I am very fond of the High Elves, they are pretty awesome.

The Thalmor I am also fond of because they are great bad guys - and I love great bad guys (unless I play a character who for some reason sides with them in which case the character would think they were misunderstood good guys, straight good guys who don't care what lessers think or is mercenary and wants to be in with what looks to be the winning side). They are doing everything right as bad guys to make me hope the next game is in some form as follows:

Some significant time after the events of Skyrim your character opens his/her eyes in a Thalmor prison ship/prison wagon/line of condemned men on their way to the gallows, somehow escapes his/her fate and goes on to discover their destiny to save the world from something that might bring them into conflict with the Thalmor, possibly redeeming them or defeating them in the process or possibly, I guess, making their vicious speciest Empire more efficient and strong.

I don't think it would have a plot that out and out has the character fighting the Thalmor if they were a dominant power. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim was more about an individual facing something that threatened the existing power structure and everything and in the process you interacted with it and shaped things in some way (Great Houses, Empire, Empire and Stormcloaks - maybe doing things that would seem to strengthen or weaken or change them)

That mind set is what makes them inferior.

Unfortunately the Aldmeri Dominion mostly resembles the USA for the very reasons listed in this here thread. :sadvaultboy:

Hubris and arrogance is the great equalizer. That is, great nations fall because of it.

I remember back in my desktop dnd days (thats before computer gaming), our dungeon master said that there was a growing sentiment of hate for elves.

There's another series of books in-game that speculates on the Thalmor's hands in fulfilling the prophecy that releases Alduin like sending the Ministry of Truth into the Red Mountain. If only I can remember the title now

oh wow, haha I love those people they are always well equiped

LOL'd pretty hard. I can't wait to run into them so they can meet TALOS.

I actually like them more now lol. Yeah the Thalmor svck but the everyday Altmer actually seem to not have their heads shoved so far up their asses. Guess Crystal-like-Law going down humbled them a bit huh? I do have to say killing Thalmor is...satisfying...lol

Though I am starting to hate the dumb ass Nord NPCs in the game... I am a Dunmer dammit. I don't deserve your 'eff you mer' because of the Altmer. We look nothing alike. They really made the Nords incredibly ignorant in this game. PS I like Nords. I just do not like the majority of the ones in Skyrim. So much for that small bonus to speechcraft they have hmm?

I find arrogance to be an admirable quality. They're fast becoming my favourite race.

Is it sad that when I first read this I thought it was going to end in taking arrows to knees?

Ah, the Thalmor. A group of egomaniacal, racist, religious 'fundamentalists' who give the Altmer a bad name. They have this nasty habit of killing any Altmer or Bosmer who doesn't join their little psycho-party too. So my Altmer mage has a nasty habit of introducing them to the Staff of Magnus, and leaving them shrivelled husks on the ground. Someday, he'll head home to the Isle, after he finds a spellmaking altar so he can create the spell 'Acid-blooded Thalmor', and watch them all dissolve from the inside out.

Blood elves rule!

You summed up my opinion exactly.

Hey, at least the Argonians and Khajit don't hate you to much anymore, and they have a lot more reason to dislike Dunmer then the Nords do.

I hate it more when the NPC talks bad about the Dominion (which is basically Altmer and Bosmer) in front of me, whom is a Bosmer!

I know they signed a peace treaty and thats all i heard from them.

Also just to let everyone know i didnt say the entire race. Read my first post in the beginning. I said not the entire race just the Thalmor.

Oh [censored] you, couldn't pass up the opprotunity to criticize the U.S. even though it has nothing to do with the topic could you?

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Yeah, I dislike the snooty High Elves too, but looking forward to TES VI: Summerset Isle anyway :hubbahubba:

Im an Altmer, yet i provoke every Thalmor i see, then send them to Oblivion~

FOR THE EMPIRE!

High elves deserve to die.
They are unfit to live as they are nothing but a blight.
Kill them all.

My current Altmer character DESPISES the Aldmeri Dominion, for reasons that are linked to his backstory. Basically, he and his father tried to stop a Thalmor patrol from [censored] and killing a whole village of people because one of them was a secret Talos worshiper, his father didn't survive but he and his grudge against them did. He hates being tied to them as well, since the Thalmor know of him and openly try to assassinate him at every cost, this is part of the reason that he is being executed at the start. He just wants to rest with a family and explore lost places.

Hate the Thalmor but don't hate ALL high-elves. Annoying as many of them are.

Anyone opposing the Empire is dead meat.
Thalmor not only oppose the Empire, but they do it for bad reasons, and they stroke first.

And when the Empire is stroke... THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK !

Those bastards burned and scaked the imperial city. I worked hard to save the place and its epic architecture and they burn it? I need to find the dragon shout the snaps an entire races collective neck

I'm a subversive Altmer, who doesn't fit in with any of the High Elves I've met in the game so far. My favourite moment was completely trashing Radiant Raiment while Endarie and Taori walked round being snooty, then robbing them once they'd gone to bed. Then Endarie sent hired thugs out to kill me, or at least beat me up, but I killed all the thugs and made a profit from selling their weapons and armour.

Morrowind was the first TES I have every played, I have hated them since that game.