User blog comment:Bork-The-Ork/Thalmor or Forsworn: who do you hate more?/@comment-152.133.14.7-20120713201147

Leave it to an Orsimer to get the haters together...

The thalmor get my vote, everyone in their ranks sincerely believes they're better than everyone else, which is intolerable; unlike the Nord Stormcloaks, who believe that most other races can't be trusted (which, honestly, they often can't). The Forsworn, on the other hand, are a pathetic sham. As earlier noted on here, they weren't the first inhabitants of the reach, and they don't have any substantiation for the claims they made on the land and authority on which they've declared war. But when you investigate the Forsworn Conspiracy, you find out they're just a front to do the Mob's dirty work - nothing more than a glorified pack of thugs, the Tamrielic equivalent of Fallout's raiders with the trappings of a hodgepodge of competing elements of paganism. They seem like a sort of afterthought in the lore of Skyrim, whereas the Thalmor are a militarized concentration of all the worst attributes of spoiled, overpriveledged high elves.

However, I'm comforted by the thought that in some future DLC, we may get the chance to bloody their stuck-up noses and send them packing back to their affluent little island. Skyrim is for the Nords!