Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-31082174-20170401161625/@comment-121.54.39.154-20170520081443

This means that the Altmer belive that they will become devine being by wiping out every man and signs of their existance since they belive that Lorkhan/Shor is a man and if the race of man gone they will become gods since they belive all Elves/Altmer are once gods but because of Lorkhan's trickery they we're rid of their divinity. I belive that this has to do with something called mantling. When the world was engineered by Magnus he applied a set of rules that made the world stable, but we all know no system is perfect bugs happen, like mantling. To mantle something or someone you must become like the one you want to be til you have no differences and you become one, I think the Thalmor are trying to do the same thing but differently, they belived Lorkhan was god of man like Talos, so if they removed man from the world it's like Lorkhan and Talos and all races of man gone it's like they never existed at all therefore Nirn never existed to. I think the Dragon thing has to do with time since Akatosh and something bla bla bla

Sothas wrote: The Thalmor are amazing.

They are the exact overarching bad guy that TES needs.

The following is a dev forum post that is the nature of the Thalmor:

To kill Man is to reach Heaven, from where we came before the Doom Drum's iniquity. When we accomplish this, we can escape the mockery and long shame of the Material Prison.

To achieve this goal, we must:

1) Erase the Upstart Talos from the mythic. His presence fortifies the Wheel of the Convention, and binds our souls to this plane.

2) Remove Man not just from the world, but from the Pattern of Possibility, so that the very idea of them can be forgotten and thereby never again repeated.

3) With Talos and the Sons of Talos removed, the Dragon will become ours to unbind. The world of mortals will be over. The Dragon will uncoil his hold on the stagnancy of linear time and move as Free Serpent again, moving through the Aether without measure or burden, spilling time along the innumerable roads we once travelled. And with that we will regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit.