Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-77.98.203.197-20130414002939/@comment-29458028-20140624122122

I never said the LDB becomes the emperor. When did I say that? :P

Tullius can say they are preparing for another great war, unless, of course, he died. Tullius will die, Ulfric will also die, both during the CW. Also, gathering troops from Skyrim would be virtually impossible and only High rock can provide soldiers (and again they might not). You think that can stop axe crazy elves and catmen with so little people? Also, hammerfell will definitely not help, seeing they must of course rebuild, plus the empire can't help them with that due to the fact they have to rebuild themselves. Morrowind has enough problems with Black marsh, who has issues with Morrowind, invalidating help from both. Skyrim is already screwed up and High Rock is cut off and a chunk of guys there will probably go for a power grab (that's what warlords do when an empire is in the instability strip). If you don't have a Tiber Septim, you going to solve this problems?

I never missed you point. Beth has breathed life by creating nice main quests, but now that everything is degenerating into I VS the big bad, cue the cliche. Plus Tiber's Empire is gone, Mede has taken over by force (a dynastic change, which means the Septim empire is dead) and is crap at managing it. I just ignored your point as I know that part is very subjective (so I concede on it as well)

When the Thalmor won, I meant the military victory, never the final goal. They can't even achieve their final goal without a military victory. If the game is to be reasonable, the state of things must be reasonable and so naturally, to be reasonable, the Empire must crumble. The Empire cannot be cloistered in plot armor for ever! I don't like the Stormcloaks, I hate the Empire, I detest the Dominion. If the Empire lives, massive immersion break. It will just not make sense, unless it went like this (don't read it then call me a troll, its made as direct as possible on purpose):

Book: Pheonix of the Empire

Author: (some random imperial)

Content: All praise the Empire, for it will be in the Eternity...(insert flattering text)... And then the 3rd AD was on the brink of victory, when Emperor (Brother of Titus Mede's name) revealed he was the illicit descendent of Martin Septim. He vas visited in a dream by Akatosh, who taught him the way to shout...(insert storm call, fire breath, bend will blah blah)... and he led the army to victory with Boethiah's sword Goldbrand, a blade of...(insert sword porn)...that allowed him to rout the entire AD single handedly, clad in...(insert glorifying golden armor description)...that made him beyond mortal. The AD crumbeled under such unparalleled might that they all died of fear...(insert massacre scene)... and the new emperor was known as the second divine crusader. Praise the Emperor, long live the Empire.

Dude, if that happened, while not impossible lorewise, I'd be severly dissapointed. I want to go out and hunt elves, not stop another cosmic terror from consuming Tamriel.