Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29729442-20161212012142/@comment-26893431-20161215140129

Party Vanderbilt wrote: Or maybe, just maybe, as I keep suggesting it's gameplay. You know, similar to how there are surprisingly few actual battles in the Civil War, and somehow each and every one just happens to be put on hold until you personally show up?

There's a difference between us not seeing them and them not occuring.

Besides, there are ID's for Imperial heavy soldiers and mages, they even appear at Helgen and are coded as hostile to the Stormcloaks.