Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-69.123.217.197-20150218105613

Caractacus IV wrote: 24.185.108.132 wrote: Of course, there are plenty of Altmer both within the Dominion and within the Empire that object to the Thalmor regime, but I don't actually believe many outside of the Dominion's leadership actually know the Thalmor endgame and their goal to destroy Mundus. As far as most people are concerned, the Thalmor are simply authoritarian ultraconservatives that aim to conquer the world and revel in notions of racial supremacy.

As for the Towers I do think they're something that should be expanded upon, but as far as I'm aware (barring the possibilities that White-Gold was reactivated by Martin, and that Snow Throat either wasn't deactivated or was reactivated by the Last Dragonborn), there are only Green Sap and Adamantia left. Although I'm legitimately curious how on earth the Thalmor would deactivate Adamantia. Green-Sap is a tree, so that could be... well, burned. But destroying the Adamantine Tower wouldn't destroy Ada-Mantia, because it's stone was the council that took apart Lorkhan. So, frankly, its stone is more metaphysical than physical and, therefore, might not be able to be destroyed as it's... not exactly there.

And anyway, Snow-Throat's stone was said to be "a Cave", so the whole mountain would likely have to blow up for it to be deactivated.

Green-Sap does seem a bit fragile so far as Towers go, comparably at least. As for Snow-Throat, there's a lot of ambiguity considering its stone is "a Cave", but a prerequisite for the Last Dragonborn by prophecy is that the "Snow Tower [lie] sundered, kingless and bleeding". The Cave could be metaphorical, but how it would relate to the Skyrim Civil War I have no idea. The prophecy at least seems to indicate that Snow-Throat was deactivated, although of course we can't be entirely sure. As for Adamantia, that's why I was legitimately curious how the Thalmor would actually go about deactivating it, if it was even possible. You can't exactly destroy the Convention. Would certainly dismay the Dominion if it found out it was permanently trapped in Mundus because it couldn't figure out how to destroy the last tower.