Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29729442-20161212012142/@comment-26893431-20161215190652

Party Vanderbilt wrote: My personal belief is that ultimately, you don't see them elsewhere as a result of decisions made for technical reasons. Considering how resource-intensive Skyrim was (and still can be), it makes technical sense to not have too many spell effects flying around at one time. That, or just laziness on the part of the developers on that specific questline.

Throughout the entire time you're in Skyrim, it never actually feels like you're in a war.

Possible.

And yea, it never really feels like a war. Then again, so do most medieval war games.