Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-32014963-20180628172611

Lol at Economy reset. That is not how economy works.

The way Tamriel works resembles a little like the Zhou Dynasty (Before Qin in turn before Han)

They have individual lords who are kings in their own territory and pledges loyalty to the Emperor and his royal court. However, this causes a problem when the Emperor's position or the Lords' respect for the Emperor becomes wavered, this system can collapse easily.

Just look at Whiterun, Skyrim was implied to have one of the least autonomy in the Empire and the Imperial Legion have to ask permission from the Jarl who can choose to accept or reject. This alone shows that the Empire's position have been wavered. Like I said, the Empire in TESV resembles Rome just before its collapse. This is clearly setting it up to fall.

Regardless of the results of Civil War, the Empire has been set back to square one of the Great War.

Before Great War, Empire lost provinces and there was political instablility with Titus Mede II just ascending to the throne then the Great War came, Empire had its infrastructures wrecked from having the war fought in its lands.

Now in TESV events even if Empire won the civil war, Empire have lost Hammerfell. Skyrim had a war of attrition, so the reinforcements from Skyrim that played a part in fending off AD armies during Great War will be weakened. Titus Mede II will probably die regardless when the next war start meaning its another Emperor who just ascended to the throne and probably haven't secure his position.

The next war is probably going to be Great War 2.0. Again, Empire will probably suffer a tad more than Aldmeri Dominion, then most likely Skyrim or High Rock breaks from Empire, rinse and repeat every 50 years until Empire collapse. I doubt there's too many 50 years left for the Empire.