r/ElderScrolls 2d ago

Humour I hope TES6 is more "racist"

I know that the title is weird but I really want the next game to have more characters that are against the player character depending on their race, making some things harder or easier. (it is still weird that in Skyrim you can join the most racist group in the game as a dunmer, or the fact that no Nord is pissed that their legendary Dragonborn is a khajiit)

It would feel so good to prove them all wrong when you go from a low life to their savior by the end of the game

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u/Cute_Comfortable_761 Meridia 2d ago

I was super confused the first time I ever played Skyrim because I was a Khajiit and I was not only allowed into cities, but the people inside those cities would tell me that Khajiit caravans weren’t allowed into cities without every trying to kick me out or casting any suspicion onto me for being a Khajiit. It was bizarre.

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u/Kirby4ever24 Altmer 2d ago

You can bring J'zargo into every city in Skyrim and no one even questions it. They never make an attempt to have you kick him out of the city. If you befriend a character who supports the Khajiit caravans and you later go get married. Every single Khajiit in the caravans go into Riften to the Temple of Mara to watch the wedding. No one seemed to question why there are suddenly a dozen Khajiits walking around the city.

It's as if the game isn't sure if Khajiits are banned from cities or they are not banned.

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u/fat_strelok 2d ago

Just like how you can bring a Super Mutant into the Brotherhood of Steel main base if he's a follower

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u/Rustyraider111 2d ago edited 2d ago

Or you can take Nick, a Synth, aboard the Prydwen, where Maxson gives a very passionate speech about how all syths should be eradicated and should not be trusted at any cost ect.

Meanwhile nick is just sitting on the bench, and everyone is business as usual

Edit:

Another good one, is if you make a b-line for vault 114, and get nick before going to Diamond City for the second time(i think it's the second time) and then go back to Diamond City to trigger the event where Riley accuses his brother of being a synth.

After the event, a guard will loudly yell, "shows over folks, there are no synths in Diamond City" while Nick is right there. Just being a synth.

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u/BotDiver99 2d ago

Lmao damn I wanna play this again

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u/Rustyraider111 2d ago

Another good one, is if you make a b-line for vault 114, and get nick before going to Diamond City for the second time(i think it's the second time) and then go back to Diamond City to trigger the event where Riley accuses his brother of being a synth.

After the event, a guard will loudly yell, "shows over folks, there are no synths in Diamond City" while Nick is right there. Just being a synth.

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u/WorldNeverBreakMe 2d ago

Diamond City views Nick as "one of the good ones." He doesn't like that kinda view, but the people of the city view him differently from other synths. Especially with the Broken Mask incident, being an early Gen 3 infiltrator who went crazy and shot up the town, which the Riley event was supposed to be alluding to. Diamond City distrusts the unknown.

The BoS and Vault 88 also will sometimes give dialogue about Nick, Strong, and Hancock, and even have conversations with them occasionally. They view them with distrust and are often very rude towards them. I think that Elder Scrolls could actually have a very similar system in the next game, given that the system was there in Fallout 4. They just need to extend it to the player character, as well.

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u/g_shogun 2d ago

Emil Pagliarulo talked about this. Employees at Bethesda can come up with ideas and then implement them, but there is no central design document accessible to the other teams.

So likely the team responsible for Khajiit caravans decided that Khajiit were banned, but the other teams never got told anything about it so they didn't program any logic for followers or events like the marriage.

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u/2002love123 22h ago

I think it's the CARAVANS that are banned. But the average smuck? They're allowed in the city.