Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27007772-20140611204941/@comment-24075086-20150529060241

Idiot. Akatosh is debatably not even a real god let along the prime patron of the third empire of men. The idea of Akatosh was only formed when Saint Alessia used Chim-el Adabal as a catalyst to merge aspects of Auriel with Shor to create a god more acceptable to both men and mer. Alessia CAGED the dragon with the covenent, the empire's symbol is a dragon inside of a diamond for a reason you know. With the covenent broken after Oblivion, Akatosh is free to resume his true nature as a god of destruction (remember elves believe that the destruction of the world is a good thing). In order to preserve creation Auriel must be starved of worship and more importantly, TALOS (in reality Lorkhan/Shor/Shezzarr) worship must be promoted.

Lorkhan is the only consistent and true patron of all men. Shor (as he is known to arguably the purist strain of humans) is possibly the only god that can be trusted to keep convention intact and support existance rather than a meaningless flow waiting for the next turn of the Kalpa. In the end it boils down to a spiritual and religious battle. The worshippers of Shor MUST defeat the worshippers of Auriel in order to safeguard creation.

In the end my support for the Stormcloaks boils down to the fact that traditionalist nords worship the god the protects creation, their victory is the best chance for the god of men to rise in worship once again. The empire would not want to look like a hypocrite and a sellout by admitting they banned TALOS worship and spoke out against his divinity publicly because they feared the thalmor. It's likely that even after another hypothetical war with the dominion is won they'll stick to their guns and keep TALOS off the divines. Should that happen then the elves win anyway as it's possible TALOS may lose the strength to keep together convention or the turning of the Kalpa and the world will end.