That's what they look like all khajiit can still speak that's the thing that separates them from the SaberCats and other forms of cats and Skyrim and other parts of nern the fact that they can speak in tend to wear clothing
@@tempestflare4339so what do the khajit think of regular cats and sabee cats then? They probably think their crazy or feel bad for them. Imagine if in real life on earth we had wild humans running around naked with no clothes on who could not speak. We probably think they are just crazy or possessed or feral and would probably put the wild humans in cages and try to tame them. Like imagine a Khajit having a pet house cat. That would be like a human having a pet wild human who is a dwarf with no clothes and can not speak. Weird!
@@nicklibby3784pretty sure it’s just the same way we see chimpanzees and other primates; they are similar, which is cool but they are still just animals to us.
@@ryder_hd the Elder Scrolls Mythos is full of facts that are shaded as myths because no one believes anything the other races say. Theirs is believed to be correct, when in fact, due to dragon breaks and alternate timelines, they’re ALL correct.
@@luciusvoldaren IF I rmemeber correctly in lore it is said that some even look like turtles, and even vary to the point of being even feathery forr some reason, the Hist does whateve the fuck it wants.
@@AugustoEL they don’t even have to be lizards. The Hist could just decide one day that it wants all the Argonians to look like normal humans, and they would. It just doesn’t.
@@rx-0862 that's because dog sizes range from rabbit to horse. I'm talking about dog *shaped.* We'd look at them as little mutants instead of "oh yeah, that's just what happens when you're a Tauras haha"
Probably at the time, but I bet they just wanted more genetic diversity in the series by morrowind. They could still be really common, just outside of places like morrowind, cyrodil and that continent next to morrowind with the snow people
@TheHippyProductions was that after daggerfall, because I thought pelinal was before the arena story. Otherwise, wouldn't the ayleids still exist, and the septims wouldn't be in power
"The two moons..." *Thalmor do their disappearing act* "One! One moon!" *Thalmor puts the moon back* "Two moons!" Khajits: Actually, there's a third moon and it's very important to our culture... "FINE! THREE! Anybody else wants to add a moon or are we fine?!"
Man that's crazy, so you could have two totally almost human like Kaijits that give birth to one that becomes a houscat/lion just because of when the birthday is?? They must have some sort of industry of magical eugenics where they carefully conscieve and give birth at specific times in order to make the desired results
@@infinitybreak4459 how do you know when you've got a vast and deep fictional universe where anything could happen? People discover stuff like this just based on the logic you've layed out
It should've been tied to the moon phase on the day of conception, not the day of birth. Like imagine a whole fetus growing normally and gaining all its pre-born features and then suddenly changing its form if it's born too early or too late just cuz the moon phase changed.
Todd only began directing the games starting with Oblivion. The Mighty Morphin Cat People have been a thing since Arena and between Arena and Morrowind is when they changed most drastically in appearance. I'm sure there's a lore explanation for why the Khajiit in Oblivion and Skyrim look ever so slightly different but the Khajiit in Oblivion, Skyrim, and ESO are mostly consistently cat people. Even in Morrowind they're more or less cat people, just far far more feline than in the other games
I kind of guessed it would be to do with the moon's. I'm pretty sure in each tes game the khajiit look different because you're in a different region of tamriel each time. Then again I'm probably wrong lol
@@dominicballinger6536 nah you can go anywhere but whichever part of tamriel you pick changes what race you can be I'm pretty sure. I haven't played arena in a while so I'm not sure lol
@SuperClod28 no, I mean I'm not sure whether or not you spawn in your race's home region after the first dungeon. I've never played it, but I have played all the other mainline ones so far.
in elyweyr if we ever get a game there we're gonna have all sorts of cats from just sabertooth tiger to pretty kitty of the eso trailers theres ALOT of khajit if every one of them counted as a different spieces the aldmeri dominion would be like 85% cat people
The different forms under the moon thing is a convenient excuse to have by the company to explain the changes in art style. It doesn't explain much as to how all of them tend to be born under the same moon phase in each game. Lulz.
I could be wrong, but I think they explained that in Morrowind. By saying the Dark Elf slavers chart the moons phases for that peculiar khajiit breed as they make the "best" slaves. It's been a while so I don't know if that's fully correct.
And then if you think in Skyrim, there was a time period where the moons had gone missing and so all the khajiit that were born during that time period were all manes essentially super badass khajiit warriors. Most believe this is by design of the thalmor to create a generational race of warriors for the war against the empire.
