Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10993011-20130618024431/@comment-6707115-20130621134622

The Dragonbreak could just see the establishment of a dual monarchy system during Elisif and Ulfric's rule (I don't mean like Austria-Hungary, more like Ancient Sparta) were there are two monarchs with equal power (rather than one during war anther in peace). As for the individual jarls, I don't think that Bethesda would care to much to specify what happend to the individual holds (I think that for Daggerfall Bethesda just mentioned the main powers while being more abstract about the fates of those lower in the hierarchy.