Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150928140042/@comment-1600847-20150930214453

Phantasys wrote:

Right...so fixing the dunmer only grey quarter with tax payer money isn't handing out? The dunmer pay no taxes and are not citizens of Skyrim, ergo they cannot in all fairness get the same maintainance actual citizens get.

Ulfric's decree was there for a reason...if the dunmer weren't so racist then the argonians would've been safe inside the walls as well. The Dunmer living in Skyrim are citizens and pay taxes, the Decree of Monument only applies on Solstheim. For proof I point to the Lord of Souls novel:

''"I had many unpleasant surprises after returning from exile in Oblivion," Sul said. "I knew that Vivec City was destroyed. Vuhon told me he had seen as much when he was torturing me. But it wasn't until I went there that I understood how badly my homeland had been ravaged, or how they had suffered from the Argonian invasion. Still, I had an idea. But that Skyrim had offered Solstheim as a haven for my people, after ages of enmity between our races... for that, I was unprepared."''

" 'Untithed to any Thane of Hold,' " Attrebus quoted, " 'and self-governed, with free worship, with no compensation to Skyrim or the Empire except as writ in the armistice of old wheresoever those might apply, and henceforth let no Man or Mer say that the Sons and Daughters of Kyne are without mercy or honor.' "

Sul raised an eyebrow.

"I learned it from my tutors," Attrebus explained."

For the taxes, to quote a female resident of Windhelm whose name escapes me at the moment:

"That Dunmer stole my ring! Why, I'm going straight to the Jarl! I'll get him to double their taxes! No, triple them!"