Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-9212235-20141207033548

ShawHowellsCP: The idea is that they believed that Lorkhan knew they'd have to give up their power, thus tricked. There's no solid evidence in either direction. Each side has their opinion.

161.111: The Dominion was just as weakened by the war as the Empire. There was no possible way they'd be able to defeat the Nords at the time of the White-Gold Concordant.

MarktheUnseen: There is zero evidence that Talos isn't a god and a world of evidence that he is. Even the Thalmor know he's a god, they just want him gone so they can unmake Mundus and return to the Dawn.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/forum-archives-michael-kirkbride

the part in question:

To kill Man is to reach Heaven, from where we came before the Doom Drum's iniquity. When we accomplish this, we can escape the mockery and long shame of the Material Prison.

To achieve this goal, we must:

1) Erase the Upstart Talos from the mythic. His presence fortifies the Wheel of the Convention, and binds our souls to this plane.

2) Remove Man not just from the world, but from the Pattern of Possibility, so that the very idea of them can be forgotten and thereby never again repeated.

3) With Talos and the Sons of Talos removed, the Dragon will become ours to unbind. The world of mortals will be over. The Dragon will uncoil his hold on the stagnancy of linear time and move as Free Serpent again, moving through the Aether without measure or burden, spilling time along the innumerable roads we once traveled. And with that we will regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit.