User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-24210732-20131204210454/@comment-9062114-20131206232339

One question, are you Harold Burned-Mane?

Perhaps, but they still do have magical knowledge, a just a little can even the score. The bonus skills in Skyrim have actually been criticized for being innaccurate to lore, in the other games the Nords were crusaders (warriors who used magic). In the College of Winterhold questline, a member of the Psijic Monks say that they don't get along with the Dominion.

So? Then they're probably better now. Civilizations don't stop being good at something they were good at before. That's like the British randomly stopping industry, because it was successful a long time ago for them.

Those Nords must be REALLY dedicated then, letting their families die and land be destroyed just so they can say they stayed loyal to the Empire.