Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-25286356-20130914021426

Pink Slim wrote: Actually the goal of the Thalmor is to achieve Divinity for all Elven-kind, to do so they'd have to destroy many things including: all men, all records of men having existed, the possibility for men to exist again, Talos The God, and Finally, The Mortal plane that binds them to existence, AKA Mundus, AKA The major part of the TES Universe, AKA The world.

So yeah, their goal is to destroy everything.

And the reason Ancano went mad and tried to use The Eye of Magnus is because the Eye has an extremely high chance of being the stone that activates the snowthroat tower that is one of the last two known towers that bind mundus to existence.

You hate humans? Fine. You want to become a god? That's just dumb.

Did Sheogorath ever visit Alinor? That would explain a lot.