Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-10207438-20130914023736

789Snowbird987 wrote: Pink Slim wrote: Actually the goal of the Thalmor is to achieve Divinity for all Elven-kind, to do so they'd have to destroy many things including: all men, all records of men having existed, the possibility for men to exist again, Talos The God, and Finally, The Mortal plane that binds them to existence, AKA Mundus, AKA The major part of the TES Universe, AKA The world. So yeah, their goal is to destroy everything.

And the reason Ancano went mad and tried to use The Eye of Magnus is because the Eye has an extremely high chance of being the stone that activates the snowthroat tower that is one of the last two known towers that bind mundus to existence.

You hate humans? Fine. You want to become a god? That's just dumb.

Did Sheogorath ever visit Alinor? That would explain a lot. Becoming a god in TES is more than possible, infact Altmer where taught how to become ascend into divinity by Auri-el, however they lost all knowledge of how to achieve divinity due to some event that I can't remember off the top of my head; Tiber Septim became Talos the god through Mantelling Lorkhan and later Merging with the Underking; And Trinimac was an Altmer who became divine alongside Auri-el, but due to circumstances involving Boethia and the Chimer, he was Corrupted into Malacath, a Daedric Prince who is not a Daedric Prince.

Also the Tribunal became Psuedo-gods by Tapping into the power of Lorkhan.

Achieving Divinity is a common goal for the People of Nirn, especially the Mer, who see themselves as the closest beings to the Aedra; but it is not impossible, and if done right those who achieve divinity often become the most important god pushing the older, previous gods behind them.