You forget Sanguine's quest. While it doesn't have the Benny Hill moment it did in Oblivion, it was pretty funny.

Oy. I know I've posted an old PVP Online strip before about Why Furries Are Bad. I think I got somebody all riled up in that thread, to be honest.

I actually haven't gotten past the first part of it, mainly because I'm always doing another quest when I start that one.

There's that.

I have noticed the identification of the Nord/Stormcloak cause with racism comes very easy to some (see all the "Stormcloak vs. imperial" threads). Such an impression would be less available if some racial roles had been reversed, I believe.

The "drunken Nord louts insult dark woman" incident, when you first enter Windhelm, is all too recoganizable and is almost irresistable in its forgone conclusions about the stormcloak cause. If that doesn't trigger the white guilt, the semi-apartheid system of Nords/dunmer in the city will.

As some posts higher indicate, the Nords are OK as long as they're just dumb, jovial drunks some with rough edges and a Santa-Claus laugh, as in earlier TES games. But rallied around a serious political cause akin to nationalism, they suddenly become a lot more threatening and also seem to make a lot of people uneasy.

I don't know if it was Bethesda's intention to make the choice the player can make in the civil war such a loaded question (including racism and nationalism, but also other touchy subjects such as imperialism and religious intolerance and persecution). But if it was their intention, they succeeded. Nothing about Skyrim sparks as lively a debate as a topic on the merits of the Stormcloak cause.

Beard > No Beard

I first began playing as an Argonian, then nord, then Wood elf , then nord, then kajhiit, then nord. so i'm sticking with nord, but due to the lag, i've made another account on my playstation that is an orc for fun. I love Nods...

True. Sheogorath has to be the most memorable figure in the TES series. I'm glad to have met him.(by memorable I mean if you ask somebody name one person in TES, he's probably the most people will know)

Yeah, you know, I agree. I'm kinda wanting to see where this thread goes: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1330184-bretons-and-their-feeling-towards-the-forsworn/

Ten bucks on WWII.

PS.: Why does It always double-quote on chrome?

Well, yeah, people do seem to be shoehorning things into a WW2 anology. That being said, I do find the Thalmor a bit SS-like. Their black robes probably help cement the impression.

Here's a little anology I came up with (if it makes sense) I join the U.S. Army because I HATE every single other country am I right? That's about the logic of this OP's thread
(No Offense)

I don't hate Nords, but I don't like them either. I'd say they are my least favorite race in the series.


I always choose to play as races I don't get to play as, often. I currently have rolled a Argonian, Orc, Redguard and a Khajiit. May roll a Darkelf later.

That's true! I used to tuse those guys as landmarks because I began to mix up the roads around that region. Ah, good times!

Remember "Seen any elves"? Real wit, that...

I wasn't into barbarians and was worried that Skyrim was going to be doing the cliches - which really was silly of me. Nobody's going to play one long joke for many hours. TES is good at portraying its citizens as varied and divided by personal and political concerns.

well i don't hate playing as a nord, i just hate that the nords have to be racist to every other race that isn't a nord, i respect their honor but that's about it.

I don't like their racism, hatred of magic, dumbness, etc. I tend to RP as a Khajiit the first time I make a character in any ES game. I actually started out with a Nord in Skyrim, but I got bored with him. Personally, I just don't like playing as a human in a fantasy game. Seems rather pointless.

The absolute best, most awesome character I have created is a Nord male. I noticed that every preset still has annoying dimples after every custom creation. Even Nord NPC's have dimples on their cheeks. I hate dimples! Why is there no way to get rid of them! No Breton males have dimples, but I want to be a Nord. Ugh... so annoying. Everytime I look at my character, the dimples are all that I focus on.

I don't dislike the nords at all. My third character is one. No problems so far.

I always played as an Argonian in every TES game. Their culture is interesting and the way they think and their general outlook on life reminds me of myself so it was easier to roleplay it for a first/main character. When I arrived in Skyrim and the Nords, especially the Sons of Skyrim were calling me lizard and made it obvious that I am not welcomed in their homeland I kind of started to dislike them. Not to mention seeing the Argonian ghetto quarter in Windhelm made me quite angry. Bunch of racists.

It could be worse though. At least the Nords don't want to enslave beast races like the Dunmers did in Morrowind.

humans are boring and beasts are bad ass, of course that is only my reason