Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11345660-20130908095939/@comment-7953253-20130928053456

The Snow Elves aren't a Hive Mind, you know. They're not ruled by an unseen overlord. Look at Arch-Curate Vyrthur and Knight-Paladin Gelebor, or the Snow Elf priests tending to the Wayshrines. Do they look like they have any intent to destroy a foriegn race due to a xenophobic abnomality?

No?

Snow Elves aren't computers or Artificial Intelligence. They had thoughts and feelings too. The Snow Elves that massacred the Nords at Saarthal didn't speak for all Snow Elves. (Sorta like a "One rotten apple spoils the bunch". 

The incident at Saarthal, Night of Tears, doesn't give Nords free reign to just go and kill off every single living existing Snow Elf. But, what's done is done.

Nords already being plagued by the Thalmor, Dragons, Forsworn, Falmer, Bandits. That's what they got coming to them.