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As far as I know Bretons are half man half elf. If the Thalmor were to take full control of skyrim and cyrodill and break the empire, with the idea that "elves must dominate man" Would the Bretons protest? They are part elf. How would the thalmor treat them? Consider them impure elves and attack them, or respect them well enough?

This is probably better in TES General. I definitely think they would protest. If the Thalmor took Skyrim, they would be able to take Hammerfell. Then move on to High Rock.

Yeah, they would mind. Just because Bretons are a mixture of man and mer doesn't mean they'll like the Thalmor or that the Thalmor will like them. There are plenty of Altmer that hate the Thalmor let alone other races that hate them.

Bretons are men....you do know that they are more Man than Mer, right? That is how they are, you know, human and not elf. Just throwing that out there.

What Br3admax said.

And I'd think even other elves, like the Dunmer, would mind if the Thalmor came into power.

They would because they are men but they may have elven blood in them. I suspect the Thalmor would accuse the Bretons of stealing magic from Elves as well as their blood. They would most likely treat them like [&@%!] and probably implement many anti-mage rules that only apply to the Bretons due to them being mages.

Bretons are like 10% mer not half and half. And yes they would mind they're practically human the thalmor would hate them and bretons have generally been an active part of the empire for centuries.

They'd mind very much. They've prospered from the Empire for many centuries and are considered human by everyone. In fact the Kings and Queens of the old Bretony estates were Titus Mede's most fanatical supporters. The good one, not his doddering great grandson who rolled over for the Thalmor.

Are you serious? The Elves went around and raped/seduced their nedic slave woman. What does this even mean? None of this makes sense.

Pretty much what Pilaf said here. Once your personal, political, and economic interests start getting ruined, everyone starts to care. The Thalmor are sort of nice for that - one big party of "Man, those guys suck" with pretty much everyone else in Tamriel.

Bretons would probably be regarded as second class citizens or worse. I don't even think the Altmer think too highly of Bosmer, Dunmer, or especially Orsimer either.

Fixed that for you, not every Altmer is a racist fanatic.

It's already been stated, but just underscoring the fact that Bretons are not "Mer". For one, all of the "Mer" races, with the possible exception of Orsimer have much longer lifespans than the mortal races of man. Even though they're called "Manmer", like the Orsimer, they would more than likely be considered a corruption or "half-breed", not to mention that their innate magic resistance possibly renders them as the greatest threat to the magic wielding Thalmor. My Breton takes no greater pleasure than convincing Thalmor patrols how weak their magic actually is. It's hard to look down your nose when it's getting smashed through the back of your skull.

You have to keep in mind the Direnni interbreeding was thousands of years ago, now. They're simply mostly just humans now. There's been a lot of intermarrying with Nord and Imperial families over the centuries. The Elven blood and culture is very watered down. High Rock pretty much has its own unique race and culture. The Altmer feel no kinship with them and the feeling is mutual.

Perhaps you are correct. However, aren't eugenics a common practice amongst Altmer to keep their race pure?

Yea if our ally in skyrim can be trusted and the thalmor do indeed carry out ethnic purges against the bosmer, than I'm sure the Thalmor would see the bretons as just another sub-species.

The one official source of that is First PGE, and a Thalmor agent angrily complains about the bias against Altmer in the margins of that pamphlet. I believe the eugenics are a thing, but greatly exaggerated.

There's only one source for it: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Pocket_Gu ... i_Dominion

And you need only read the first paragraph or so to realise its just anti-elven vitriol.

Yeah. You have to remember the historical context for the First Pocket Guide. It was written during the Tiber Wars. Septim hadn't unified Tamriel yet. Hence "The Wild Regions" and the exotic, often derogatory descriptions of the nonhuman holdings. Michael Kirkbride and Kurt Kuhlmann intended it to be biased on two levels - the pamphlet itself and the scribblings of the Thalmor agent. His views balance out the pamphlet, but he carries his own bias and agenda. However, since these are his personal notes and not for public consumption we might assume they're slightly more honest than Septim's propaganda.

There's a book in-game where the elven author calls the Breton 'cursed' because they have the lifespan of a human, not an elf. In that regard, the mer would consider the Breton flawed elves at best, men at worst.

The Thalmor will truck no mercy upon them.

Also that. The Third Edition PGE is a far less biased and insulting piece.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Pocket_Gu ... /Summerset

Less insulting, yes, but I doubt it's less biased. It's still propaganda, after all, and it's just as littered with uncorroborated information as the First Edition. Who's to say that the Third conveyed an understanding of life in Summerset any closer to the truth than the First? It seems to me they simply took on a different tone and emphasized (or fabricated) different facts to achieve different purposes.

They sought to alienate in the First Edition and thereby create hostility, because that was in the interests of the Empire. In the Third Edition, they sought to soothe and appease in order to foster conciliation, because that was in the interests of the Empire. The bias remains, it just manifests differently with changed circumstances.

Less biased against the Altmer is what I meant.