Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-180.95.18.10-20130528000937/@comment-7153552-20130605164341

To agree and exbound upon Banneram, the Dark Elf became such from a major event, or some sort of outside interference. Resulting in no more Chimer, who orriginally favored the Altmer in base appearance and migrated to Vvardenfell upon the whim of a Deadric Lord (I forget which one off-hand) for them to arrive and find the Dwemer already living there. Making that Daedric Lord, like most, a bit of a bastard, lol.

I agree that each Mer race seems to be rather well fitted for their climate, the Bosmer had help. The Bosmer and Khajit(sp?) were engineered, for want of a better phrase, from the same base race of forest dwelling people by two different powers (I can't remember if they were Aedra or Deadra). The creator of the Bosmer got all pissy about it and cursed the land the Khajit lived in and it becamse all sandy and nasty, but they adapted - presumeably with more outside help. Meanwhile, the Bosmer were given the lush forests of Valenwood.

You know, it seems mortals in Mundus can't go a day without being interfered with by the Deadra, and the Aedra try to create new things to help the mortals, and then there's other powers that fall under different headings like Sithis and those guys that rule the Soul Cairn, whatever they're called. Life on Nirn as a mortal is rather sucky, even we heros get tricked or manipulated by the Deadra and such from time to time (my more recent favorite is Molag Bal's quest in Skyrim where we get trapped in the cage, lol).

At any rate, to bring this back full-circle, all of that manipulating has caused the differing of the races to be rather targetted to whatever the events of the time or the climate of their area. The only thing I would like to enforce a little stronger is that children don't generally favor their mother, it's been established as hard cannon that the mother determines the child. Mother's genetics are dominant. At best you'll see basic physical traits like eye color or skin tone come out from the father if he's of a different race.

Long post, I'm sorry, to all those that read all the way through I give you a slice of pi! Anything after 3.14 is yours for the taking.