Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.8.93.35-20130616184653/@comment-10781165-20130723030043

If you read up on the Towers page here on the wiki, they outline the Thalmor's plot to ascend back to godhood and destroy the rest of the races.

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And I love the Altmer, great mages. The Thalmor give the race a bad reputation but so do skooma smuggling khajiit, racist nords, etc.