kaleen, do you not see my tusks

Continuing my forever-battles against eso's mmorpg lack of rpg, i just did the betnikh main quest as an orc. To the surprise of no one, no one on this goddamn orc island knows you're an orc.

Your orc is constantly getting orcsplained at by other orcs about how orcs behave, ranted at by humans complaining about orcs (not you, because the game doesn't see you as an orc), and when it comes time for your orc to prevent a future of continued human-perpetuated anti-orc crimes, your human pirate captain and her human girlsquad throw out their single remaining braincell to declare that you, an orc, have betrayed them and their human allies. They are surprised your orc said no to orc death-slavery.

Expecting any rpg in this mmorpg is folly, but somehow eso continues to disappoint.

I finally have an orc character now.

also i finally have a templar now :O I’m gonna make him a sneaky boy.  ignore the sickle clipping into his clothing at his waist there, just pretend that’s not happening, it’s fine.

also holy moly it’s difficult to make a dude orc who doesn’t look like every other dude orc in the game, with their gigantic square zillion-year-old faces of crags.  I would LOVE craggy old character options for women, but of course we don’t get that. Also the fact that no matter where you put the age on male orsimer in char creation, they look exactly the same is a red flag.  and annoying as hell. and bad design. But i worked with what i had and bam, here we are.

i miss the snout noses from oblivion for orsimer, honestly: you could even achieve similar nose-slit effects in skyrim.  i’d prefer my orcs to not lean into racist caricatures of real human peoples, and also for elven (because orcs are elves) creatures to not just look like regular people with a few accessories put on here and there in my fantasy media... but i digress.