Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4092092-20130801070333/@comment-26893431-20170602103349

Busiao No Laughs wrote: Arena and Daggerfall, Orcs are monsters.

Orcs are Orsimer, seeing in Tamriel only Elf races has a Mer at the end of their names...

Ald-mer

Fal-mer

Bos-mer

Maor-mer

Orsi-mer

Orsimer seems to mean Pariah Folks, it can mean Orcs are Outcast Elves. Outcast or not, they are still elves. Except that, unlike every race of Mer, the Orsimer are not given their "definition" in character creation. Hell, their name isn't "Pariah Folk" in character creation either; it's just Orc.