Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-4092092-20131007215058

SajuukKhar wrote: Pink Slim wrote: And a problem with the having more soldiers thing is that the AD has their forces already within all Imperial provinces, thats not really accurate.

The Ad has some Thalmor inqusitors, and a small handful of soliders in the provinces, but nothing so large as to be dangerous. That might not be accurate either

If we go by in game population there is only about 12 kids, a hundred Imperial legion soldiers, and most of the population of Skyrim are bandits. This can't be accurate so we have to go by lore. And lore states Thalmor soldiers are allowed (by the Empire) go across thier land abducting people. The WGC didn't limit the amount of troops the Thalmor can keep in the Empire, so they could move mass numbers in right before war is declared for a devastating first strike.