Their behaviour towards Whiterun's Imperial blacksmith strongly suggests otherwise.Do you really not see the difference? On the one hand, the Thalmor came to Skyrim to stamp out the worship of Talos, the hero-god of humanity. Manchu wrote: On the other hand, they don't seem bent on lording it over every other race throughout the worldI disagree.
They have an explicitly supremacist perspective on the entire world, not just the Valenwoood or the Summerset Isles.Īny High Elf PC that rejects the notion of an Elven "master race" enslaving all other races could easily join up with Ulfric, perhaps seeing (as the Stormcloaks tend to) the Empire as a mere puppet state of the Thalmor. The parallels to the agenda of the Third Aldmeri Dominion are obvious: the Thalmor are trying to turn back the clock, back to Ayleid times. Alessia - who in turn founded the First Cyrodilic Empire. You guys have to remember that the Ayleids were overthrown by a human slave revolt, led by St. Indeed, it appears that the Ayleids of old invented slavery when they enslaved the Nords. Ulfric may segregate the Dunmer into a ghetto (NB: non-Dunmer were once only allowed to live in/visit a single canton of the city of Vivec) but I don't see him, or any other Nord, taking Dunmer slaves. Also, Dunmer once commonly held non-Dunmer races (especially Argonians) as slaves. I felt sorry for the Dunmer of Windhelm until I remembered how I was treated everywhere throughout Vvardenfell. So I put it to you, racism is a given in the TES world insofar as we're only talking about a belief that a certain race should be dominant in a certain geographical area, such as Nords in Skyrim or Dunmer on Morrowind.įor those of you who played Morrowind, you'll remember that the Dunmer are even worse than the Nords when it comes to this sort of racism.
On the other hand, they don't seem bent on lording it over every other race throughout the world that would be the Thalmor. They're talking about Nords particularly, not humans generally, when they say that Skyrim belongs to the Nords (e.g., not the Breton Forsworn). In the TES world, that's not a man versus mer thing. It seems apparent to me that the Stormcloaks are racists.
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