Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-10207438-20130829043401

Seriously, if skyrim splits from the empire, the thalmor would either have to leave skyrim, or be considered invaders; if they chose to stay, they would start the next great war, and Cyrodiil wouldn't have time to argue with Skyrim about the civil war, seeing as the real enemy is on the other side of the continent, they'd have to move their troops through cyrodiil, and they'd probably band with skyrim just to get rid of the threat of the thalmor; after all, what does the 'Empire' care about more than Cyrodiil? surely not their pride, religion, or comrades, that was proven with how they handled the WGC.