Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-180.95.18.10-20130528000937/@comment-7153552-20130606191052

I tend to believe that everything that happens within Mundus is caused by an outside force, from creation forward. Even the things we can explain away as basic behavior deemed normal by our standards, like the migration of the Chimer before they became the Dunmer. That was influenced by Azura, if memory serves. The Aedra created the realm, Lorkhan heading that up. The Deadra sat back and refused to give of themselves in said creation, retaining the power to change rather than create. This, coupled with a general mischevious and dark nature, makes the Daedra what they are to us today. Then you have other powers, still, like Sithis who is neither Aedra nor Daedra, and the powers of the Soul Cairn and goodness only knows what else is out there!

I suppose ultimately the point I'm taking the scenic route to is that I don't disagree with you, and I certainly won't pretend to know what caused many of the cultural differences, but I choose to believe it was more magical and outside, greater forces than it ever was environmental. My only basis for that theory is that there is precedent for a race being placed into an environment suited for them. The Chimer, being the exception, were changed practically overnight (in terms of timelines for evolution) into the Dunmer to be survivable in thier newfound home.