User blog comment:Gamer124/Races of Nirn and Cultures of Earth Similarities/@comment-5709731-20130216150757/@comment-5709731-20130216153050

Aye, I can see your point in that. As for High Elves... The only thing that really strikes me is Greece. I mean, look at the Imperial City. That architecture is very greek-ish, and was built by an Aldmer people known as the ayleids. (People, not excactly a race, so they still count as Aldmer. Also, the Aldmer supposedly invented the common tamrielic tounge, and the greeks from our own world invented quite many things. Finally, the roman gods where just overhauled greek ones, and the chief deity of the Empire, Akatosh, is an overhauled elven god, Auri-El. Thus, I kinda think the High Elves are greek.