According to lore all the Bretons know magic, but it does not mean that they are casters, the Ascendant even counter spell the elf hero lol, enchanting, conjuration and all kind of magic are even more common in Breton culture than most elven ones, although in ESO they show as generic high medieval humans.
I've always liked the idea of them using magic to increase strength or maybe doing a whole Black Panther/Savage Oppress ritual and making them rival the biggest Orcs and Nords
@@dadbodfitness9704 I actually think before they made the eldar scrolls skyrim, the original lore for the skyrim province was the entire area was frozen except for Falkreath
@@dominusbalial835 its not too much of a change it could be that it was and when Red mountain erupted the weather could have changed if you haven't noticed the Rift has geysers and due to how tectonic plates work it could be that Skyrim has a underground volcano
@@infinitybreak4459They wanted to assimilate some of the favorable traits from the human people and practiced eugenics to take them. It was super fucked up. Altmer already have a low birthrate, so yeah, they wanted to try and see if this was the way to fix that, so eventually they would have more elves. It didn't work out well.
In terms of being a mage, only the Altmer are better. The Bretons have magic resistance starting out, start with a conjur familiar spell in Skyrim and can be built up to be magic proof. Mine is currently untouchable by offensive spells. The best classes are Spellsword and Battle Mage. It's really fun slinging spells and cutting down foes who get too close with either a sword or mace.
@@federationprime Yeah I know. I just thought they should be taller, since they have altmer blood. Much like the Numenorians of Tolkiens Middle Earth, who were also men that bred with elves.
@@The.Usurperif you played daggerfall, you would notice the Bretons are taller then the emperials.. Sooo I can't say for sure why or for what reason they changed it. But there was a difference at first. Even before the Lore was fully established afaik
@@The.Usurper The only Numenorians with elven blood were the royalty. Most were just taller and longer lived than other men because they were blessed by Eru Illuvatar.
I don’t think so. From the evidence I’ve seen all we know is that he spent part of his childhood in high rock, and I have yet to see any evidence that excludes him from being a nord
To make this VERY clear the thing that makes this origin dusturbing is the aspect of the Aldmer owning concubines of human slaves NOT the interacial aspect of it
I love Bretons, the concept of halflings makes for such interesting storytelling opportunities, especially in the Elder Scrolls. I once wrote a story about a female breton mage who travels to Skyrim in order to discover the secret behind her mother's identity by using a single family heirloom left to her by her father who died during the great war. The heirloom in question being a royal snow elf ring.
So basically ... They were Crossbreeding so hard that the elven genes were mostly bred out leaving only the actual useful genes for humans I see this as an absolute win
My preliminary research says after. THe atmorans first came to Tamriel in the Dawn Era and completely settled over during the Merethic Era while the Bretons were "created" during the First Era.
It's important to note that children in TES lore take on more aspects of the mother, which is why so many bretons look like men. It was very rare for the father to be male.
I read that, over time, the high elves and Nords kept tapping each other from time to time till Bretons became common enough to be a race in their own right.
The dude in the armour at the start is the ascendant lord, from ESO, who is a Breton. the champion of cyrodill is a imperial presumably so that’s right
Can I make a statement? Bretons were not man/mer hybrids. It is genetically impossible as outlined in the in game book Racial Phenology. I claim that Bretons got their magical resistance, not from mixed blood, but adapted it over time due to the horrible tortures the Bretons endured under Derini slavery. I speculate that the man/mer myth was a propaganda piece created by the Thalmor to garner sympathy from the people of high rock. This Breton, though, will never forget. And forgiveness is in short supply.
Racial phylogeny and biology seventh edition says in its first line “after much analysis of living specimens, the Council long ago determined that all "races" of elves and humans may mate with each other and bear fertile offspring.” It then goes on to talk about whether an argonian or khajiit could mate with man or mer, and then it goes onto talk about orcs. When they talk about orcs notice that they speak about them as if they’re goblinkin (we know that orcs are eleven descendants, so you gotta remember that the books aren’t the actual people who made this game telling us stuff, it’s characters who were created writing a book based off of what they know during the time) when the creators blatantly tell us bretons are man mer it’s the creators telling us they’re man mer. Also there’s a half orc half imperial (vampire) in oblivion agronak gro malog it’s implied that the reason he’s so powerful is not only because he’s an orc but because he also inherited vampire traits from his father
Breton is my favorite race to play as because they are best suited to my play style. I play as a Spellsword/Battle Mage and they're the best race for that. Currently my Breton is so OP he can't take damage from magic and shrugs off most melee attacks lol. He's a brute
I almost always play the Breton race in elder scrolls. Wether it's the elder enrolls games or just elder scrolls mods for other games like crusader kings or Civilization.
