Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-4365270-20150120171907

Rigid Generic wrote:

Pyrolord wrote:

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. So a small group of Snow Elves kill off a small group of Nords, and so the Nords commit genocide against the entire Snow Elven race? It is, indeed retribution. Nords don't deserve to live. Hey,

First I have read through your comments and I have a few issues with some of your thoughts. First, I would ask why at all the High Elves/Altmer have the right to start the Great War and massacre hundreds of innocents (Namely the countless people of many races that were present in Cyrodil and had not part in The Return) and further reserve the right to slaughter more because they worship Talos (which is not limited to just Nords). Second, why would the Thalmor care to seek such revenge in the name of the Snow Elves, who by the way are different race altogether to Altmer, even if they are both Mer. Further, if they care so much, why do they seek revenge for an atrocity that happened centuries ago, when there’s a more recent example in the invasion of the Argonians and the slaughter of the Dunmer/Dark Elves. Finally, how can you justify that when the Thalmor themselves conduct mass murder and slaughter on their own people and fellow Mer (Namely the Bosmer/Wood Elves) simply because they don’t agree with what the Thalmor belive or support them. Thus showing that they clearly do not care for their people or put any stock in their brother Mer. As such you can justify what they did with the whole The Return.