User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-7953253-20130505074859/@comment-7371906-20130507073751

"how would nords, armed with mostly close ranged axes and swords with few skilled bowmen, be able to stand a chance alone against the thalmor, predominently magic users, able to conjure atronachs and hurl fireballs and turn the stormcloaks own soldiers against them with illusion magic? and wouldn't the same "unmapped" theory for the isles apply to the stormcloaks as well"?

The goal of the civil war was not to rally up soldiers to immediately start conflict with the Thalmor in anyway it was to gain independence from a crumbling empire that would have lost anyway to the Thalmor regardless whether or not Skyrim stays in the Empire in general and an empire that lets their people die to save their own necks instead of standing up for its people and allow hundreads of soldiers to die in a conflict that would have been better prevented if the Emperor wasn't a idiot and heed the Ultimatum which ended in signing a peace treaty which demands were basically the same as the Ultimatum making the war pointless because if Titus Mede II would have just agreed to the Ultimatum in the first place even less people would have died and the same outcome would have happened.

"the reason they cannot fight the thalmor is because they are mired in this war with the storncloaks, who by succeding from the empire would only weaken her farther, and speaking of, lets recap how weak the empire is at this point".

More or less the reason why they cannot fight the Thalmor is because they are in a state of such political turmoil that regardless whether or not Skyrim stays they have no way to actually have the man power enough to fight the Thalmor and they dug themselves so deep into the Empire that they have many advantages over them and the only difference that Skyrim makes to me is well if when the Thalmor invades the Empire are they gaining three provinces or just two.

Ok to keep spoilers apparently to a minimum most of what happened in that guild that did stuff that involves contract killing in the last game was canon because one character comes back in a corporeal form as a cameo in this game and also states how he dies which correlates well with what occurred in its quest line so likely hod of being cannon is pretty good.

Each to his own.