Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-10104661-20140727183115/@comment-26459635-20170404093830

ZhugeQuanqiang wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: I'm a Khajiit, though there are some aspects of the Bosmer I'm fond of. I hope the Khajiit, Bosmer and any anti-Thalmor Altmer form their own resistence against the Thalmor. Rest assure that there is surely anti-Thalmor factions within the Aldmeri Dominion. Think, the various Mages Guilds used to have great political powers and centuries of life experiences happened to lose their power temporarily during Oblivion Crisis and now they have recovered, not happy about what Thalmor is doing with their Summerset Isles...

Imagine each Guild have power equals to College of Winterhold aka causing The Great Collapse and destroyed the City of Winterhold (Civilians who are not professional mages clash with Thalmor executioners can destroy a part of Hammerfell City: Sentinel, so it isn't far off to believe each Altmer Mage Guilds in Summerset Isles can obliterate a city in moments)

Now with that power scale correctly pictured in your mind, multiply it by 100. That is probably what the Thalmor are facing in Summerset Isles. the mages guild has not recovered from it's loss of power. they are gone.