User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/Why the Thalmor suck/@comment-5700881-20131103234031

So what about that shows a superiority complex and not just them being dicks? If anything it shows a rather human side to the Dwemer

Well, that's a bit of racial prejudice, just because they're Elves, I mean, that's quite a bit of stereotyping about a race you know next to nothing about, and you call out all Altmer, yet there are plenty who aren't anything like that, so who looks like the one with racial prejudice? Also, you're just assuming their king has one without information one way or the other, for all we know he could be like Teclis or Divyath.

Fine, but that's two versus just about every other non-hostile Dunmer NPC in the game.

Remember that I said racially themed/oriented superiority complexes, the two Altmer have a classicist attitude more than anything, and I will argue that it's simply the devs not adding more dialogue because you can be wearing their special brand of clothes and they won't bat an eyelash. Yeah, Calcelmo can be a jerk because he's busy and (mostly) justifiably paranoid, not out of any superiority complex, racially themed or otherwise, he never says anything of the sort last I remember. Faralda never, ever, says anything about Nirya, this and the way Nirya talks about Faralda implies at least to me that this "rivalry" is Nirya's one-sided delusion. And plenty of people have that. Not to mention that Faralda is easy going and polite, and Nirya is just, weird, but neither have made any racially oriented comments about themselves or the player, I have no reason to see them as having racially themed/oriented superiority complexes.

Again, as I said, Thalmor aside, and just which hostile NPCs are you talking about? Generic enemies don't count, because if you're using that then I can say rightly all generic enemies I encounter have superiority complexes thus meaning a vast majority of the members of each race are racist especially Nords, what with their racial nationalist battle cries, instead of them being, I don't know, violent criminals perhaps?

Also, what's your fixation with the Blades? They aren't forgiving or willing to forgive and let go of old grievances. It's even implied by Delphine that they did something to the Thalmor(not excusing them, but still). So if the Blades aren't forgiving, why should the Thalmor?