One of the worst parts about how so many people for so long seem to have actually portrayed them is how boring and vanilla they are. Like, the imperials are more interesting than them because they at least have an aesthetic. Edit: and I just find that disappointing because I think at one point I saw some concept art for them that showed heavy ancient Mesopotamian influences and they just scrapped that
I'm wondering how you can go thousands of years without any technological enhancements. It would be interesting to see an Elder Scrolls set in Renaissance-ish times when Medieval weapons were slowly phased out. There would still be magic swordplay but adding muskets and Da Vincian contraptions built for warfare.
No, this one was protecting the rooftop message left by gamers "Prepare To Die". Gamers: "prepare to die? Now this I gotta see!" Roof boss: "now you know"
The storm cloaks are the worst. They are merely pawns for the Knife-Ears. As much as I hate to use imperial terms... It is the Empire that is keeping the elves out of Skyrim. A weakened empire is no good for the realms of man.
@@Deridus The Empire is already weak, unwilling to fight. They'd wait for the Dominion to be ready and start the war. YOu say the Stormcloaks are puppets to the Thalmor while the Empire literally does their bidding.
You can pretty much play as any race with what ever build type in ES games. Unless your doing a RP themed build but I always build my characters to do everything.
While not a conventional pick i play breton swordsman for the magic resistance passive since wizards can be hard to fight plus good conjuration skill is nice to have backup on tap
How does this work? Isn’t it stated in the lore that mixed-race people don’t occur because children from mixed-races would always be the race of their mother??
Breton: “We’re mostly known for magic, but I’m just gonna beat your ass with a steel greatsword and brute strength instead.” 😂
According to lore all the Bretons know magic, but it does not mean that they are casters, the Ascendant even counter spell the elf hero lol, enchanting, conjuration and all kind of magic are even more common in Breton culture than most elven ones, although in ESO they show as generic high medieval humans.
Breton Knightly Orders are a big thing in High Rock
His father is an Imperial as well, whom are excellent warriors
I've always liked the idea of them using magic to increase strength or maybe doing a whole Black Panther/Savage Oppress ritual and making them rival the biggest Orcs and Nords
@@grondunn9707 that sounds sick
No matter how interesting Bretons may be, they will always look like a depressed middle aged collage student who is balding
Lmao 😂 pretty accurate ngl
Sounds like oblivions Bretons
Skyrim bretons looked gross
@@BigFortniteBaIIsabsolutely, even dunmer males looks more beautiful than theme.
ESO Bretons are fire though.
Bretons: Forcibly bred into existence
Pelinal: REMAAAAAAAAAAN
Why does translating to English add a single A?
@@lilschplingbong9457 its basically whag hes saying lol
@@lilschplingbong9457 to speaak English properly you need to aadd and extraa aa to every word.
Nah Pelinal won't kill them their ears are NOT POINTY ENOUGH 😂😂 **cough** Khajiit **accidental slaughter cough**
Is it weird I always root for this guy in full plate armor?
Nah. That dude was kicking all kinds of ass. Assassin's? Magic? Power of friendship? He was taking it all hitting back harder.
Nah dudes cool as heck. Actually I’m gonna rewatch the fight right now
Nope dude. We were all rooting for him.
@@icebreaker5138 btw hes known as the ebony warrior
Heck no, in fact there's a Freebird version that enhances the ass kicking.
The dude with full plate armor will always be my favourite cinematic character
My Favorite Race from the game.. 😊
Mainly because of their magic resistance
Racist
I've played a nord ever since morrowwind so when skyrim came out I was so excited but I actually like the environment and enemy's of oblivion better
Yeah but you're balding
@@dadbodfitness9704 I actually think before they made the eldar scrolls skyrim, the original lore for the skyrim province was the entire area was frozen except for Falkreath
@@dominusbalial835 its not too much of a change it could be that it was and when Red mountain erupted the weather could have changed if you haven't noticed the Rift has geysers and due to how tectonic plates work it could be that Skyrim has a underground volcano
I’m was guessing High Elves doing Eugenics
Wasn’t very far off
Exactly, from what i understand some believe the aldmer of highrock wanted to see if they could make a race of elfmen just for the heck of it
@@infinitybreak4459They wanted to assimilate some of the favorable traits from the human people and practiced eugenics to take them. It was super fucked up. Altmer already have a low birthrate, so yeah, they wanted to try and see if this was the way to fix that, so eventually they would have more elves.
