Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.44.141.89-20131113224543/@comment-24.44.141.89-20131114002146

Somebody Stole My Sweetroll wrote: In that case, I don't know. I still lean toward the idea that they're literally serpent-people, purely because there are many sources supporting it, and as far as I know only this one suggestion of them being human. True but in my logic:

Seeing things in-game > Reading it in books

So I would probably say they are humans if they depict themselves as it in Alduin's wall. Then again, there are murals of snake-men in Sky Haven Temple. But that could just mean the gods they worship. As I said, they probably earned their name "snake-men" due to the gods they worship.