Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2.100.92.38-20130821121230/@comment-15888551-20130823091022

Are we including races from Akavir or the Sload? Or just playable races.

If including them I'd say the Sload. I mean, they conjour sea monsters and have airships for Talos sake. They're the most powerful mages, by a wide margin, in the known world. Plus the most technologically advanced race that's still around. The people of Tamriel should count themselves lucky that they only take issue with the Altmer, and not really enough for a full scale invasion of the Summerset Isles.

If only including playable races, I'd have to jump halfway on the bandwagon and say the Black Marsh is the most defensible. The entire province is basically a deterant to any invaders. But I don't know about saying they're the best at war in general, the only reason they were able to do their almost-genocide of the Dunmer is because they took advantage of Red Mountain's erruption.

Also someone said that the orcs always seem to lose even though they're the best smiths and strongest fighters. That's because as a race, they are the least organized in Tamriel. The largest concentration is in Orsinium, which is really just a city-state instead of a province. All the rest are spead across the various strongholds throughout northern Tamriel, or serving in the Leigon.

So if the Orcs decide to organize, it's safe to call everyone else pretty much boned.