Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-1600847-20160206180123

Shigeru Thalmor Slayer wrote: I want to clarify something. Tiber Septim, leading an army composed by 4 human races, 2 beast races and the Dark Elves, couldn't defeat the Dominion without the help of an overpowered god-like Dwemer robot and years of trying. Yet the Stormcloaks think they can do it with only Nords? The day the Stormcloaks defeat the Dominion is the day my Khajiit Archmage, who spends hours studying and practicing in order to surpass Shalindor, will quit studying magic and learn crochet. To be fair, only 2 people have tried to conquer the Summerset Isles: the Maormer, and Tiber Septim. The Maormer only failed because the Psijics stopped them, and as we see in Skyrim they don't support the Dominion.

As such we don't really have a baseline of how difficult it would be to conquer the province. No one's really tried before. Tiber's conquest was over 1000 years ago, lots could have changed since then.