Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-7771419-20130405152911

True, that does feel almost like a copout. Bethesda also has a way of not trying to repeat themselves, one way or another I'm guessing by the game after the next the empire will be completely irradicated or broken down so its just cyrodiil.

just to play devils advocate though, Dragonborn almost certainly has an army if you consider him being able to get the companions the college of winterhold the stormcloacks or the legion, the dark brotherhood, the thieves guild, and if he's thane of every hold possibly being able to talk them into lending hold guards into the war effort. if there was a quest (We'll just call it Emperor) where you went around convincing all of these people to fight with and/or for you to create a new empire i could kind of see it working. then your new empire fights the aldmeri dominion. with any luck the old empire sees a dragonborn emperor, see how much strength has been gathered behind him and because their leader is dead (again we're assuming dragonborns with the dark brotherhood for this) they decide to consolidate with the new empire and make them the same empire (though technically new and under the rule of dragonborn). so then at the completion of Emperor you'd be the titled character who just re-liberated tamriel, Tiber Septim style...