Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140430190200

86.139.34.56 wrote: Just destroy the aldmeri dominion I hate the thalmor that should be the next one the second Great War where the empire finally destroys the aldmeri dominion All these "Screw the Thalmor they should go die in a hole arrghhh!" people should stop and think; Skyrim was set in a strongly anti-Thalmor province. We simply don't have enough sources that aren't biased against Thalmor to say they are awful. OK, so they're very expansionist and aggresive, but so was Tiber Septim. Alright, so they did some underhanded stuff; but hold on, what about the Acturian Heresy (where Septim killed Zurin Arctus to power the Numidium). The Thalmor anti-Talos stuff? Well, maybe that isn't a good thing, but it's called propaganda - they are trying to weaken the justification of a Cyrodiilic Empire. As for the talk about the Dominion being a xenophobic place, well, belive it or not, it's quite normal to have racists in the Elder Scrolls; in Skyrim, the Stormcloaks pushed the Dunmer into a slum and don't let Khajiit or Argonians within their walls. And as for the Towers stuff, you realise that Michael Kirkbride's stuff isn't canon? It is not backed up by books or dialogue, and Bethesda has no connection with it.

I'm not saying the Thalmor are perfect, but they aren't inherently evil, and the Empire and Stormcloaks aren't exactly saints either.