User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Tiber's Hard Work Shall NOT Be Torn Asunder!/@comment-173.184.68.192-20111221001915/@comment-4692385-20111221141006

The thing about Hammerfell is unless there's something out there explaining how the Redguards beat the Thalmor for now we can only speculate. Whether is was the Thalmors complacency or the Redguards united instead of fighting each other is a mystery. Either way the Thalmor made a huge mistake underesitmating the Redguards and probably lost the majority of their army. I do question the Empire for not taking advantage of this however I don't quite know the date the civil war started so I could be wrong, but surely Skyrim was feeling the effects of the White-Gold Concordat and one could imagine a strom was brewing in Skyrim. The reason I said The Thalmor did not have spies until after the White-Gold Concordat because the majority of people that were around Titus Mede II were all soldiers and if said soldiers were against Titus II then the battle to take back the Imperial City would have not been successful. Also I imagine the Thalmor killed all the political figures when they sacked the Imperial City and lets face it political figures are the most easily swayed especially with gold. That's also speculation as well. As far as the civil war goes whoever the winner is will be fighting a revitalized Thalmor army so the longer this civil war takes place the stronger the Thalmor army gets as well asfewer soldiers on the victors side. One last thing I never said anything about the Thalmor being driven out of hammerfell means they can take Tamriel it's actually the opposite hehe since they were driven out of Tamriel there's no way in oblivion they could have taken Tamriel.