Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.10.177.94-20130209065558/@comment-6685058-20130223052327

Wanna just tell my opinion on several key issues about the fickle the Empire is in (still consider it the Septin Dynasty though they are not in blood, they still have the Red Diamond heraldy of the Septin family, the Wolf Queen even used it in the War of the Red Diamond). Mainly about the Thalmor and the Stormcloaks, how they can be beaten by the Empire.

Pt 1: Frankly the Empire has the firepower to defeat the Aldemeri Dominion. Hammerfell alone defeated the Thalmor forces there when the Empire abandoned them. Secondly; the Thalmor soldiers in Skyrim seem only to be High Elf, the same mistake that the Imperial Legions have been making since their founding after the Red Legions and Tiber Septin. The Imperial Legions have, throughout the games, shown to be mostly made of... Imperials. General Tullius mentions how the Fifth Legion has had to recruit "locally" sugesting that the Imperial Legions could infact recruit from their Skyrim holdings or High Rock. The Thalmor will not have this advantages due to the hints of genocidal purges mentioned by the Legion Legate in the Imperial Rift Camp, suggesting the High Elves suppressing their Khajit and Bosmer allies (though because the Khajit are serving as client states, the Khajit may not be experiencing this genocide). Perhaps even that strange Black Marsh kingdom thing could join. Besides even if the Legion merely holds their ground and not advance, they can let the eastern half of Skyrim be Stormcloak be independent. Then laugh as the Black Marsh soldiers swarm over it like they did to take Morrowind.