User blog comment:TheRedCross/The Next Elder Scrolls/@comment-2.222.138.93-20120805072643

well since dawnguard hints about groups of snow elves that have not turn into falmer being hidden they could explain snow elfs being a playable race by saying a big pocket of them appeared 20 years before the start of the game and have increased there numbers so they have about 10000 people after a war with the nords that stopped when they heard about the thalmor who(and this is my opintion) think the snow elfs are savages (because of the falmer) who must be killed so the nords and the snow elves start fighting the thalmor in a uneasy truce.