It didn't work out well.
And people always wonder why the Breton character can have optional half elf ears during character creation😂
THEY DO!? Ī never noticed 😭😭
Ah the Bretons, French speaking Celts ... oh you mean Elder Scrolls Bretons! Nevermind.
“Celtic speaking Celts from Gaul” fixed it for ya
@@johnevergreen8019 bretons have a distinct language actually
@@jamescuttler8047 do… do you think Celtic is a language? It’s a branch of languages. Encompassing things like Welsh (Cymraeg) and Gaelic too.
@@ereynolds72 also, Manx
@@jamescuttler8047 FYI, Gaelic was a sub family tree comprised of Gaelige (Irish) and Scottish Gaelic.
Also, there is Manx in the Celtic family tree.
Breton master race.
Ew… I mean I like Bretons, but master race makes me go ew
Breton trash.
>scrawny
>live shorter than other humans
>described like alien looking abominations in lore
>slightly better magic affinity
“Master race”
@Morgan Null that's the best part
I started playing as a Breton and I kind of enjoy their ways.
So the Bretons are half-elves? Interesting, interesting, Interesting.
You could say they are a type of… merman… I’ll see myself out😂
They not half elves. It’s more like a “I’m 1/16th Cherokee on my mama’s side” connection for most of them
In terms of being a mage, only the Altmer are better. The Bretons have magic resistance starting out, start with a conjur familiar spell in Skyrim and can be built up to be magic proof. Mine is currently untouchable by offensive spells. The best classes are Spellsword and Battle Mage. It's really fun slinging spells and cutting down foes who get too close with either a sword or mace.
They are an abomination
Why are they so short though? You'd think they'd be at least as tall as the Nords but aren't they roughly the same size as an Imperial?
They're Nedic descendants and not Atmoran descendants, so they're closer to Imperials in stature than the Nords.
@@federationprime Yeah I know. I just thought they should be taller, since they have altmer blood. Much like the Numenorians of Tolkiens Middle Earth, who were also men that bred with elves.
@@The.Usurperif you played daggerfall, you would notice the Bretons are taller then the emperials.. Sooo I can't say for sure why or for what reason they changed it. But there was a difference at first. Even before the Lore was fully established afaik
@@The.Usurper The only Numenorians with elven blood were the royalty. Most were just taller and longer lived than other men because they were blessed by Eru Illuvatar.
@@strategymamber
Yeah, lots of Old Lore was very interesting, why it was changed, I dunno
My favorite race to use. Can do so many good builds with this race.
Tiber Septim was most likely a Breton, don't tell the nords.
I don’t think so. From the evidence I’ve seen all we know is that he spent part of his childhood in high rock, and I have yet to see any evidence that excludes him from being a nord
Don't tell the elves that either, it will make them even angrier
Gross, one of the divines was a halfling?
To make this VERY clear the thing that makes this origin dusturbing is the aspect of the Aldmer owning concubines of human slaves NOT the interacial aspect of it
I mean, was there really a need to further specify this?
...yeah, probably.
@Cedric Bassman i didn't think I'd have to specify it either. You'd be shocked though :/
It's fiction, relax. I don't want any goddamn knife-ears dating my pure human daughter anyway.
@@CedricBassman People LOOK for opportunities to vilify people. Now you're trying to vilify him for specifying. Unreal. You're a skank, Cedric.
Wouldn't want to be racist against fantasy races, God forbid
Knight guy is like if john 117 or doom guy was in Midevil times
I love Bretons, the concept of halflings makes for such interesting storytelling opportunities, especially in the Elder Scrolls. I once wrote a story about a female breton mage who travels to Skyrim in order to discover the secret behind her mother's identity by using a single family heirloom left to her by her father who died during the great war. The heirloom in question being a royal snow elf ring.
So basically ...
They were Crossbreeding so hard that the elven genes were mostly bred out leaving only the actual useful genes for humans
I see this as an absolute win
It's a shame that they canonically have such a short lifespan.
I am a Breton felmale mage in Skyrim and I love it Skyrim is a part of me and I dream of Skyrim I just love 😢 Bretons
So basically what you're saying is this is another reason to commit genocide against the high elves
High Elves, Dark Elves, Sea Elves, Wood Elves, Half-Elves... At least the Dwemer saved us the trouble... for now.
