Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130714031200/@comment-16473632-20131003235932

Lord Hadron wrote: It's a POSSIBLITY that they were after the Eye of Magnus, but more likely they wanted to rid the over-populating Nords.

The Snow Elves were probably entirely unaware of the Eye's existance. In that case still they are in the Guilty chair.