...because I HATE them. That isn't a complaint, it is a good thing. They are a villain that actually makes you want to kill them. Bethesda did a great job.

Do any of you like them, though?

I like their robes. That's about it.

I do

they are cool and missunderstood

I always kill them immediately on sight, because I think Talos is basically a BAMF and is a god for sure.

The thalmor personify every negative high elf stereotype and I have made it my personal mission to eradicate them whenever possible.

I like shouting them off mountains if possible and generally kill them on sight. So yes, I guess you could say I hate them a bit.

I like the way they have respect for my character's abilities, unlike the DB with those 'poor fool' comments. Doesn't save them of course.

wish I could join them

I can't stand them! I don't understand how anyone could not hate them! I agree that Bethsda did an awesome job with them though.

I LOOOOOVE Thalamor ????


Everytime I see them I'm filled with glee..... right before I enter a murderous rampage

I like the females, so badass, I don't like that they all look older than sin though lol

THIS!
They did a good job at making he hate them with a passion.

The Thalmor remind me a lot like a historical figure, (whom I will not name here). I cannot stand them at all.


But I think Delphine needs to get her priorities straight. Here we are walking down the road (with Esbern) and some Thalmor start given us crap. So I started slaughtering them. Delphine gets all pissed off and starts attacking me, while Esbern looks on and gives her this look, like "WTF is your probelm Delphine?!" So he starts attacking Delphine and I'm fighting Thalmor. I was like bloody hell what a mess were in. Needless to say I had reload, then walk past the Thalmor on the road with a fake smile and mutter swearing under my breath towards them.

The Thalmor are a blight on the land of Tamerial and the Emperor should be ashamed of himself. I'll send him a fruit basket as thank you for making Tamerial worse then during the Oblivion Crisis.

Nice uniforms. Gotta respect a villain with good uniform.

I just wabbajack them on sight. Some how getting insulted by a sweetroll isn't very demeaning.

Me, I don't like them, simply because of the crap they give me every time I pass them on the road. Arrogant SOB's.

Like the Outcasts in Fallout 3. I just destroyed half the Enclave I am not wild life.

In my opnion, Falmer are like Thalmors that no one pays attention to. They'll soon have territories far greater than the empire, and someone will only take note of this is when every single cave they walk in to is infested with them.

No one likes nazis. (or in that case ignorant tall yellow people with pointy ears)

It's pretty easy making a Villain that everyone hates and wants to kill. Thalmor are completely unlikeable (maybe unless you are a High Elf with a similar mind set).

Anyone who claims to truly like the Thalmor is talking nonsense. Unless, of course, they are roleplaying a Thalmor supporter - but even then that wouldn't make sense because the Thalmor try to screw with everything the player character does.

They're the out and out bad guys. Villains. Bethesda clearly gave no effort whatsoever in trying to make them look even somewhat commendable. Bethesda didn't try to paint them a shade of grey - or to make them complex villains - they're fully black and they're the villains. I would have preferred the Thalmor to be a little more not so evil. But it looks like Bethesda wanted to create an organisation to be the villians - to be the faction that everyone hates. Even Dagoth Ur in Morrowind had more to rationalise and more to empathise with.

Every time they are in a story arch during Skyrim they act like dikes. I don't see how there is any room for debate here.

End of story.

I'm expecting to see the Thalmor take an even greater role in TES VI.

Even as a high elf, I can't stand them. Blecch

I like to see their blood or their head on the floor.

I kill them on sight.

why do they need to be gray? not everything is/has to be gray.