That it just doesn't feel right playing Skyrim as another race than a Nord?
I dunno but after I've got my Imperial till lvl 81.5, I just didn't feel as if I'd like him as my Maincharacter in Skyrim. Although I'm very pleased about him and I've spent a lot of work with the character, I still needed to make a nord character.

Your thoughts?

Nope.

As you'll see by my signature, I don't even have a Nord character. I play Dunmer and Khajiit only, and I don't feel weird about it at all. The theme/story of the game works regardless of race in my opinion, and I like the way my Dunmer and my Khajiiti characters fit into it.

On a side note, across Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion I did give the other character races a chance. But none impressed me or sparked my attraction for a character like the Dunmer and the Khajiit do. Which is why ever since Daggerfall (my first TES game) I've had my running Dunmer character, and ever since Morrowind I've added the Khajiit into the mix.

But now, I don't even try other characters. I've given them a chance, and they failed to impress me. So it's Dunmer and Khajiit only for me.

And as I said before, I think that the story, themes, and plot lines work well regardless of character. Maybe it's the thinkly veiled racism against everything not-Nord in the game that makes you think that, but I happen to know that my characters fit in just fine in Skyrim.

I do, sort of. I had the same feeling in Morrowind. It just didn't make sense to me to play an allegedly reincarnated Dunmer hero as anything, but a Dunmer. I never felt compelled to play an Imperial in Oblivion, though.

I am Argonian on all three games, and to me it does feel weird to be another race

All my characters are Khajiit o.o
except one who's an Argonian, but I have had previous Human characters and They didn't seem right to me
No odd feeling here.

I totally get the argument, but I just sort of got over it. It felt like the Nerevarine should have been Dunmer and the Dragonborn should have been Nordic, but I've been playing as a Nord since Morrowind and that is just how I roll.

It is different, but with a good story. You can always make a fitting character. Even if it is a high-elf dragonborn.
Most of my characters are nord though.

the game is perfectly made for a male nord warrior that is the dragonborn.


i got this feeling already a long time ago... i can ignore it, but well yeah... it's obvious.

In the merchant shop in Falkreath, Bolund says something like "I can't believe they let provincials like you wander Skyrim" when I am an Elf. When I am a Nord, he says something like: "I can't believe they let provincials wander Skyrim." It fits. It underscores the prejudice of the Nords. I like it, and I feel like everything is as it should be in Skyrim, given the conditions set by Bethesda. You can't even trade with the Kajiit blacksmith on the docks at Windhelm if you are a Nord, meaning the Nord race has limitations too. No, I feel they got that right.

Eww, humans!

I did play one nord (woman ) character to see the stomcloak side of the war (which was mostly the same as imperials ) but since then it's been kahjiit and (modded) elves. I don't really see a big diffrence between the nord and non-nords.

Ditto.

Same here, any character other than a nord feels clearly an outsider to say the best... what I'd like for Bethesda to develop is a better reason for non-nords to be the Dragonborn... we can hardly find any reference of other races having their spawn of the best dragonslayer, although it is quite possible, I guess... I've started reading The Infernal City a couple weeks ago and at some point an Argonian states that, once the Oblivion gates started appearing in The Black Marsh, several armies of Argonians jumped in and closed them as fast as they could... this single statement took me to a whole different approach of the Oblivion Crisis, the Champion of Cyrodiil is just the champion of one province, there are other provinces with their own champions, and it brings me to the point Ive mentioned, about dragonborns that are not Nord related, about dragonslayers of every other province... those just had not met with the Akaviri armies back there. I'm not much into the lore but, I assume there have been reports of dragons outside skyrim, all across Tamriel... well you get the point.

I have yet to play one of the TES games as the "home" race.

In Morrowind I played a Wood Elf.
In Oblivion, I played a Redguard.
In Skyrim, I play a Breton.

And it felt totally right to play any of them.

The closest thing that I would say I get to that feeling is that in Skyrim, I was originally torn between Breton and Wood Elf, and I eventually went with the Breton, because considering how I was going to play the characters, I felt a heavy armored Breton warrior with many magic skills as well felt more proper to be a dragon slaying hero than a nimble Wood Elf who used a bow and arrow, and utilized stealth to silently eliminate his victims.

I never get that feeling.
Argonian all the way!

Ive never made a Nord, and probably never will.
Who wants to be the majority? Not me ~breaks into song~

I've never felt the need to make a Dunmer character in Morrowind, until recently, and usually played a Breton. In Oblivion there was no 'right' race for the game, and I've played that with most races now. And in Skyrim my Nord was the 3rd character I made, but while that is the 'right' race, I don't feel that my other characters are any less suited to being dragonborn, but my Nord will take his responsibilities more seriously than my Redguard has, or my Breton nightblade...

I only have 2 Nord characters so far.

Can't say I have the same feeling. I am currently playing a Breton and I have played Imperial and Orc and I feel fine using them. Thinking I might make a Dunmer next, though I haven't decided yet.

Yes, the game really wants you to be a male Nord warrior, but I say eff that and play what the hell I want. ^^

Doesn't bother me. I have one Orc, 2 Redguards, one Imperial, one Breton, one Khajiit, and one Nord. I'm going to replace one of the Redguards with an elf, I think.

"YOU SO CRAZY"

I have Khajiit and Argonian. It doesn't feel strange at all because they both fit with the story. Why should it be only a Nord who is Dragonborn?

Surprisingly though, Khajiit often live on the edges of society but thee two places I would expect to see more Khajiit is in both the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood but if I recall, neither of them have a khajiit member. Also, only the Dark Brotherhood has an Argonian, the Thieves Guild does not.

Not really. I've always mainly played as an Imperial (or Nord in Arena and Daggerfall), and I've never really felt weird about it.

In Morrowind, I've found that the Nerevarine Prophecies and the fact that you're an outlander even as a Dunmer give credence to the Nerevarine not being a Dunmer.
In Oblivon, I was playing the home race, but Cyrodiil's cosmopolitan attitude made it less important anyway.
In Skyrim, Nords and Imperials have a lot of shared ancestry, and Cyrodiil has plenty of significant historical Dragonborn as well, so I saw no problem with an Imperial Dovahkiin.

Nords are too "Aryan Brotherhood" for me.

It still feels to me like if there were a christian second coming of Christ, but Jesus showed up as a dolphin.