User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1840877-20120819104842/@comment-5423369-20120819124228

The Thalmor are their torturing or killing people because they worshiped Talos in secret and this was a contributing factor to why they fight the Empire because when people were being interrogated or put to death the Empire had no trial there was no investigation about if the accused really worshiped Talos the Thalmor only abducts them and the Empire just never speaks about it again so the Empire is basically enforcing the Nirn version of the Spanish inquisition so you can worship in secret but you could get killed and torture for it if you get caught or accused as one so yeah great job Empire for signing that Concordat.