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TiberCaesarAndRepublicOfTamriel wrote: Lemonizerchimp wrote: Rukathesoldier wrote: The Ninja Khajiit wrote: 180.181.142.191 wrote: 74.129.72.98 wrote: The Altmer are also really smart, too. The only problem I have with the Aldmeri Dominion is the Thalmor, because they are:

-Really racist

-Self-absorbed um, uh, MEANY PANTS

-Hate everyone they believe are lesser than themselves

-Are obsessed with plotting the murder of the entire human race

-Hate Talos

-Hate the Empire

-Destroyed the beautiful Imperial city

-Murder people who are only thought to be Talos worshippers

-Smell bad

-Enslaved and entire race of monkey people

-And are FASCIST LIKE HITLER AND THE NAZIS

Thats pretty much it. This is why I hate how Bethesda made the Thalmor. They have such potential yet they were squandered to be fantasy nazis. Well, Skyrim basically showed them as pure evil yes, but I've always wondered if the final goal they have in mind is actually for the good of Tamriel. People have ideas about what they are trying to accomplish, but Beth hasn't directly revealed their true motives yet. What if they have, say, received a sign from the future about some sort of doom approaching, and the only way to get through is to have an Elven-based empire based on wisdom instead of war? Could be something like that. We really don't know yet. Well they kinda want to unravel reality just so they can become immortal beings or something like that. So...yeah...they're evil. Oh and they win in the end... Yeah,

People keep mentioning this. But I have yet to see were they got this idea from. Is there any chance that you could enlighten me on just what source of evidence there is for such a theory? And I am being genuine here, I really want to know how they came to this conclusion. And how they know this is what they are planning. Because as of yet, I have found no such evidence.



Thanks,

Lemonizerchimp. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Towers

Thalmor endgame
According to this text, in the Fourth Era the Third Aldmeri Dominion adopted a militant stance on the matter and sought to return to immortality at any cost.

This harsh course of action was the result of the Altmer no longer having the knowledge of reaching divinity that Auri-El taught their ancestors. Because of this they see no need in the Towers. They are no longer gateways to Aetherius from their material prison, but rather the iron bars in their prison cell. The Aldmeri Dominion therefore wish to smash these bars and escape the mortal plane.

Their method of achieving divinity first involves removing Talos, god-king of man, from the pantheon of worship. In a world where the beliefs of it's inhabitants has a direct influence on the Gods, stopping the worship of Talos would cause him to cease to exist and therefore no longer be an obstacle in the Thalmor's scheme. This part of the scheme was partially realized with the sack of the Imperial City during the Great Warand the introduction of the White-Gold Concordat, the law that forbid Talos worship in the Empire.[7]

The "Sons of Talos" or Men are also seen as an obstacle, so they seek to remove Man from the equation. Simply killing every human would not suffice, rather the very notion of man must be eliminated. This would be achieved by deactivating the aformentioned Towers that hold up Mundus.

By the Fourth Era several Towers have already been deactivated or destroyed, namely Red Tower, Crystal Tower, Orichalc and Walk Brass. The White-Gold may have been reactivated with the intervention of Akatosh at the Temple of the One during the Oblivion Crisis and it's unknown if Green-Sap or Snow Throat are active or not.

Once these two goals have been achieved, the Thalmor's master plan of achieving divinity would be complete. If all the Towers were deactivated, the eternal cycle of death would cease and Mundus would dissolve back into its original primordial state, unbound by the laws of physics and reality; time and space would have no meaning, neither would My point exactly.