Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140427231857

Pink Slim wrote: the stormcloaks doesn't want to fight Cyrodiil, they just couldn't get a way around them to get to the aldmeri dominion.

They could just send troops to support an Aldmeri-Imperial war. Scotland sent troops to help fight England in France during the Hundred Years' War (which, incidentally, was 118 years long). If necessary, they could ask for the Empire or Hammerfell to grant them military access to get their troops through to fight the Dominion. In any case, that would be preferable for Cyrodiil and Skyrim; Skyrim wouldn't have to deal with loses from a war with Cyrodiil (and could suprise the Dominion if the Empire disbanded its legions), and there would be no devastation or loses in Cyrodiil. Regardless, the situation in the Dominion for the Nords would be untenable from a supplies point of view, as they would have to either support themselves (difficult for long periods of time due to the Nords like of organization and discipline, so they would not try and maintain the farmlands), or try and get supplies from Cyrodiil, which would probably be quite expensive.