More or less, its the only other recurring element we have seen with the Thalmor aside from their preferred colors. (I personally like it though.)

I guess that you could make a case for a golden hawk/eagle featuring somewhere as it does on all their weapons/armour?

The eagle is also said to be on the crest of the Aldmeri Dominion.

Yes, I was thinking that too... Presumably not the lion or the dragon?

Yes but I try to stick more to what's actual evidence than make totally up a new symbol ...

The eagle here (bottom one, it's actually a bit hard to tell) is Aldmeri Dominion:

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Second era of course.

True but they're elves. I doubt they change that sort of thing that much...

What do we know about the significance of the eagle to Altmer culture? Is it just something the dev's thought would look cool or is there an established reason that the Thalmor revere the eagle?

I may be totally imagining this, but weren't there supposed to be big birds of Alinor used to fly around and whatnot?

Only if they don't agree with who's in charge. See the Beautiful. Anywho, eagle motif makes enough sense, but I can't remember if the Thalmor had as much power in the Second era dominion as they do in the fourth.

I think that would be pretty tough to figure out, given what information is available to us. I think the Thalmor probably have more power in the Dominion in the 4th, they managed to assert quite a bit of influence over the empire, which I don't recall reading about the 2nd era.

I can't imagine the AD waging such a costly war against the Empire if the Thalmor did not have a very supportive population.

Sunbirds of Alinor? Aren't they basically space ships?

The Ayleid statues outside ruins in Cyrodiil all have eagles on though...

Here I managed to Isolate the symbol and paste into my wip Flag of Thalmor .... it s definetly a Stylized Eagle not a star ....

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3848/30591615.jpg

They were in charge.

The eagle supposedly represents Auriel's transcendence or something. http://www.imperial-library.info/content/short-study-ayleidic-symbolism

http://img.ie/243a3.png is the one I was talking 'bout. Though it says Summerset, not Thalmor.

You're on to something.

Yeah, that flag is the flag of Summerset Shadows; the Altmer version of the Thieves Guild.

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Same. And it looks awesome, by the way.

Wow..nice work. It looks awesome.

So now we know that the Thalmor/Alinor symbol is. Probably the Thalmor symbol. I assume they have 2 different symbols. Like how Germany had a different symbol than the Nazis.

Very cool flag, I like it and think it represents the Thalmor quite well with its symbolism.

Better than a six-pointed star. In Qabballah the Magen David represents the Universe at its points north, south, east, west, up and down with the triangle pointing down being humanity on earth and the traingle up G-d's presence in the physical universe(Shechinah). They overlap because of the Covenant. The hole in the middle is the Eyn Sof, the truly unknowable G-d where all originates from.

I'm just not connecting that with the Thalmor unless you look at how other cultures have used the symbol but I cannot say I know much about them except for Hinduism which was given earlier.

The stylized eagle is much better for them although I immediately think of a phoenix. Probably because of it rising from its ashes...

Also, getting so tired of "nazi-elves" being mentioned...

Well, we're all hyped up for WWII. Of course we're cursing the Nazi bastards.

How about "fascist elves" instead?