Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16060423-20130930190945/@comment-206.248.181.234-20140315183047

That part of about Nords being larger and stronger isn't even a part of the quote from the UESP, just something you added. Also mace, dagger and sword fighting are quite different yet they been lumped into the same categorey in Skyrim. Imperials aren't strictly based off the Romans. It's a not a very good thing to label any race in TES as being a carbon copy of real life culture. The Imperials have some influences from the Romans, but they are also heavily if not more influenced by Aldmeri and Akaviri cultures in lore and yes Bethesda did a bad job at depicting them by making them boring medieval dudes in Oblivion. They also turned Cyrodill into a bland forest when Michael Kirkbride the guy who wrote most of the ES lore wrote in the Pocket guide that it was a diverse environment with tropics and jungles. He made another story about Talos changing the landscape afterwards to cover up Bethesda's laziness. Getting back to the point, there is no mention of the average Imperial being good pugilists like there is for Khajiit just as there is no mention of the Redguard being as good destruction and alteration mages as the Altmer and better than the Bretons in destruction magic which is the case in Skyrim which is quite absurd when the lore says most Redguards distrust magic and view it as weak and wicked let alone be as good at it as two of the most magically attuned races in Tamriel.