User blog comment:IGotsAName/Empire vs Stormcloaks... Gray & Grey Morality? Really?/@comment-402843-20120406163119/@comment-4994615-20120407204120

Actually, you're wrong. "Skyrim has always been part of the Empire." Talos, or Tiber Septim, was a Nord, who founded the Empire, and was the first Emperor. And if you take time to read the Great war, you'll see that Titus Mede II, the current Emperor, decline the first proposal of the Thalmer, that demanded the banning of Talos worhip. Reason why he agreed to it, was so his people wouldn't get slaughtered. The treaty gives him time to re-group and re-organize his men for another war. In the Empire, they're still worhipers, but they're not openly. And the Empire is composed of many Nords. The Empire has a better chance, and I believe they will win against the Thalmer. Compared with Skyrim alone, that doesn't tolerate other races, meaning its Nords against sword weilding-wizards. While the Empire may have a mixture of Redgaurds, Nords, Imperials, and who ever lives in Highrock. Read the Great war, you'll see what I mean. Imperials will survive.