Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-80.216.214.210-20130818233806

SajuukKhar wrote: 1. Because it isn't what I am saying.

2. They chose to accept the Empire's surrender so that they could not only resupply themselves, to make thier chances of winning even greater, but so that they could destabilize all the races of men further, to make them even easier targets.

It's far easier to pick off the races of men one by one, nation by nation, by splitting them up via things like the Skyrim Civil War, and the Hammerfell incident, rather then having to take Cyrodiil, and then Skyrim, and Hammerfell, and the High Rock, when all the races of men are united and willing to back each other up should any one of them fall.

Except absolutely none of them make mention of anything dealing with existence, and/or hating it. You are projecting an out-of-game text, whose canonistity is dubious at best, onto the actions of the in-game Thalmor, and tyring to equate the two.

Since he used the Numidium to crush the first Aldmeri dominion and found The Third Empire?

A. Lets see.... supposed complete control of Cyordiil's government and operations....... sounds like de-facto rulership to me.

B. The Redguards fought for 5 years over it. The Thalmor did not.

C. Well, Skyrim has shown that, despite the AD's supposed rulership, The Empire has been largely negating their authority for years.

Before Ulfric started trouble, the ban on Talos was unenforced, and even with the AD calling on the WGC to pull "authority" in Skyrim, they have been marginalized to a "embassy" in the middle of nowhere, and their agents in places like Markarth have been stalled and halted by the Jarls at almost every step. Even their leader in Skyrim basically gets told to sit down and shut up during the peace conference, with Tullius having the brass to say even he doesn't like her there, with no repercussions taken against him. The Thalmor's supposed "dominance" over The Empire's politics and operations is existent only in propaganda. 1 It really is.

2 But they didn't need any of that if what you are saying is true, they could have had Cyrodiil and really all of Tamriel.

Sure it's easier to conquer divided foes, that's basic knowledge.

It's also easier to you know conquer foes that are exausted and weaker then you.

It's also smarter to not let a weak foe rebuild their strengths unlike what the AD is letting the empire do.

It's not dubious and they outright state their intention to kill all humans.

The first Dominion had Thalmor?

Since when?

Your A and C points contradict eachother.

And your B point makes no sense whatsoever.

An embassy outside of the capital of Skyrim isn't in the middle of nowhere.

Did you miss the part where Elenwen was personally invited to the summit in the first place by Tullius?