Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11344160-20160205154012/@comment-26893431-20160823122959

Pelagius the Geek wrote: Skyrim holds Redguard lands? Huh. Source?

Well, it would depend how at war with the Empire Skyrim was. I always assumed that after Skyrim was won, war with the Empire stopped and they gave up. The point about the EEC is good, though.

I suppose it would depend on how willing the Empire was to help and be helped by Hammerfell. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/War_of_Bend'r-Mahk

Dragonstar is seperated in two parts though.

If the Empire stopped the war, they'd get a revolution amongst the Legion itself, nobody in Cyrodiil would be okay with Skyrim cutting of a source of their income and troops, while also killing off an experienced General.

Hammerfell acknowledges the Empire is needed, it's said in The Great War.

 The Redguards say that this proves that the White-Gold Concordat was unnecessary, and that if Titus II had kept his nerve, the Aldmeri could have been truly defeated by the combined forces of Hammerfell and the rest of the Empire. -The Great War