Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.42.77.181-20150215034524/@comment-121511-20150301150347

Sothas wrote: Meh, there's no evidence that the Thalmor are trying to undo the Towers. The Thalmor wish to return to the Dawn and to their immortal state. Logiclly, this would meanthe Towers would need to go, but they haven't destroyed a single one. The Prisoners are doing a fine job at that all on their own. At least 4 Towers have been downed by the Prisoner, 3 for sure.

Simply put, as has been said, the Thalmor want Talos gone because he is Lorkhan. The Doom Drum is their eternal enemy. They want Men gone because they believe their mythopoeic energies hold up Talos. Since Talos is a CHIMster this isn't correct. The proof is in c0da. Men are gone, but Talos is still getting sloshed at parties.

You more or less said it yourself, really. While removing the Towers is not part of their stated goals, it is a necessary requirement for step number three, which is the unbinding of the Time Dragon. As I see it the Thalmor only list Talos specifically as he is the only Tower that has any form of self-agency, and isn't as straightforward to remove from the picture. And there is of course the speculation that the Thalmor either destroyed or let be destroyed Crystal-Like-Law, which would play rather nicely into their goals. They engineer the Civil War in Skyrim, to target Snow Throat, and they control Valenwood, leaving Green Sap at their mercy. Red Mountain and White-Gold are already deactivated, Walk Brass is gone for all intents and purposes, leaving Ada-Mantia, which I'd imagine they'd be busy scratching their heads over thinking on how to destroy the Convention.