User blog comment:Wizard Danny/If you could Defeat the Thalmor in Tamriel how would you do it?/@comment-1992639-20130120155743

Step 1: Use the dragons who recognize the strength of my voice to put up a show of force, defeating smaller groups and armies that plague Tamriel. Such as the Forsworn. Promise them land which they can call their own in return.

Step 2: Send out powerful people who I can trust to the far corners of Tamriel as messengers (Jarl Balgruuf, heroes like Mjoll, the Companions, Legate Rikke) to unite Tamriel against the Thalmor. Their voice carries weight, people listen to them. Also elevate people I can trust to powerful positions in Skyrim. Mjoll'd make a great Jarl for Riften.

Step 3: Teach people who have the potential how to use the Thu'um. I can totally imagine Mjoll or Vilkas and Farkas learning the Thu'um. I actually imagine that Vilkas and Farkas may make great greybeards someday.

Step 4: Crush stuborn elements of the other countries so that from division, support will grow. Declare war against the Thalmor and show that the Thalmor are not all powerful so that the Khajiit may leave the Dominion. See if there's some ancient claim I make to draw the Akaviri tribes into the war on my side, if they still live.

Step 5: Try and split the Dominion by making some of their members doubt the usefulness of such a state. The Bosmer may leave if they see that the Aldmer may resort to foul tactics when they start to lose.

Step 6: Wage such a strong war that even the Aldmer citizens rebel against their government, promising them a better future and equality between men and mer if they form an insurrection against the Dominion.

Step 7: Become Empress and restart a dynasty not unlike that of Tiber Septim, but where Men and Mer (and the beast races) reign more equally. Hopefully reach an accord where Dragons will guard the peace, intervening where anyone betrays the new principles I'd set for that new Empire.