An explanation could be that members of each form prefer to group together, and that’s why we only see that type in each game. I think it’s a neat way to make different looks mean something more than appearances lol
@@AdmiralStoicRumIs there a lore entry that suggests that? I’ve heard it’s possible the thalmor only claimed to bring the moons back, to make the khajiit loyal to them. Basically the same end result though
@@mr.chimichanga6947 remember dragon breaks make it so there are many outcomes that are simultaneously true. And its scattered lore, easiest way for me to help with getting you the lore bits is to direct you to fudgemuppet who have dissertations on elder scrolls lore with quotes from in game books and even materials from writers interviews
I believe it’s the first one as there are different species that from the same race also many other species we haven’t seen yet but hopefully one day we will especially the sea elves
I hope in TESVI we can choose between at least some of the khajiit forms, so you can play as one that has cat-like legs like in Morrowind, or humanoid legs like in Oblivion, Skyrim, and ESO.
The kinds we see in most TES games are the easiest forms to both leave their homelands on their own and adventure, while simultaneously being the most familiar form to other races, so they face less discrimination.
@@Skenjin I mean if skyrims animals are anything like other animals of tameriel would you really blame them for attacking four legged kajjit thinking it was a tiger or sabertooth.
That will mean the cat girls and cat boys have the easiest time as they could pretend to be human. I imagine there a lot of human-cat people in all 3 main games, they are just disguised as humans
@@Vajrapani108 The khajiit we see in the main games, to my understanding, is their most humanlike forms. So no, they wouldn't be able to pretend to be human.
I think the more technical answer is that every time something or someone's appearance shifts in between games or maps change drastically it's because with each game that's the new canon, thats now, how they have always looked and since that changes with every game it's very inconsistent.
Same approach from a different angle, the game is actually a reflection that's dependent on the interpretation of the person whose view is shared and the quality of the connection to them.
@@Dvailen same way as space and sky don’t exist. When you see the dark night sky at night, you’re actually looking right at the edge of Oblivion. It’s the point where Oblivion and Mundus clash, mortals just can’t comprehend that so it looks like the sky.
I mean they literally explain it, the moons are the reason for the Khajiit, and the Hist can make the argonians look however it wants. On top of that, geography can change, and is explained very in depth multiple times.
@@luciusvoldaren yeah that may be the explanation for the argonians and the khajiit but geography can't change as massively as it does in games like fallout and Elder Scrolls where in pretty much every new game (aside from elder Scrolls online) the map quite literally transforms massively to the point where some cities don't exist anymore, there are mountains where there weren't previously mountains, massive rivers and waterfalls where there weren't any in previous games as well entire cities moved to completely different locations and while geography can change yes it would never and could never change that massively.
Currently doing a thief/illusion mage khajiit and loving it. I already completed the Thieves’s Guild quest line and now I’m doing the Darkbrotherhood one. Such an OP build by subduing through calm and taking all the time I want before I backstab them.
I’m currently playing a Khajiit battle mage/thief, and I honestly think this is one of the best characters I’ve created. It’s a tie between this and my Dunmer spell sword. I’ve been quite surprised that I haven’t gotten a lot of rude comments from NPC’s, other than bandits telling me I’ll make a fine rug, lol. Maybe it’s because I’m level 100 in speech?🤔 But even before I was level 100 in speech, I don’t recall too much flack. I think my Dunmer character is treated a lot worse than my Khajiit character, though she usually kiIls people who call her “little elf” in a derogatory way.😂 My Khajiit character is more laid back.😉 He just robs them blind.
the universe also literally resets several times throughout the lore and the games are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years apart, often occuring between Dragon Break events. That's gonna cause some changes from timeline to timeline.
The real answer: Because it’s easier, and thus cheaper, to give all the races the exact same body so there’s significantly less work in animation and armor design.
@@nekogamer2508 If you have the Aldmeri Dominion as your starting faction for your character then you’ll eventually run into them at that little island you’re on. They’re not as cool as you think they are tho, they’re just shiny dark elfs with fish scales and white eyes.
Sure, there are 16 different kinds of khajiit. Yet somehow in each game we encounter one and only one of them. Even in the games that but a few years apart.
a few years apart? you might want to look at that statement again xD But go into ESO if you want a bigger variety, you have many types acessible there.
@@KaylaMomoc I don't trust my memory, so I checked a wiki. Here's what it says: "Arena takes place in 3E 389 [...] Daggerfall takes place during 3E 405 [...] Morrowind takes place in 3E 427 [...] Oblivion occurs a mere 6 years after Morrowind" First four of main line games happens at the dusk of Third Era. With the shortest span between them being only 6 years.
They appear in TES online, they indeed hate being pet because that's offensive, no one outside of Elsweir takes them seriously besides being extremely smart so they just stick up on their homeland
Ah yes, my favourite race. I'm glad they went with the more cat like design, as it separates them from the rest, like the Orcs or Argonians as well. All good choices.
My head cannon is that there are a bunch of different kajiit tribes and they have distinct physical traits. Certain tribes are more likely to emmigrate to other areas too.
