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Which Faction Is Considered The "Good Guys"

  • GrigorijMalahevich
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    Glory to the pact!!! Pain and suffering for the rest!!!

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  • STEVIL
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    mine is and after the visit to our free public (re)education camps you will see that too.
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  • BloodWolfe
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    None! They're all evil in some way or another but I think AD is the worst followed by DC then EP. Just my opinion on how I've seen the story lines unfold on each side.
  • BigBadVolk
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    Molag Bal and the Empire, under him everything will be united!
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  • RABIDxWOLVERINE
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    Ebonheart Pact
    At least 33% of the folks taking your survey have lied. Its all those who claim that AD are the "good guys"

    Not sure any side really are the good guys. Its more about where you came from than what you are fighting for.
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  • Doctordarkspawn
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    Daggerfall Covenant
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.
    Edited by Doctordarkspawn on November 20, 2017 9:36PM
  • Sera67
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    None of them really...

    Oddly thou, AD has some of better "get everyone under 1 banner" And most of hate you encounter is from other groups trying make them look bad. (thou if you play thru DC and EP they are doing some nasty stuff) But we know how this turns out..

    DC out gate, tries to get some powerful stuff (thou it breaks...) there story even out abit.

    EP got some weird people, and racism is fairly clear. But Most of story was base on areas stopping AD from doing bad stuff.

    Imp's basiclly only ones trying to do anything good.. (outside few bad apples)
  • Jade1986
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    Aldmeri Dominion
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The difference is , they may be egotistical and pompous, but at least they dont enslave, and pillage their own allies. Actions speak louder than words.
  • Izaki
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    None of them are evil or good. Each fights for a different vision of Tamriel.
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  • chaserstorm16909
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    I hope it's not my faction EP. Otherwise I joined the wrong alliance.
  • Demycilian
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    Aldmeri Dominion
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The morally bankrupt are bound to be burned by a good deed. Humans stood once again exposed.

    An easy victory for the Dominion over those who cant help but eternally disappoint.
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    As with all ES games (and real life as well), there are no 'good guys', nobody is truly black or white.
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    Really none. The orcs of DC, the Khajiit of AD, and the Argonians of EP have all been shunned by their fellow races in each faction.
    Sorcerer's pretty much been the same for years. Nerf Rush of Agony and Saints&Seducer's
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    Jade1986 wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
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    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The difference is , they may be egotistical and pompous, but at least they dont enslave, and pillage their own allies. Actions speak louder than words.

    Slavery is banned in the Pact, and this is the very reason I refuse to support it. House Telvanni will forever honor ancient Dunmeri tradition.
    With cold regards,
    Mythic

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    Aldmeri Dominion
    EP - Nords and Argonians are warmongers and savages and Dark Elves are slave traders and xenophobes
    DC - Redguards and Orcs are warmongers and savages and Bretons are mercantile imperialists
    AD - High Elves are ruled by a queen that is pure of heart (this is confirmed by a magical device during a story quest), while the Khajiit and Bosmer are her lovable allies

    I think the answer to this question is obvious.
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    Daggerfall Covenant
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The morally bankrupt are bound to be burned by a good deed. Humans stood once again exposed.

    An easy victory for the Dominion over those who cant help but eternally disappoint.

    "Morally bankrupt". You mean the altmer?

    At this point your straight up not making sense, so I guess there it is.

    I hope the altmer are really hurt come TES 6. So many fanboys try to justify they're actions, but I really just wanna see you people cry.

    (And once again, bud, Dominion crumbles first. And is then screwed by the Numidium. LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE.)
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    Jade1986 wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Demycilian wrote: »
    Rudyard wrote: »
    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The difference is , they may be egotistical and pompous, but at least they dont enslave, and pillage their own allies. Actions speak louder than words.

    Your going to have to be more specific on that, are you talking about the empire, the covenant, and can you actually point to an instance? Because I dont remember the Covenant, or the imperials enslaving anyone.

