Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-16669347-20140925120747

Pelinal Whitestrake wrote:

Also, as I mentioned above, we have Infrared and Sonar detectors. We could detect any mages using the invisibility and muffle spells.

We also have to take in account that, going by what we've seen of Tamriel already, the population is only about 500 million - 1 billion. We're already over 7 billion. The largest Tamrielian army is, at best, 100000 soldiers big. The biggest army on Earth is well over 2 million soldiers big. And all armys on Earth combined would be much bigger. Plus, the scarcity of mages who are actually willing to involve themselves in such a war would be a huge problem for Nirn too. Plus the overall lack of mages, most Tamrielans aren't mages.