User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-9062114-20130505231634/@comment-67.140.38.206-20130506002042

To clarify you said: "The Khajiit and Bosmer don't help the Dominion". Now that you specified, sure, I didn't prove you wrong, but the fact that some Khajiit are willing to help the Dominion makes the prospect of them as a species helping the Aldmeri Dominion in a war slightly more possible. Of course, we just don't know enough about the situation at this point, but keep in mind the Dominion claims to have brought back the moons and considering just how important the moons are to the Khajiit in terms of religion and culture, ask yourself honestly, does it seem like such an off chance that Khajiit will help the Dominion, an organization that claims to have brought back the moons, objects of incredible religious and cultural significance, in a war? The fact that they joined the Dominion just because they said they brought back the moons sounds like enough evidence to tell where they would stand if the Dominion went to war again.

True, it was incredibly likely there were more than 500 Falmer, but was it said they fought the whole race at once? I don't remember anything like that, it would make more sense that they went from one town/settlement/whatever to another at a time. And don't forget about Wuuthrad which while rather mediocre in-game was supposedly excessively deadly to elves in lore, so you know, keep that in mind. The Nords as a race are weaker now than before their fight with the Aylieds because they have suffered casualties from two bloody wars were with the fight with the Aylieds they were likely greater in number before the present day. Correction: they lost all their armies in Cyrodill, if we can be 100% sure they gave their all then I'll secede that point, otherwise this makes the fact they could go for so long against Hammerfell until a stalemate happened rather impressive. Point taken, I have no idea if they did or didn't send all of their soldiers into Hammerfell, but unless you have proof one way or the other I'll just with that they didn't send all their men, after all, nobody is that stupid to leave themselves defenseless, and at the least you have to admit the Dominion is not stupid, not that the Empire under Titus Mede II would act on such a hypothetical opportunity.

What I mean by making it look like they won is to instill false hope, from what I gather both sides fought until a stalemate, at which point the Dominion and Hammerfell both sing the treaty of Stros M'kai after which the Dominion pulls out. If they both fought to a stalemate I would expect the Dominion to try and takeover some land. All I see is them trying to instill a sense of "We can beat them, they're not so tough!" So that they'll start to underestimate them until, something, we'll just have to wait until The Elder Scrolls VI to see what happens I guess.

On an unrelated note, why don't you just use the reply button?