Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24984630-20140905052736/@comment-9212235-20150908051401

Mister Serpent wrote: Mankar made himself altmer (and also Dragondorn) using Mehrunes the Rasor and Prolix. This.

I was about to come in here and say this, but i'll expand. Mankar's mother and father were Bosmer, but using Mehrune's Razor he cut his proto-nymic and forged his neo-nymic into an Altmer and Dragonborn. The real question is why? In ESO we see the predecessor to the modern Thalmor, the Veilded Heritage, with ties to Dagon. Mankar's (and by extension Dagon's) goal in Oblivion is to bring back the Dawn Era. This is also the goal of the Thalmor. These connections have lead people to believe that Mankar was actually Thalmor. If this was true it would make sense as to why he would want to rewrite his nymic. He would want perfection.