User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Tiber's Hard Work Shall NOT Be Torn Asunder!/@comment-173.66.36.26-20111220031316/@comment-80.216.209.127-20111221065812

But even with Skyrim, the empire would be weaker than the dominion. Because they would still be missing Hammerfell, and again half of Hammerfell is destroyed. And that happened because of the concord and the peace the AD had with the empire. Because it meant they could throw all the forces they had left after the war, on Hammmerfell and Hammefell alone. If the empire had rejected the concord, the dominion could not have concentrated what forces they and on the Redguards only but would instead have continued doing what they did before. Attacking all over the place, there by overextending themselves.