Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-17114085-20130921022610

I still don't see evidence of your claim that the average Elven lifespan is 2900 years, to me that numbers seems very very unlikely. I would go max 300 years.

"or lore, which is baseless" lore isn't baseless, most of what we know of the Elder Scrolls Universe is based on lore. Without it we would not next to nothing.

"and that the elves simply think the humans were barbaric" Snow elves and Nords lived in peace, the Nords population started growing too fast and soon they would have outnembered the Snow Elves, fearing for their lives the Snow Elves commited genocide and killed every nord in Skyrim,except one Ysgramor. He later returned to Atmora and brought his 500 Companions and utterly whopped the Snow Elves. My point being if 501 Nords can kill almost all the Snow Elves then the Human Armies can destroy the AD if they are prepared (which they weren't in the first Great War).

See its not only me who thinks it impossible to hide a couple hundred Bosmer/Khajiits in High Rock. Pink did bring up a good point, High Rock is made up of many diferent kingdoms each has its own army and is prepared for a siege(as the kingdoms constantly fight each other), very similar to the feudal sistem in medieval europe.

I also heard the Khajiit complain about the cold, almost all non-nords complain about the cold. Just as fun fact: i live in a subtropical climate(south america) and here we have 4 seasons like in the northern hemisphere's temperate climate(the diference being here it rains more), i have lived here all my life and costantly complain about the harsh climate(in latin america we don't have the inferstuction that the north hemisphere has, our houses aren't heated). If changes in seasons make us fell unconfertable in real life imagine a dramatic change in climate for an invasion force, they will suffer from the cold.

The whole thinking its not worth the effort to conquer, the Thalmor are super stuborn they didn't want to withdrawn any of the claims in the WGC even when they were losing the War, they were don't argue(they lost their biggest army). It is debatable if the Empire could have won the War but thanks to Titus we will never know(that spineless fool). I personally think he could have atleast presurred the AD into a better deal, as he didn't sign a peace treaty it was a surrender(wonce again, that spineless fool). Back to the point though, the Thalmor don't give up until there is no other option, if they could have taken Hammerfell they would have.