User blog comment:Lorchyism23/Joining the Thalmor/@comment-4911564-20121111193501

To all of the anti-Thalmors out there:

Now, I find this extremely funny. Many of you who hate the Thalmor have characters who are part of the Dark Brotherhood and/or Stormcloaks. You see the irony, yes? The Dark Brotherhood is a guild/cult of assasins who will kill anyone they are paid to kill (or, contracted, for lack of a better term). No purpose, except for some strange divine mission. So it's okay to join them, a religious cult of murderers, but it's not okay to join the Thalmor? Hmmm...

Lets take a look at the Stormcloaks now. The Stormcloaks are just about as "racist" as the Thalmor are. Yes; it's true. They despise the Mer. If Ulfric were to become the High King of Skyrim, don't yout think he might start doing what the Thalmor are doing? I guess it also would be a boon to mention the Forsworn. The native peoples to the Reach region of Skyrim have been treated horribly by Ulfric's men. Slaughtered, opressed, you name it. If you did the who Forsworn quest in Markarth, didn't hear what all of the Forsworn prisoners had to say in Cidna Mine?

Now let's take a look at some political factions that weren't represented in Skyrim but mentioned elsewhere. The An-Xileel, a faction of Argonians, despise pretty much all others (those invading their homeland), ESPECIALLY the Dunmer. They invaded Morrowind and slaughtered countless Dunmer (even those who didn't go slaving after them). Yet I'm sure they aren't as bad as the big 'ol Thalmor.

How about those Volkihar vampires from the Dawnguard expansion? They want to blot out the sun so that they can feed unhindered on the mortal population of Nirn? Wow..and yet they aren't getting hated on as much as the Thalmor (I love those vampires, by the way).

Let's go back in time.... Here we are in Morrowind (TES III). In this game, we were given a load of factions to choose from. The one I'm going to talk about is Great House Telvanni (my favourite). Great House Telvanni despises the Imperial outlanders/invaders (and just about any other outlander) and is notorious for slavery. You were even given a quest to quell a slave rebellion. And yet Great House Telvanni isn't that evil bad guy getting all of the hate.

It's funny, isn't it? It's because the Thalmor were sucessful that they are getting all of this hate. Didn't someone mention this was an rpg? Yes, indeed it is. In an rpg, one expects to be able to create a plethora of characters (especially so, since this is a TES game). TES also doesn't make your character a "either or" character. Our character have depth. They are part of different factions. They are whatever we make them to be.