Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-30011802-20170217032502/@comment-31436340-20170329054552

Ottoman Hold wrote: I'd like to jump in here...

1) That's irrelevant. If I recall correctly, he's talking to Ulfric when he says that line. There's nothing political about it. And if you mean the Dragonborn witnessing it, that also doesn't mean anything, as half the time they are already with the Stormcloaks.

3) I believe Jauffre is saying that your overestimating the amount of damage the Stormcloaks alone could do. It would ultimately do more harm than good for the Empire, since they'll be sandwiched by the Dominion.

4) I'm sure there are more spies, but Jauffre is also right is saying that you can't prove that there are more than two. After all, the Thalmor agents walking around the providence probably get a bulk of the information already.

5) There's no reason to argue about fingers, in all honesty, because it doesn't relate enough to the thread, allegory/comparison or not. If that is the case, the claims that the Stormcloaks getting slaughtered is not relevant as well. Both sides had lost soldiers. Stormcloaks in an unspecified place. Imperials in trying to take Winterhold.

The amount of damage the Stormcloaks can do? That depends on how well they fix the problem of Skyrim becoming poorer and poorer over the years under the Imperial rule. Particularly after the Oblivion Crisis. At least 2 to 3 towns and cities had disbanded, the cities were impoverished compared to Arena's time.

There is an issue thinking that there is only 2 spies and that having Uniformed Troops walking around can prove information that can satisfy the Thalmor's needs.

I've already stated. Number of fingers doesn't matter because based off my arguments on the size of Skyrim according to the lore, you'll need at least a 25-man strong agency. I wasn't even talking about an army of spies. If there's over 90,000 spies, they're not spies, that's a Division.