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HahnDragoner523 wrote: 70.112.240.21 wrote: Coppermantis wrote: Well, there was the slavery conducted by the Dunmer which (if I remember correctly) prompted said invasion.

I don't know about the nords. They seem to keep to themselves in the grand scheme of things.

The Nords, when you look at history, are honestly a race of invaders who's arrogance rivals the Altmer's or maybe even more so, not through talk and elitist type social displays, but through action. Their homeland of Skyrim, once called Atmora, was gained by force through invasion and war brought on by them to the peaceful Snow Elves who already inhabited the region. The Snow Elves had a prosperous nation and very advanced civilization and culture and fought back but eventually were driven out, and forced underground with the cruel Dwemer. The Dwemer then subjected them to a poison that robbed them of their eyesight and higher senses. If you played Skyrim, the twisted Falmer you find in Dwemer ruins are the descendents of this once proud race, an innocent race the Nords alone had a direct hand in making so vile and mindless. Their reason for taking Atmora for themselves for no actual legitimate reason by force? They 100% believed they simply "had the right to" because they'd "earned it" by winning the battles they'd come across. They're meatheaded fools...Orcs' code of honor makes more sense than these morons'. Actually Skyrim was called Merith before it became home to the Nords. Atmora was a whole other continent. The Atmorans immigrated from Atmora into Merith/Skyrim and built their first city in Winterhold. It was called "Saarthal". Thats the place where you find the eye of Magnus in the college of winterhold questline. The Atmorans one day found this powerful artifact. After learning that the humans had discovered something of great magical power the snow elves, who had lived peacefully with the Atmorans until then, invaded Saarthal and slaughtered every human in the city, with the exeption of Ysgramor and his sons, who fled back to Atmora, rallied an army called "The 500 companions", went back to Merith/Skyrim and began a vengeance driven war with the snowelves. (Upon arrival Ysgramor founded the city of Windhelm).

So you see, actually the snow elves where the aggressors and not the Nords/Atmorans. I still don´t see how one sacked city justifies the extermination of an entire race but the snow elves where the ones who started it, so it was their own fault.

I was mistaken recalling who struck first in all of what happened regarding the Snow Elves and Nords, the Snow Elves killing the citzens of Saarthal was the first event, and the Atmorans did immigrate to what is now Skyrim to find the Snow Elves here first and at first live in peace with them. In the face of that still though, it seems like the Nords greatly overreacted in response. An entire city wiped out is an atrocity, there's no denying that, but to continue to genocidally eradicate the entire race and make it a mission to, after the war, a huge one at that, is over? That's way past taking it too far, even in the name of vengeance, I admit the Snow Elves did deserve the massive war that followed their initial attack, but to virtually wipe an entire race from existence, so much that their history is basically non-existent is complete overkill. I know the Dwemer had a hand in the dissolving of their history itself, but the Snow Elves would've never found themselves it that position in the first place, had the Nords stopped once the actual war had ended.