Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-10207438-20131009230426

SajuukKhar wrote: Snip Nobody was enforcing the ban because talos worship was kept secreted in their own homes, their were no open worshippers until the Markarth incident, and after that the Talos ban was heavily enforced not only by the Empire, but by the Thalmor who soon became a presence there.

No, The Empire has NO conrol over the College, it is an independant school, Ancano has no authority to force the college to cooperate; even the Empire isn't able to force them to cooperate. It may be inside the Empire, but their is no reason to believe that they are under their jurisdiction.

Ondolemar I mentioned because you mentioned Markarth, and said that they are being told to 'shit down and shut up' and seeing as he doesn't really interact with the local government, nobody is telling him to shut up, I made nothing up, you just failed to pay attention to the part of your comment that I was replying to.

Elenwen, I know that he had to take her there, but who the hell is telling her to shut up? who is ignoring her? not the Empire, only Ulfric seems to be against her.

Maybe nobody is forcing Igmund to guest the Thalmor in his palace, but the justicars are there doing their own job, Igmund has better things to do than helping the Justicars do their job, like defending his city from stormcloaks and Forsworn.

You mean like how they have a headquarters in Solitude, the capitol of Skyrim and the most heavily defended against the Stormcloaks(who by the way would kill any Thalmor they can get their hands on) and have a strong presence in Markarth? Whiterun is currently siding with neither side in the civil war but it is implied by the imperials that they may side with Ulfric if it serves them. the other hold capitols are either too small to matter or aligned with the Stormcloak movement.

And who knows where and how many cities in the other provinces are under heavy thalmor influence. you claim that they have no power, but they have power over the Empire, and the Empire does not have as much power in Skyrim as you think.