Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.42.77.181-20150215034524/@comment-7748697-20150305040008

-AR- wrote:

Box Jellyfish wrote: i know all that, lol. i'm being pragmatic about it and saying that, eventually, the thalmor will give up on that idea. Why give up when there's already great progress being made? Many of the Towers have been deactivated with or without their nudging, and given their superior military position, they also stand to potentially conquer the Empire in the inevitable Second Great War and outright stamp out worship of Talos. By the end of TES V, they're in a very good position from their perspective. if the position was so good, we would not have a treaty outlawing talos that lets the empire survive. they know where they're at; so do the people in power. i have no doubt at all that a few still want to go full divine, but the rest of them are probably on shaky footing. conquest is going to have to be enough. (i also have some pretty severe reservations that any of the gods above would let them escape this plane and rewrite time, and given that they can exist outside of it...you get the idea. the thalmor are playing with lots of fire in a room of gas and kindeing.