Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-109.108.7.9-20150406094840/@comment-31436340-20170416152536

Sports72Xtrm wrote: Perhaps not in the early stages but in the late game, if the Dominion is believed to desire a consolidation of their influence over Skyrim, the Greybeards are a threat they cannot ignore. They can not only utilize the Thuum, a magical art of war known to turn the tides of war, but can also teach it to rebellious Nords. In history, they've propped up notorious unifying figures such as Wulfharth and Tiber Septim, a dangerous thing if the Thalmor's goal is to suppress subversives. Not to mention, if the tales of the Thalmor being cutthroat monsters are true, the lives of the Greybeard should mean nothing to them, neutral or not. Unfortunately, this is impossible to happen as it goes against the Greybeards' beliefs and thus regardless of the Empire or the Stormcloaks have to deal with their problems without the godly help of the enigmatic Greybeards.

In the hypothetical scenario where the Greybeards were to attempt to help anyone. Regardless of Stormcloaks or Empire, the Thalmor can spend the rest of their miserable lives shitting in their pants in extreme fear. However, that is simply not going to happen.

The lives of the Greybeards means nothing to the Thalmor not because they are the extreme evil you think they are but because the Thalmor don't need to kill the Greybeards who has not shown any signs of hostility to them.

I've mentioned it, the Greybeards are with almost a 98% probability to  be classified as a neutral faction that is NOT Worth the effort to kill as attempting to take them out will likely result in far worse casualties in the Thalmor than it is worth.

Ulfric was called by the Greybeards to continue the Greybeards line of the Way of the Voice which is extreme pacifist practices of the Voice - Use Thu'um solely for worshiping god, warfare is a super big no no.

After Ulfric they are most likely even more cautious of whom they teach the Thu'um to. Dragonborn is the except to the rule because he is meant to kill Alduin.

Nope, they can become a serious threat, a legit one that is at least 100 times more dangerous than the current Empire with full might of Hammerfell, Skyrim, High Rock and Cyrodiil put together. However, there is a 0 chance for them to help. There is also an extremely low chance of the Thalmor to want to risk severe casualties and reprecussions from the entire Nord race just to kill a very very powerful Neutral party. The Thalmor are too smart, stop trying to lower the Thalmor's intelligence and capabilities to 0.01% to what they truly are at the Empire's level.