Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.42.77.181-20150215034524/@comment-121511-20150305034333

Box Jellyfish wrote: -AR- wrote:

Box Jellyfish wrote: is it anywhere stated that the thalmor want to eradicate man from existence? i don't necessarily remember it, myself. there are benefits to keeping us, too. This source. It's a Kirkbride text that more or less outlines the Thalmor's ultimate goals. It's unlikely that every Dominion lackey knows that the Thalmor plan to destroy creation: it's most likely information that only the highest ranking party members are privy to. i checked between your answer and that post and found it, but it left me sort of unconvinced of anything really. it's...one thing to have people go out and take the continent, and another to go out and try to undo time and remove the human race entirely.

even with kirkbride's blessing, i don't think that's as strong an end game scenario as just taking over. after a while, they'd need to surrender that end regardless.

To understand why they want to undo creation, you have to understand the most basic reason that Men and Mer are different races. The progenitors of all life were the Ehlnofey, who were et'Ada that were somehow affected by Lorkhan's creation of Nirn such that they could not/would not leave with the Magna-Ge. Of these Ehlnofey, some sacrificed themselves to form the Earthbones, setting the foundation for the laws of nature, while the rest divided into two groups: the Old Ehlnofey, who saw the fruit of Lorkhan's trickery as a prison that they sought to escape, and the Wanderers, who appreciated Creation and venerated Lorkhan. These would eventually, after sub-graduation, become Mer and Men respectively. While the different races of Mer have since split based on their own views of Creation, the Altmer (culturally speaking) maintain the original Aldmeri view that Lorkhan's creation of Nirn was the greatest sin. The Thalmor seek more than this: they seek to destroy what they see as their prison, and they believe that doing this will revert the various races of Mer back to their original divine state. Further, they seek to destroy the very idea of Man, as Man symbolizes Lorkhanic ideals. The same ideals that trapped them in their prison in the first.