Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-13199219-20130816014348

I will say if it were me the position, I would have pulled out of Cyrodiil and fortified myself within Skyrim, High Rock and Hammerfell, and lure the dominion to their dooms in the mountains of colovia and southern skyrim (I would also offer the orcs of orsinium full province status if they joined forces with me).

But Mede was definitely not the warrior his grandfather/great grandfather was. I'm merely stating he didn't let Hammerfell go because he purposely wanted to abandon them, he was letting them go because he wanted peace (Wimpy move on his part), and if they refused to stop fighting as part of the empire, the Dominion would have kept fighting.