User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-75.139.209.199-20120616065903/@comment-98.26.231.145-20120616073319

There are heavy indicators in lore (don't care to list them here, google should reveal all) that the Dominion's plan to erase humanity from creation doesn't necessarily mean killing all humans in war, but rather some complicated magic involving the towers scattered across Tamriel, all of which have been *disabled* throughout history and the games. Reading into Dominion-related lore really makes things make a lot more sense, especially lore related to the towers.