Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-13199219-20130816015910

I agree. And what he did was wise, because in the original white-gold concordact, the Thalmor wanted large portions of southern hammerfell. In a way, Mede was wise and a wimp: He signed the treaty, but not before he let Hammerfell out of the empire. Then he could say: Hey, you guys will have to take it for yourselves, I can't give it to you. Although he abandoned the redguards, the redguards were free to defend themselves without having the emperor ask them to stop (Because that's what the thalmor would have made him do, if not send his own men in to quell what would have been officially a rebellion.)