User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1840877-20120819104842/@comment-5423369-20120820073712

I will follow your advice next time it the reason I didn't use any more sentences was because the original sentence was short, I just continued to add to it because things just started to come in to mind, also it is comparatively short to anything other thing i type and well I didn't really notice.

I don't the Emperor dying would be at all a good thing at all him being replaced by a new Emperor would mean this new Emperor would be an inexperienced Emperor facing a possible war, a falling empire, possible insurgency from the Thalmor, and another assassination for well just to weaken the Empire even more. I don think anyone in the first day in the job can handle something of this magnitude.

the system in place to appoint a new emperor for just such an occasion was supposed to be the Elder council but for the time after Oblivion they weren't able to elect a new emperor for well 22 years until Ocato the Imperial Potentate in charge of the Empire to maintain it was assassinated and then the Stormcrown Interregnum started. the reason the first of the Mede dynasty was in power was because he stormed into the Imperial city with less than a thousand men and became Emperor you would think that the generals and other military leaders would be prepared for something like this in such chaotic times and would be able to hold back this army with all of its legions until a proper Emperor was elected but I guess you can say they were either that weak or that desperate for an Emperor. The only way to have a Emperor the Nords would respect is if this Emperor would value their demands more than the Concordat meaning its either the Emperor gains the respect of the Nords or kick start the war.