Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-10207438-20130916164939

Greenerseyes wrote:

Correct, The Thalmor do have scouts, spies, and agents all over the Empire. Which is completely legal, they are also to allowed to arrest any citizen of the Empire and detain them indefinitely without trial. During the next Great War with Aldmeri Dominion, we can expect the Thalmor strongholds in the Empire such as the Thalmor Embassy and Northwatch Keep to be staging areas for the Thalmor to Attack and Cripple the Empire early on in the war. Similar to last time, only now it will be more than just Cyrodiil that gets hit. It will be the whole Empire leading to a likely Aldmeri Dominion Victory.

People suggest that thier Dragonborn can change this, but for Elder Scrolls 6 I'm expecting the Empire to fall apart, focusing all of it's resources on saving Cyrodill (again) leaving the rest of the Empire to fend for itself during the Second Great War. This encourages all of the Procinces still under the Empire to seek independence, protecting and ruling themselves.

The Third Era is over, the Empire is dying. Argonia and AD are on the rise

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Northwatch_Keep- link for the Northwatch keep, people seem to forget about it and the Thalmor abductions from the missing in action quest. Northwatch keep is not strong enough to defeat skyrim, no matter who wins the civil war, without backup; they are right next to solitude an extremely well geared point of interest, they can either ignore it and have Solitude attack them from the rear, or they can try to take them from the two entrances to the city, and without a doubt Solitude has more soldiers than northwatch, and Northwatch has no backup.

And that's even if they weren't massacred by the LDB during missing in action.

And if the Stormcloaks win, their is no doubt that they'd either tell the Thalmor in Northwatch to leave, or they'd just massacre them.