There’s a quest where slavers/drug smugglers ask you to escort a Khajiit slave who has been forced to swallow a bunch of moon sugar. If you choose to complete the task, they’ll just kill her when she arrives to get the drugs.

There’s a couple quests where you can also return freed slaves back to their owners.

Funnily enough, even you play as a Dunmer lots of the Dunmer will still hate you because you have some kind of imperial accent.

Playing Telvanni can have you putting down slave rebellions.

The main antagonist of the game literally wants to create his own ethnostate.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Based and Dagothpilled.

I always thought the natives know your dark elf is an outlander because they don't have the raspy, 3-pack a day voice.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One time I used the Farming mod and Fliggs Slave mod to buy out every plantation in the Ascadian Isles. I had an empire with hundreds of Khajiit and Argonian slaves, which enabled my Princess (mod, alternative start where you are Helseth’s illegitimate child) to live a life of luxury. Thousands of septims on imported fancy dresses (mods lol), luxury houses, it was glorious.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, interesting.

Checks box for "Straight to the re-education camps after the revolution"

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I make up for the fucked up things I do in video games with good praxis in the real world.

My Oblivion/Skyrim mod lists are far worse.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I start to make evil empires in stuff like that, RimWorld, and your Crusader Kings type games and inevitably get bored and annoyed because competent honesty with a modicum of mutual respect is usually so much more effective at exploiting the masses of the value of their labor.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -1 points 1 month ago

Drag created a socialist utopia in Democracy 3 without all that much trouble. The trick is to start with prison reform to lower crime, and then implement policies which turn more of the population into environmentalists until there's enough support to ban cars.

Then drag tried to make a fascist dictatorship, and it's hard. Every policy which makes the core base happy ruins the economy! Debt, debt everywhere!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish the Twin Lamps were a full, proper faction.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You can do a few quests for Ilmeni Dren if you free enough slaves on your own - I think involvement with the Imperial Cult(?) can also get you the pass phrase. I also recall a decent faction mod that added to them.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

A bit surprised there is no self-loathing race

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Orcs are based.

[–] hungprocess 12 points 1 month ago

The orcs are out here being cool with everybody and everybody else looks at them like "THE HELL YOU WILL"

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Totally BS, everyone knows that the Khajiit are treated like criminals and drug dealers/users by the other races. Also, please ignore that skooma behind me.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -2 points 1 month ago

Racism leads to desperation. Desperation leads to crime.

Why respect the laws of a nation that doesn't respect you?

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I cut my teeth on Morrowind, where everyone hates you just because you're not from the island; even if you're the same race as they are.

Another fun fact I learned more recently and never knew before was that High Elves are the tallest race in all the games, and because your movement speed is based on height, they are also the fastest.

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

I don't recall the exact racial tensions in Oblivion, but if this were the Morrowind chart the Dunmer would have negative disposition towards everyone, including other Dunmer.

I think this is also the canon reason the Nords are racist towards them in Skyrim.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i love how noone dislikes wood elves or khajit, and imperials don't care for other imperials

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I love that dark elves don't get a buff for other dark elves because you can easily be the wrong kind of dark elf

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imperials: Solving racism by not giving a shit

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Orcs solve by being victims.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Huh, my two favorite species to play are dunmer and orsimer

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Surprising that most races hate dark elves and high elves but don't care about wood elves

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Proof that it's a fantasy game, IRL Bretons and Nords (Normans) have hated each other for centuries : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton%E2%80%93Norman_war

(Just in case, it's just a joke about an old neighboring rivalry)