Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-109.92.245.62-20131121212935/@comment-80.216.192.17-20150113213215

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

They then planted the seeds for the Civil War by demanding that the Empire imprison Ulfric and his militia after the Markarth Incident, which helped cement his belief that the Empire was nothing but a puppet of the Thalmor. Oh and those seeds were already planted, the civil war was ineivatable.

Only a matter of time, Thalmor do not get credit for that, luck or not.