Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-260563-20180322174923

Busiao No Laughs wrote: Despite all your long essays, the Thalmor's goals has overall been met. Yeah, they have failures here and there. It just means they didn't win every battle but in the greater picture of the war, they are winning as their goals have been fulfilled. So yes, they are winning. The Empire is losing.

Don't make me laugh. Their goals have been met? Oh, so losing a massive army in Cyrodiil, getting a province they couldn't hold for shit, getting a religious arrangement that the other side violates on a daily basis even before the ink dried on the White-Gold Concordat, and a small uprising on the ass end of the Empire that failed to distract most of the Imperial Legion, and instead got the Imps raising new armies in Western Skyrim instead. That was the goal of the Thalmor? To lose so much soldiers in exchange for raising a small uprising on the ass end of the Empire that even Whiterun guards can put down?

Yeah, those goals have been met alright. Goals that would lead to failure.

I've noted that you haven't even countered my essays yet. All you do is insinuate that the Thalmor win, and offer weak suggestions as to why. If I were a Thalmor general losing a huge chunk of our army in exchange for a province we can't hold, a religious argument that absolutely NOBODY follows, and a small uprising in the ass end of the Empire that local guards can put down isn't necessarily what I'd call a fucking victory. I'd probably get rather pissed, actually. We lost a large army that represented the best of Elven pride for that? For two things that didn't even help us, and a small uprising that barely inconvenienced the Empire?

While at the same time, the humans continue to breed like rabbits, and the Empire still has cash to splash around to bribe Jarls and train new forces? No economic tributes? No military advantages? The Great War was one big waste of time, not to mention blood, for the Dominion. And unlike the humans, who breed like rabbits, the Dominion's Altmer population doesn't, not just because Elves as a rule breed less than men, but also because of the Thalmor's stringent rules on reproduction wanting only the best. Which means if the Empire and the Dominion get into five more draws, the Empire will eventually overtake the Dominion, while the Dominion will fall apart.