Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-9716469-20130519102355/@comment-7153552-20130606172157

It's all been spoken about in somewhat generalized terms at the ESO website. If you go through and read the back story, the timeline stuff, and all the Q&As about the different factions and game mechanics then you can extrapolate what I'm talking about. Zenimax Online is saying that Cyrodil is in contest all the time. The Imperial race as a whole (generalized, not speaking any of smaller factions) is siding with Molag Bal - or being controlled by him - in his attempt to join Nirn and Mundus to his realm of Cold Harbor. You are an escaped, souless hero trying to regain your soul and stop the forces of evil (feel a bit like the TV show Angel). The Mages Guild is directly involved in that, the Reachmen - ancestors of the Forsworn - are siding with a Deadric force trying to take the Imperial City (one would assume Molag Bal, but it could be another), the Fighters Guild is out there doing something major, etc., etc. The Imperials are slated as bad guys for the time being, and are therefor a non-playable race.