Yeah, but it's not hard-coded in their blood to do those things. You can meet a few High Elves who are either saddened by or actively resiting the Aldmeri Dominion. Some of them even face racist remarks despite not even being part of the Dominion.
You can meet Nords who are bothered by Ulfric's nationalist vendetta against the Empire.
Also, all the khajiit you meet (even if they are technically committing crimes) are almost always welcoming and friendly towards you. A lot of their illicit activities only occur because they're not allowed to enter cities in Skyrim if they're part of a caravan.
Also not sure where you're getting orientalism from Argonian. They're much closer to Native Americans , both North and South, in terms of culture.
With Assyrian and Babylonian thrown in there, as well. They're a good example of fantasy counterpart cultures done right in that the mix of cultures is too well-integrated to pick apart.
The lore of TES is apparently more complicated than that but you have to read the books in the games to see that and most people's understanding of it comes from Skyrim's main quest and its Civil War which are very simplistic.
Instead of evil races it should be evil factions but yeah ofc gamers don't want to hear this.
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Dunmer are actually pretty ok in lore because of Morrowind. The author popped all of the drugs at once and slammed out some real crazy shit.
Like me rn yeah thats cool 😎
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Yeah, but it's not hard-coded in their blood to do those things. You can meet a few High Elves who are either saddened by or actively resiting the Aldmeri Dominion. Some of them even face racist remarks despite not even being part of the Dominion.
You can meet Nords who are bothered by Ulfric's nationalist vendetta against the Empire.
Also, all the khajiit you meet (even if they are technically committing crimes) are almost always welcoming and friendly towards you. A lot of their illicit activities only occur because they're not allowed to enter cities in Skyrim if they're part of a caravan.
Also not sure where you're getting orientalism from Argonian. They're much closer to Native Americans , both North and South, in terms of culture.
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Dunmer are a mish-mash of Arab and Hindu cultures.
With Assyrian and Babylonian thrown in there, as well. They're a good example of fantasy counterpart cultures done right in that the mix of cultures is too well-integrated to pick apart.
The lore of TES is apparently more complicated than that but you have to read the books in the games to see that and most people's understanding of it comes from Skyrim's main quest and its Civil War which are very simplistic.