Little is known and less is understood about the reptilian denizens of Black Marsh.

We will have posts featuring randomly generated faces (without mods) for each of these races. Hair and eye style and colour are not part of the default settings.

The faces pictured are the 'default' for each race and can be assumed to be what the 'everyman' for the race looks like (male on the left, female on the right). Here is basic information on the ten races. This makes a good jumping-off point for customizing a character as a (theoretically) reasonable-looking face is produced and the various variables, such as age and skin tone, can still be adjusted.įor races such as the lizardine Argonians and the feline Khajiit, the scale/fur colour choices have great potential for very wide variance (e.g., a white lion Khajiit?), but probably out of character for the game world. This is especially visible in the human cultures (Bretons, Imperials, Nords, and Redguards), so that each race can be easily identified merely by look.

The range of changes in random face generation is very conservative, no doubt to preserve an overall look for a culture/sub-race. The character generation system does however have a 'random face' feature that leaves the hair and eyes to the player. Overall, humans come across as rather broad-faced and flat-nosed.Īs a result of providing so much control, it is all too easy to end up with a character that looks odd. Facial features can be molded with a multitude of variables, resulting in bigger/smaller longer/shorter narrower/wider features on a character's face and a broad range of colours for almost every part of the face. Hairstyles are fixed and the choices vary by race, with some that are race-specific. įaces in Oblivion are combinations of texture changes and underlying mesh changes, so that facial features can be paired with skin tone and features that make a character look younger or older. Fantasy game art from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

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