Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-10207438-20130811213720

Eres - Mistress of Illusions wrote: The same way that Ysgramor and his Companions were justified when they went on their crusade and nearly wiped out the Snow Elves.

The same way that Alessia was justified when she and her armies overthrew the Ayleids and exiled them from Cyrodil.

The same way the Chimer were justified when they fought the Dwemer and caused them to disappear.

It's all based on POV. Every one of these events are seen as right by the ones doing it. If the Altmer want to see the races of men as inferior and try to wipe them out, then let them try. Just as we let the races of men try to defend themselves and in turn try to wipe out the elves or enslave them. Ysgramor was one of the only three people who survived the night of tears, which was a massacre on a peacefull settlement of humans who escaped from Atmora to Merith because Atmora was freezing everything to death, He knew that when he returned the Elves would attack them, so he did what he had to do and fought back.

Alessia was enslaved by the ayleids, who were enslaving and massacring anyone.

The Chimer fought the Dwemer because the Dwemer were trying to make themselves gods by tapping into the power of another god, which they saw as an afront to divinity.

The Thalmor are trying to destroy humanity in all forms, because they have gone too far away from the path tought to them by Auri-El and Trinimac to be able to see a true path to divinity.

This does not give them a right to do this, and the groups you pointed out have nothing to do with the Thalmor master plan.