Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.97.80.106-20130811163656/@comment-1600847-20131211232854

80.216.220.48 wrote:

Elder Scrolls legends are not JUST legends es evidenced by my examples and all other examples you can think of.

You can't compre real life legends to fantasy ditto, that's false equivalancy.

Those soldiers died because death happens in war and especially when the leadership overestimates the enemy (or underestimates but we are talking about Altmer here so that is not the case) just how it goes.

It called Rising Threat to make the Non-Dragonblood led Empire pay attention and nip the Altmers in the bud but sadly they chose not to do so.

Who knows, maybe the editor chose the title in-universe.

Please, it was most certainly not to the brink of destruction and if it was which it wasn't but as a thought experiment it would have been because the imperial leadership failed.

Which it definitely did in the Great War. "You can't compre real life legends to fantasy ditto"

A legend is the same thing regardless of if it's in fantasy or in reality. A legend is, by definition, a  story  regarded as historical but  unauthenticated . I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying it likely didn't happen as it's told in tales. Again, the legend of the 300 Spartans vs the reality of Thermopylae.

And even if it's word for word true that all it takes in 500 men to kill Snow Elves, Snow Elves and Altmer are two entirely different races. The only thing they have in common is pointy ears. A strategy that works for one elven race might not work on the other.

"It was most certainly not to the brink of destruction"

Yes it was. If the Thalmor had won, they would have exterminated or enslaved all of mankind. If you don't think THAT'S the brink, then I don't know what is.