Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9687035-20130518004940/@comment-184.166.97.59-20130607011316

Imperial= Franks, Lombards, Romantic/latin people

Khajit= Arabian/ or middle eastern (even eastern european like turks or croatians)

Nords= Gaulic,Germanic, Gothic/ Scandinavian (Indigenous central and North europeans

Redguard= African ( Everywhere from Egypt to Madagascar) they represent the many different tribes of Africa in it's entirety.

Altmer= No obvious real world connection, however the whole Greek idea makes sense as they felt like they were descended from the gods as well as the technological superpower of the time.

Dark elf= Again like the altmer they seem to have their own unique flavor. However i believe they are based somewhat off of the japanese, or other Imperialistic asian races.

Wood elf= They have a more aborigional way of life than the other elves like the tribal picts or celts, they have somewhat of a druidic spirituality and they are cannibalistic and eat their meat raw. Yet they resemble a mixture between fairies and halflings (or Hobbit). I feel like the mer are cultures that zenimax and bethesda realy tried hard to separate them from humans (in reality or otherwise) so it is hard for us to identify them with a human culture.

Argonians= Incan/Mayan/Aztec, southern american ambush warriors with a nack for poison and voodoo.

Orcs= Mongol/ Hun, A barbarian culture that almost literally worships chaos, and conquest.

Bretons= Welsh/english Brettonic French