User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120701154313/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120701154757

"High Elves are well known for their noble countenance and are arrogant or disdainful more often than not when addressing humans."

Arrogant and disdainful being the key words, showing that they see Men as filth.

"Although they do not revere him as a god (in fact quite the opposite), the Altmer do acknowledge the divinity of Lorkhan, the patron god of man. Much of the early Altmer history involves conflicts between Trinimac and his elves, and Lorkhan and his humans. The Altmer cast Lorkhan as a treacherous, shifty character who tricked the other Aedra into carrying out his plan for creation. As the elves believe themselves to be direct descendants from Akatosh, they blame Lorkhan for the loss of their divinity. This is the key difference between human and mer theology: humans consider themselves creations of the gods, not descendants of the gods."