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The Thalmor have literally NO CHANCE of dethroning Talos. With the manipulation of the dream of the godhead even a small change would destroy the thalmor. Moving what's essentially a rock isn't big in universe terms but if Talos drops a meteor on the Summer Set Isles...yeah you get the point.

Although Talos can't just unmake mer or something out of fear of waking the godhead simply destroying merish power on nirn would be a rather simple task (a few "unlucky" battles in stragegic positions would be all it takes for the "pure" mer to lose their control over their territories).