Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27157999-20160710144119/@comment-993964-20170208215700

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Sports72Xtrm wrote: A treaty created because of false leaders who are content to ignore the suffering of their people so long as their luxurious lifestyle is not threatened. Last I checked, a member of the Empire's own Council hired the Dark Brotherhood to assassinate their own Emperor. There is no courage or honor in the Imperial high echelon.

Their luxurious lifestyle? You think this is about money? Did you miss how the Empire had to pay tributes to the Dominion? If it were all for their position, why did the Great War even occur?

And? Just because Motierre is power-hungry shows nothing. The Empire wanted to surrender to the Dominion before the Great War. It was only Titus Mede II who rejected it while his generals said the Empire was weak and couldn't fight them. Now he's dead, there goes the only man who actually had any intention to actually counter attack and finish the war with the Dominion. He may have been a fool to sign the concordat, but at least he actually was bold enough to resist when the Dominion started showing aggression while all his advisors didn't even intend that.

As for the Imperial Jarls, I think what they say and how they act by attending parties to the Thalmor Justicars hunting their own people tells me plenty that they're decadent weak leaders with selfish motivations. I don't know where people get that they are anything other.