Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-12654584-20130807040209

I don't hate the Altmer. I hate the Thalmor.

What a bunch of babbling idiots these lemon-meringue-colored supremacist fascist loons are. Let me try to dissect the levels of stupidity revisionist Thalmor history, and the Thalmor master plan, and racist Thalmor ideology.

1) Revisionist Thalmor history.

-Denial of Talos' divinity. All kinds of evidence exists to show that Talos was and is divine, including the events of the Oblivion Crisis, his shrines' ability to cure diseases and his amulets' ability to reduce shout cooldowns, etc, but the Thalmor continue to deny his divinity. The only logical explanation I can see for such denial is that it is a tool to weaken men, which I believe is one explanation given somewhere in the lore.

-Denial of the events of the Oblivion Crisis. Hard physical evidence, in the form of a statue of Akatosh's avatar having appeared in a day, standing at the site of the Temple of the One, exists for the account of the Oblivion Crisis as it is experienced in the Elder Scrolls IV. How do you deny evidence like that? You have to be taking some pretty serious skooma to be that loopy.

2) That stupid freakin' master plan.

-Going against the will of the gods. What on Nirn makes the Thalmor think that the Divines will be ok/pleased with their master plan? The Divines, most notably the Altmer's claimed patron god, Auri-El/Akatosh, were present at the Convention and were thus all at least complicit in the creation of the first Tower. Auriel, again, the Altmer's claimed patron god, went to great pains to protect Mundus through the creation of the Amulet Of Kings and the Dragonfires. He even used his power to create one-directional time flow and give linearity of existence to Mundus. The Thalmor want to destroy the Towers, which flies in the face of everything Akatosh, their patron god, and all the other gods, have done for them AND the other races of mer AND the races of men AND the races of beastfolk.

-... and your reasoning is? What on Nirn makes the Thalmor think that their plan would work, even the Divines didn"t run direct interference? Destroying the Towers could just as easily pull Mundus and everything in it into nonexistence as give them divinity. The Thalmor are willing to bet the FREAKING MORTAL PLANE AND EVERYTHING IN IT on a hunch, and a poor one that only serves them at that?

3) These racist motherf*ckers.

-Blame it on the me, me-me-me, me-me, me-me, men. Apparently, by the mere fact that back in the ancient, unrecorded past, Lorkhan was the patron god of men, who the Thalmor blame for a lot of crap that really is not the fault of most men, either from that time or any time since, the Thalmor consider men to be the cause of just about every injustice and hardship they have ever endured. What a bunch of scapegoat-seeking-babies.

-Not enough divinity to go around? The Thalmor are such an arrogant bunch that they want to keep all the divinity they MIGHT get from their master plan to themselves. Isn't that neighborly?

In short, the Thalmor deserve to share the deepest, darkest, cold-firey-est pit of Coldharbour for eternity.