Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-120.28.157.86-20140406014559/@comment-993964-20170221152424

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Sports72Xtrm wrote: Don't know how Tullius plans on doubling his soldiers' wages. Solitude's coffers are empty because of the Civil War, Cyrodiil is ravaged because of the Great War and supposedly in strife, Morrowind or High Rock isn't going to pay for it, and I doubt the other Jarls are going to enjoy raising taxes and giving it over to the Legion to pay for it. So either Tullius lied to his men by promising them riches he can't afford and will get disappointment and resentment, or he starts pushing his weight around with the Jarls and pushing them to pay more than they bargained for; thus making political enemies either way. Either way, the Stormcloaks will be getting more recruits. First of all, we know nothing of Cyrodiil, High Rock nor Morrowind's coffers, that's not even including those of Esroniet, Cathnoquey and Yneslea. Skyrim may be poor, but the other Imperial provinces are not. Especially with the EEC being on the Empire's side. High Rock has no choice in the matter, if the Empire decides this, than their province has to do it.

The Stormcloaks will fall apart the moment Ulfric's dead. With nobody to supply their racist cult they will lose. We do know that Cyrodiil was just recently wrecked by the Great War and even after had two of its cities fall to violence even after it. If that province isn't a failed state now, it's recovering from being one. Morrowind doesn't pay "tithes" to the Empire as stated by the Decree of Monument so they aren't obligated to pay for Tullius' raises, but even if they were, they also suffered from the eruption of Red Mountain and is currently fighting a war with the Argonians who still took half their territory. Now High Rock for what we know, only lost one city wayrest. if they even could pay for Tullius' raises, it is the only healthy army in the Imperial provinces not ravaged by war. They will laugh in your face if you single them out and try to exert some delusional power on them to put the fiscal burden on them and them alone, or even have them pay the lions' share of it. We know a lot of the Empire's current state to know Tullius' raises aren't even feasible. No one is going to be fooled by Cyrodiil puffing its chest, everyone knows the Empire is too weak to be throwing its weight around. So if High Rock says they aren't going to pay for it, they aren't going to pay for it.