User blog comment:4. 1. 22. 5. M97/Blog Critic: "Why the Empire should prevail over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part1)/@comment-9062114-20140103232600/@comment-1600847-20140106180949

I would agree it's a "gameplay doesn't equal lore", but it's hard when Bethesda made half a dozen Imperial Legion races. They weren't all that lazy there.