Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-1163364-20150120070231

Lord Hadron wrote: Th3Antioch wrote: And if the Altmer don't want to worship Talos, that's fine. But they can't go telling the nords, whose patron god is Talos, that they can no longer worship him. What if the roles were reversed? Would the elves like it if the nords said 'Nope, we beat you in this war, we're better than you, and by the way you can't worship Auriel/Akatosh anymore." I'm pretty sure you'd be hating them a lot for that. That's retribution, for the events of The Return. And the Nords' involvement in that.

They did kinda bring that upon themselves though. They attacked humanity because humans were reproducing more quickly than they likeld.