User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Tiber's Hard Work Shall NOT Be Torn Asunder!/@comment-173.66.36.26-20111220031316/@comment-213.200.177.245-20111220160614

Just no, the thalmor could not have destroyed the mede empire at the end of the Great War. To claim they could have is to lie. Maybe just maybe the mede empire could not have smashed the dominion, who did have a better spy network, but one thing the mede empire really really could have don and should've was fought for better terms than the white-gold concord, ie the rape everything good about the mede empire concord.