Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-9601450-20130602013609/@comment-3076045-20130921134309

Zippertrain85 wrote: Pickleseller wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: Pickleseller wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: Pickleseller wrote: If they're fighting for independence, why would they try to conquer Cyrodiil? To prevent the other two factions from getting it? Because they're somehow more superior than the others? They don't want Tamriel to be ruled by either of them. Because their rule is better somehow. They'll probably just return to their homelands after the other factions get destroyed.

I saw a quote chain, and wanted to feel loved and such.

To bring it back to point though - the Ebonheart Pact originally joined up to fight the common enemy - the Akaviri. Then, once Molag Bal's influence in the capital of Cyrodiil become known, they had no choice but to try and stop it.