User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-24210732-20131204210454/@comment-9062114-20131207043345

@24.44 Not invade, liberate. They're only goal there is to attack the Thalmor, the Empire never went directly to the Isles to help the Psijic Order, so that might be why they didn't recieve help from them. Yeah, some stuff like CHIM can be a little bizarre, but what he's saying here does kind of add up.

Anything like like ice or cold water naturalizes the heat, therefor putting out the fire. I don't get how this would be that hard to do. Also, they have people who could drive and people who could put it out. Gameplay doesn't equal lore, how would stone and heated sand possibly be more durable then iron or steel?

The Thalmor obviously wanted Hammerfell, that's why they asked to own it in the White-Gold Concordat. How badly do you think they would've had to beat them to actually back down?

They claim 1-2 is the average, and that's it's not uncommon for an Elf to have none at all, they also say how three or more is very rare (three might not be as rare, I haven't read the book in a while). The Summerset Isles is not a war-state where everyone serves in the military, so the likelness of that is low.

You need to realize that the Dominion that beat all of those Legions is gone, now it's just a shadow of that, for the reasons above.

@StarkBlack They don't "hate" the Altmer. They're simply distrusting of strangers, regardless of who they are, but especially Elves since they've oppressed the Nords before. I'm not trying to do that, I'm just saying this as I see it.