Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20170206173025/@comment-26893431-20170513202905

ZhugeQuanqiang wrote: Yeah there is no Mede Empire because the Medes are too weak to overtake the Great Septim's name. But technically it is consider as Mede's Dynasty atm.

The Elder Council when there is an Emperor helps the Emperor runs the Empire. When there's no Emperor, they take over. It is just how things work, between putting a superior who orders them around and a superior who is no more than a figure head. Which one would you prefer?

The Elder Council can have as much power as the Emperor depending on situation and due to their circumstances, this is a 90% to 100% given that the Elder Council was in a struggle for power and they decided to kill the Emperor while he's in Skyrim because like I said, if at least half of the Elder Council is behind Titus Mede II, they will be in a struggle.

Plus Emperor's safety is such an important thing that the only reason why you can even get close to him is that most of the Elder Council either agrees or doesn't care about their Emperor.

Therefore, whether it is for the better of Empire or not, a martyr or not, there is no way an Elder Council member's independent action will go unnoticed by other members if they were not in one mind to kill the Emperor off.

Your calculations of the Dragon Souls is wrong too.

Dragonborn + Mirmulnir + Sahloknir + Miraak (Equals to 5~10) = At least 13 Dragon Souls in total.

Dragonborn is technically a Living God made up of at least 13 pieces of Akatosh which means your original claim that he is only equal to 2 or 3 Dragon Souls is nothing is untrue. Except that they aren't. You probably don't know that Titus Mede I and Attrebus Mede reconqeured most of the old Empire. Elsweyr and Hammerfell to be precise, with the possibility of High Rock. Of course, you haven't read the Novels and therefor know little of their tactical genius.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Minutes_of_the_Elder_Council Read that, will you? And surely, during the OC more than ever, the Council would be united wouldn't it? But they weren't. How come?

The Emperor's safety is managed entirely by an organisation that the Medes themselves created; the Penitus Oculatus. The Council has little to none to say about them. And if you know anything about politics -- especially trying to get someone killed -- you don't mention it unless if everybody supports it, or at least, a big part. If the Council backs him, he wouldn't even have to leave Cyrodiil, but he did.

My bad, the (3) behind the Dragonborn was meant including Salokhnir and Mirmulnir, I added them later on for god knows what reason, a petty error.

Also, they are part of a God, but they are not gods on their own. Alduin is for example a God, and we did not absorb his soul, most likely for said reason.