Earthen Allied Race thoughts?

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I would have preffered playable Shivvar.

I mean could you imagine having to find weapons for all those arms.

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I stand by every word lol

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Admirable. Still going in the book.

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At least it’s not another elf race.

Good god we have so many knife-ears you’d think we’re an Elder Scrolls game

And everyone ROLEPLAYS an elf, which IMO is just as boring as RPing a human.

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Still say we need Sun Elves. Blood Elves Empowered by the Holy light of the Sunwell to truly represent the Light and all it’s majesty. Something to truly fight against the degeneracy of Void Elves and their filth.

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4x humans, normal, part time wolf, fat, part time lizard
3x Dwarves
2x Gnomes
2xDraenei

2xOrcs
2xTrolls
2xTauren

But we have to be angry at 4x elves? Really?

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first thought " ew "
second thought " kinda hot ? "

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I’m ok with it. Since we usually get a new race every other xpac and we got Dracthyr in DF we weren’t due. So I guess an allied race is better than nothing. Plus I like dwarves…

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Oh for sure. Even if they were, these ones we’re getting aren’t actually like the earthen we’ve interacted with before. The entire point of earthen is meant to be that they’re what dwarves used to be before the curse of flesh. So they give us “earthen”… who look like they’ve been affected by the curse of flesh. That’s just a dwarf with a retro name! Where’s the stone beards?

All that said, despite my cynicism about them as a concept, I don’t dislike what I’ve seen of them in design. They have some fantastic looking customisation options. If they were showcasing all their concept art as new customisations coming to dwarves I think we could safely bet that people would be stoked.

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I know people have expressed their problems - but I’m really excited. I’m already thinking of names and classes for my earthen. And maybe their going to have the same issues as mechagnomes with their customizations - but IDK, just something about gem-crusted dwarves appeals to me.

Sure it’s a recolor. But almost everything is at this point unless we get something like Naga or Centaurs.

I’m just excited to see what their racials will be.

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Oh definitely, that would have been great.

So give us Naga and Centaurs.

Do it you cowards

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While I like Earthen - I want my Earthen, but I also want other races too.

Like - I’d legit love being a Centaur.

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Elder scrolls has at most 6 Mer (elf) races if you include Khajit.

Most don’t count Breton but i do!

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Getting sick of “Races from nowhere” for Allied races when there are lots of established races people have been requesting for decades.

We have Ogres, Forest/Ice/Dark Trolls, High Elves, Mok’nathal, San’layn, Broken, Furbolgs, Gilbalins, Val’krul, Sethyrak and many more with threads and dedicated followings and lots of lore.

A surprise Dwarf with the Racial toggled on is not exciting. People who play Dwarves already have ones they like or have been requesting the already existing Iron/Frost Dwarves or Wildhammer getting their own race and/or Racials.

Not the mention the Earthen themselves are very dull in their implementation. They could have given them vibrant Gemstone Hair or Prismatic Eyes. Or leaned into them being made of stone more and made the model more jagged and less of a reskin.

Heck, the whole race could have been made a customization for curent Dwarf Races. Learn to control the curse of flesh and all that.

They are a barbones idea that did not deserve a race slot or needed more time to cook.

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I intrigued by what is our first stone made race.
I know we’ll ones of white marble and polished stone but I’m hoping they’ll also have an obsidian skin as well as skins with chips and cracks in their skin (their version of scars).

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The Khajiit aren’t Merfolk. They’re part of the Beastfolk along with Argonians.

In the ES lore, there are 9 races of Merfolk (or Elves), only four of which have been playable - Altmer (high elves), Dunmer (dark elves), Bosmer (wood elves), and Orsimer (orcs). The other five have never been a playable race - Maormer, Falmer, Dwemer, Chimer, and Ayleids.

Bretons are of the race of Men along with the Imperials, Nords, Redguard, and the extinct Nedes.

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Not for me.

I’d rather have more customizations for existing races at this point, especially since male BE got the short end of the stick.

Meanwhile my drachtyr visage is flush with options and it makes me upset that none of them are shared.

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Wait, I thought Bretons had elven blood, and one could argue that Khajit are technically Merfolk because they are from the same juice or slime the other Mer are from.

Also Redguard are my favorite, their culture is pretty rad.

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Earthen are several expansions too late and honestly might have been cool if we hadn’t gotten dark iron.

As it is now they’re an incredibly disappointing allied race. I think the reception has been lukewarm at best. Does anyone else remember the near silence when they tried to hype us up for “Horde Dwarves?”

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It’s a part of the lore that is up for debate due to the unreliable narrator trope. Some in-game sources say they’re a mix of Nedic and Aldmeri, others say they’re a mix of Nedic and Atmora.

Khajiit are not from the same origin as the Merfolk, as far as I can find in the lore. They were already present in Tamriel when the Ayleids immigrated from Summerset before the First Era. According to one of the ESO devs, Khajiit are one of the original races to inhabit Tamriel. Where as Merfolk are originally from Aldmeris, a continent that has yet to be explored in the games.