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[I]Do’Karth’s explains his thoughts on Jagar Tharn at a fire on the outskirts of Rihad to a group of Redguard, the night after a Sandsteed race[/I]

Many people have asked Do’Karth in his travels the same question as you; what do the Khajiit see in the Thalmor? Why would we as a culture band with those who see us as an inferior people, who have nakedly bare ambitions to ensnare Tamriel under their rule? Perhaps it is prudent to understand our history, and why we Khajiit were quick to embrace an old ally who had aided us in times of great need and in turn abandon the Empire, which had conquered us, taken our lands, and ignored us when we faced great peril. 

Tiber Septim was a conqueror; his rule, and the rule of his descendants, shared no love of Do’Karth’s people. The Renrijra Krin are a group of outlaws who laugh in the face of authority and they alone rose up to the injustices the Khajiit had faced; did you know after the Five-Year War with Valenwood, and the expansion of Elsweyr’s lands into the Northeast of Valenwood, and from eras past both sides of the Niben River and all of Blackwood had been Khajiiti lands? Imagine having your ancestral lands taken from you by an Empire that had conquered your people with a god of Brass and when your people try to take agency for your future, the same Empire forces you to give up these lands you had reclaimed because a single city in Cyrodiil wanted them? That is the legacy of the Empire, and now imagine that for 10 years, a Daedra worshipping madman had disguised himself as the Emperor and let the Empire fall into chaos? That was the reality, and he did not have Elsweyr’s interests at heart.

The false Emperor sat by and watched as the Bosmer slaughtered thousands in Torval, and he did not mobilize the Legions to respond to the atrocity. The Khajiiti people rose up and paid back the slaughter with war against Valenwood. For nearly five years, our people clashed, weakening themselves as we sought vengeance. And so, in the end, both sides of the Xylo river belonged to Elsweyr… until the war ended and the false Emperor decreed that the lands that we had bleed over were to be returned to the arbitrary borders the Empire had established when they first enslaved us.  We recognize that his malice had corrupted all of the provinces, and it seemed that the fragile union that held the Empire together was fraying as old hatreds led to freshly spilled blood. 

It is easy to see why under these conditions, and with such a cruel deception, we Khajiit were all too eager to accept the Aldmeri Dominion as our allies and friends. We have had a history of aligning with the elves, and despite our war with the Bosmer, the Dominion was a way to mend those wounds, and if you go back far enough to the First Aldmeri Dominion, you’ll find the wretched Tharn name trying to destroy Do’Karth’s people; Javad Tharn corrupted the Mane with Dro-M’Athra spirits and tried to plunge Elsweyr into chaos by destroying the very soul of Khajiit. With such an enemy, and it being revealed that the false Emperor shared his name many years later, why would Khajiit ever trust the Imperials when the Altmer aided us when Elsweyr suffered from the Knathaten Flu, or ended the Void Nights, and the Aldmeri Dominion helped end Javar Tharn’s twisted machinations. We are in their debt. 

Many forget that the Empire slaughtered many in Senchal and many desert nomads to assemble that damned Brass God that would enslave all of Tamriel under Septim rule. We Khajiit never will. All it gave was peace based on a lie. At least the Thalmor did not force us to change our way of lives or give up our lands and freedoms in exchange for our help. That is why the Khajiit prefer the rule of your most hated adversary, and why Do’Karth admires Hammerfell for ridding themselves of the shackles of foreign domination. 
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