User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140107032124/@comment-1600847-20140108014701

We never find out WHY the P-O Agent in the book kills certain people, only that they're enemy spies, Thalmor informants, traitors and the like. Also, one of them kinda did bring Umriel into Mundus and spark the Umbriel Crisis. He had it coming.

Because they were greatly weakened by the war? They're in no shape to mount a war over simple book.

That logic makes no sense. By your logic, the American army couldn't grow any larger than it was back in the days of the Revolutionnary War. Armies vary in size, especially when it's been centuries since the last one. You can't say "oh well their army was 50,000 strong 200 years ago ergo it must be that size today". That's absurd.

"Anyone who lived in the city, Forsworn and Nord alike, were executed if they had not fought with Ulfric and his men when they breached the gates. "You are with us, or you are against Skyrim" was the message on Ulfric's lips as he ordered the deaths of shopkeepers, farmers, the elderly, and any child old enough to lift a sword that had failed in the call to fight with him." That doesn't mean he recruited everyone. It means he killed anyone who didn't help him. Which, again, is corrobarated by the Reachmen in Cidna Mine.