestyles are ones I find fascinating and would (probably) enjoy myself.

Orc or Nord.

What about Dutch/Hungarian?

You can't really judge your entire nation based on a few acts. Scotland doesn't exactly have a clean slate (does any nation ?) when it comes to atrocities and the like but I still love my country.

Hmmm. My mom is Puerto Rican, and my dad is German-American




Sload? - More likely Breton though

Of course you can't judge a whole nation, each nation consists of individuals who mostly aren't responsible for everything. You can however chose to abandon your own nation because you get told that someone else is the bad guy during your youth when you later found out that it was your side who started the whole mess by killing civilians. If both sides tell their people that the other guys are evil and give them guns it's a logical conclusion that they will start shooting at each other, but it doesn't make it right. That's why I don't see any courage in war.

War stories are great in works of fiction or even in history class because you're not involved. As soon as you get involved it's something different.