Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150715194939/@comment-25551198-20150808135545

Phantasys wrote: The Stormcloaks are better in my opinion because they're actually willing to fight the Thalmor...now if only the empire would stop being the Thalmor's attack dogs. The Empire is recovering after the great war, they also signed a peace treaty because they were going to lose the war.

It is better for the Thalmor that the Stormcloaks win because both the Empire and Skyrim would be weaker.

O Most of the terms of the White-Gold Concordat was to weaken the empire, banning talos would cause problems with skyrim and hammerfel would have to lose a big part of its territory.