Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-120.28.157.86-20140406014559/@comment-26893431-20170214142448

1.32.72.229 wrote: On the 30th of Frostfall, 4E 171, the Aldmeri Dominion sent an ambassador to the Imperial City with a gift in a covered cart and an ultimatum for the new Emperor. The long list of demands included 1) disbandment of the Blades 2) outlawing the worship of Talos 3) ceding large sections of Hammerfell to the Dominion. 4) staggering tributes

The White-Gold Concordat was a treaty signed in 4E 175 between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion that ended the Great War. The conditions of the treaty: 1) disbanded the Blades 2) outlawed the worship of Talos in the Empire ( Empire bans Talos worshiping. ) 3) delivered a large portion of southern Hammerfell into the control of the Aldmeri Dominion. Emperor Titus Mede II made these concessions to the Thalmor hierarchy in order to give the Imperial Legion time to recover its strength, as it had been decimated in the Battle of the Red Ring. ( He also saved some gold. )

The Blades were among the first to see the growing threat of the Thalmor and the Aldmeri Dominion. Unlike the Penitus Oculatus, the Blades were not bound to Imperial policy and could operate freely, and thus earned the lasting hatred of the Thalmor. ( They fought the thalmor. )

Now where does it say the WGC included the tributes?

The PO also fought the Thalmor, just indirectly. And yes, the fact that the Blades were not bound to Imperial policy already proves the Empire couldn't betray it, for it had nothing to do with it.