Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-202.156.8.15-20131027030647

If you let go of all your Biases, such as "I saved the legion 3 times, why not save it again" or "The stormcloaks are awesome, Skyrim is for the nooooooords", you will see that both sides are pretty much screwed up. The legion will definitely stalemate with Ulfric at windhelm without Dovahkiin's help and the AD will sweep in (obviously). Helping either side will still not end the war, as the camps are still out there and the losers will become guerillas. This is not a snake, this is a HYDRA. Cutting of the head does not take the body out of action. It would therefore be wiser if you do not take sides, let the AD win and go complacent. WIth a victory, any alliance immediately breaks up and goes internal power struggle mode. So the thalmor will end up killing themselves from inside. The whole tamriel breaks up, the empire faces demise, stormcloaks crushed, Thalmor deciminated by vicious internal power struggles. Then another dragonborn (not the current dovahkiin) will arise, take up arms and reconstruct another empire. While the current dragonborn is the player character (most people are very adverse to him becoming emperor), you do realize his is nearly set up for the position, with his dragonblood, dragonsoul, dragon familiar (odahviing, a red dragon as well), the power of shouts, sick skills and the fact that the entire line hinges on him. So, it is still better not to take sides with two obviously weak and dying factions and construct your own instead.

Sorry, wall of text.