I love how Elder Scrolls treats the fantasy races. Real grim danky and full of racism and dark shit all over.
I love being in Morrowind and being called names because I'm a giant walking lizard where cat folk and lizard folks used to be slaves. Lean into that shit Bethesda. Gimme dat race war.
Except the problem is that Bethesda writes really flat, unconvincing racists. In fact, I'd go as far as to argue weakly portrayed racists in media like Bethesda's are part of why racists are always like "I'm not racist!" because they're comparing themselves to absurdly over the top tropes of badly written racism.
They do now for sure. Morrowind at least was a lot harsher. It wasn't just racists. There were groups who still practiced race-based chattel slavery. Now they are mostly too scared to even mention it as a possibility.
(Although I would argue Starfield is pretty racist in it's creation. A large portion of black characters have African accents. This is long after colonization, and theoretically there would have been lots of race/nationality mixing after leaving earth. Sure, some places may retain or even strengthen their accents, but it probably wouldn't be race based anymore, or at least not the same as in modern day earth. It's so uncreative and uninteresting, and seemingly racist in its portrayal. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who noticed this, but it aggravated me.)
One of my favourite examples of a "weak" racist is Ulfric Stormcloak in skyrim. You telling me the Jarl of Windhelm and the leader of the pro nord movement continues to tolerate the grey quarter within his walls? Especially given it is implied most nords are racist, and especially the windhelm ones, it seems it would be an obvious political move to evict/raze/kill off the grey quarter.
Of course this could be seen as a bit extreme but it seems weird to me that the city hosting the leadership of the nord rebellion is more racially diverse than some of the other nordic settlements.
Used to be?
Looks like some n'wah forgot to lock his shed and now all the farm tools have run off.
Is that Luanne?
King of the Hilves
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Hank definitely sneaks into Luanne’s room at night to get some of her clean burning propussy.
He would never, he can't even look at her in a towel
Night Elves in Warcraft 3: Murderous xenophobic amazons.
Night Elves in World of Warcraft: Bubbly hippie chicks.
Dwarf Fortress elves are basically Bosmer from the Elder Scrolls, basically anti-vegans. They will eat the bodies of their fallen enemies, but won't bear any harm coming to a plant.
I hate them. Let me chop the trees down in peace you worthless elves!
Else their wooden weapons will slowly bruise us all to death!
Pretty sure that's bobby and Luann.
That better be a propane grill I tell ya hwat
It looks more like Cotton to me.
Elves in Divinity Original Sin 2: nomnomnomnomnomnomnom...
Mmmmmm adrenaline rush
Meanwile Forest Knife-Ears in Warhammer:
Setting foot in our forest? Bad move!
That feel when you gaslight the Fantasy French into worshipping your God Queen and then kill them for trying to see her.
Yeah, but that's a fun recreational time!
Also that feel when you save the Fantasy Holy Roman Empires future Emperor because reasons.
Seriously the biggest flex Karl Franz ever did was encounter the wood elves as a child and not get fed to the trees. Add on the fact that they showed him respect as a child and the elector counts shouldve put him on the throne instantly.
i sell fire salts and fire salt accessories
taste the meat, not the heat
Will you grill me on this grill?
YOU BETTER EMPTY THE GREASE TRAY
Based rotmeth enjoyers
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
