Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20140403112600

Astralking123 wrote: are maormer and falmer going to be playable? No. I feel like that would require an explanation from the previous game - and having a member of a lost or absent race be captured by the Thalmor for conspiracy, implying that they're a citizen or at least a person recognized officially...well, it doesn't add up, does it? Conspiracy is something of a domestic crime. Plotting within the nation, or at the very least a nation. It would make more sense for maormer or falmer to be arrested for something external or intrusive in nature, since they're both foreign, probably odd-looking, and, y'know, thought to be dead or so far off they might as well be. But the beginning explicitly refers to conspiracy, and I think it's a nice bit of foreshadowing. And overall I just don't think they should be playable unless they become more common. A member of one of those races is going to stick out like a sore thumb and wreck gameplay. I mean, it could be an interesting premise for a whole new game - that you're a member of a lost race and have to deal with the societal flak - but to be honest, that societal flak is going to screw a lot of things up.

That, and again, I think there should be some explanation as to why these guys are suddenly playable, when they were only NPCs or even mentions in books before. Have their populations increased? Have they recently arrived to Tamriel's shores? Then that's a monumental event, you can't just pop a player-character in the middle of it and take it for granted afterwards once they've been arrested. That is a massive elephant in the room. Their numbers must have already risen or whatever it is that is suddenly making them commonplace enough to play as before the game in which they become playable. And that can't be put between games, because again, huge, shocking, revelatory event. Elephant in the room.

So no. They will not be playable.

However, there will be vampiric Dwemer followers. And a Falmer follower. :D

- WorshipsMeridia