Answer number 2 is the right one. Answer number 1 makes no sense since it would mean that all khajiits in each game are born on the same phase of the moons
They look hideous asf tf u on about, in Skyrim and ESO they resemble more humanoid characteristics and variety in facial features as they should, nostalgia is a helluva drug
I would like to believe this as within game they also vary. The differences in the khajiit are considered breeds. For example that picture of the khajiit banker you showed is Ezrabi. She is an Alfiq Khajiit in other words the ones that look like house cats. They are born when Secunda is full and Masser wanes. And they very much exist in the same game as other khajiit breeds like the common Suthay-Raht which are the bipedal cats like Razum-dar or Eshaba and the Senche which even though they are often found in the wild as enemies or as mounts they are also khajiit. These all exist in ESO all at once.
I like the idea of an unreliable narrator. It’s used a lot in elder scrolls lore, and I like to think the variations that can’t be explained by the lore itself is because of someone’s perspective being different, thus the unreliable narrator :)
The Unreliable Narrator is probably the biggest blessing The Elder Scrolls has, it grants so much freedom for the developers to change stuff up. The only sources in Elder Scrolls we can rely on are Imperial records due to their serious record taking, and even then there's likely to be Imperial bias so it's still not fully reliable.
i seriously just finished the quest from the first clip lol. where they "accidentally" opened the sealed door from where the 3 dragons are caged... ESO
They could honestly add a bit more sub choices/species for a few of the races ngl. I do hope they add some of the other races we’ve seen as well, depending on the time the game takes place.
Some you obviously couldn't play as, but there could be one of the housecat khajiit as a special magic follower, and one of the wildcat ones as a special mount.
No no no, the Khajiit have slowly become more catlike to draw in fans from the gross furry fandom, obviously. You know the only thing Tard Howard cares about is money
The khajiit in morrowind literally have animal legs/feet and cant wear boots because of it in game. If anything they've devolved since then and became more human like in oblivion and skyrim.
@@fjalarhenriksson Seriously though. I'm just saying they should've done something more "tangible" and "life-like". Know what I mean? Like the Elf-like Khajiits being of mixed descendance instead of looking like that just cuz the moon said so. No need to be a bitch about it.
Imagine being born a day before the Moon was gonna make you a big buff cat man, but the moon was waning a little differently the night you were born, so now you're just a talking domestic cat.
I’d actually really love it if in the next game they explore this and have many different khajiit types, maybe not for the player character but just out in the world.
There's a mod that I like to use for Skyrim which adds Alfiq khajiits to the game. You can find them wearing clothes, and yes they do speak! It's so adorable having a cat courier run up to you and say "I have something to deliver!" and it has a tiny little satchel on the side of his clothes.
Amazing how much fans are able to find creative in-universe lore consistent ways to explain inconsistencies which in reality are just the result of changing art styles throughout the evolution of a franchise. Same thing with stuff like Klingons in Star Trek.
I do like the fact that Khajiit can come in different forms, from not so cat like to very cat like, but apparently the more human one is common and I ??? Find that lmao hard to believe.
i find it hard to believe that people in the modern age still are dumb enough to type LMAO nobody hears you laugh so whats the point in expressing it.? its bordering on degenerative RP almost...
Fun fact: Morrowind outright tells you that you only experience a single variation of Khajiit there, tho the reason why is kinda fuzzy. I think it’s because of where they’re from within Elsweyr in proximity to the mainland of Morrowind
Nah they are just rapidly evolving and will be crabs in the elder scrolls 6, as that is the ultimate life form
Carcinization 🙌
Everything is crab
its funny how accurate you are and kinda scary
They already run Pelagiad. Damn crabs.
There’s already a crab race lol
imagine being a khajiit and you go visit your family, half of which are house cats and big cats and the other half being anime cat people
That's what they look like all khajiit can still speak that's the thing that separates them from the SaberCats and other forms of cats and Skyrim and other parts of nern the fact that they can speak in tend to wear clothing
@@tempestflare4339so what do the khajit think of regular cats and sabee cats then? They probably think their crazy or feel bad for them.
Imagine if in real life on earth we had wild humans running around naked with no clothes on who could not speak. We probably think they are just crazy or possessed or feral and would probably put the wild humans in cages and try to tame them.
Like imagine a Khajit having a pet house cat. That would be like a human having a pet wild human who is a dwarf with no clothes and can not speak. Weird!
@@nicklibby3784 on a character level since i play khajiit: just a wild animal.
@@nicklibby3784pretty sure it’s just the same way we see chimpanzees and other primates; they are similar, which is cool but they are still just animals to us.
Sounds like a regular fanfic.
Fun fact: Khajiit and wood elves used to be the same race.
