Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150928140042/@comment-26693897-20151006161340

109.186.183.183 wrote:

second, have you tought of the thalmor as a side to support? i mean sure you can't support them in the game but if there is a debate about who is right, i think i'll pick the thalmor. but wait, the thalmor are a bunch of assholes, why would anyone like them? that change of prespective hitted me when i tried to find how old bretons are (or can reach). i realized that high elves can reach about a 1000 years old (or at least that what many people claimed). that means some of them lived in a time where there was no empire, no wonder they hate the empire. furthermore, some of them actaully saw talos. imagine you would have seen someone who invaded your land and killed your friends, and then someone would have told you that he is now a god. first of all, as stupid as the "he was so awesome that he rose to godhood" story is, knowing the person when he was still alive makes it even stupider (however, we do know its true, which kinda sucks, since i think it's a serious question about this whole war thing). also, talos is a painful reminder of their defeat, but that much was obvious already. also, they claim to be "superior to men". that didn't seem very objective when i dodn't knew about the age thing, but knowing that they live 10 times more then a men, that claim suddenly starts to sounds a lot more reasonable.

correct me if i am wrong, i don't remember everything about the lore, and sorry for my bad english, it's not my native. It's very clear you didn't read the lore or else you wouldn't post this bullshit. Let me clarify some things:

1) Talos IS a god and there are in-game evidences to support that.

2) Living for 1000 years doesn't make anyone superior or special. Tiber Septim was a human and he conquered all Tamriel by using his most powerful weapon: his intelligence.

3) If there a race of mer that deserves to be called superior, this race is the Dwemer. They achieved through tecnology what others would never achieve through magic, for example that device that copies the contents of an Elder Scroll and write it to a metal cube.

4) Tiber Septim and his heirs DIDN'T forced the Altmers to worship the 9 divines. All races still worshiped their gods as usual. And now we see Thalmor killing anyone who worship Talos because "a man can't be a god".