Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.97.80.106-20130811163656/@comment-80.216.220.48-20131211224537

Draevan13 wrote: The Legend of the 500 is just that: a legend. Taking a several thousand year old legend and trying to use it as a military strategy is utterly absurd.

And yes, it is your strawman. You said that I'd said legends can't be real.

"Alduin's another legend Miraak also but whadaya know?

Turns out they were very much real."

Nice try, but no dice.

I never said the Thalmor don't use misdirection, deceit and such strategies. But saying that's all they have is, again, utterly absurd. Did those countless thousands of Imperial soldiers who died and fought the Thalmor just imagine it all or drop dead for no reason? No, they were killed because the Thalmor are a threat, not pushovers. For crying out loud, the very title of the book you used a source is Rising  THREAT . Because they are a threat, not pushovers. Pushovers wouldn't have brought five seperate races to the brink of destruction in four years. Elder Scrolls legends are not JUST legends es evidenced by my examples and all other examples you can think of.

You can't compre real life legends to fantasy ditto, that's false equivalancy.

Those soldiers died because death happens in war and especially when the leadership overestimates the enemy (or underestimates but we are talking about Altmer here so that is not the case) just how it goes.

It called Rising Threat to make the Non-Dragonblood led Empire pay attention and nip the Altmers in the bud but sadly they chose not to do so.

Who knows, maybe the editor chose the title in-universe.

Please, it was most certainly not to the brink of destruction and if it was which it wasn't but as a thought experiment it would have been because the imperial leadership failed.

Which it definitely did in the Great War.