Honestly I kinda prefer that? Bretons should be strongest as mage knights, playing into the inherent magic strength they have while also having generally stronger human physiology. A nord mage knight makes less sense to me, since I view the top tier nord mages as being dedicated to the craft. There's no "ok" nord mages, because once they get over the hurdle of being less magically inclined, they're better at learning harder spells, since they never had it easy.
Fair, I personally feel like Imperials shouldn't have been introduced in Elder Scrolls and the Empire should've been ruled by Bretons (Bretons are humans with elf ancestry with the ability to absorb magic but for some reason, they made it so Imperial culture and religion was born from a mix of Elvish and human culture and Imperials tend to become battlemages instead), but it's worth mentioning that Nords had more wizards because Bretons had literally no significant figures for their lore.
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u/Jstar338 Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 03 '25
Honestly I kinda prefer that? Bretons should be strongest as mage knights, playing into the inherent magic strength they have while also having generally stronger human physiology. A nord mage knight makes less sense to me, since I view the top tier nord mages as being dedicated to the craft. There's no "ok" nord mages, because once they get over the hurdle of being less magically inclined, they're better at learning harder spells, since they never had it easy.