User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140107032124/@comment-1822253-20140107211407

Zippertrain85, for an anti-Imperial, you certainly do take the word of an Imperial as if it's sacrosanct. You've complained, in the past, that the Empire has a history of embellishing it's achievements. So then, why is it that for some reason they have not embellished their "victory" in the Great War? Well for starters your entire argument against the Empire is based on the idea that the Empire completely annihilated the majority of the Dominion army. If you even admit that this point, which is the entire cornerstone of your anti-Imperial stance, might very well not be true, you'll then have to admit that it's possible the Empire had to sign the White-Gold Concordat. Which then would undermine your argument in why Skyrim would be better off under the Stormcloaks.

I'm sorry, but regardless of whether or not you believe it's "unlikely" doesn't change that none of us actually know what happened. We only have ONE account of it, and while the author claims it's written using information from various citizens and soldiers who witnessed the war, how can we be sure that the author himself actually incorporated all the information unbiasedly? The book is obviously meant as propaganda to cover up the fact that the Empire got it's arse handed to it during the war and did not have the manpower to retaliate by invading Dominion territory after it's army in Cyrodiil was supposedly completely wiped out.

No matter how much you repeat "It was destroyed to the last man!" It still doesn't change the fact that there is no unbiased support for this assertion in game or in current lore released by Bethesda. Until another TES game is released that takes place further down the road that gives us a more unbiased perspective/access to the Aldmeri Dominion military files about their movements in the Great War, everything we say about the end of the Great War is nothing but speculation, regardless of rather you are for the Empire or an independent Skyrim.