My theory on where each race in tamriel comes from

[Nerderd]

Khajiit and Argonian: The races native to tamriel.

My theory about high rock: Ancestors of modern day altmer inhabited high rock (already known of). Then when ysgramor's army came into skyrim, the elves started experimenting with them. Using magic, they gave the nords their own blood, and trapped them as victims. After eventually getting freed, these nords with elven blood became bretons. The aldmer also put their prisoners into cells where they are victims of spells. These spells made these prisoners not normal, and they left their cells, and also were freed with nords. The nords taught these weird elves about how to be strong, and slowly these elves were turned into orcs.

Nords and Imperials in my belief are almost the same, and due to living in different places for thousands of years, the nords and imperials naturally become somewhat different.

I believe that redguards are related to nords and imperials.

I believe that when the elves left their continent, they originally came to summerset, but due to a large amount of elves, they populated throughout tamriel, and slowly became different.

[FauxFurry]

Read the lore. In a setting suffused with magic and ever present divine and diabolical entities, there is little need to theorize unless that is one of the hooks of the franchise (see Dragon Age for a setting where all mythology save the Elven ones are false).

[Neo]

Yeah the lore literally tells you where the races came from. No need to guess.

[Altbert]

• Altmer (a.k.a. High Elf or Salache): Summerset Isle
  
• Argonian (a.k.a. Saxhleel): province of Black Marsh
  
• Bosmer (a.k.a. Boiche or Wood Elf): province of Valenwood
  
• Breton (a.k.a. Manmeri): province of High Rock and Systres Archipelago
  
• Dunmer (a.k.a. Moriche or Dark Elf): province of Morrowind
  
• Falmer (a.k.a. Ancient Falmer, Show Elf or Ice Elf):provinces of Skyrim and High Rock
  
• Imperial (a.k.a. Cyrodils, Cyrodilics or Imperial Cyrods):province of Cyrodiil
  
• Khajiit: province of Elsweyr
  
• Nord (a.k.a. Atmoran or Child of the Sky): province of Skyrim (originally thecontinent of Atmora)
  
• Orc (a.k.a. Orsimer, Ornim or Pariah Folk): Orsinium
  
• Redguard (a.k.a. Yokudan): Hammerfell (originally the continent of Yokuda)

[psychotron666]

Yeah your theories are all incorrect. The lore has definitive answers to all of them

[fauxpas]

Yeah ... men and mer come from the same common spirit ancestors, orcs and kats are corrupted elves, lizards are mutated by an alien tree, and redguards survived the destruction of a past universe.


The lore is pretty clear about where the races come from, although there are a few holes here and there.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Nerderd:

My theory

Not a theory, at best a hypothesis....

[R4ndomG4mer]

The character creator literally tells you where the different people come from while you're choosing what race to play as. At any point have you actually read anything on screen?

[Abisha]

they all come from the dwemer.
why the game say so, you need to collect all blood (to unlock something that only need dwemer blood)
that means all races are children of dwemer.

[Valden21]

OP, are you familiar with the lore?

Here's where each race in the game is from, according to the established lore.
-Khajit: Native to Tamriel's Elseweyr region.
-Argonians: Native to Tamriel's Black Marsh region.
Argoians and Khajit are the only ones native to Tamriel. The others are either from somewhere else, or descended from immigrants to Tamriel.
-Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer: All of them are descended from the Aldmeri, who supposedly came from a semi-mythical continent called Aldmeris, which is rumored to have vanished eons ago.
-Orcs: Dunmer who were transformed into what they are now because they angered Boethiah and Azura.
-Nords, Imperials, and the ancestors of the Bretons all came from a continent called Atmora.
-Redguards came from Yokuda, which sunk back in the First Era.

[R4ndomG4mer]

Originally posted by Abisha:

they all come from the dwemer.
why the game say so, you need to collect all blood (to unlock something that only need dwemer blood)
that means all races are children of dwemer.

The Dwemer absolutely did not create any of the other races (with the sort-of exception of the fact that the Dwemer performed experiments on the ancient Falmer, which contributed to them becoming the feral creatures you see in-game)

[Ihateeverybody]

I think a more believable line of thinking is (I hope I am explaining it right) is that reality is malleable in such a way that the past is whatever it is believed to be.

We have already seen it reshaped several times in the Series. Where things have changed significantly from their previous established "Lore" or Canon.

Now that opens up a whole nother set of arguments about who and how the changes are occuring.

I like the idea of Polarity or flavors of the Anchors sending Reality signals out as they exist shaping reality (Interacting with the signal from the other Anchors). As anchor after anchor was lost, the signals were lost and the interaction with others changed the reality of Tamrial (Which begs the question of whether there are Anchors anywhere else on NIRN; seems any mentioned were on the one continent we play on).

Again. Not saying my thoughts or ideas are right. But they always lurk in my mind as I play.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by R4ndomG4mer:

The Dwemer absolutely did not create any of the other races (with the sort-of exception of the fact that the Dwemer performed experiments on the ancient Falmer, which contributed to them becoming the feral creatures you see in-game)

They fed them glowing mushrooms, which are poison. By doing so, they caused the snow elves to go blind, and over the years since, have degenerated into what we know as Falmer.

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by R4ndomG4mer:

The Dwemer absolutely did not create any of the other races (with the sort-of exception of the fact that the Dwemer performed experiments on the ancient Falmer, which contributed to them becoming the feral creatures you see in-game)

They fed them glowing mushrooms, which are poison. By doing so, they caused the snow elves to go blind, and over the years since, have degenerated into what we know as Falmer.

It's hinted that there was more to that and that Tonal Magic was involved.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

They fed them glowing mushrooms, which are poison. By doing so, they caused the snow elves to go blind, and over the years since, have degenerated into what we know as Falmer.

It's hinted that there was more to that and that Tonal Magic was involved.

They didn't need to use Tonal Magic, the fungi alone was enough.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Well the Falmer are a bit of a mystery ok the blinding was conceived with fungi, but what was the ultimate decline is not certain I mean the regression of intelligence, their appearance, etc