User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-5302371-20120728161339/@comment-4588723-20120730045643

@TheEpicShot, you seem to be assuming a great deal, especially about what would/wouldn't happen in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Empire, originally, actually did conquer all of its holdings in Tamriel, that is precisely the legacy of Tiber Septim, but the underlying characteristic of the Legion in TESV is that it is a fragmented shadow of the superpower it once was. They have a slimmer chance than a native army of loyal Nords do of defending Skyrim against a Thalmor attack, for the same reason you may have trouble understanding much of what is said in the Palace of the Kings by Ulfric and his lieutenants. Namely, that simply "subduing" the new Aldmeri Dominion will not help anything. The White Gold Concordat and whatever efforts made by the Imperials to quell the violence without all-out war are strips of gauze on severe bleeding wounds, but the only way to really end the conflict is to completely eliminate the Thalmor presence in Tamriel. That isn't going to happen until new leaders are installed on the thrones of the nations of men, ones who are willing to do what is necessary to save their people.