Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3322638-20130429120723/@comment-75.70.197.80-20140130084045

I agree with the above person in that Skyrim is relatively new. However, I just feel the need to point out a few things mentioned here.

About the Dark Brotherhood being too important to just get rid of. There are other (Even Imperial Sanctioned) Assasin's guilds out there. We didn't even get to do anything other than killing members of the Dark Brotherhood until Oblivion.

There is the third possibility in the Civil War questline, Skyrim remains at war and things pan out the way the Dominion actually wants them to. There is the ever troubling report in the Altmer Embassy which does point out that Either faction winning the Civil war would ruin their plans (Despite what everyone points out in there that Ulfic was considered an asset, it also says he is no longer such.). As much as I like the Stormcloaks, I imagine them saying something like "After a prolonged period of Civil unrest, the Empire managed to subdue the rebellion", making both Imps and Stormcloaks having the possibility of being canon. Even if the Stormcloaks "won", I doubt the Empire would let Skyrim go that easily. Using a real-world example for a minute: even though Texas won it's revolution, Mexico did not recognize it; ultimately leading to the War between the US and Mexico when the US annexed Texas.

There is a small note about Alduin, there is some confusion. He is the Nordic aspect of Akatosh, but he himself only claims to be the diety's firstborn son.

Parthnax may be an issue, but not a big one since the Greybeards don't tend to interact with most of the world, the Ebonheart pact was the only real exception I think.

Dawnguard, Can't say. Dragonborn, Can't say. Hearthfire...do I seriously even need to go into this?