Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24099618-20140114190300/@comment-1600847-20170124191130

Well ESO takes place about 800 years before Skyrim (2nd Era vs 4th Era), so the Dominion was quite different back then :P

In ESO it's the First Dominion, and the Thalmor back then genuinely wanted to work with the Bosmer and Khajiit for a better future, and they were equals. In Skyrim, though... the Third Dominion version of the Thalmor see the Bosmer and Khajiit as "lesser races" and see them only as servants for the Altmer :/

If you played ESO you know about the Veiled Heritance, right? Those Altmer supremascists. I think somewhere between ESO and Skyrim they took control of the Thalmor, and that's why the organization changed so drastically.