    I do remember the several instances where humans were inslaved however. By elves.
  • KeiruNicrom
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    Firstly i would like to point out that at the time of my voting the standing is DC-116, EP-116, AD-116. So satisfying

    Each are the good guys from their own perspective but AD and EP have quests around the fact that they have factions within their military that abuse their power to belittle and discriminate against other races within the Alliance. The closest DC has is a guy that sold out to imperials in order to help defend against the reachmen, and some officers that got possessed by daedric forces. As far as "good vs evil" go when refering to the alliances the one with as little internal conflict regarding the rights of its citizens as possible is the most "good" in my books


    Also why are EP and DC not colour coordinated properly? As much as i dislike EP being the first option they are the Red faction and DC is blue. Get it right!!
    Edited by KeiruNicrom on November 21, 2017 12:51PM
  • TheShadowScout
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    Each are the good guys from their own perspective but AD and EP have quests around the fact that they have factions within their military that abuse their power to belittle and discriminate against other races within the Alliance. The closest DC has is a guy that sold out to imperials in order to help defend against the reachmen, and some officers that got possessed by daedric forces.
    ...and the pirate king who ignored the law and keeps pirating the covenant allies (though admittedly, he gets his bill for that)
    ...and the knight who murders an innocent women for her skin color and ancestry with minimal daedric prodding. Not possessed as such, just playing on the already deeply ingrained fears and prejudices. Not controlled, merely given an flimsy justification. (which as human history tells us, is sadly all too often enough...)
    ...and the noble who goes vampire and gets all power mad, breaking a triumvirate that was only in place because of a recent civil war.
    ...and the brewing discontent among the redguard "crown" and "forbear" factions, though admittedly that's a lot less present then the rift between the orsimers or altmers traditionalists and reformers.
    ...and the orc general who wants to sack the capital city as payback for orsinium, again leaving himself open to daedric manipulation that way just like the aforementioned knight.
    ...and the orc king who proves to be all too willing to use "false flag" tactics to stir up a religious war among his people just to solidify his power by killing all opposition.

    Even moreso, the percieved lack of people of divided opinions would indicate all the atrocities DC forces get into in other lands (invasion of bleackrock, bal foyen, stonefalls, orc incursion into deshaan, civil war support in eastmarch, raids on auridion and malabel tor) are done with the explicit knowledge and approval of the ruling regime. No "Oh, a dissident faction did it" excuse there like the AD people may perhaps claim for Ruutivars babykilling in shadowfen or the EP people may say about the Telvannis slavery fetish...

    Thus I still say, -All- the sides have good and bad in equal measure. Just in different flavors.
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    119 votes per faction across the board - WOW! thats really cool that its exactly even for all three factions! everyone wants to be the good guy.

    I think when you look at the Dunmer slavery and False Gods (Tribunal), the Altmer and their Thalmor supremacy (that resurfaces in the 4E) its only logical to view DC as the good guys.

    Not to mention they are constantly being double teamed by #teamorange in pvp, Daggerfall is the last bastion of gallant valor and noble heroism.
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  • HatchetHaro
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    If you play through the EP questlines, you'll actually find that the Covenant invasions on Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Stonefalls were the zone quest storylines, and the Dominion's immoral war crimes in Shadowfen just pretty much sealed the AD as the most villainous of all the factions.

    Don't get me wrong; I don't like the Dunmer either for their slavery practices (technically just house Dres in EP territory), but the Argonian infanticide committed by the AD is just a record low.
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    Best Argonian NA and I will fight anyone for it

    20 Argonians

    6x IR, 6x GH, 7x TTT, 4x GS, 4x DB, 1x PB, 4x SBS, 1x MM, 1x US, 1x Unchained
  • Doctordarkspawn
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    If you play through the EP questlines, you'll actually find that the Covenant invasions on Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Stonefalls were the zone quest storylines, and the Dominion's immoral war crimes in Shadowfen just pretty much sealed the AD as the most villainous of all the factions.

    Don't get me wrong; I don't like the Dunmer either for their slavery practices (technically just house Dres in EP territory), but the Argonian infanticide committed by the AD is just a record low.

