User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-5372149-20130516015716/@comment-80.216.216.3-20130518200420

We know the Nedes and Snow Elves lived peaceably together for a long time until the unprovoked attack by the Snow elves happened (Night of Tears) and that then Snow elves then murdered in cold blood basically all Nedes in Skyrim.

And it was either because they saw how many the humans become or because the Nedes might have discovered something in Saarthal.

In any case the genocide commited on the Nedes by the Snow Elves was most definitely unprovoked.