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Winston Wolf wrote: Das Erkunden der Welt hat mich die ersten 40 Stunden auch total gefesselt.

Allerdings fällt einem einfach auf, dass Skyrim kein richtiges Rollenspiel ist. (Das hat euch jetzt bestimmt schockiert)

Winston Wolf wrote: Ich war wirklich begeistert von Skyrim, aber ich warte dann doch lieber auf ein richtiges Rollenspiel.

Winston Wolf wrote: @Tyler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtvblfUv6kI#t=38s

Well, the whole ‘orcs as elves’ thing sprung from this little tidbit, which gets mentioned on one of the loading screens: The dwarves in the Elder Scrolls series, builders of all those fancy ruins you explore, are actually elves. The formal name for them, as you probably know, is Dwemer, which means (according to the loading screen) “deep elves.” You probably have seen that but didn’t really pay it much mind (especially since I’d guess there’s over a hundred loading screens on just about every imaginable topics from Elder Scross history to the behavior of horkers). But that got me to thinking that all elven races seem to have the ‘mer’ suffix in their name:

Wood Elves – Bosmer
High Elves – Altmer
Dark Elves – Dunmer
Dwarves – Dwemer.

Assumedly, ‘mer’ means ‘elf’ in the elven language. Well, there are two other races in Skyrim that are known ‘mer’ races. One are Falmer, which you’ve probably run into if you’ve been traipsing around in the dwarven ruins. And that got me thinking that, since the technical name for orcs is ‘orsimer,’ that might mean they’re elves, too. Well, during a quest last night, the ‘Falmer as elves’ hypothesis was confirmed, as one of the NPCs basically told me that the Falmer used to be ‘snow elves’ until they started fighting the Nords eons ago and got driven underground. There’s also a quest where you have to collect ‘elven blood’ from all the races of elves… including orcs (but you didn’t have to collect blood from any of the human races, or Khajit, or Argonians). So, while I don’t think they’ve ever come out and said it straight away (heck, Skyrim is the first time that they’ve said Dwemer were deep elves), the evidence strongly points to orcs in the Elder Scrolls really being a species/type of elf.

Kaiser Augustus wrote: Danke Bethesda, dass ihr eure Bug-Artefakte über Generationen mitschleift. Der Gedanke, irgendwann einmal eine große neue Spielfläche mit einem Bethesda construction kit zu erstellen, wird wohl ein ewiger Traum bleiben...