If you believe the Khajiiti creation myth
@@ryder_hd the Elder Scrolls Mythos is full of facts that are shaded as myths because no one believes anything the other races say. Theirs is believed to be correct, when in fact, due to dragon breaks and alternate timelines, they’re ALL correct.
Both scum and shouldn’t be in Skyrim taking our jobs
What an upgrade
Fact: Orcs (Osimer) are Elves (Mer) too
Some argonians in Arena were just humans with reptile eyes and some were straight up bipedal crocodiles.
They’re kinda like the Khajiit in terms of their racial diversity. Just not as extreme.
They are whatever the Hist decides to make them, after all.
@@luciusvoldaren IF I rmemeber correctly in lore it is said that some even look like turtles, and even vary to the point of being even feathery forr some reason, the Hist does whateve the fuck it wants.
@@AugustoEL indeed.😂
@@AugustoEL they don’t even have to be lizards. The Hist could just decide one day that it wants all the Argonians to look like normal humans, and they would.
It just doesn’t.
and yet, all Argonains are farming tools
Imagine two Khajiit having a child and it just grows up to be a regular ass cat because it was born under some whack ass moon phase.
It'll still be able to talk. Apparently alfiq use their magic to compensate for their lack of thumbs.
@@feuerling still fucken weird lol. Like giving birth to a dog-shaped-human
@@lulolie people literally give birth to dog sized humans 😂
@@rx-0862 that's because dog sizes range from rabbit to horse. I'm talking about dog *shaped.* We'd look at them as little mutants instead of "oh yeah, that's just what happens when you're a Tauras haha"
@@lulolie i wouldn’t look at them as mutants. 😨😭 can’t discriminate just cuz Masser and Secunda were full when you was born
Imagine you come home to celebrate your khajit wifes birthday and theres just a random cat in your living room .
As you start to pet it, your wife walks in and asks "What are you doing with my mother?"
@@Sarydormi then you get mauled by your tiger father in law lol
Try a literal Smilodon taking up half the living room 😅
@@SuperYoshikong bruh imagine your house cat is really just some 40 yr old man pretending he can't understand you or talk lol
The cat ends up being fucking sheogorath, because chaos
I find it funny that the first games said the almost human ones are the most common and then proceeded to never use them again
Probably at the time, but I bet they just wanted more genetic diversity in the series by morrowind. They could still be really common, just outside of places like morrowind, cyrodil and that continent next to morrowind with the snow people
@@MemeLordCthulhu or maybe in a twist of irony pelinal killed most of the human looking ones when he saw a few hybrids
@TheHippyProductions was that after daggerfall, because I thought pelinal was before the arena story. Otherwise, wouldn't the ayleids still exist, and the septims wouldn't be in power
Perhaps they look so much like other human like races (nord, imp, redg, breton) that people can't tell them apart.
Could've been that there was some moon funkiness at the time which caused that
I hope that in TES 6 you can choose to be different types of khajiit
@Leeloo the modding community is great. I hope support is given to them in TES 6.
Yah I’d totally choose the one on the counter! Full house cat 😅
i want to be a full on tiger/lion and just maul someones face off lol
@@tsunadepayton10that would make for some interesting gameplay though, maybe have it be a racial power to be used a few times a day.
@@dustinakadustin imagine running around as a house cat… demolishing everyone meow 😸
Khajiit looks like he needs to, so you feel more inclined to spare some coin in the goods khajiit provides
“Khajiit has wares, IF you have coin. This one need something? May your path lead you to warm sands.”
Prepare for Khajit Morshu then
@@TuskForce Mo'arsho!
"Moon sugar? Lockpicks? Soul gems? You want these? It's yours, traveler, as long as you have enough coin."
But what if the mc/chosen one is a Pelinal worshipper who is allergic to cats?
“The two moons”
Sign of the eclipse: “there’s three, actually”
"The two moons..."
*Thalmor do their disappearing act*
"One! One moon!"
*Thalmor puts the moon back*
"Two moons!"
Khajits: Actually, there's a third moon and it's very important to our culture...
"FINE! THREE! Anybody else wants to add a moon or are we fine?!"
@@NWolfsson There's also the Necromancer's moon.
There’s technically 4 after Manninarco.
The Necromancer’s moon.
Mannimarco: "There's four, actually."
The Khajiit born under that moon are all goths.
Todd Coward won’t let me play an assassin that’s just a regular sized cat even though it’s canon
You’d be a hardcore kiss-in-boots
Or a literal cat burglar
The Dragonborn could’ve been a house cat
He *should’ve* allowed us which variant of Khajiit to play in Skyrim at the least.
