Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4290456-20140319121732/@comment-14138255-20140421214825

Thalmor on their last legs? The Empire was on it's last legs, the Thalmor were only temporarily weakened, to continue would be suicide.

And yes, they did worship in secret. That is until the Stormcloaks, who are blatant worshippers brought attention to everything they were doing. Then the Thalmor cracked down and people started being captured (btw, I di the quest where you had to save that one Nord from the Thalmor prison and kicked their asses, that was an awesome quest). The Empire is more organized than the Stormcloaks, they would have been able to put resistance down as quickly as possible and restore order.

As for the Dunmer, how is this their fault? A volcano erupted and displaced several people from their homes, I would think this is a good dose of humility (and the Dunmer to be fair treat even Dunmer as outsiders if they don't come from Morrowind), that was just their culture at work, not their people. Imagine if refugees came to your city, would you consider them freeloaders? As for that one Altmer, she barely made it, she and others are lumped together with the Thalmor.