Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11344160-20160205154012/@comment-26893431-20160914181140

Draevan13 wrote: Evidence that isn't ambiguous.

The part you quoted from Ice and Chitin doesn't state that those Imperials are part of an invading force, nor who the Nords that they're fighting are.

Just because the High King agreed to join the Empire doesn't mean all his Jarls did, naturally. This "Danstrar" could be a rebel Jarl that's being fought after Skyrim became part of the Empire. The Imperials could be part of the local legion garrison sent to fight him.

But we don't know, because the book is ambiguous.

I'm not saying you're wrong, in any event. You've convinced me that I was wrong in saying Skyrim joined peacefully by showing me there's no conclusive evidence for my original statement. But so far, the evidence for it being conquered is ambiguous. One of Tiber's commanding officers isn't evidence that he was invading Skyrim?

There's nothing which states that Skyrim joined the Empire willingly, nor that its High King alligned himself with Septim.

And how would they be part of a garrison if they have a '''commanding officer for Tiber's conquest of Tamriel? '''You don't just put a commanding officer for a continentional war in a garrison, you sent them to the frontlines.