Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4290456-20140319121732/@comment-24075086-20140421170928

WC-83 wrote: Also, Tullius may disrespect the Nordic culture, but not exactly their race(which he grows to respect both).

@M.RedGuard, don't worry about it, video games are pretty much the best example of "What you are in the Dark" (meaning what you do in video games reflects who you are really like underneath). Just because racism is "ok" for them, doesn't mean it's ok with us.

As for the Imperials, what would stand a better chance against the Thalmor?

A: A unified Empire that has just won it's first war since the Oblivion Crisis (resulting in a boost in morale) and with several resources to combat the Thalmor invasion.

OR

B: A Newborn country that has just finished a civil war that has destroyed it's infrastructure and economy but plans on sending it's undisciplined soldiers to the mainland of the Thalmor anyway.

Such imperial propaganda...a more realistic representation is

A: An empire that's lost all trust from all its provinces from abandoning Morrowind during the Oblivion crisis, selling out Hammerfell to the thalmor, and helping the thalmor kill the people of Skyrim. An empire that was in position to win the Great War but then chickened out and signed an obscene treaty that basically gave a foreign power to hunt citizens for sport.

or

B: A country that just declared independence under a strong charismatic ruler with plenty of experience, who can easily convince other nations such as Hammerfell who had already sceded from the empire for nearly the same reasons as Skyrim now does, and Morrowind who harbors resentment of the Empire for their abandonment of them, to join in an alliance based under a common enemy.