Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.42.77.181-20150215034524/@comment-121511-20150305043012

Box Jellyfish wrote: you're telling me magnus would be cool with this? the guy who's desire to leave left the mortal plane with the sun would just let high elves run rupshot over everything in existence and then enter the divine realm, undoing everything?

these are the same gods that decided lorkhan's heart should be ripped out and thrown away as punishment for just being deceitful, mind you. so i think they'll take issue with what the elves want once they ascend. and on the topic of them winning...talk to the ali'kir desert. it doesn't think the thalmor are all that great. the red ring also took the thalmor by surprise, and without the surprise they had the first time around, i don't think they'll be in nearly as good of a position to win.

their chance passed. I'm telling you that Magnus wouldn't care. He made the architectural plans for Mundus, and upon seeing what Lorkhan had done, realized he wanted nothing to do with it. And so he left rather than take responsibility for it. Undoing Creation is either good for or irrelevant to the Gods: the only ones that care are those that are made to care by virtue of the fact that their mortal worshipers believe they care: mythopoeia. Auriel despised creation, but Akatosh adores it. Why? Because the Marukhati Selectives implanted it into him when they designed the Patron God of the Empire. Further, undoing Creation means undoing linear time and allowing the Time Dragon to move freely again: it doesn't take anything from the Gods, although it may partially restore the Aedra.

And the Aldmeri Dominion did incredibly well in the Great War, considering that they did not expect anything more than conquering portions of Hammerfell to begin with, and ended up shattering the myth of Imperial invulnerability. On the note of Hammerfell, Lady Arannelya's host was broken in the first by the Legion, who subsequently left behind veterans on the pretense of medical discharges to harry them alongside local Redguard forces across the desert: even with this in mind, they could only fight the Dominion forces to a standstill. It's clear that by the events of the Skyrim Civil War, some portions of Hammerfell remain under Dominion control. The Imperial Province was all but razed to the ground, parts of Hammerfell belonged to the Dominion while the rest seceded from the Empire, and the Civil War in Skyrim meant that potentially another province was to secede: the Dominion is in an overwhelmingly superior military position over the Empire, who represent their only real obstacle. So I repeat, they have no reason to give up their goal of unraveling Creation when things are going in their favor.