Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-72.74.78.209-20141019230536/@comment-72.74.78.185-20141116221329

They can't just pull a Daggerfall and claim that it was a dragon break. They also can't just ignore the Great War and the civil war altogether. While the games don't have much to do with each other, the events in the past games will always effect events in the future games to some extent. Why should Skyrim be any different.

Honestly, it's entirely likely that the Stormcloaks will be named as the winners of the war in cannon. Look at the history of the real world. The Greeks beat the Persians, the American rebels beat the British, the French radicals beat the monarchists, the Bolsheviks beat the white army. In other works of fantasy, the rebel alliance blew up the Death Star, the men of Gondor beat sauron's huge army, the list goes on and on. Why do all of these groups accomplish so much against such a huge army. Because they all have something to fight for. Ideology is the greatest weapon in the history of the planet. If the largest army in the world faced the smallest army, if that tiny army had something worth fighting for and the enemy just wanted to conquer them for the sake of conquering them. The smaller army is going to give them hell and possibly even win. The imperials have almost nothing left to fight for, and the Stormcloaks are fighting for a better future for they're country. So they are way more likely to ultimately win regardless of what the LDB does.