Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-93.77.208.208-20190324123127/@comment-89.217.97.59-20190330223011

89.217.97.59 wrote: 93.77.208.208 wrote: Hmm, but according to Motier, it turns out that there are some people who want to change the political situation in the Empire, and therefore he orders to kill the emperor, since his death should lead to permutations. and it is unknown what policy the new ruler will continue. That was the point. For clarification: A chaotic interregnum that bears a risk of it not going one's way may endanger getting the desired policy changes through as well - whatever they may be. The fact that Motierre and his fellow conspirators do go down the path of the Emperor's assassination, after all, might therefore suggest that a chaos unleashing interregnum will not follow, because if they feared otherwise, they should be strongly incentivized to refrain from having the Emperor assassinated in their pursuit; it would simply not be a sound plan*. In order to follow through with it regardless if chaos was unleashed or not would require rather specific circumstances.

Again, while it cannot be ruled out entirely, a chaotic interregnum is actually not a very likely scenario based on the rationale of risk-averse conspirators that yet chose to see the Emperor dead in their pursuit to see certain policy changes through. And as mentioned in the previous post, the dialogue with General Tullius in taking the oath to join the Legion may suggest (in support of this view) that a new Emperor is already in place shortly after Titus Mede II has been killed.


 * That is assuming (regardless of what their policy goals are specifically) they do not collaborate or affilliate with the Thalmor in any way and are still opposed to the Thalmor and thus wary of throwing them bones - and we do not have any  substantial reason to believe otherwise.