User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Dawnguard Follow up./@comment-13446185-20131025003722/@comment-25109952-20131027012712

I've seen plenty of Nordic ruins with similar architecture.

Still an Empire, and still an Empress.

Because people can't forget Hitler. It's hard to forget a person who nearly wiped out an entire religion, which was over 5 million people. It's easier to cover up a thousand deaths.

A) The citizens might not be armed

B) Guards who are trained and have great equipment < Citizens with daggers? Yeah, sounds likely.

Olaf One-Eye lived the during the War of Succession, he ended it by conquering all of Skyrim and his UESP page cleary states he captured Solitude. I love how you just ignored the source I gave.