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Lots of Events Happened between Oblivion and Skyrim. ;}

Okay, so you got the information from the UESP Skyrim Races page, but where did the person who put that up get the information from, because I'm highly skeptical.

Maybe races being in skyrim, or the 200 years since oblivion, have changed thier stereotype.

I guess 200 years is enough time for the main races to evolve geneologicaly and socially, so maybe they have different traits due to this?

To be honest, I wouldnt question it too much until it comes out

Keep in mind that this is in a different land. Nords having greater speech in Skyrim, their homeland, makes complete sense.

As we say at top of nearly all pages: Details may be missing or can be different from those in the published game. This page will be updated to match actual in-game information as soon as possible.
Try not to complain about mistakes until we have a chance to play the game ourselves. I'm serious, nearly all of the information on the Skyrim pages can't be verified. If you see something odd, just assume that the details are off, or are completely wrong.

That's kinda what I was thinking.

The bonuses seem more regional, to what that particular race would benefit from their hereditary skills.

Where's the source for this? Other than UESP, obviously.

Not so much as loosing articulate ability, more like Nords don’t like "eloquent speakers".
That’s why I listed 2 possibilities.

We don't require sources on most pages in the Skyrim namespace. It was decided these were pointless as we were going to just remove them all anyway. As I said, take all of the information found on pages with the pre-release banner with a grain of salt. They don't exist so much as to provide information, as to get the basic layout of things for after release.

Do Breton have 25% or 50% resistance to magic in Skyrim? On the race page it says 50% but on the Breton page it says 25%.

A lot of things are being updated. We don't know. As I've said, look for a pre-release banner (which is present on both pages). If one is present, the information isn't to be trusted implicitly.


Perhaps the dev team altered things for better balance, perhaps these are all just wrong, perhaps these are hereditary traits to these races that only became prominent in Skyrim's environment.

Excellent observation OP. What the heck is going on?

Maybe in-game we will catch wind of 200 years worth of changes among these races.

On Nirn, I guess we all assume time/change occurs slowly. 200 years of changes on Earth would account for alot.

The regional difference makes total sense to me. I'm not going to wrack my brain over something like this anyway.

I think the regional differences plus 200 years as compared to 7-8 has changed a lot of what we know.

Also: games change.

Although I'm sure many would disagree, I'd rather them change lore to balance the game rather than stick to lore religiously regardless of how it may affect the games.