Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-9062114-20160223160654

Ottoman Hold wrote: 1) I guess this point is being misunderstood. The Empire is handling justice in their own providence. For some reason, multiple people think that Skyrim was Dominion land during the war when it is clearly not. Of course The Dominion is not settling the Civil War since it's not their providence. I'm getting a little annoyed by people saying The Empire is a Dominion puppet. They're not. The treaty may be sided toward The Dominion, but that doesn't mean The Empire is powerless. Once again, a single legion just about bested the Stormcloak rebellion. The Stormcloaks cannot hold off way more of this (aka Dominion forces). The Dominion is in way better shape than an independent Skyrim. Anyone can see that.

2) Yes, it's true, game play does not directly equal lore. But you guys are pulling this out of nowhere. You're taking the this fact and using it to say that The Stormcloaks are automatically super warriors because "Game play doesn't equal lore". Guess what, you can't make stuff up. The Stormcloaks are weaker in the game, yes this is true, but instead of these not plausible fanfictionous characters, compare them to a Hold Guard, with better damage and health. You can't just that since one thing is incorrect, then all of a sudden say The Stormcloaks are godlike.

3) For the most part this point has been settled, but I'll say that Hammerfell is not Skyrim. The Redguards had a desert and elite Imperial soldiers with them. You cannot compare them, but luckily that has already been decided here, so we can put that point down for now.

4) The Stormcloaks don't have enough mages, multiple people say this themselves in game. For the most part, Nords rarely use magic in general. This puts The Dominion on top no matter what. In addition, although the Nords have shouts, not many are able to take the pilgrimage (aka not many shouters), and it takes years to train. Overall yeah, The Stormcloaks are heavily out gunned (figuratively speaking). Where did this idea the Stormcloaks have no soldiers or supplies come from? Where is any proof for this anywhere? It seems as if they control a huge portion of Skyrim now, and have more joining them everyday (confirmed by Legate Rikke)