@@Deridus Don't forget the orc-elves and the cave-elves. Sometimes I can't tell the difference though.
@@NightmareBlade10 I have nothing against Orsimer.... I may have a blade and a quiver full of arrows IN them, but nothing against them.
What, for getting laid? Lmao
Damn buddy on screen was givin them a 2piece with no drink!damn😂
i just looked it up and this dude in the trailer literally is the player, he comes back to life when he dies lmao
It took me a moment to realize you weren't going to talk about actual Bretons
Everyone thinks of france as being some giant monolithic culture.... Until they meet the Bretons.
I don’t know how Marty but they found me
DOC WHO FOUND YOU?!
THE BRETONS, MARTY
Breton: essentially Elder Scrolls equivalent to Half Elves.
So did all of this happen before or after the Atmorans came down and became the Nords?
My preliminary research says after.
THe atmorans first came to Tamriel in the Dawn Era and completely settled over during the Merethic Era while the Bretons were "created" during the First Era.
So I can be a knight that says nee all the time?
Ikky ikky ikky PTANG!
It's important to note that children in TES lore take on more aspects of the mother, which is why so many bretons look like men. It was very rare for the father to be male.
I believe in plate armor superiority.
They’re also what make up the forsworn of markarth
This is pretty tame considering other races in the game…
"Someday love will find you!"
I read that, over time, the high elves and Nords kept tapping each other from time to time till Bretons became common enough to be a race in their own right.
Why they so short and lack luscious flowing hair
What?
Interbreeding, not inbreeding. Very important difference.
Altmer back at it again, being the absolute worst creatures in Tamriel
Whoa, such a deep dive
Breton master race, fo sho! Always my go to.
Using their term master race cringe
@kstar1489 not even close to as cringe, as using the term cringe. That's pretty cringy bruhaven.
Calm down there, you might fail art school.
The Reachmen are actually unique in this regard as they hold very little to no Elven blood.
The dude in video is champion of cyrodriil tho
The dude in the armour at the start is the ascendant lord, from ESO, who is a Breton. the champion of cyrodill is a imperial presumably so that’s right
@@atomictomfoolery4400 he's half breton half imperial
@@spiceyicey based combo. I main both those races in oblivion and skyrim
I love how the cool knight goes from single weild to double weild 🤣🤣
Can I make a statement? Bretons were not man/mer hybrids. It is genetically impossible as outlined in the in game book Racial Phenology. I claim that Bretons got their magical resistance, not from mixed blood, but adapted it over time due to the horrible tortures the Bretons endured under Derini slavery. I speculate that the man/mer myth was a propaganda piece created by the Thalmor to garner sympathy from the people of high rock. This Breton, though, will never forget. And forgiveness is in short supply.
Well said, friend.
Racial phylogeny and biology seventh edition says in its first line “after much analysis of living specimens, the Council long ago determined that all "races" of elves and humans may mate with each other and bear fertile offspring.” It then goes on to talk about whether an argonian or khajiit could mate with man or mer, and then it goes onto talk about orcs. When they talk about orcs notice that they speak about them as if they’re goblinkin (we know that orcs are eleven descendants, so you gotta remember that the books aren’t the actual people who made this game telling us stuff, it’s characters who were created writing a book based off of what they know during the time) when the creators blatantly tell us bretons are man mer it’s the creators telling us they’re man mer. Also there’s a half orc half imperial (vampire) in oblivion agronak gro malog it’s implied that the reason he’s so powerful is not only because he’s an orc but because he also inherited vampire traits from his father
Fortify two hands, heavy armor, and strength. Bro is definitely outfitted with magic
Disturbing..... Shhhh nobody tell him about the Falmer/Snow elves
It's a shame there's only one left... I miss the days when unkillable NPC's didn't exist.
When you said bretons i honnestly thought you were refering to the people that were conquered by the saxons in the uk
What is the fight in the back from
All of this time i thought elve father married with human mother and BOOM, a breton (Half Human Half Elve) was born.
Breton is my favorite race to play as because they are best suited to my play style. I play as a Spellsword/Battle Mage and they're the best race for that. Currently my Breton is so OP he can't take damage from magic and shrugs off most melee attacks lol. He's a brute
Bretons be functionally half-elves of Tamriel
Inbred Half-Elves, got it.
Hahau! Getting High in Highrock, getting Hammered in Hammerfell.
I guess the Direnni Altmer elves had the Nedes (needs pun intended) to breed.
