Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10993011-20130618024431/@comment-6707115-20130717143509

True in a way, though if the Dovahkin did take it the Empire would then truely become the fourth empire as only a Dovahkin can forge a succesor empire. The "Meade Empire" is just the legal continuation of the Septim Empire (just as much as the Potentate before the Stormcrown Interregnum was).