Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24099618-20140114190300/@comment-1265392-20180118115645

It's easy to sympathize with some of them. I mean, high elves live a lot (sometimes, even "A LOOOOT"). I bet some are still alive to remember Tiber Septim massacring their kin for the sake of conquering all of Tamriel. The Empire of Cyrodiil, of which the origins relate somewhat to the Alessian Order (who hated non-humans). Now consider an elf, looking at a human who lives maybe 1/5 of their usual lifetime, limited in terms of magic and prone to violence and genocide. Then consider that the elves were forced into worshiping Septim as a god. Now consider that the elves were already pissed at the fact they are no longer gods (in their view anyway) from the start.

In short, the Thalmor's ways are easy to understand, because they see humans as some kind of "cancer" in the world, and don't want to worship one of them. Not unlike Ysgramor's quest against elves, the Thalmor want their own "justified genocide". Looking at Skyrim only, they are unjustifiable, but looking at their history, not as much.