User blog comment:Is that so. Well.../Why I support the Dominion/@comment-17114085-20140311033752/@comment-13446185-20140312041637

'I do agree that the logical thing for the Altmer to do is to encourage reproduction. But there is much about Elven reproduction that we don't yet know. For instance is the slower reproduction just a cultural thing or is slower reproduction a biological thing.'

''"Sire. It is her child. Children are few among the Elves. No Elven woman conceives more than four times, and that is very rare. Two is the usual number. Some bear none, even, and some only one. If I take this one from her, Sire, she may not conceive again." ''

-The Real Barenziah, Book III