Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-8248675-20130906084603

Talos the human, might not have been original Aedra, but it quite posible that by manteling Shore/Lorkhan, he became one and the same with the missing god. Except when he ascended to Autherius, he was present in the image of a new divine, who essentially took the place of Lorkhan in the pantheon. Originaly, there was supposed to be 9 divines, but we all know what happened to Lorkhan. I also believe that Thalmor also cannot stand the idea that Lorkhan had been restored in any shape or form to the pantheon and it would make their job of destroying Mondus, all the harder. Again, I don't think all High Elves share Thalmor's views, especially those that you find living in Skyrim like ordinary citizens. Take for example Nireny, and the stable couple at Windhelm. They just trying to fit into the society and doing better job at it in Windhelm then Dunmer. Cannot realy judge Nurelian, he is jusk an old grumpy elf. The priest of Arkay in Falkreath was even fighting in Great War for Aldmeri Dominion, but he seems like he put that behind and became part of Skyrim's society as well. The tailor sisters at Solitude think a bit too much of the quality of their craft, but at least Terie is more customer friendly then her sister. It turns out that only Thalmor that walk around Skyrim, enforcing White Gold Concordum are really those radical, "Talos is not a god, destroy men and Mondus" kind of High Elves. Try not to generalize when you blame Thalmor, not all Altmer share their opinion. Believe me, I've been there, I even teased my wife when she made an Altmer as her first character, calling her a Thalmor and all. The background that I made for my own High Elf character actually makes him a former Thalmor. Although during great war, he only was in Alinor and only recently came to Skyrim with the rest of Thalmor. When he realized what they were doing to people in Skyrim, he left...and became a vampire to become a better wizard then he already was, as his goal is to master all schools of magic. However, enough of the character talk. As far as Pax Romana goes, the Septim Empire also made me think of that. After Roman Empire conquered all of those warring tribes in Euroupe, they establish a period of peace, their techonology ensured infrastructure that sometimes is still in use today in certain countries. Dark Ages can be an example of what had happened to Europe after Roman Empire fell and Roman knowledge was slowly forgoten in most of Europe. I shall go in more details of that later, if you would allow me to.