User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-80.216.216.3-20130516103616/@comment-121.219.169.69-20130518095902

The whole Thalmor destroying world thing is from Michael Kirkbride's writing. Responsible for a lot of TES lore, especially the more complex, esoteric stuff.

As for slavery being worse than death, I wonder how there were so many slaves in this world if that is the case. Maybe they prefered slavery to death.... Freedoms a tad overrated I believe, assuming it exists but let's not get into the more philosophical aspects of that.