Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-98.28.88.47-20130906023618

Dovahsebrom wrote: Legate Alexandros wrote: I quite agree with you, but I believe someone here views him as a jerk, a-hole, d-bag and megalomaniac, who cared only about teritorial gains with any means possible. I don't want to insult anyone, but it seems that people who say that are preaty narrow minded and view the issue only from one perspective. They probably have an initial look at Talos and already formed an opinion, that they don't want to change. However, to understand Talos, one must look deeper. I am not agreeing with Talos on everythig he did, but I believe he did deserved to be a divine, especially since other divines accepted him as one of them and a replacement for Shor. Sometimes, I belive that he became one and the same with Shor and by becoming a divine, he might even have brough Shor into the pantheon of divines of Empire again, just by a different name.

At least he wasn't like Tribunal, who purposely used the heart of Lorkhan to become living gods. Sure, they might have though that people need gods that live among them, but why should they in particular have that power? Also, what they did, didn't make them gods in the eyes of other gods. In fact, because of their selfish action, entire race of Chimer was punished with being Dunmer for the rest of the ages. Even after Tribunal was no more, the curse have not lifted from Chimer and they are still Dunmer. Yah, not to mention the fact that they betrayed Wulfharth and Shor in order to obtain the Heart, the fact that they used it for there own selfish desires and inturn cursed the chimer adds insult to injury.

It seems like most people just viewed the fact that he achieved peace through force as an evil act, and that nowadays if you do something like that you're a monster who should be brought down. What isn't often looked at is how things worked in the Dark Ages/Pax Romana era when communications systems and multiculturalism weren't nearly as developed as they are today, back in those days might made right, and if you didn't have the power to back up your ideals you were just a nameless peon.