Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-9062114-20130914024831

789Snowbird987 wrote: They don't hate the Dominion. They only stopped Ancano because his meddling would destroy the world. Is that not the Dominion's main goal? Oh, dear.

The Third Aldmeri Dominion's goals are to annihilate/assimilate the races of men and put only Altmer in positions of power. How will they acheive this if they destroy the world?

Ancano went mad. He wanted to harness the Eye of Magnus' power for the Thalmor, but decided to take it for himself. The Psijic Order stopped him and took the artifact away because they knew that others would inevitably mess with it and cause unquantifiable amounts of damage. According to Micheal Kirkbride they wish to unmake the world and become Gods. Altmeri culture believes that the Elves were decents of the gods and were put on the mortal plane by Lorkhan, so in their mind the existance of Mundus and everything living in it is just a mistake. So they wish to destroy all the towers and return to divinity.