User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/Which Faction do you like best in the new Elder Scrolls Online?/@comment-74.132.210.11-20130124155454/@comment-6044976-20130128074951

the elves weren't the ones who "kicked it up" it was nords who pushed two entire races almost to extinction. Sure you could argue that the nords were having revenge on the snow elves because of what happened at Saarthal but the snow elves were only trying to retake their land. The nords went way to far by trying to wipe out their entire race.

And why did the nords try to wipe out the Ayleids, what did they ever do to the nords.

The Aldmeri dominion was just trying to give the empire a taste of it own medicine by raiding the imperial city and killing everyone inside. That exactly what the empire did to the Ayleids aka heartland high elves who are the true owners of cyrodiil and the imperial city