Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10993011-20130618024431/@comment-8248675-20130622043206

I also though of something else, if Empire to survive with Emperor, they need a higher council of sorts. The ruler of each province, within the Empire would be part of that council, which would act as ultimate legislature. Emperor would be meeting with High Kings, or whoever they call their leaders and together they would decide policies. I don't know how they choose a King or High King in High Rock, but in Skyrim moot of Jarls chooses the new High King if there are no heir to claim the throne. You could say that at least in Skyrim, it's more or less a  popular vote. It may be assumed then, that rulers of provinces can act like representatives to represent the issues within their lands before Emperor or Empress. The authority of higher council, might as well override the autority of elder council.

Or they can have something like Peter the Great made in Russia after crowning himself an Emperor. He found Senate and Synode. Senate was for civil maters, while Synode was for religious. He himself made himself a head of both and presided over both. Before Peter the Great, it was Patriarh of Moscow who was the head of Russian Ortodox church, but after Peter the Great, Patriarhat was reestablished in 1917, after the first Revolution. In anyways, thechinically Emperor was supposed to preside over those two bodies, but if he couldn't the portrait of the monarch was enough. Although later, in 1905 Nicholas II went on compromise and founded Duma, the first true Parliament in Russia. The first constitution was writen then too and the first steps to Constitutional monarchy were taken. However, that project didn't work out so well. My opinion, is that Russia was still too young for those kind of changes. If Alexander II wasn't killed before he could give Russia constitution that he had drafted in 1881, perhaps Revolution wouldn't have happen. Between then and 1917, there might have been enough time for the idea of Constitutional monarchy to work right.

Perhaps Empire of Tamriel could use a form of Constitutional monarchy, where each province represented on the council by their leaders. Ofcourse, by the time of Titus Mede, those provinces are just Cyrodil, Skyrim and High Rock. Time will tell if Hammerfell would want to rejoine the Empire, but it seems that both Hammerfell and Morrowind are self sufficient and couldn't be happier without the Empire. If it was proven that they need Empire to survive, that would be a different story.