Note: In real life & TES, Lighter skinned folk in the North & West. More diverse & exotic folk in the South & East. (Dunmer, Orsimer, & Reguard exceptions will be somewhat explained)
LETZ GET STARTED!!!! This'll take awhile, so take it in slowly & please, do use your resources to check my work. Do not just respond without following up on what I have posted.
OP NOTE There are 5 over-arching stories for TES...& to some degree Reality.
1. The Struggle between Elemental Forces seen as Gods. (Order & Chaos/Anu & Padomay)
2. The Struggle between Aedra & Daedra/Angels & Demons (Personified Archetypes of Vice & Virtue)
3. The Struggle between Religions/Culture (which over-time define the racial divide.)
4. The Struggle between Kingdoms/Tribes/Clans (which play into Religion/Culture/Race)
5. The Struggle between You & your purpose...& the affect you have on the rest of the world.
Nord = Norse/Germanic/Slavic (Northern Europeans...including parts of Slavic Russia).
Cyrodilic = Eastern Rome, Byzantium. Possibly Constantinople as the capitol, based upon the word Cyriilic, which is Greek/Slavic language used by the Byzantine Empire.
Even Wikipedia says ,"The origins of Byzantium are shrouded in legend."
Check it out
Talos Stormcrown/Tiber Septim = Caesar
The Blades = Norse/Germanic VARANGIAN GUARD. The Byzantine Emperor actually employed them as his personal elite body guards. (stfu about Star Trek).
just check them out on Wikipedia: VIKING + BERSERKR + ELITE CRUSADERS = EPIC AWESOME
Akavir = Possibly Japanese influence (dragon culture), considering the armor & weapon design...but the Nords already had Lamelar Armor which looks Oriental. Understand that the Trojans had similar armor as well.
Believe it or not...thanks to Marco Polo & The Silk Road....another road was used by the Norse/Germanic...which gives a possible explanation for many things.
Enjoy learning about how both a viking long-sword is made as well as where the material for it came from.
Simply youtube for: Secrets of the Viking Sword (2012) full
Breton/Reachmen = Celtic, Gaelic, Gaulic (Western Europe [France/Spain], & England/Ireland/Scotland).
Orcs = Russo Mongols, Huns, Turks....Scythians. Because they're everywhere.
Yokudan'/Redguard = Phoenician/Egyptian/Caananite/Atlantean.
They seem to be closest to the Sons of Ham & Egyptus according to Biblical Legend & some Ancient Egyptian sources.
After the Deluvian Flood, the Ademic Son of Noah, Ham, had children with Egyptus, who was the last surviving Caananite.
The Ademic Race was not necessarily "White" either. According to Genesis, Cain simply had darker skin...which only gives a vague contrast, not distinct identification to Ademics (race of Adam) being White.
After Egypt & Atlantus were established, some say the Phoenician Sea-Merchants came about from the coast of Northern Africa. During this time & before, Atlantis (Yokuda) is said to have existed until it sunk.
They are neither Semitic nor Arab, yet take some stylization from both...or just the opposite....they were the origin of those styles.
Altmer/High Elves/Ayleid (Aliens) = Egyptian/Babylonian/Sumerian/Iranian
This is how you write Aldmer, in Greek letters: AΛΔΜEΡ
Most people haven't mentioned anything close to this. It's really disappointing.
I'll admit, there is some mystery regarding this race of course & it will be continually debated....but you've gotta be retarded to not consider the Persian Empire.
It seems like the Ayleid/Aldmer are a cross between Assyrian Egypt (conquered), Babylonia, & Persia in general. They were highly developed civilizations, both which a mass exodus of people from among them for varying reasons.
According to the
Enuma Elish & Book of Enoch, some of us are genetically engineered by Aliens who posed as gods & ruled over us.
Fun Fact: The word Aryan comes directly from Iran.
Racial Superemacy & the Islamic Conspiracy to take over the world...or destroy it. This is literally the case in major sects of Islam (12th Imam followers primarily) who interpret both The Qu'ran & Hadith's to mean just what I said.
The Ressurection according to these type of people...can only happen, when all life is dead.
This is highly indicative of the High-Elves plot to destroy Mundus. I have a difficult time finding any other nihilistic plot to destroy the world w/ the belief of transcendence.
It's also relevant to our time, since The Thalmor (current Muslim Brotherhood?) only just arrived in the most recent release TES V: Skyrim.
Current themes of Anti-Christian rhetoric (you've heard it & even spread it) that really looks like Anti-Talos propaganda in the game.
This part of the post has been removed for violating forum rules. There was real-life King, whom the races of men followed anywhere & everywhere & saw as a liberator.
He is.....
Pelinal Whitestrake = Megas Alexandros. He went on a crusade to defeat the enemies of Zeus. He conquered the Sumerian/Babylonians just about everyone, everywhere he went.
Pale in All, The White's Drake (Dragon)
(Greeks, Slavs & Germans were all WHITE. But of course, Ideology creates Race through exclusionary breeding)
Compare
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Morihaushttp://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Pelinal_WhitestrakeMorihaus was, apparently, a winged man bull.to the Wikipedia article on Alexander The Great
Here are a few excerpts from the Wikipedia page:
According to Josephus, Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek King who would conquer the Persian Empire. He spared Jerusalem and pushed south into Egypt.
