User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-24210732-20131204210454/@comment-9062114-20131207032338

Then you can't say it's not, and it doesn't even matter if it's true, the Psijiics and the Thalmor don't get along, this is confirmed by the College of Winterhold dialogue.

Why do people think that the Altmer can just light everything on fire and it will make them unstoppable? First of all, that's shown many times to be untrue. Since it lore mages have used numerous types of magic regardless of their region. Even if what you're saying is true they could easily put out the fire with ice. Simple.

The largest in Cyrodiil was the largest in elven history, losing all of it must've taken a toll. The ones in Hammerfell were also destroyed. Also, it's called the Summerset Isles, not Alinor ( I know that the Thalmor might've changed it's name and all, but it really annoys me when people call if that.) Elves live to be hundreds (if not thousands) of years old, if they didn't reproduce that much slower then humans they would overpopulate and die out. So, as I said, they've probably barely recovered.

The 4th Legion was considered an abnormally large Legion, it was even said to consist of half the the Empire's entire military. Also, according to Legate Rikke more join Ulfric's cause everyday! The likleness that they do is extremely low.