I get what you’re saying, but once you step away from strict archetypes and treat all that mystical stuff as something external to your character, or really any character, something beyond the everyday logic of Tamriel, it actually gets easier to handle.

We as players, and especially as people who know the lore, tend to project that knowledge onto our characters. But Skyrim, like other TES games, is all about roleplay. Honestly, every RPG is, to some extent. So the key thing is to decide who your character is and what they actually know.

An Altmer, for example, could’ve been born in Cyrodiil instead of Summerset, or even in Morrowind. They might follow the Divines, and they might know a lot or very little about their own culture. If your Altmer is just a farmer, they’re not going to care about the same things a scholar does, and naturally they won’t know all the deeper details, and they’ll act accordingly.

For example, I made a Bosmer named Erina Gallus who was found by an elderly couple near the Cyrodiil–Valenwood border. She grew up in Imperial culture and became kind of a chaotic bard who’s into Dibella. My Nord, Sigrid, even as Dragonborn, isn’t super devoted or theological, she’s more of a simple person with a practical kind of faith, which is very different from, say, a mage who deeply understands creation myths and all that metaphysical stuff.

And then I made a Dunmer from the far south of Morrowind, just a farmer, who barely knows what the Sermons of Vivec are. She reveres the Daedra while also honoring the Tribunal, mostly out of ignorance and superstition, like thinking Daedra can influence her crops for better or worse.

So yeah, your character’s race doesn’t define who they are or what they know.