User blog comment:Lorchyism23/Joining the Thalmor/@comment-94.15.146.188-20140508050941

Ladies and gentlemen, the idiocy I have read here today does not only astound me, but disgusts me. It is as if the fact of the human touch blinded everyone in these arguments that argue against playable Thalmor. The Dragons are the main enemies in Skyrim; that makes sense not to play. You can't go into all the interesting places, as you're too large and nobody on planet Nirn likes you.

However; the Aldmeri Dominion are playable in Elder Scrolls: Online, showing that as an Empire and as a faction as whole, they're just as human and feeling as everyone else. We just get a single side of the story in Skyrim, since it is a subjugated state.

So here's my issue. The Thalmor are very rude and everyone does hate them pretty much; yes. But they're far from the main enemies of Skyrim or the Elder Scrolls at large. As the Daedra can pretty much hand-wave all of these. You can become the Champion of Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince that attempted to obliterate all of Tamriel only an era ago. So the fact people are whining about them being "main villains," when they're not is ridiculous. Especially when you can become the will of the Prince of Destruction.

TL;DR, at the end of the day we have served far worse beings than the Thalmor could hope to be and they just have a different view point from what we're given. So kids stop using the excuse of 'they are the main enemies, so they cannot be played! It is silly!' As an excuse, if you don't like the Thalmor, either don't join them or don't download a mod that lets you do it, simple as that.