Mankar Camoran, an Altmer, was a Dragonborn, and could use the fire breath shout. I'm really just wondering how other non-human players justify their major decisions so maybe I can get a new perspective. but to the point of seemingly cooompletely betraying my race (stormcloaks hate dunmer, imperials have hardly been better) just seems a bit drastic.Īh maybe I'm just being too picky. I can say I want to rise in the ranks for 'personal gain' to some extent. The civil war is less of an issue for me, but again 'madness' seems like a bit of a cop out. And I just can't get my head around how completely Nord they seem. I can RP-explain my way around most things, being a member of all guilds for example - since my character is quite shady I just 'pretend' she's working them all for personal gain (basically.) But the guilds are faaairly minor to me, the whole 'Being a Dragonborn' is to me, a major factor. That would then surely make your story somewhat more believable wouldn't it? I thought there might be at least one story somewhere, or an NPC elf, orc, or whatever using the voice, or being a dragonborn. Isn't it a bit odd that you're the only non-human dragonborn/voice user in history? Obviously I can say 'the gods decided it!' but it doesn't reeeally make it any less funny when everything lore related about the 'dragonborn', is essentially nord related. Mmm, but that being said, those books only mention Nords using The Voice if I'm reading it correctly. It is why The Dovahkiin can find it ok to be leader of all the guilds, despite their contradicting views.Įdited by sajuukkhar9000, 07 July 2012 - 10:57 PM. Akatosh's madness drove one of his avatars, Pelinal, to do crazy things, his madness affects you to. The Nerevarine isn't a Dragonborn, the prophecy calls him 'Dragon Born' but that meant he was born in the Empire, not that he had the soul of a Dragon.Īs to why a Dunmer would join the Stormcloaks, its because Akatosh is schizophrenic. The Voice was mentioned as far back as Morrowind, there is a book called Children of the Sky that mentions it, as does The Five Songs of King Wulfharth, and Mankar Cameron mentions it in the commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes in an indirect way.

The gods and fate care not what form their avatars take, just that they DO what needs to be done. How is it that an Argonian can be a Shezzarine, a Champion of Lorkhan and man? How is it that a Kahjiit can be the Nerevarine, the reincarnation of a Dunmer hero? Secondly, the Civil War! From my perspective, I prefer the stormcloaks (purely aesthetic reasons, blue and wolves ) - but why on earth would a Dunmer choose to join those who're explicitly racist towards them? Just look at Windhelm! However, why would they want to join the Legion either? In Morrowind there was a distinct anti-imperial feel, it just feels very wrong.Īpologies if these are dumb questions, I've tried reading as much information as possible, but I'm still stuck in my mind >.< Although I've heard somewhere that the Nerevarine was supposedly a Dragonborn too - is that true? Being essentially the re-incarnation of Talon 'n' all, the man God. Is The Voice referenced in any previous games? It just makes me feel so odd thinking I'd be the first and only dark elf to be born like that. It's annoying that all the Greybeards are human. Have there ever been any non-human Dragonborn? Or any non-humans that even have the ability to use 'The Voice'? I can't think of any in Skyrim at all. I'm trying to play as a Dunmer and I'm finding it absurdly difficult from an RP perspective, perhaps that's because I don't know enough, but.įirstly, there's the matter of being Dragonborn.

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