Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-4092092-20130916015129

Nazul Rostello wrote: Goldflame33 wrote: 80.216.214.210 wrote: And the AD's ships and most of their captains won't be ready for Skyrim's waters.

I take it back, any attempt by the Dominion the invade by ship is like as not to make the Spanish Armada look like a raging success.They don't know the waters.How would they know Riften or any of the rebel held cities?

The empire wouldn't be "forced" per say but yeah they would show their true colors in such a scenario. Skyrim's waters are rough, but there are rough waters nearly everywhere. The Sea of Ghosts isn't always storming, also. Any ship sailing on rough waters has a chance to sink, and the Aldmeri Dominion captians have hundreds of years more experience than a Man ever could. How would they know Riften? It's not like they have spies or anything. The Thalmor have an embassy in Solitude yes? and everybody forget Esbern quest? and how they manage to track Malborn in Windhelm? AD scouts everywhere.

Correct, The Thalmor do have scouts, spies, and agents all over the Empire. Which is completely legal, they are also to allowed to arrest any citizen of the Empire and detain them indefinitely without trial. During the next Great War with Aldmeri Dominion, we can expect the Thalmor strongholds in the Empire such as the Thalmor Embassy and Northwatch Keep to be staging areas for the Thalmor to Attack and Cripple the Empire early on in the war. Similar to last time, only now it will be more than just Cyrodiil that gets hit. It will be the whole Empire leading to a likely Aldmeri Dominion Victory.

People suggest that thier Dragonborn can change this, but for Elder Scrolls 6 I'm expecting the Empire to fall apart, focusing all of it's resources on saving Cyrodill (again) leaving the rest of the Empire to fend for itself during the Second Great War. This encourages all of the Procinces still under the Empire to seek independence, protecting and ruling themselves.

The Third Era is over, the Empire is dying. Argonia and AD are on the rise

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Northwatch_Keep- link for the Northwatch keep, people seem to forget about it and the Thalmor abductions from the missing in action quest.