Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-13446185-20130904210942

Legate Alexandros wrote: Look at it this way, ever since Talos became a divine, it was Talos basically = Shor

At the same time as we know, Shor = Lorkhan

Who is Lorkhan to Thalmor, besides being the defender of men? The god creator, or trickster who tricked other Aedra into helping him creating Mondus. The whole, sole reason for Thalmor to be traped in Mondus and specifically, on Nirn. They may be wrong in their believe, but they honestly think that they used to be E'hernofrey (sp?) that used to be in the god heads in Autherius, until Lorkhan tricked other Aedra into creating Mondus.

So, removing Talos from Pantheon is personal for Thalmor, not just because Talos had subjugated Summerset Isles with Numidium long time ago, (And Thalmor appearantly like elephants, never forget) but also because they hate the idea of anyone taking the niech of hated Lorkhan in any shape or form. I think they were quite fine with Shor/Lorkhan being a missing god and they want to keep it that way. Plus, Talos might just be the only divine out there capable of defending mankind from Thalmor master plan. They might see their evil plan of destroying men and Mondus imposible, unless they will find a way to get rid of Talos.

Anarchy within mankind from banning Talos worshiping, is a welcomed side effect to Thalmor. Saves them the trouble of exterminating every single man. Plant the seeds of Anarchy and just watch them kill each other. Why do you think it's in their best interest to keep civil war going? If men don't kill each other, they at least will weaken themselves, so it will be no problem at all for those High Born Thalmor to finish off the survivors. 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 travelled. And with that we will regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit.

-Thalmor Master plan

They want to kill Talos, not as revenge, but because he literally makes it so that all souls are bound to mundus, he is basically himself one of the towers.