Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6941549-20140614143740/@comment-202.156.137.220-20140615144327

The high elves are not based on the Nazis, that's the Thalmor, not the high elves. Even then, the Thalmor are kinda like a hybrid between Nazis and the inquisition.

I think, just maybe, the high elves are based on a hybrid of greeks or something similar, ancient chinese and other civilisations that achieved kinda high social engineering expertise in their day.