Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.97.80.106-20130811163656/@comment-1600847-20131211221901

80.216.220.48 wrote: Buth in this particular legend ie the 500 Companions we have no reason not take it at face

value.

Do recall you were the one to bring up the spartans, please.

Not my strawman.

And they fell victim to believing the hype.

Read the Rising threat books, Altmer strength are misdirection, deceit and such strategies. The Legend of the 500 is just that: a legend. Taking a several thousand year old legend and trying to use it as a military strategy is utterly absurd.

And yes, it is your strawman. You said that I'd said legends can't be real.

"Alduin's another legend Miraak also but whadaya know?

Turns out they were very much real."

Nice try, but no dice.

I never said the Thalmor don't use misdirection, deceit and such strategies. But saying that's all they have is, again, utterly absurd. Did those countless thousands of Imperial soldiers who died and fought the Thalmor just imagine it all or drop dead for no reason? No, they were killed because the Thalmor are a threat, not pushovers. For crying out loud, the very title of the book you used a source is Rising  THREAT . Because they are a threat, not pushovers. Pushovers wouldn't have brought five seperate races to the brink of destruction.