Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-4365270-20150121102326

Yes,

I understood what you were getting at, the Septim Empire and all that, but that collapsed after the Oblivion Crisis, and the death of the last Septim. That was like 140+ years prior to the Great War and near 200 years before the events of Skyrim. It just seems pointless to start a massive war over something that ended near a century and a half ago. That’s just vindictive, if maybe the empire was trying to re-assert control over the Dominion, then I could have understood. But, as far as I am aware, we have no evidence for that (though I suppose the reverse could be argued as well). So the mass genocidal rampage just seems a waste.

Thanks,

Lemonizerchimp.