I almost always play the Breton race in elder scrolls. Wether it's the elder enrolls games or just elder scrolls mods for other games like crusader kings or Civilization.
One of the worst parts about how so many people for so long seem to have actually portrayed them is how boring and vanilla they are. Like, the imperials are more interesting than them because they at least have an aesthetic.
Edit: and I just find that disappointing because I think at one point I saw some concept art for them that showed heavy ancient Mesopotamian influences and they just scrapped that
Bro was like, "mixing races, gimme the ick"
I'm wondering how you can go thousands of years without any technological enhancements.
It would be interesting to see an Elder Scrolls set in Renaissance-ish times when Medieval weapons were slowly phased out. There would still be magic swordplay but adding muskets and Da Vincian contraptions built for warfare.
Warhammer got that pretty well covered. It would be interesting to see that on Nirn.
Cannons do exist in TES and the empire had a space program at one time.
Breton:We brits but little better
Bretons are a mixture of different human races such as the imperials, nords and nedes and different elven races such as the aeylids and the altmers
That's not as disturbing as rubbing scat on yourself to take the forn of your deity
Bretons are my favorite race to play simply because half casting is great in every game but Skyrim
Free bird’s song was playing while watching this
I'll be honest, i had no clue who the bretons were. When i read the title i just thought of the French from the Bretagne
I use a Breton Necromancer and I’ve only ever invested on mágica my stamina and health are at 5 and I play the role of a tank
What about the Druids of Galen?
Mer-man? Oh... I get it.
I cannot belive the british are adept at magic.
No, this one was protecting the rooftop message left by gamers "Prepare To Die".
Gamers: "prepare to die? Now this I gotta see!"
Roof boss: "now you know"
Fun fact my name is Breton
Me: "What's wrong with the psuedo angle frenchmen of north west France?
The disturbing origin of the Bretons
They are part elf.
Hol up
I heard that the imperials actually the one that closer to nedic?
TLDR: Fr*nch 😢
High rock sounds like Shakespearean heavy metal band😂
Direct cousins with the Moops
No way that knight took on Ranger, he was the embodiment of dexterity, speed and precision; what a nerf.
This is actually quite tame compared to the other races, mythical beings in mythology, and many other mythical races in literature.
Suffer not the elves
That's not actually that disturbing, it could have been a whole lot worse.
Did you say inbreeding at the end there?
Yea, Bretons have many noble or royal houses and with that comes inbreeding
Yea it happened a lot irl to especially with the royal families in England France and Germany nd Russia
Who is that knight in the trailer you played
Bretons in morrowind and oblivion have the best stats imo
Bretons, aka Nedes that were raped by Altmer.
Any fudgemuppet fan could tell you this. 😉🙃
Bretons are the affair babies of elder scrolls 😂
Well...one one timeline anyway...
Bretons are my go to race for rush down two handed playthrough. With no regard for magic BS.
What simonmagus has to do with this ?
So we gonna ignore how argonian folk are still used as slaves by the dunmer
Half elves then cool
Before they were Bretons, they were the Ni.... Oh. OOOOOh.
So stormcloaks.. not so bad now huh?
Never were in the context.
Imagine you let refugees into your cities and all they do is beeing mad that you are not serving them.
The storm cloaks are the worst. They are merely pawns for the Knife-Ears. As much as I hate to use imperial terms... It is the Empire that is keeping the elves out of Skyrim. A weakened empire is no good for the realms of man.
@@Deridus The Empire is already weak, unwilling to fight. They'd wait for the Dominion to be ready and start the war.
YOu say the Stormcloaks are puppets to the Thalmor while the Empire literally does their bidding.
@@jasperzanovich2504 By not serving them, you mean abusing them at every opportunity. Fuck off
I just wanted Skyrim 2...
They got whoop so bad the background video
sneeds
I've always considered them the Mexicans of the Elder Scrolls series. Probably cause im Mexican and they're my favorite race
Sounds like real life.
Are bretons good for swordsman builds?
Spellsword maybe lol
You can pretty much play as any race with what ever build type in ES games. Unless your doing a RP themed build but I always build my characters to do everything.
While not a conventional pick i play breton swordsman for the magic resistance passive since wizards can be hard to fight plus good conjuration skill is nice to have backup on tap
So bretons are just half elves?... cool ig
Not exactly they were bred by the mer to be a slave race that eventually overthrew their masters.
How does this work? Isn’t it stated in the lore that mixed-race people don’t occur because children from mixed-races would always be the race of their mother??
Disturbing? I think its hot 😛
Sounds hot.