Khajiit is not a race of furries, technically.

[Reptile Man]

Sorry in advance for this being so long, I just get obsessed easily over things, and I wanted to really prove my point. Also, only read the last paragraph if you want to, the first two are the important ones.

I am a new player to the Elder Scrolls game series, and only started playing Skyrim a couple of days ago. When I was creating my character I saw the Khajiit race and thought that they looked cool but decided to just make a Nord instead. While playing I found the caravan of Khajiits and thought that they had funny accents and saw videos with J'Zargo in them so I thought it would be cool to make a Khajiit character. Later on I noticed that people were calling them furries, and I kinda despise the furries and didn't like the thought of playing as one, so I didn't really want to play as Khajiit anymore. So I did some research to find out if it was true that they are furries.
First I looked at the definition of a furry and since different definitions say different things, I'm just going to summarize it. Furries are people that dress up as animals with human characteristics, or animals with human characteristics, and since if it was just animals with human characteristics then humans, and maybe even ostriches would be furries since humans are animals with human characteristics and ostriches are animals that stand up on 2 feet, so lets just say that it only counts with animals that don't normally have human characteristics being portrayed with human characteristics. Now Khajiits wouldn't count because they are their own race of creatures with a feline-like appearance. They are not like furries like bugs bunny (Yes, he is a furry) because bugs bunny is just a bipedal rabbit, and not his own race of bipedal rabbit-like creatures.
So, the Khajiit are not furries. If you still think that all animals with human characteristics are furries, then you should know that that would mean that we all are just as much or maybe even more of furries than the khajiit are since we are animals/primates with human characteristics. If you say that since we are human so we don't count, then think about how there were many different species of humans on the earth before we were, so aren't we (♥♥♥♥ Sapien) just another animal with some characteristics of the first ever human species?

[Sinsling]

But then you learn that khajit can look like house cats and it makes you wonder if it the idea of khajit came from someone personifying their pet.

[fauxpas]

Nope, there isn't enough depth and freedom of choice in Skyrim to play the kats and lizards as anything other than a human in a furry costume. In fact, the lizards are probably worse that the kats since last time I checked, reptiles didn't need breasts.

Granted, the same can also be said of the various flavors of mer too.


But with all that said, it sounds too me like you are the one with a problem, if you want to play a human with pointed ears, or scales, or fur, more power to you.

[Trehek]

Why you even gotta box things under a general hateful term like "furry"? Just judge things as they are! Are khajiit annoying? No? Fine! Then don't worry whether or not they're "furries" or something! And if they ARE annoying, don't automatically judge other things because of them!

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Sinsling:

But then you learn that khajit can look like house cats and it makes you wonder if it the idea of khajit came from someone personifying their pet.

Have we ever seen an example of the nonhuman kats in game or are they just mentions in various books?

[Sinsling]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by Sinsling:

But then you learn that khajit can look like house cats and it makes you wonder if it the idea of khajit came from someone personifying their pet.

Have we ever seen an example of the nonhuman kats in game or are they just mentions in various books?

Just lore mentions as far as I am aware. 99.9% positive it's a homage to the cat of the person who came up with the khajits.

[Reptile Man]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Nope, there isn't enough depth and freedom of choice in Skyrim to play the kats and lizards as anything other than a human in a furry costume. In fact, the lizards are probably worse that the kats since last time I checked, reptiles didn't need breasts.

Granted, the same can also be said of the various flavors of mer too.


But with all that said, it sounds too me like you are the one with a problem, if you want to play a human with pointed ears, or scales, or fur, more power to you.

Hey I'm just a bored person that doesn't like furries. No problem here.

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This is the best debate ever, not gonna' lie

[Trehek]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by Sinsling:

But then you learn that khajit can look like house cats and it makes you wonder if it the idea of khajit came from someone personifying their pet.

Have we ever seen an example of the nonhuman kats in game or are they just mentions in various books?

They are mentioned in in-game books such as "Pocket Guide to the Empire, 1st Edition: The Elsweyr Confederacy" and both the Alfiq (housecat) and Senche (battlecat) varieties of Khajiit appear in Elder Scrolls Online.

[Reptile Man]

Originally posted by Trehek:

Why you even gotta box things under a general hateful term like "furry"? Just judge things as they are! Are khajiit annoying? No? Fine! Then don't worry whether or not they're "furries" or something! And if they ARE annoying, don't automatically judge other things because of them!

Furries call themselves that, so I will box them up under the term THEY made up, also Animated Bipedal Wolf Enthusiast is too much to say.

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Shing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Nope, there isn't enough depth and freedom of choice in Skyrim to play the kats and lizards as anything other than a human in a furry costume. In fact, the lizards are probably worse that the kats since last time I checked, reptiles didn't need breasts.

Granted, the same can also be said of the various flavors of mer too.


But with all that said, it sounds too me like you are the one with a problem, if you want to play a human with pointed ears, or scales, or fur, more power to you.

Hey I'm just a bored person that doesn't like furries. No problem here.

Then limit yourself to Nord, Imperial, or MAYBE Breton in your playthroughs, because the story is written from the strict perspective of a human, and even then stretches once you attempt to stray from Nordic flavored characters.

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Trehek:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Have we ever seen an example of the nonhuman kats in game or are they just mentions in various books?

They are mentioned in in-game books such as "Pocket Guide to the Empire, 1st Edition: The Elsweyr Confederacy" and both the Alfiq (housecat) and Senche (battlecat) varieties of Khajiit appear in Elder Scrolls Online.

Ah, since I refuse to acknowledge ESO's existence the answer is no, they only appear in books. 😇

[Sinsling]

Originally posted by Shing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Nope, there isn't enough depth and freedom of choice in Skyrim to play the kats and lizards as anything other than a human in a furry costume. In fact, the lizards are probably worse that the kats since last time I checked, reptiles didn't need breasts.

Granted, the same can also be said of the various flavors of mer too.


But with all that said, it sounds too me like you are the one with a problem, if you want to play a human with pointed ears, or scales, or fur, more power to you.

Hey I'm just a bored person that doesn't like furries. No problem here.

Judging people cause others have labelled them. Definitely a problem. :p

But yes, khajit are furries from our prospective because they are personified cats. From a roleplaying perspective they are not because they are a naturally (to our knowledge: they could be a mad mage experiment really!) occuring species in Tamriel.

[Reptile Man]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by Shing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Hey I'm just a bored person that doesn't like furries. No problem here.

Then limit yourself to Nord, Imperial, or MAYBE Breton in your playthroughs, because the story is written from the strict perspective of a human, and even then stretches once you attempt to stray from Nordic flavored characters.

Khajiits still aren't furries. Just a race of bipedal creatures that resemble felines.

[Solomon Hawk]

When is the last time anybody ever looked up the definition of Furry?

[Reptile Man]

Originally posted by Shing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Then limit yourself to Nord, Imperial, or MAYBE Breton in your playthroughs, because the story is written from the strict perspective of a human, and even then stretches once you attempt to stray from Nordic flavored characters.

Khajiits still aren't furries. Just a race of bipedal creatures that resemble felines.

Because even though it may be written in the perspective of a human you still pick your race and people in the game refer to you as the race you have chosen, not as a human pretending to be what race you have chosen.