Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-72.74.78.185-20150114215109/@comment-72.74.78.185-20150115225104

That's because the Thalmor arn't all of the mer or all of the Altmer. Try looking at the wikipedia page on the Thalmor and see what it says.

Anyways, from what i understand, Lorkhan had split into two seprate entities when he saw the tower of CHIM (since gods can't become CHIMsters). One of them, Shezarr, still knew CHIM existed and tried to build mundus as a means for lesser spirits to achieve it. The other one, Shor (i think) tried to help his counterpart build mundus because it would weaken the other gods and he could rule the Aurbis. But the gods became fed up with Shor and Sezarr and trinimac killed them both. The lesser Aedra, weakened by mundus, reproduced and created the Mer, and that's why they hate him so much. Shor creted the men, and so they worship him as a god and believe there was a greater purpose in creating mundus (CHIM). The mer all hate Lorkhan for destroying they're devinity, but the Thalmor are more radical and think that by destroying all of the towers they can destroy Nirn and create a new dawn era where everyone can regain it. But i'm sure that most mer wouldn't mind regaining all of they're power back, but not at the expense of the entire world being destroyed. So why add on to the security system of you're own prison by building the Crystal and White Gold towers and making a home out of but not doing anything about another one (Falinesti).

Please excuse my spelling errors. I am dyslexic.