Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-1600847-20180712110030

GeoKal159 wrote: How was he afraid? He wasn't ready until he has the Numidium, And then he came back to wreck the aldmeri's ass so hard that they were forced to surrender. Indeed, why risk your armies when can you have an invincible robot-god do all the fighting instead.

I often hear the "Talos needed the Numidium to beat the Dominion" argument, but now that I think about it, he didn't try defeating them conventionally, did he? That argument is only valid if he'd tried beating the Dominion with only his armies, failed, then used the Numidium. As far as I know, he just went straight to Numidium-bashing the Dominion after signing the agreement with Vivec, he never used his armies against them. We don't know if he could have done it without the Numidium, since he never tried.