    I believe the pact also go ahed and bomb a town off the coast of Grahtwood, and then go ahed and raise the entire town as zombies to use as cannon fodder.

    Yeah they got some questionable stuff too.
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    I propose a single global faction..where peace can reign and we can move into the future as one. I of course will be the emperorer

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    Sixty5 wrote: »
    DC wants to reinstate the trade route
    EP wants to reclaim the throne
    AD wants to reclaim the throne

    The answer is clear

    So greed > patriotic duty?

    Of course! Channeling the competitive nature of man (and mer!) into settling their arguments with money instead of weaponry is one of the hallmarks of a civilized society. Is it an ideal solution with no downsides? Of course not. But it is the best anyone has come up. The EP and AD stance is a recipe for an endless cycle of death and misery. The DC stance actually has the possibility of leading to peace, by forging economic bonds between races and cultures that could make future wars less likely.
  • Demycilian
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    The Dominion can never be considered the good guys after the genocide they enacted at the Hatching Pools in Shadowfen.

    Nonsense. That alchemist was going rogue and not acting under Ayrenns/AD orders or intentions. Just as it wasnt that Bosmeri fellows order to likethe taste of Argonian eggs a tad too much.

    There are plenty of cues telling a tale of the state of morale and how half the expedition force was on the brink of mutiny.

    Yet they are still part of the faction. You can't sweep that under the rug in the same way you can't sweep EPs slavers in the other faction zones under the rug. We are talking about the factions in their entirety not just what the leaders wants.

    Technically speaking its no longer part of the Dominion, seeing how that expedition went rogue. It is no longer permissable to judge the faction by its example.

    This.
    People always seem to forget that even that quest isnt all that one-sided. For example, we meet a khajiit soldier who didnt want to follow Ruuvitar's orders (and she is telling the truth, you can find notes about her).
    Of course, what Ruuvitar did is a war crime. And for many people its "one bad apple spoils the bunch" type of deal, but in TES lore, pretty much all factions are involved in something bad. For example, we meet a lot of power-hungry Imperials who would bargain with daedra and do horrible things... But that doesnt mean that all Imperials are bad. There's even an Argonian villain, we meet him during Rivenspire questline. Does that mean that all of them are evil? I dont think so.

    Reezal-Jul = Montclair House

    Ruvitaar = Aldmeri Dominion

    You won't tell me that soldiers called "Dominion soldiers" aren't figting for the dominion. They knew Ruuvitar's plans and they didn't protested. I would say that this khajiit was just other than the rest of the Dominon. There was no Ruvitaar at Hatching pools, there was Dominion army making sure no argonian will hatch. You could hear bosmer soldier there questioning general's orders to slaughter innocents, but If there were many like him, why they didn't oppose? He just said it was wrong, but he did nothing to prevent that. Yeah, not all imperials are bad, rebels fighting with Imperial Legion are good, but there were no Dominion rebels in Shadowfen, only soldiers following their orders. They are responsible for everything they did and trying to do.

    I dont think the cat was an outlying opinion. Questing through the camps will bring you upon diaries or letters of sorts in which Altmer soldiers express their concerns and disgust about whats happening and how they want to return home asap. Its been more than two years since i did the Shadowfenn, so details are a bit dim. Also, i doubt a soldier of the line would have know what was actually happening.
    The point being how the quests provide ample evidence to lead us to assume there isnt much support for the AD raid into Shadowfenn. If you care to look at it, that is.

    Btw, I dont remember any such evidence of disapproval about the necromantic stunt of DC in EP or the Dunmer slavers fretting about those poor, poor Bretons they are capturing. Or the Rowada slaughtering civilians in Auridon. Little regret among the DC Orcs that do some horrible things to the dark elves of Deshaan to gain favour with good Kurog, iirc. And so on.

    Look to your own sins.