Man that's crazy, so you could have two totally almost human like Kaijits that give birth to one that becomes a houscat/lion just because of when the birthday is?? They must have some sort of industry of magical eugenics where they carefully conscieve and give birth at specific times in order to make the desired results
That... definitely could exist within the lore which is disturbing to think about
@@infinitybreak4459 how do you know when you've got a vast and deep fictional universe where anything could happen? People discover stuff like this just based on the logic you've layed out
I mean, they probably plan in advance and hold the woman on labour with magic or something to wait for a phase they want.
It should've been tied to the moon phase on the day of conception, not the day of birth. Like imagine a whole fetus growing normally and gaining all its pre-born features and then suddenly changing its form if it's born too early or too late just cuz the moon phase changed.
@@ThePopo543 ahhh but what need have the Kajiiit to make sense to you?
Don't question it. It just works
remember, if there's a bug in a bethesda game, its a new feature.
Oh my god, Karen, you can’t just ask why a Khajiit looks different from other Khajiit.
So an almost human looking khajiit can come from a khajiit that just looks like an abnormally large house cat
Graphical advances happened quickly, and Todd is p good at slapping shit together for a dollar
Yeah, I doubt Todd is the one responsible for the Elder Scrolls' lore.
@@Lorfo11 its almost like he didn't create the series and is only the games director
@@chaserseven2886 What?! NO WAY! It's almost like that's the exact point of my comment. You must be some kind of psychic genius or something.
Todd only began directing the games starting with Oblivion. The Mighty Morphin Cat People have been a thing since Arena and between Arena and Morrowind is when they changed most drastically in appearance. I'm sure there's a lore explanation for why the Khajiit in Oblivion and Skyrim look ever so slightly different but the Khajiit in Oblivion, Skyrim, and ESO are mostly consistently cat people. Even in Morrowind they're more or less cat people, just far far more feline than in the other games
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701
You get a like for the Power Rangers reference.
It’s because Mai’q is a liar.
I like that you included the 'real' reason along with the lore reason :)
Let's be real, the khajiit we see in the background is the cutest.
pff no xD Alf'ik are the cutest ones
There should be a 1 in 100 chance every time you make a kahjiit that you just end up as a house cat looking thing.
That would be an awesome opportunity to complete the game in a hard mode. Only have like 4 points to distribute starting out.
I kind of guessed it would be to do with the moon's. I'm pretty sure in each tes game the khajiit look different because you're in a different region of tamriel each time. Then again I'm probably wrong lol
I mean, in Arena you can go to ANY region. Though im not sure whether or not you start in your native region or not after the first dungeon.
@@dominicballinger6536 nah you can go anywhere but whichever part of tamriel you pick changes what race you can be I'm pretty sure. I haven't played arena in a while so I'm not sure lol
@SuperClod28 no, I mean I'm not sure whether or not you spawn in your race's home region after the first dungeon. I've never played it, but I have played all the other mainline ones so far.
in elyweyr if we ever get a game there we're gonna have all sorts of cats from just sabertooth tiger to pretty kitty of the eso trailers theres ALOT of khajit if every one of them counted as a different spieces the aldmeri dominion would be like 85% cat people
@@dominicballinger6536you do go to your race’s homeland after the first dungeon
The different forms under the moon thing is a convenient excuse to have by the company to explain the changes in art style. It doesn't explain much as to how all of them tend to be born under the same moon phase in each game. Lulz.
I could be wrong, but I think they explained that in Morrowind. By saying the Dark Elf slavers chart the moons phases for that peculiar khajiit breed as they make the "best" slaves. It's been a while so I don't know if that's fully correct.
And then if you think in Skyrim, there was a time period where the moons had gone missing and so all the khajiit that were born during that time period were all manes essentially super badass khajiit warriors. Most believe this is by design of the thalmor to create a generational race of warriors for the war against the empire.
An explanation could be that members of each form prefer to group together, and that’s why we only see that type in each game. I think it’s a neat way to make different looks mean something more than appearances lol
@@AdmiralStoicRumIs there a lore entry that suggests that? I’ve heard it’s possible the thalmor only claimed to bring the moons back, to make the khajiit loyal to them. Basically the same end result though
@@mr.chimichanga6947 remember dragon breaks make it so there are many outcomes that are simultaneously true.
And its scattered lore, easiest way for me to help with getting you the lore bits is to direct you to fudgemuppet who have dissertations on elder scrolls lore with quotes from in game books and even materials from writers interviews
I believe it’s the first one as there are different species that from the same race also many other species we haven’t seen yet but hopefully one day we will especially the sea elves
There's sea elves in ESO, plus almost all khajiit forms except the suthay and ohmes for some reason.
I loved the catjiit mod, it was super great playing as a small housecat with armor, it went well with the all four sprint as well
I hope in TESVI we can choose between at least some of the khajiit forms, so you can play as one that has cat-like legs like in Morrowind, or humanoid legs like in Oblivion, Skyrim, and ESO.
you can hope all you want but that will not be
*Should’ve* happened at least with Skyrim.
