Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-25286356-20130914020003

They don't hate the Dominion. They only stopped Ancano because his meddling would destroy the world. Is that not the Dominion's main goal?

Oh, dear.

The Third Aldmeri Dominion's goals are to annihilate/assimilate the races of men and put only Altmer in positions of power. How will they acheive this if they destroy the world?

Ancano went mad. He wanted to harness the Eye of Magnus' power for the Thalmor, but decided to take it for himself. The Psijic Order stopped him and took the artifact away because they knew that others would inevitably mess with it and cause unquantifiable amounts of damage.