Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-260563-20180102014452

Elven Empires tend not to last too long. They seem to earn the wrath of the Divines a lot. From the Ayleids getting screwed by a Divine-backed Saint Alessia, to the Dunmer getting screwed by the Red Mountain erupting, to a Dragonborn Emperor crushing the Second Aldmeri Dominion with what amounts to be a Dwemer equivalent of a giant mecha. Even the divine intervention against Dragons, the Dovahkiin, becomes an enemy of the Dominion in the campaign against Alduin. It seems to me that the Divines have an allergy to Elven pride and arrogance.

I'd say it's because the Elves keep doing the kind of prideful shit that's similar in spirit to the Tower of Babel. The Dwemer enslaved the Falmer and tried to create their own deity or achieve godhood, depending on which story you're following, the Dark Elves prided themselves in their power and enslaved the Argonians, the Ayleids probably treated the humans like shit, and the Altmer are trying to undo Talos' influence in the world and return the world to pre-creation status. All of those actions reek of the kind of pride that makes them think like they're gods, which probably pisses off the actual gods. Just as God from the Bible reacted to the Tower of Babel by scattering the filthy fleshlings all across the world with different languages, the gods of Elder Scrolls keep knocking the Elves down a peg because of the pride and hubris.

There's nothing that pisses off gods more than pride. Try to see it from their perspective: you nurtured/created this race, protected them from harm and raised them above the other animals and plants and forms of life, and their response? "We know better than you do!" That kind of attitude just gets them slapped around. I'm betting that there's gonna be some kind of calamity that's gonna befall the Third Aldmeri Dominion during or before the next Elder Scrolls game. Probably a Sload invasion. With the Dominion forces distracted by a potential war with the Empire, a Sload invasion would catch the Elves with their pants down. The Sload will turn the Summerset Isles into a paradise of death.