If that's the case then i hope they make Argonians look more dragon like in elder scrolls 6 since Argonians has all kinds of reptiles.
The kinds we see in most TES games are the easiest forms to both leave their homelands on their own and adventure, while simultaneously being the most familiar form to other races, so they face less discrimination.
Yeah the ones born as quadrupeds might even be attacked on sight, like a feral lion would.
@@Skenjin I mean if skyrims animals are anything like other animals of tameriel would you really blame them for attacking four legged kajjit thinking it was a tiger or sabertooth.
@@ashenone3883 That was exactly my point.
That will mean the cat girls and cat boys have the easiest time as they could pretend to be human. I imagine there a lot of human-cat people in all 3 main games, they are just disguised as humans
@@Vajrapani108 The khajiit we see in the main games, to my understanding, is their most humanlike forms. So no, they wouldn't be able to pretend to be human.
I think the more technical answer is that every time something or someone's appearance shifts in between games or maps change drastically it's because with each game that's the new canon, thats now, how they have always looked and since that changes with every game it's very inconsistent.
Same approach from a different angle, the game is actually a reflection that's dependent on the interpretation of the person whose view is shared and the quality of the connection to them.
Like the fact that there are no stars or sun in universe, they're holes to the Aedra where the gods are.
Yet the Imperial Orrery claims otherwise...
@@Dvailen same way as space and sky don’t exist. When you see the dark night sky at night, you’re actually looking right at the edge of Oblivion. It’s the point where Oblivion and Mundus clash, mortals just can’t comprehend that so it looks like the sky.
I mean they literally explain it, the moons are the reason for the Khajiit, and the Hist can make the argonians look however it wants.
On top of that, geography can change, and is explained very in depth multiple times.
@@luciusvoldaren yeah that may be the explanation for the argonians and the khajiit but geography can't change as massively as it does in games like fallout and Elder Scrolls where in pretty much every new game (aside from elder Scrolls online) the map quite literally transforms massively to the point where some cities don't exist anymore, there are mountains where there weren't previously mountains, massive rivers and waterfalls where there weren't any in previous games as well entire cities moved to completely different locations and while geography can change yes it would never and could never change that massively.
I wonder if "humans with cat features" is still canonical form.
Cause if so...
Where's my neko-girls
According to lore, yes. Will Bethesda bring them back? Probably not. It's boring
@@Zeivusgaming yep, usually it is.
Still meme-able tho
Real reason: artsyles change over the years between games.
Khajiit is probably my favorite race lore wise. It's really interesting that their appearance is based on what phase of the moon they're born under
The lore behind this race is FACINATING! it really shows how much time, effort and love the team put into this game.
Currently doing a thief/illusion mage khajiit and loving it. I already completed the Thieves’s Guild quest line and now I’m doing the Darkbrotherhood one. Such an OP build by subduing through calm and taking all the time I want before I backstab them.
I’m currently playing a Khajiit battle mage/thief, and I honestly think this is one of the best characters I’ve created. It’s a tie between this and my Dunmer spell sword. I’ve been quite surprised that I haven’t gotten a lot of rude comments from NPC’s, other than bandits telling me I’ll make a fine rug, lol. Maybe it’s because I’m level 100 in speech?🤔 But even before I was level 100 in speech, I don’t recall too much flack. I think my Dunmer character is treated a lot worse than my Khajiit character, though she usually kiIls people who call her “little elf” in a derogatory way.😂 My Khajiit character is more laid back.😉 He just robs them blind.
the universe also literally resets several times throughout the lore and the games are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years apart, often occuring between Dragon Break events.
That's gonna cause some changes from timeline to timeline.
The real answer: Because it’s easier, and thus cheaper, to give all the races the exact same body so there’s significantly less work in animation and armor design.
It wouldn’t have that much difficult for Ohmes (Raht) and Cathay, just head as well as fur or lack there of being the different.
Why Tod? Why did you take catgirls from us?
Because furries have more money than weebs
I hope in the next game there will be a tiger or lion version of Khajiit, that would be badass. Im gonna make a Tai Lung
Tai lung- snow pantera
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I hope the next game has sea elves i want to see them finally we have been waiting for a while
Elder Scrolls Online has sea elves but they are non playable.
@@ZombieGangster oh where I can find them
@@nekogamer2508 If you have the Aldmeri Dominion as your starting faction for your character then you’ll eventually run into them at that little island you’re on. They’re not as cool as you think they are tho, they’re just shiny dark elfs with fish scales and white eyes.
@@nekogamer2508 the Aldmeri Dominion storyline has them as villains for a portion of it, but they're not playable you just murder a lot of them
Sure, there are 16 different kinds of khajiit.
Yet somehow in each game we encounter one and only one of them.
Even in the games that but a few years apart.
a few years apart? you might want to look at that statement again xD But go into ESO if you want a bigger variety, you have many types acessible there.
a few hundred years apart really… but your point still stands
@@KaylaMomoc I don't trust my memory, so I checked a wiki. Here's what it says:
"Arena takes place in 3E 389 [...] Daggerfall takes place during 3E 405 [...] Morrowind takes place in 3E 427 [...] Oblivion occurs a mere 6 years after Morrowind"
First four of main line games happens at the dusk of Third Era. With the shortest span between them being only 6 years.
Easy answer: Bethesda hasn't known what it was doing with the franchise since Morrowind.
Bruh they came up with this in Morrowind
I'm more concerned about the ones that look like actual cats. Is it ok to pet them? Would they find that offensive?
Always ask consent first
They appear in TES online, they indeed hate being pet because that's offensive, no one outside of Elsweir takes them seriously besides being extremely smart so they just stick up on their homeland
Ah yes, my favourite race. I'm glad they went with the more cat like design, as it separates them from the rest, like the Orcs or Argonians as well. All good choices.
Graphics Limitations Simple
I really like when lore explains why something changes instead it being "devs thought it's better that way"
they furrified
My head cannon is that there are a bunch of different kajiit tribes and they have distinct physical traits. Certain tribes are more likely to emmigrate to other areas too.
Its сanon for argonians. There are many different tribes. Lizards, frogs, сroсodyles, turtles, etс.
What is the animation in the background?
That the ESO Elyswyre trailer :)
Elsweyr* please atleast get that right@@infinitybreak4459
THANK YOU. I’ve seen a lot of these around shorts now and you’re the ONLY ONE to explain it correctly.
Imagine having a human like khajiit girlfriend or boyfriend, and meeting their parents, ones a house cat (male) the others a sabertooth tiger (female)
Shorter answer: the devs didn't want to animate or model different body types so they stuck all the races into a single body structure.
Answer number 2 is the right one. Answer number 1 makes no sense since it would mean that all khajiits in each game are born on the same phase of the moons
I know, but at least they attempted to try and retcon it lol
the graphics in the video is so pretty! I want to play Skyrim with remastered graphics
yaa it was originally just the artstyle changing and then they retroactively added in lore about the changes being affected by the moons
It's 100% because the art style changes, but they try to use lore to justify it.
canonically, cat boy exist on nirn.
I really like that lion human mix in one picture
"that answer would be too boring" that answer would also be correct.
Hoping for neko bishoujo to be available in TES6 since human-looking with cat features is a valid Khajit form then :P
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow? Meow meow meow! Meow meow meow.
I see your Meow and raise you one Hiss
To save you some time. Its the moons. Masser and Secunda are what determine what a Khajiit looks like.
The border guards must be like "Na fam, you can't enter. You weren't born when Secunda was in the rught angle. Sorry, Me Whiskers." "... Meow?"
Semi-related, but the Argonians look best in ES3
Design wise or graphics wise? Because if it's the latter, ESO definitely wins lol
They look hideous asf tf u on about, in Skyrim and ESO they resemble more humanoid characteristics and variety in facial features as they should, nostalgia is a helluva drug
Not really, I think just from the looks alone, ESO's argonians wins by default
I'd have to disagree and say Skyrim, but I think we can all agree no one looked good with vanilla Oblivion faces 😂
@@Whoswatching25 Oblivion does not give justice to the various facial physiologies unique to each race since everyone has a head shaped like a potato
Personally I like the Morrowind Kajiit the best
Yes this is true, us khajiit change appearance by the moons
I would like to believe this as within game they also vary. The differences in the khajiit are considered breeds. For example that picture of the khajiit banker you showed is Ezrabi. She is an Alfiq Khajiit in other words the ones that look like house cats. They are born when Secunda is full and Masser wanes. And they very much exist in the same game as other khajiit breeds like the common Suthay-Raht which are the bipedal cats like Razum-dar or Eshaba and the Senche which even though they are often found in the wild as enemies or as mounts they are also khajiit. These all exist in ESO all at once.
I like the idea of an unreliable narrator. It’s used a lot in elder scrolls lore, and I like to think the variations that can’t be explained by the lore itself is because of someone’s perspective being different, thus the unreliable narrator :)
The Unreliable Narrator is probably the biggest blessing The Elder Scrolls has, it grants so much freedom for the developers to change stuff up.
The only sources in Elder Scrolls we can rely on are Imperial records due to their serious record taking, and even then there's likely to be Imperial bias so it's still not fully reliable.