Alexander advanced on Egypt in later 332 BC, where he was regarded as a liberator. He was pronounced the new "master of the Universe" and son of the deity of Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert. Henceforth, Alexander often referred to Zeus-Ammon as his true father, and subsequent currency depicted him adorned with rams horn as a symbol of his divinity
The figure of Dhul-Qarnayn (literally "the Two-Horned One") mentioned in the Quran is believed by some scholars to represent Alexander, due to parallels with the Alexander Romance. There are legends that actual gods ruled on this Earth...I think that's who the Ayleid were.
Ayleid doesn't mean Wild Elves. You have to re-interpret & understand the general sentiment & find its equivolent. It means Stranger or Alien to men...which they certainly were.
For freak sake! Look at Ayleid ruins & Soul Gems....or even the Weyleid Stones
Soul Gems = BATTERIES! So it's pretty ridiculous when you charge your "sword" or "bow" enchantment up again.
In the movie ALEXANDER, Philip of Macedon (Alex's father) talks about a war with The Gods vs Titans & how The Greeks are for The Olympians & against The Titans.
Interesting movie...just watch-out for the boucning boobs & homosexuality. They come out of nowhere.
St. Alessia/Alessian Order = Elysia or Order of Elysium. It existed before Alexander & was involved in some covert operations against Babylon. This group has much in common with The Psijic Order & could be conpared to The FreeMason Fraternity in ancient & classical times.
Alessia is Athena, Goddess of Wisdom.
The Alessian Empire (Alexanders broken Empire) existed in a bunch of pieces. Ptolemaic, Selucid, etc ...until Reman (like Romulus & Remus?) took over.
Note: The Selucids were Greek & Babylonian & tried to "Hellenize" Israel & other semitic tribes & kingdoms. This could be seen as the Nord & Dwemer alliance & the final battle at Red Mountain.
Chimer/Dunmer = The Semitic Tribes & Kingdoms. I'm not only refering to The Hebrew.
4 points that deal with Semites in general. I can't find anyone else who matches up with the Dunmer this much....but of course...there are still many questions unanswered about The Tribunal which I need to look into.
1. Biblical Exodus & Babylonian Captivity/Liberation ( matches very closely with the Velothian Exodus. It's actually amazing that anybody was set free.
Pharoah was forced by plagues & conspiracy & King Nebuchenezer was influenced by seduction & conspiracy...seriously...why set captives free? Only unless they're more trouble than they're worth. Those damn Jews. How do they keep getting into & out of messes like that? LOL!
Veloth (Veloth = Moses? Trinimac = Egyptians)
2. The Hebrews, after much war, made allies with many strange folk in the area...but only because of common enemies...such as Assyria & Babylon which had conquered Egypt.
3. Diasporia literally resulted in many Semitic Tribes going NORTH into the Caucasian Mountains.
This is why so many Jews/Semites ended up in Russia, Poland, & Germany & explains why the Dunmer are now in Skyrim...
4. Themed Strongly Mesopotamian. I'm sorry, but that excludes everyone else but the Semitic tribes & kingdoms
Dwemer/Deep Elves = I keep thinking Sumerian...but the Ayleid & Aldmer take that place.
Someone suggested Greeks...but it might be more relevant to say The Selucid Empire which was composed of Hellenized Mesopotamia....which included Babylon, which the Maccebes went to war with.
I'm still fuzzy on this one. It's possible that the Dwemer were once part of the Ayleid heirarchy...which could generally be understood as the combination of Akkad/Sumer/Babyl
Bosmer = I haven't studied that deeply into any of the southern Asian Civilizations very deeply....but it's very possible that looking at the enviroment, which is Coastal & Forest with Feral Elves (people with funny eyes ...I'd say west of India is my best guess.. Vietnamese, Burmese, etc.
Argonian = Swamp People? I have no idea. Keep Ancient America out of this.
I'm not certain on this...but either they're the same as the Bosmer but more tribal or they're Western Polynesians. That's as far as I'll go.
Kajhiit = Assyrians. I'm almost 100% possitive. They practically worshiped Lions.
..somewhere close to Babylon/Persia.
Tscesci = Chinese? Strong Serpent/Dragon Culture.
I'm not gonna get into the other races. I'm tired & I wanna do something else other than TES.
TES Online there is the Eagle, Lion, & Dragon.
The Eagle/Falcon/Hawk = Egypt, Babylon, & Rome.
Somebody mentioned the Etruscans & Towers. The Eagle was used as a Roman Standard. If Etrusca means Tower, then Rome must be New-Babylon....since both Babylonian & Roman Empires were cultural Dopplegangers & pretty much stole everything from everyone.
I'm not exagerating.
Greeks used The Owl & Eagle to represent Athena & Zeus...but I'll leave that alone since I don't know when the Greeks started associating Zeus with the Eagle...or if they were somehow corrupted by the Persians.
The Norse/Germanic did not use any bird to my knowledge, except The Crow/Raven or Sea-gul. They typically used great beasts to represent their culture. Boar, Bear, Wolf, Elk, Dragon (that they've slain).
The Lion = Assyrian & some Babylonian are built around the concept of The Lion.
It only makes sense, considering the Aldmeri Dominion races. Cat-Folk & Supremicists.
The Dragon/Serpent = In some cases, the Babylonian Gods ruled over dragons & used them as servants.
The Norse/Germanic cultures/religions are built around the slaying of Dragons...one of the most famous dragons in Nordic Lore is Jormangander, The World Serpent.
Jormangander is the beast brother of Fenrir, The Wolf Beast who's jaws open as wide as the sky & who's hunger threatens to devour the world.
Alduin is the hybrid between the two.