Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-72.74.78.209-20141019230536/@comment-17114085-20141112173154

Draevan13 wrote: The Empire isn't at war with them because Mede II was an idiot who failed to realise that the Dominion was in no state to keep fighting after the Great War. It may be he wised up in later years, but on that day he made a bad call. Be that as it may, the Empire is preparing for war, everyone knows it's coming. All 4 races of man united barely halted the Dominion advance last time. Now the Empire has to ready for war with one of those races definitely not on their side and possibly a second. Attacking them immediately would be a very bad call. I believe that's why the Empire is waiting and abiding by the terms of the Concordat. Now with Mede II dead, hopefully a better Emperor will take his place... likely why he was assassinated, I hope. The thing is it might be too late for the Empire. Like the Anon above said, the Empire had 25 years to recover but it has been getting weaker, not stronger. This is mainly due to the presence of the Thalmor in the Imperial Provinces. They have free reign to do mostly whatever they want, and anything that they want that is illegal they can just do without the Empire noticing. They are deliberately weakening the Empire from the inside and the Empire can do nothing about it. If the Thalmor aren't immediately expelled from the Imperial Provinces the Empire is doomed to lose the 2nd Great War no matter the outcome of the Civil War.