Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4290456-20140319121732/@comment-24075086-20140421220038

WC-83 wrote: Thalmor on their last legs? The Empire was on it's last legs, the Thalmor were only temporarily weakened, to continue would be suicide.

And yes, they did worship in secret. That is until the Stormcloaks, who are blatant worshippers brought attention to everything they were doing. Then the Thalmor cracked down and people started being captured (btw, I di the quest where you had to save that one Nord from the Thalmor prison and kicked their asses, that was an awesome quest). The Empire is more organized than the Stormcloaks, they would have been able to put resistance down as quickly as possible and restore order.

As for the Dunmer, how is this their fault? A volcano erupted and displaced several people from their homes, I would think this is a good dose of humility (and the Dunmer to be fair treat even Dunmer as outsiders if they don't come from Morrowind), that was just their culture at work, not their people. Imagine if refugees came to your city, would you consider them freeloaders? As for that one Altmer, she barely made it, she and others are lumped together with the Thalmor. First of all there are FOUR altmer in Windhelm and ALL are treated no different from a Nord the Dunmer expected to just come into another people's land and follow their own rules...cultures just don't work that way. The dunmer didn't pay taxes yet demanded the same as the nords did economics don't work that way either.

The only forces the thalmor had after the battle of the red ring were the ones in hammerfell which were later driven out by hammerfell alone. If the legion had sent help to hammerfell instead of abandoning them the remaining thalmor army would've been crushed.

If the Talos issue was being banned from worship openly and people could still do it in private then I would agree with you on that issue but the fact is the thalmor are taking people out of the privacy of their homes and killing travelers on the roads, it's not just their religious freedom being taken away it's the purging of their people Skyrim can't stand, what gives them the right to independence is the fact that the empire is allowing a foreign power to kill its own citizens it doesn't matter if the empire believes it's a worthy sacrifice Skyrim shouldn't have to put up with its people being killed.

The empire is more organized than the stormcloaks and can retore order faster? First of all there is no evidence to suggest that the stormcloaks have a harder time restoring order. Funny thing is after playing both sides all cities fall back into usual routines fairly quickly. While the empire uses force and tyranny to restore order quickly the stormcloaks have a lot of the population on their side and with a jarl that most of the community respects put into power order is restored for the stormcloaks just as quickly...and it's a real order too not one based on force.