    Oh yeah, I remember those dunmeri slavers from house Telvanni who don't belong to Ebonheart Pact. And If Aldmeri soldiers of the line don't realise that Argonian they just killed was an unarmed keeper from hatching pools and those exploding eggs were carrying little argonians, then I wouldn't call them good. Maybe Dominion is truly using mindless army blindly following orders. If they would revolt against generals, Ayreen would aprove this right? So why they didn't? Because they are evil or the queen is evil. Few necromancers don't equal attempt to destroy whole race. People who say that Aldmeri Dominion is only "good" faction are using an argument about Ayreen and the Orrery, but half of Altmeri population are racists and supremacists even If they don't embrace it in public in fear of being arrested. Queen's vision from the Orrery wouldn't come true with their ideology. She is just naive girl who think that it's ok to forget about her duties as princess by travelling across Tamriel and then just come back and take her brother's right to rule, because she got bored.

    But surely you dont think that only military personell is being killed during the raids that take place all over Tamriel? That children and women are spared? Not sure why some are so concerned by the hatching pools of Shadowfenn.

    Plus, im having a hard time remembering ingame examples of this alleged wide spread Altmer racism in ESO. To me the high elven lore suggests them to be mostly isolationists/traditionalists. Tho I do remember how the oppressed of DC and EP seek refuge with the Dominion. Despite its many faults AD is still the most civilized of all alliances, and those Argonian and Orc refugees seem to know it. Colour me surprised.

    There is no question which alliance is mostly good aligned.

    Do you think that Veiled Heritance was completely destroyed only because vestige killed their leaders? Do you remember achievement called "Peacemaker"? To get him you need to experience Bosmer arguing with Altmer. The High Elf said that Wood Elfs should bow to their Altmeri leaders and they would be all dead If not for Altmers. Ideology where one race should live under someone's boot is not traditionalism, it's racism. That Altmer wasn't from Veiled Heritance, which means there are many like him up there in Summerset Isles. Argonian "refugees" just don't want to fight side by side with their former slavers. Ebonheart Pact is military alliance forged by war to save Tamriel from Akaviri. Aldmeri Dominion is alliance which gives Altmers opportunity to rule over other races of Tamriel. Imagine Aldmeri Dominion without Queen Ayreen. There aren't many High Elfs considering themselves equal with Khajiits and Bosmers. If you aren't concerned about Dominion killing little Argonians at Hatching Pools without a fight, just slaughtering them then I don't think that you are suppose to call anyone "good guys". There is no question that Aldmeri Dominion is the most evil alliance.

    Two mer bickering over who owes what to whom for whatever military interventionism is a far cry from racist displays. Mostly because its lacking any display of racial slander or downtalking? More like one party being mindful that there is reason to be grateful and the other being the usual complicated Bosmer in denial and a pain in the *cupcake*.
    To me this all seems more like an unfounded stereotype which has taken root because its easier to blurt nonsense in concert and because some folks are butthurt over Skyrim/Talos cultists getting a proper kick in the nuts.

    We do not know of any VH significance after Estre has been dealt with and we dont know how the majority of Altmer feel about the cats and woodelves. My guess is they will, out of habit, act like they are the most important feature of Nirn. As they should. Because they are. And be otherwise not hostile or overly harmful in intend. In fact, there is the Reapers March questline that implies the positive impact of Bosmer and especially cats on the high elves and how it makes them more appreciative and outwardlooking.

    The AD forces werent really slaughtering little Argonians. There were eggs and i doubt anyone had an idea what was happening. Personally, I thought it was a poor story and a crude and confuddling attempt to make the Dominion appear particularly ghastly. For no real reason.

    Lets bash some eggs.

    Firstly, I love how this poster embodies every horrible aspect of this race of supremicst nutjobs.

    Also. The best thing on nirn? OBJECTIVELY INCORRECT. That'd be the Imperials, who keep the damn door to hell shut, thanks very much. And had been doing so, and will do so, far after the second era is over.

    The Dominion questlines have a pattern following them. Certain regions have a difficulty with the -byproducts of the heritance-, a elven supremacy movement, such as the prince geting lich-ified, and other things, and then the Dominion offers a choice: We can help you. But then we get to -own- you.

