Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-24261859-20140402235511

The unbalanced terms of the treaty is a good point, I'll give you that. Titus should have at least attempted to leverage some more out of the bargain, but it looks like he incorrectly assessed the situation. It is still erronous to assert that he was close to "victory," which is why your analogy to the Oblivion storyline is false, but yes, he wasn't on the verge of total defeat, either.

To say that he should be judged as a murderer is completely and utterly ridiculous, though. The war was entirely the Thalmor demanding more stuff, not Titus.

"But had he accepted the treaty to begin with, there would never have been a war!" you might say. Not with the Thalmor, yeah. That's true. Still, look at Skyrim. As soon as the treaty is adopted, Civil War breaks out as the nords get pissed. He's trading one war for another at that point, and, at the beginning, picked the one that isn't against his own people.