ESO was def better at portraying the different Khajiit than the other games
i seriously just finished the quest from the first clip lol. where they "accidentally" opened the sealed door from where the 3 dragons are caged... ESO
_"Because Khajit must change appearance every few years to avoid suspicion. Just look at M'aiq."_
Let me romance a khajiit woman in Skyrim dammit
The cat is in them but the dog is in me.
The Khajiit Will Follow mod lets you do that actually
ES6 should let you pick what moon you were born under if you are a khajiit.
They could honestly add a bit more sub choices/species for a few of the races ngl. I do hope they add some of the other races we’ve seen as well, depending on the time the game takes place.
@@kiryukazuma8089 Yeah... Sea Elves would be great.
Some you obviously couldn't play as, but there could be one of the housecat khajiit as a special magic follower, and one of the wildcat ones as a special mount.
@@Dracophile7 Nah if I want to be a Magic wielding house cat then I should be able to. It’s only fair.
The last answer makes sense since we never see the other forms in game especially the more human looking ones.
Tbh, lore that arises to explain inconsistencies and plot holes and other mishaps tends to be more interesting and just adds depth to everything.
No no no, the Khajiit have slowly become more catlike to draw in fans from the gross furry fandom, obviously. You know the only thing Tard Howard cares about is money
It just works
@jacksonmckinney its funny with each installment
Why are you so basic? I bet your favorite ice cream is vanilla too.
The khajiit in morrowind literally have animal legs/feet and cant wear boots because of it in game. If anything they've devolved since then and became more human like in oblivion and skyrim.
@@pell9538 Nah, they just realized that there are more human foot fetishist
The "boring" answer is the one that's not extremely stupid.
if the lore answer is "extremely stupid" you should play with a rope and a tree
@@fjalarhenriksson Being an arborist is indeed my favourite pastime.
@@fjalarhenriksson Seriously though. I'm just saying they should've done something more "tangible" and "life-like". Know what I mean? Like the Elf-like Khajiits being of mixed descendance instead of looking like that just cuz the moon said so. No need to be a bitch about it.
Imagine being born a day before the Moon was gonna make you a big buff cat man, but the moon was waning a little differently the night you were born, so now you're just a talking domestic cat.
Lol that'd suck xD
If I remember correctly, the ones who look like regular house cats become idolised but the rest or something
Morrowind was the best depiction between khahiit and argonian and i hope they go back to that
Dunmer detected
@@TheScrootch, N’wah
The real reason is that Bethesda is deathly allergic to any form of consistency.
The background music.
= Ahh yes, legendary.
I’d actually really love it if in the next game they explore this and have many different khajiit types, maybe not for the player character but just out in the world.
I understand the excuse for the cats. But ya can't explain the lizards. Both are still dumb changes
Argonians haven't has a drastic of design changes over the games. The only exception is TES3, with them being digitigrade instead of plantigrade.
Yeah going from skyrim to daggerfall was very confusing for me
The pregnant housecat looking at the moons: "Oh no...."
Wouldn't it be cool if they added a skill tree for the races you play? I want to be a berserk khajit that's huge.
Fun fact, one of the forms of the Khajit is actually a regular person with cat ears, whiskers and a tail, so…
Some are a lovely shade of blue as well
Fun fact: Khajit has wares if you have coin.
The best khajiit's voices are in morrowind. "Frrriend"
Have you never seen the show Red Dwarf? They are evolving.
I need a game where you go into a store and see a house cat and no where it tells you he's the shop owner
There's a mod that I like to use for Skyrim which adds Alfiq khajiits to the game. You can find them wearing clothes, and yes they do speak! It's so adorable having a cat courier run up to you and say "I have something to deliver!" and it has a tiny little satchel on the side of his clothes.
Yes, exactly... The most important thing is, that it's not boring 👍
I always loved that ESO animation merely because the cat ears in the Khajiit's hood
Because the best race in skyrim deserve to have lots of amazing styles
Amazing how much fans are able to find creative in-universe lore consistent ways to explain inconsistencies which in reality are just the result of changing art styles throughout the evolution of a franchise. Same thing with stuff like Klingons in Star Trek.
I do like the fact that Khajiit can come in different forms, from not so cat like to very cat like, but apparently the more human one is common and I ??? Find that lmao hard to believe.
i find it hard to believe that people in the modern age still are dumb enough to type LMAO nobody hears you laugh so whats the point in expressing it.? its bordering on degenerative RP almost...
Can you imagine being born under the moon that makes your a normal house cat while your friends have thumbs and can learn magic
different writers, artists + technology = no chance of much consistency
Fun fact: Morrowind outright tells you that you only experience a single variation of Khajiit there, tho the reason why is kinda fuzzy. I think it’s because of where they’re from within Elsweyr in proximity to the mainland of Morrowind
I played Morrowind Oblivion and Skyrim I don’t remember them looking that different I thought it was just graphics tbh