That's a nice find. Thanks for sharing.
Even so, whoever created that list, there are things they got a bit wrong, in my opinion.
Altmer, yes I can see the resemblance here.
Argonians, lovely lovely amphibians. The reference to mesoamerican cultures looks completely off to me, because their colourful plumes come from birds, not amphibians. I would love to see Argonia in the next TES installment though, with lush jungles, Crysis style but with the personal touch of Bethesda.
It would be truly amazing. Mesoamericans are fine to me. I have a weakness for argentinians, though, which are southerners, more than meso.
Bosmer, their choice is fine. I will only add that mesoamericans could be categorized here. I like americans -they are dreamy and "innocent" to me, although the USA is a world in itself, and some politicians like Bush leave a lot to be desired, interfering in some places and matters in a way that makes this world a worse place to live-. I know of some americans. not IRL, who would like to live in Canada -great country and people- because of their politicians.
Bretons. Cool, after my Argonian, my next character will be a Breton. I will think about his background.
Dunmer, nice too. I like japanese culture.
Imperials, I am fine with the resemblance of imperials to Romans -and Greek also-, but not so much packing the British empire and the roman empire as if they were so similar. Despite the fact the British countries one of the most advanced nations in the history of humanity, very influential, and having some of the most amazing inventors, historically wise it was mostly a colonial empire just like the spanish & portuguese empire at some point. Or even the german, french or belgian empire.
I mean, the Romans created not only a culture, but are the parents of romance languages, most of the western culture, and even created a religion. You can see their huge influence in the english language. Maybe english people don't realize but they have a lot of expressions from romance languages.
I.E. if you say, "celestial dawn", the world celestial comes from the word cielo -ceo, etc-. Cielo is sky. If that word didn't exist you would have to say something as "skyial down", which doesn't make sense.
I am not Italian, but I am roman catholic. Romans were pagans and their gods were based on greek mythology, but they converted to catholicism because they found a more structured, ritualized, spiritual experience in catholicism.
One of the first victims of Romans was one of our fore mothers, a 15 year old girl who died when romans were still pagans -Saint Aginia or something like that, can't remember her name know, and I don't know her name in English also-, or Saint Mary Goretti -I know a few women IRL who are called Goretti- :smile: who died when she was 11. They became saints because they were tortured by romans and they found out that it didn't work, and they were amazed at how catholics had structured their religion, and they started to convert because they found it superior to theirs. I am not a priest, but the priest of my parish, a very cultured person -though not very loved here by some people-, told me this when I had a conversation with him this summer. He also told me he had read thousands of books during his life.
But anyways, before I get off-topic, Imperials resemble me the roman empire more, because they shaped the world in so many ways and are the actual first ancestors of the western culture. The British Empire, in its heyday, reminds me of the Spanish or Portuguese empire, unlike the romans. However, imperials may be well based on the british empire too, because imperial comes from empire. They were my favourite in Morrowind.
Khajiit, well, I think they got it wrong here. They are like amphibians, although in this case just cats. Maybe their clothing is colourful and so on, but it looks to me more like the argonian clothes, both dress in a very colourful manner, like hippies. A misconception americans have is that Gypsies are native of Romania, which isn't true. Gypsies come from Egypt. -Gyp... see the analogy here-
I remember seeing the Romani and gypsies connection in an episode of Angel -the Buffy TVS spin-off- when they talked about Angel's background, and I was appalled.
Khajiit are like argonians, in my opinion, in the sense that their special skill bonuses are based on the same abilities both species have in nature.
Nords, yes, they are the perfect stereotype as vikings. Close to where I live there was a very famous battle when Vikings tried to conquer these forgotten lands. It's a battle people here commemorate every year, in July. -btw, some names of the months come from roman emperors-.
I was a Nord in Oblivion.
Orsimer or Orcs, I don't see the resemblace here either. Mongols had an advanced culture, and Gengis Khan was the leader of one of the largest empires in the history of the humanity and was one of the best leaders in the history of humans, too.
If anything, Orcs would be like Huns, especially under the reign of Attila. Attila the Hun terrorized Eurasia in the middle ages -coincidently, the Middle Age began after the fall of the Roman empire, their importance was supreme-, pillaging villages and stuff.
There is a very very famous saying here which says: "You are like the horse of Attila, everywhere you step on the grass doesn't grow".
I still remember the mongolian fable of the blue wolfess and the fallow deer in a game called Age of Empires. I loved the mongol campaign.
Redguards, sounds good to me. I can imagine a new TES taking place in Hammerfell with arabian or middle east motifs. A similar city to Constantinople would be amazing. Back in the middle ages the Persians had a very advanced culture.
I hope the next TES takes place in Argonia. There are islands for expansions -true expansions, not the so called, currently, DLC, which sometimes features the most petty inclusion these days- and there are places with lovely names like Soulrest or Greenglade.
