Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-72.74.78.185-20150102235901

Here's how i think the second great war will play out depending on who will win the civil war in Skyrim. Keep in mind that this is my opinion and you can disagree with it as much as you like. But there WILL be a second great war and all three factions, the stormcloaks, the imperials and the dominion, know that it's comming.

If the stormclaoks win, they will be weakened by the war, but will probably be able to recover since the Redguards (also enemies of the empire) will trade with them and boost up the ecconomy. High rock will be cut off from all imperial territory, causing wars between the petty city states there. That will probably be where Thalmor strike next, since they can take it easily without the empire getting involved right away. But this will prove a fatal mistake as the stormcloaks and redguards come to aid the brettons and orcs and they all form an anti dominion alliance. Consitering that the first cities the Thalmor will need to cut through are Daggerfall and Wayrest, with Sentinel and Orsinium nearby, they're chances don't look to good. After being driven out and facing disasterous losses, the Dominion will attacks Hammerfell's south and western coasts. This time they will have learned from they're past experiances and will capture Sentinel, the capital of Hammerfell. The empire, leaderless and ecconomically hurt by the war, will collapse. The first aria to succede will most likely be Colovia (Anvil Kvatch and Skingrad). The Thalmor will sweep in from Sumurset and Valenwood to take these arias, but Skingrad will prove difficult with it's huge walls and it's vampiric count. Eventually the empire will declare war on the Thalmor, but in vain as the Imperial city will almost certainly fall without the tri province alliance helping them. Bruma will be occupied by the stormcloaks and Chorrol by the Redguards and the battle will be taken to Cyrodiil. Chaydonhal will fall to the stormclaoks. Eventually the imperial city will be surrounded and fall to the stormcloaks and redguards. But this is when the Domnion will get nasty. After draft mandates and total war are declared on both sides, Cyrodiil will become a bloodbath. But the dominion will be slowly pushed back after years and years of brutal conflict due to problems at home (Elswyr and maybe valenwood will most likely rebel at some point in the future). There rebelions spread the Thalmor to thin. Despite they're magical skill, the Altmer are no match for the streignth and battle prowess of the Nordic and Redguard armies. Cyrodiil is liberated as the Altmeri slowly lose they're possitions in Hammerfell. The death tole numbers in the millions. After Stros M'Kai is retaken by the alliance, Hammerfell is free. Using they're powerfull navey, the Redguards and they're allies can now sail to the Aldmeri Dominion's homeland itself. I doubt that the Sumurset isles will fall, since the Thalmor will litteraly defend it to the last man woman and child, so the war will tern into a war of attrition. But what they can do is cut Sumurset off from Valenwood, starving the Altmer and weakening Thalmor influince on the mainland. Of course they wouldn't be able to invade Valenwood either, because of the terrifying wild hunt. But probably after a while there will be rebelions in Valenwood itself against Altmeri rule, cutting the Dominion off from the alreaghty revolting Elswyr. After this, an armistace will be reached between the allies and the dominion. But relations between the two will never improve and a tense cold war will continue on the mainland. This version of the war will leave Tamriel more chaotic than ever. Skyrim will be fine and Hammerfell and High Rock may recover with they're help, but the rest of the contenent (accept for Argonia) will remain largely devided into petty states for the forseable future.

Imperial.

If the Imperials win, it could be a long time before the war starts. But as the years go by tensions will increse as it comes to light that the Thalmor are using espionage and villanous plots to take them down. When the war starts, Sumurset's navey will attack the gold coast and capture Anvil and Kvatch again. Meanwhile, the wild hunt of Valenwood and the Kajiiti warriors of Elswyr will take Skingrad and Bravil. Bravil will fall easily but it will be no easy task to take down Skingrad for reasons mentioned above. Even more difficlult for the domminion would be the Imperial city. It may fall since the Thalmor have captured it before, but the city has many parks and areas that can be used to farm things. Therefore the city can probably withstand a long siege, even if it can't hold it's supply lines. Recent tensions in Skyrim however will decrese Nordic membership in the Imperial army. So It falls to the Brettons and Orcs to help the empire. Needless to say however, it would take a long time for them to even get close to Cyrodiil. Hopefully the city won't fall before then. It's actally kind of hard to say who would win. I'm getting tired of typing so i'm going to let you all speculate on what i already have. Please excuse my spelling errors.  