Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-218.186.254.110-20130915034911

Pink Slim wrote: 80.216.214.210 wrote: SajuukKhar wrote: Tehcnically they aren't wrong.

Removing man removes the worshiop of Talos, removing the worship of Talos removes Talos's power, with Talos's power gone, The Thalmor could remove Talos, unbind Akatosh, destroy Mundus, and return to the spirit state they held before the Aedra created Munuds.

The Thalmor are dangerous becuase they could actually do it. Yeah, they might succeed with that but I meant that they are wrong in being the closest to the divine/Aedra which they aren't.

All the Races ultimately hail from the same (divine) place, for them to claim otherwise is simple hubris. from an Species Evolutionary stand point you are correct. But from a generational stand point Elven races are closer related to the Aedra, due to their longer life spans, later maturity and smaller family sizes.

The generational standpoint thing is irrelevant, because of natural variance. If you read "racial phylogeny", the skill book, you would know that all elves and men are part of the same species, because they can all interbreed to create fertile offspring, or Bretons (born from the evolution of the children between (regrettably) Altmer and Nords) will not exist(this is the current standpoint on evolutionary biology). This makes all of them equally related to the Aedra genetically, just seperated by look due to evolutionary pressure, unless, of course, the elves were created because some Aedra guy forgot latex protection when making free with a mortal, which is probably not true, or the elves would have mentioned it.