CoA Third Aldmeri Dominion

The Third Aldmeri Dominion came to be after the Thalmor, an elven supremacist political group, came to power on the Summerset Isles after the Oblivion Crisis, wich the Thalmor claimed to have solved. They gained power over Valenwood and Elseweyr in the following years, turning them from Imperial provinces into Aldmeri sattelite states. After a long an costly war against the remaining Empire, now ruled by the Mede Dynasty after the Septim Dynasty came to an end during the Oblivion Crisis, they were able to dictate certain policies to the Empire, most prominently the prohibition of Talos worship anywhere on Tamriel. 

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