That's kind of deliberate though. Redguard definitely presents the Empire as imperialist invaders, the philosophical foundation of all three Empires is basically Alessian anti-elf genocide, it was literally built on the murder, death, and betrayal of the people who co-operated to found it, and a lot of it being "Good" is because Imperial aligned people have repeatedly rewritten the fabric of time of elide away any awkward things. Talos himself in Morrowind states it's time for the Empire to die.
That doesn't mean the other factions are good, though. Aldmeri literally want to destroy the world, Bosmeri want to eat people, Dunmeri have based gods but stole and murderered their way to power and are hardcore slavers. Dwemer literally were trying to reformat the hard drives of creation and replace it with them.Nords are the Worst, Bretons make their Forsaken cousins look like angels
Pretty much everyone in the Elder Scrolls is a giant raging douchebag...except the Argonians (and to a lesser extent Kajihit and Orcs) which ARE presented as mostly good in the subtext.
i dont think it does. they're hardly heroes in morrowind or skyrim, and i wouldnt say oblivion plots onto a political analysis very well. and they're the baddies in that Redguard game.
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That's kind of deliberate though. Redguard definitely presents the Empire as imperialist invaders, the philosophical foundation of all three Empires is basically Alessian anti-elf genocide, it was literally built on the murder, death, and betrayal of the people who co-operated to found it, and a lot of it being "Good" is because Imperial aligned people have repeatedly rewritten the fabric of time of elide away any awkward things. Talos himself in Morrowind states it's time for the Empire to die.
That doesn't mean the other factions are good, though. Aldmeri literally want to destroy the world, Bosmeri want to eat people, Dunmeri have based gods but stole and murderered their way to power and are hardcore slavers. Dwemer literally were trying to reformat the hard drives of creation and replace it with them.Nords are the Worst, Bretons make their Forsaken cousins look like angels
Pretty much everyone in the Elder Scrolls is a giant raging douchebag...except the Argonians (and to a lesser extent Kajihit and Orcs) which ARE presented as mostly good in the subtext.
i dont think it does. they're hardly heroes in morrowind or skyrim, and i wouldnt say oblivion plots onto a political analysis very well. and they're the baddies in that Redguard game.