They're hate of magic is nearly as big (because as often as they get injured, they should love alchemy and restoration). And with as violent and prone to death as the Nords are, they'd need to be fucking like crazy to keep their population up.īut that's just one tiny aspects of many that plague the world building of Skyrim. Even in a world where women are the physical equals of men, like Syrim posits, you'd still have more men in dangerous jobs then women just because of pregnancy. I'm not some /pol/ faggot, but even for me that looks silly. This being Skyrim, the woman is always scrawny while the husband is a Conan the Barbarian rippoff. You see it quite often, where the wife is the breadwinner doing the dangerous and physical labor jobs (like mining or soldiery) while the husband is the stay at home taking care of kids.

It's not uncommon to come across homes where the diminutive Nord woman is drafted for war while her much larger, bigger, Nord husband is left taking care of the kids. Skyrim's culture is weird, and not in the believable way that Imperial or Vvardenfell culture is. But then, Skyrim takes place during the fall of the old order, kind of an equivalent to the final days of the Western Roman Empire, so people live in squalid conditions and are filled with ignorance compared to the much more comfortable and advanced Third Era. They had mountains that they'd converted into giant cities where thu'um masters sang weapons into existence above the clouds, enormous sky whales that flitted through the sky, and many other wonders. It's all kind of sad, because Skyrim seemed a very interesting place from all the lore books. The vikings/celts that they seem to draw their inspiration from were far more interesting. Really, everything about the way Skyrim structures its human society is insipid or stupid. There's even some ingame book about a nord girl who wanted to be a house wife or something but her parents forced her into being an adventurer/knight instead.

Anything that doesn't involve hitting someone over the head with an axe is antithetical to strong nord culture. Nords are knuckle-dragging, backwards, barbaric assholes in Skyrim. >The mages of Winter hold literally have a lore explanation for why it is so small and pathetic.

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