Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-260563-20180310042536

Busiao No Laughs wrote: Empire's mages has become politicians and aren't as strong as they used to be. There has been no indication that they recovered their mages' strength. Plus every Jarl has a Court Wizard so yeah, there's that.

Note: Not all Magic Users are tactical or strategic level. Majority are field level. What you are trying to imply seems to be the entire Aldmeri Dominion are made out of Strategic level mages which is false. If they have as much as a Platoon... hell section size squad of Elves at  Strategic level in magic, they'll be able to obliterate the Empire without any contest. The petty schoolboy level mages in the Empire who are more interested in playing politics and looking important to conceal the fact that they are talentless, with skill and not even capable of putting in the effort to get better in magic can't do anything to Mages at strategic or Tactical level.

Not necessarily. The Empire's magicians are divided between the Synod and the College of Whispers. The former is stockpiling magic artifacts and weapons. The latter is exploring previously-banned schools of magic like conjuration and necromancy. So one side is stockpiling magic artifacts for power, and the other is raising conjurers and necromancers. That's far from just politicians. In fact, their dash to collect more magic artifacts and their willingness to explore previously-banned schools of magic could make them more dangerous than the Mages' Guild back in Oblivion. Said guild wasn't running around trying to amass power by collecting artifacts, and they strictly banned necromancy and even fought the necromancers.

The Imperials are raising conjurers and necromancers as well as amassing magic artifacts. They'll be far from pushovers for the Thalmor battlemages and magic shock troops.