Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24597741-20140106210548/@comment-3539474-20140108192712

Zippertrain85 wrote: The fact that Saarthal appears to be ruins from what appears to be an attack is proof that what Ysgramor was saying may be true. Why do you always side against the Nords in every situation? No no I simply looking for a justification about what happened to the non-participants like Gelebor. The book tells us that the Elves besieged Saarthal because of The Eye of Magnus uncovered by the Atmorans, maybe it influenced them to attack each other. Both sides see their choice as the right one, and after the first death the cycle of hate just grows, in the end, the elves of Mereth got what they didn't wanted, I don't think either side is right. It wasn't the whole race that massacred the city, yet all of them paid the price.

And how does that justify what the Dwemer did to the Falmer in their hour of need? The dwarves force poison on the Falmer as part of the deal to protect them from the proto-Nords in order to subjugate them. The dwarves weren't far off from the Ayleids in regarding torture as art.