User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right part 2/@comment-124.184.115.9-20130531094702/@comment-121.219.70.200-20130607131403

Not all Snow Elves were involved in the massacre, and it's very likely that the large majority could do nothing about it. Your saying it like every single Snow Elf in Tamriel got up and started killing the Nords of Saarthal, which is I would think nigh impossible.

And to say that all Snow Elves had a part in it's planning is, I think and I mean no personal offense, rather silly. The Snow Elves very likely had children in their population (also likely not as many as those in the populations of men, but children there would evry likely be), who couldn't understand what was going on. Are you saying they helped organize it and them being killed was just? I'm very sure the retaliating Nords did not spare the children.

And since when do citizens and civilians have any real part in determing what their leadership does, especially in Tamriel? Plus, I doubt such a thing could be kept secret if the Nords/Nedes and Snow Elfs were as close as you say, especially if every civilian knew what was going to happen. Not everyone is capable of keeping secrets, especially one of such a magnitude.

Also, I would bet the Nordic population wasn't especially large then, so if the Snow Elf leadership had amassed a considerably large or well trained and deadly force, it wouldn't be neccessary to involve every single breathing Snow Elf into the events. Also, I gather that the Snow Elves had particularly strong magical abilities, so those probably would have been used. And as I mentioned, the common Snow Elf would not have had any power over determining what had happened.

Sure, seeing the Nords as a lesser life form may have been a common sentiment among the Snow Elves. But even then, there likely would have been some who did not see it that way, or did but thought that killing them all was too extreme. I would agree with you that many of the Snow Elves likely did nothing to protest, as the rounding up of such a force and the purposes of which would have probably been known by a considerable ammount of people (unless it was a highly trained, extremely deadly, secret, elite and relatively large squadron, and rounded up very quickly and discreetly). Apathy is unfortunately a typical characteristic of the masses.

And what do we even truly know of what the Snow Elves done after the events of the massacre? All we know is that some time after, they felt the wrath of the 500 Companions.

Damn... I'm speaking of this like it actually happened.