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@Thedoucheinthenorth I think the fact that there are only a few Nord magic users throughout Skyrim speaks for itself. The Nords do for a fact shun magic, try to name 5 Nord magic users outside the College of Winterhold that a player is likely to encounter throughout their travels in Skyrim that are not generic characters (Meaning no name and is likely an enemy), then compare that to the amount of magic users who are elves. It's not in anyway silly to say that magic is surperior to melee if the person using the magic is more accomplished at the than the other person is with melee, which most Altmer magic users are more accomplished at magic using than Nords are with melee if not then they're equally skilled since magic comes as naturally to the Altmer as melee does to the Nords especially since as I said before magic ignore any kind of unenchanted armor and since enchanting is a type of magic you can count on the Nords to shun that as well.