Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-209.7.3.188-20160303204000/@comment-26213507-20161027224159

Sports72Xtrm wrote: "You don't see Imperial Soldiers running into homes and dragging supporters into the noose." 2. Pretty sure you see Imperial supporters doing just that when they tried to execute the Dragonborn. Even people who weren't actually Stormcloak supporters were executed by the Imps. You know how I know that? Because it happens right in the beginning of the game. Right, well the book is a public declaration. If the Thalmor control the publications and media of the Emperor and the Emperor doesn't deny it, then by all rights, it's a credible source and the Empire is really an Altmer Puppet no matter how you slice it because they literally tell the Empire what to say. More credible than your narratives of it being a ruse, sourced by disgruntled Imperial soldiers trying to rationalize why everytime the Dominion asks the Emperor to jump, he says "How High?"

Furthermore, the Empire has blasphemed Talos. That demands retribution, no matter what.

3.Those troops were disavowed by the Empire remember. They are no longer Imperial citizens. Technically, my claim about the Redguards retaking Hammerfall without the Empire still rings true. "Pretty sure you see Imperial supporters doing just that when they tried to execute the Dragonborn."

2?) Quite obviously a situation a situation of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is no mention of the Imperials executing you because you worship Talos.

Book Point) That...doesn't disprove my point. It's not telling them what to do, it's called holding your tongue. The Empire did exactly that so they would appear as a puppet. If they put up resistance over publishing the book, the next Great War could start. It's tactical. As I noted, anyone with brains could see that they were publishing it to actually play the Dominion instead of the vice versa.

3) They were imperial soldiers. They were let go to trick the Thalmor, to send a bunch of soldiers in without friction. It doesn't say the elites are all Redguards. They didn't come close to beating the Thalmor alone. In fact, as The Great War details, the Redguards could not hold the Dominion forces back alone, as they completely lost the entire coastline, with the forces advancing until the rest of the legion came to help.