Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5998922-20130116022307/@comment-120.144.19.29-20130120123113

The First Aldmeri Dominion's, or specifically the original Thalmor's goal might have been to simply skip straight ahead to the Man-Extermination part. Who knows. And the Dovahkiin and Talos could be related in more than being Dragonborn and named Ysmir, but that's only because of lack of evidence to the contrary.

~TESClaymore