Elves in old fairy tales were often antisemitic depictions. Which sort of fell away with the emergence of the high fantasy genre. But when Skyrim made what was just the mage race into an evil international cabal of puppet-masters alarm bells started going off in my head.
They weren't a thinly veiled antisemetic trope in Oblivion so it was alright
Wait, when were they anti-semitic trope?
Elves in old fairy tales were often antisemitic depictions. Which sort of fell away with the emergence of the high fantasy genre. But when Skyrim made what was just the mage race into an evil international cabal of puppet-masters alarm bells started going off in my head.
I like to think they're just supposed to be Americans but you're probably more right