Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-8248675-20130905072137

I will bring you an example from our own history. Well Japanese to be exact. Oda Nobunaga, born from the chaos of Sengoku era Japan, when various  Feudal lords were fighting each other for control of the land and being a Shogun. In the end it was nothing but the chaos all around, for century or so. Nobunaga used whatever means necessary, to rise from a minor feudal lord to the mightiest military force in the land. His goal was to unite Japan under one sword and end the chaos that ravaged the land for so long. Yet, he is known in history as Demon King, for his rutheless treatment of those who opposed him.

Hjalti Early Beard was just like Oda Nobunaga, born to the land ravaged by chaos of various factions fighting each other for control of Ruby throne. He just was destined to rise above all that chaos and finaly bring peace to the land. He was preaty much chosen by divines when the location of Amulet of Kings was revealed to him and when he became trully a Dragonborn. He might have used cruel measures to fight his enemies, but his enemies wouldn't hesitate to use same measures against his own people, Tamriel was in chaos for few centuries at least by then. However, when Talos united all of the provinces of Tamriel, it ensured a long lasting peace. Besides the war of Red diamond and disputes of Lariat family and Septims for succession, between Tiber Septim founding the Empire and Oblivion crisis, the Provinces were in relative peace for once. That seem to have been for the first time in ages.

You may think he was cruel and a megalomaniac, but he wouldn't have suceded any other way, at least not likely. His greatest goal more then likely was not to rule the biggest Empire in history, but to bring long awaited peace to Tamriel. Even at the end of Redguard Adventures, you find out that Tiber Septim is not so bad and that he actually dissaproved of Richton's methods when he realised what his governor was doing on Stros M'Kai. I maybe wrong and you maybe right, but just like with Nobunaga, I don't see Tiber Septim as an evil jerk who only slaughered people and burned villages to rule the biggest empire. Whould you have approved then of what was happening during interregnum? When all three aliances tried to do all in their power to sabotage the other two, so that they would have a shot at ruby throne? Although I am not sure all three used similar methods, I haven't experienced the story of ESO from perspectives of all three aliances, but I have a feeling that Dagerfall Covenant and Aldmeri Dominion, were more ruthless in that war.