Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140531154239/@comment-25640840-20141122201614

Nelthro wrote: When I asked where redguards come from I was not referring to location.

Nedes turned into nords,

what turned into redguards?

In my experience all humans came from the same creature, in real life. Does the same apply here? Yes and no. It's a little complicatied. The elves and humans both have the same ancestors and that's why they can interbreed (eg, Bretons). Those people were called the Ehlnofey and there is a myth saying how they became so different. Some of the Ehlnofey stayed in tamriel and remained mostly the same (elves) while some left tamriel to live in the surrounding, harsher continents. They were changed by their difficult lifestyle and became the physically stronger but less civilised humans.