A dark elf. The ill-fated Dunmer. What name have you given him?
I watched
this video last night. It's very long and quite annoying and pedantic but I see where he's coming from. You probably don't want to watch it - basically he says that the problem with skyrim
from the point of view of immersion is that it's world hasn't got any internal consistency. The example he uses is that there's a novice spell to conjure magical weapons and if that was really the case it would make sense that a lot more people would learn that spell and not bother with real weapons – and this would have a knock-on effect on blacksmiths, etc.
The reason I bring it up here is that one of the things I wish they had done with skyrim is make it
really matter what race you chose to play as. As far as I'm aware, apart from having certain innate proclivities, skill-wise, it doesn't really matter if you're walking around skyrim as a Nord or an Orc or a Dunmer.
I don't see this as a 'deal breaker' or anything but i'd love it if in the next elder scrolls game they make it really significant to the world/story what race you play as.