My Multi-Racial Skyrim Avatar, Let Me Show You Him

In case you were wondering (and you probably weren't, but here we go anyway), meet "Hamletau", my Skyrim avatar, a Redguard warrior type. Not half as stylish as Iris' assassin babe, but I enjoyed crafting him to be as multi-racial as possible (a bit like my SL avatar, and, well, a bit like me IRL.) Bethesda Softworks, Skyrim's developers, have consciously designed Redguards to have African/Indian/Native American racial features, which is notable for a fantasy game that mostly evokes Western European mythology and folklore. By contrast, many or most developers working in the same genre still lean heavily on white European character traits, with non-white options an afterthought at best. But with Skryim, only three of the ten playable races -- Imperials, Bretons, and Nords -- are decidedly white. I'm curious about the overall racial demographics of Skyrim's player characters. Though I imagine racial features are only a small part of most players' choice of race. Me, I mostly chose to be a Redguard because they seem best at face-punching. How about you?

Comments

[Chestnut Rau]

I am a steathy Khajiit -- which is a cat like creature. I really do love Skyrim. Its a great game and the world is just stunning.

[foneco zuzu]

I can only advise all that are enjoying Elder Scrolls, to try the old titles as well.
Oblivion was already stunning graphically, but older titles have better story behind it (Morrowind, Draggonfal, Redguard and Arena)and all have link sin between them.
And I always played as a breton, lol!

[foneco zuzu]

And If Linden Labs should learn something from Betsheda, watch the way you enter any of their games, with a small quest where you learn how to use all that the game offers!

[Dale Innis]

Redguard too, because they're a nice mix of interesting-looking but not too different (I was afraid the cat or lizard or bug or whatever people might have complicated powers I wouldn't want to have to figure out with my first character).

Skyrim is pretty (in places), but I'm finding it annoying enough to play so far that I'm not playing it much. Maybe just because I'm using a console version and my reflexes are too aged to smoothly manipulate viewpoint and character motion at the same time. (And if there were some way to shut the @#$ NPCs up so they don't keep saying the same four things over and over and over and over and over... it's driving me mad.)

Or maybe I just miss having other real people around, being spoiled by SL an' WoW. :)

[Toxic Menges]

Khajit all the way!