Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20170206173025/@comment-31436340-20170513215942

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Except that they aren't. You probably don't know that Titus Mede I and Attrebus Mede reconqeured most of the old Empire. Elsweyr and Hammerfell to be precise, with the possibility of High Rock. Of course, you haven't read the Novels and therefor know little of their tactical genius.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Minutes_of_the_Elder_Council Read that, will you? And surely, during the OC more than ever, the Council would be united wouldn't it? But they weren't. How come?

The Emperor's safety is managed entirely by an organisation that the Medes themselves created; the Penitus Oculatus. The Council has little to none to say about them. And if you know anything about politics -- especially trying to get someone killed -- you don't mention it unless if everybody supports it, or at least, a big part. If the Council backs him, he wouldn't even have to leave Cyrodiil, but he did.

My bad, the (3) behind the Dragonborn was meant including Salokhnir and Mirmulnir, I added them later on for god knows what reason, a petty error.

Also, they are part of a God, but they are not gods on their own. Alduin is for example a God, and we did not absorb his soul, most likely for said reason. Actually Titus Mede I took over as Emperor because he captured Imperial City.

The Council information was from before Obivion Crisis. Their power would grow exponentially in running of the Empire between the end of the Septim Dynasty and Titus Mede I capturing Imperial city.

Most of the credit goes to Titus Mede I and not his son  Attrebus Mede who was just made more heroic in reputation by his father Titus Mede I.

Even if the Mede Dynasty led by Titus Mede I captured most of Cyrodiil and united the Empire temporarily, the foundation was shakened again by the Great War.