User blog comment:Wizard Danny/If you could Defeat the Thalmor in Tamriel how would you do it?/@comment-5737364-20130207085314/@comment-98.198.67.243-20140111201336

I don't think that could work. It is ingrained in their religion and culture that they decend from gods.

I would just form an alliance of provinces instead of a centralized empire. Or maybe just a new empire.