Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-66.177.58.176-20140121224654/@comment-26197005-20150404034827

These things we can say are known: the Thalmor desire to undo the mundus as they veiw it as holding them in a non-divine form, they blame Lorkhan for this and call him "trickster", Lorkhan is the Enemy-God of their religion vs the Missing-God as he is in human religions. The following are drawn from MK bob-cannonical sourses: The Thalmor intend to "kill-all-humans" in the hopes of ending mundus, ending Talos worship is a means to an end, deactivating the Towers is yet  another plot to achieve this same end.

I feel comfortable saying that the Thalmor are well within the classic paramiters of a "doomsday cult". As such, I cannot see them not trying to destroy the moons... If doing so ends the world, they "win". If doing so only harms Lorkhan, or even the memory of him, they "win". They are fanatical, they want to end the world to get into their own private Idaho... They really don't consider the rights or religions of any other races, or even their own race if those veiws are not marching in lock-step with their own. From my in game experiance of them, it's, "My way or I try to kill you". An approch which does tend to leave me a bit cold...

I play a high-elf, I am a huge fan of a things lore in these games... There have been three Aldmeri Dominions so far... Two have been ended, I can only hope that this one will go the way of the dodo as well...

High-elves are very good at illusion magics, enough of them, working in unison, and with a "rinse-and -repeat" philosophy could perhaps make the moons appear to be gone... But, I do not believe that they would bother with such a plan. Their goals are to destroy the world, not make friends. The would consider the Khajiit to be a perversion of their true blood lines if decended from mer and as man if from man, neither is more than an animal to they. Such hate and scorn as the Thalmor has does not allow for another race being worth while.

That being said, I applaud Bethesda for bringing such issues as religious hate, and race hate into the dialog! This is what Azimov thought the purpose of science-fiction, which includes fantasy, was for - allowing subjests which are almost untouchable to be thought about in new and different ways; and by those who would not normally be able to do so with an open mind...

A thing of true beauty! My hat is off to you!

Nomar, the Nomarian