    The Dominion are consistant profiteers off others misery. It is the only reason they span as far as they do. The elves are a race of worthless instigators who constantly take they're arrogance to be a calling to re-create they're golden age. But did the litteral divine powers themselves choose them to keep the door to Oblivion shut, with the Dragonfires? No. Did they do overmuch aside from constantly instigate? Not particularly.

    Meanwhile, the Bosmer, and the far more badass Khajiit, who are so adept at dealing with adversity by this point they survived one of the deadliest plagues in history WHILE A WAR WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, The colovian invasion (While they did get help from the Altmer, I despute that it was A, anything other than a political move on the altmers part, B that they couldn't have got by without it.), bonded to them by a sense of owing them, and the fact that they dont have anymore landlocked allies.

    Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Dominion dissolves first, because the real backbone of the Dominion, the Bosmer, being the landlocked bullwark against most of the threats from the war, have they're King die, and the hiers fight over the throne enough to cause rampant instability.

    Worthless. Elves.

    Oh, noone is being owned by the high elves. Such concepts fit the Imperial mindset first and foremost. And the Altmer motives to save the cats may fall victim to individual bias and blatant racism, I suppose.

    However, the Khajiit conscience and sense of honour did lead them to stand by the ONLY people to lift a finger when they were down and dying. Wouldnt it have been a terrible tragedy had the Altmer done as all the sorry rest did and allow for the "badass" Khajiit to go into the night and disappear?

    Not it does not.

    In fact the imperials have culturally the least reason to enslave others and the altmer have culturally the most, given in the merethic era it was rampant. Much like the covenant, all hey really want is peace and trade. Projection, like so many high elven fanboys.

    And yes, it would have. But then again, they survived plague, and war, at the same time. They didn't need a bunch of golden idiots to render aid so they could drag them into a war.

    At the very least, dont try to paint these possessive, overegotistical psyco's as saviors. They're quite the opposite.

    The morally bankrupt are bound to be burned by a good deed. Humans stood once again exposed.

    An easy victory for the Dominion over those who cant help but eternally disappoint.

    "Morally bankrupt". You mean the altmer?

    At this point your straight up not making sense, so I guess there it is.

    I hope the altmer are really hurt come TES 6. So many fanboys try to justify they're actions, but I really just wanna see you people cry.

    (And once again, bud, Dominion crumbles first. And is then screwed by the Numidium. LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE.)

    Wishful thinking. Some just know better than to be deliberately obtuse and collect froth in the face.

    Also, I wouldnt count on any future Dominion setbacks or losses. From a perspective of good and balanced storytelling its time for a turn of the state of Tamriel.
    The continent has seen a period of misrule under human occupation, with the mer being displaced to the fringes of affairs. We can expect Dominion influence to continually rise. Even more so since Altmer and Bosmer are the sole remaining major elven presence. Falmer, Ayleiides, Dwemer are dead/no more. Dunmer reduced to nothing. Should the Dominion vanish what else would remain for humans to do other then to check if theres somewhere an orc city left standing? Btw, as a Breton I would be cheering for the mer, else the Nord might remember their elven blood.
    Therefore the Dominion will have to be maitained as the main adversary to humankind. In that regard its stature will just be boosted by the disappearance of the other mer.

    Also also, the Altmer were already dealt the devastating blow you are longing for when a criminal tyrant came barging in on his bartered Dwemer robot, the scum of Tamriel in tow. After that the Altmer know no more fear.
    Edited by Demycilian on November 21, 2017 3:52PM
  • ADarklore
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    There is a reason why all my characters are in the AD alliance, because Queen Ayrenn is the most intelligent leader who wants equality between ALL people of Tamriel. Don't believe the other questlines in EP and DC involving AD, because clearly those quests were not ordered by Queen Ayrenn and are an attempt by the Veiled Heritance to tarnish her name and AD itself. If you've gone through the AD quests, you'll easily see how she would never have agree to those heinous attacks- such as destroying Argonian eggs, etc... however, that is something the Veiled Heritance would do.
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  • WildWilbur
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    I actually think it's rather cool that there is no real 'good faction'. Just like RL...
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