Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27007772-20140611204941/@comment-5989209-20140808161138

Skyrim isn't a quarrantined country just because a civil war is happening. Plenty of people are allowed in and out of it. And the player is by all accounts caught walking into the Imperial ambush, and was then sent to the block when they weren't even mentioned on the list, unlike everyone else there. They're just a simple wo/man from Cyrodiil in the wrong place at the wrong time.