Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726204600/@comment-10207438-20130910233530

135.19.47.8 wrote: When's the last time you saw a Stormcloak use Close Wounds or Healing Hands or any other restoration spells? Maybe if you count their Battle-Maidens, but even then, they'll need a lot more of them. None of them wear heavy armour, either.

Nothing proves High Rock is even remotely interested in allying with Ulfric and Morrowind doesn't really care, they've got their own problems. Hammerfell? Maybe, but they'd still need more. The Redguards beat the Aldmeri using guerilla warfare tactics and knowledge of the terrain, on top of the ennemy seeing their repeated requests for reinforcements denied.

Morrowind is out of the game: most of it is still covered in ash or rubble due to Argonian raids. Also, the Dunmer are elves, so they probably won't be annihilated by the Dominion. Heavy armor isn't going to keep you alive if you're slow enough to get hit by all your enemies attacks.

Highrock would be seperated from Cyrodiil, they'd most likely chose to side with the only people who might be able to trade with them, seeing as they're a merchent country lack of trade routes would be all but a death sentence.

Dunmer might be elves, but they see divinity in a way so different from the high elves that they might join a war against their elven cousins, who would most likely attack them first if given the chance.