What struck
me as rather stupid one time was when I read an AMA by Michael Kirkbride (MK),
former developer for the Elder Scrolls series. He briefly talked about how the
Thalmor were the “other”, the one you’re not supposed to understand. That they are "unknowable". And I am
thinking to myself “what the fuck is there to understand?”
Going by
only the confirmed canon stuff about them, they are a bunch of fascists with an
open attitude of non-elves being shit that seeks to rule Tamriel. No great
mystery there, really. Hunger for power coupled with racism and imperialistic
tendencies. You know, the same things that has been part of pretty much every
empire throughout human history. Though I doubt that is what he was thinking about.
Going by
the stuff MK added to the Thalmor, they are still not hard to understand. In
fact, I can sum them up in one sentence.
“The
Thalmor are trying to end the world in their temper tantrum over not getting to
be gods.”
For those
of you who are connoisseurs of shit stories in RPGs, this probably reminds you
of Final Fantasy 10 and Final Fantasy 10-2, where antagonists (Seymor and Meg
Ryan) “are trying to end the world in their temper tantrum over people having
to suffer.”
An even
more apt example would be certain medieval interpretations in Christianity
about Satan, where he is an angel who “tries to end the world in his temper
tantrum over not getting to be god.”
So, yeah,
not seeing what is so hard to understand about them. Being a dick doesn’t make
you mysterious. It just makes you a dick.
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