User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-68.20.166.62-20121213204901/@comment-3472264-20121216160026

Hammerfell did not DEFEAT the elves. They simply made it so that it was no longer worth it for the Dominion to invade. It's just like the whole Vietnam War deal in the U.S, we had the military power to defeat the North Vietnamese but thy caused so much trouble that it was no longer worth the resources and money to try to take over. Skyrim MIGHT push back the Dominion once on its own as Hammerfell did but the Dominion can very easily regroup and reinvade with a lot more power.