Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-260563-20180324172334

No statement to say otherwise? How's about the fact that canon lore states that the fast human birth rate is A) what got the Falmer to turn against the Atmorans, and B) what got Queen Ayrenn of the Altmer to form the Dominion to get reinforcements from the Bosmer and the Khajiit? It's in the damn lore. Humans breed faster than elves, and that's part of the reason why the elves saw them as a threat. It was the main reason for the war between the Falmer and the Atmorans. It was the main reason for the First Aldmeri Dominion's existence. It's a plot point that drove many of the stories in the lore of Elder Scrolls.

We do get canon information about the AD. From the lore, we get the fact that their armies have suffered huge losses in Cyrodiil. It got so bad that they can't even hold devastated ruins like Hammerfell. While they can still take care of a one-on-one war like say, fighting the Stormcloaks, the Empire is a different story entirely. With only Alinor doing all the fighting, that means, warfare-wise, they only have one province, which has shit for birthrate numbers and which lost most of its army in the last war.

And the situation with the allies of the Thalmor isn't any better. Based on what we can gather from the lore and the games, the Bosmer are either servants (like Brelas) or genocide victims (like Malborn's family). The Khajiit are doing so badly that they'd rather leave their home and go trade with people who despise them, like the Nords, just to make a buck. How poor does your country have to be that going to faraway lands, to do business with people who despise you and don't let you into their cities, is the only way for you to make a buck? They're not exactly like the East Empire Company, you know. Otherwise, they'd be treated with respect by the likes of the Nords, and they'd have either mercenaries or even Thalmor bodyguards.

Aldmeri Dominion has three provinces IN NAME, while in reality, only one province does all the fighting, since no Khajiit or Wood Elf fights for the Thalmor outside of the odd paid assassin. Whereas the Empire has Cyrodiil, High Rock, and the wealthy parts of Skyrim to draw men upon. And if the Empire does go to war with the Dominion before the Skyrim Civil War ends, then there goes the White-Gold Concordat, which means the Stormcloaks will bury the hatchet and fight alongside the Empire against the Thalmor, who they hate even more.

Either the Empire goes to war with the Dominion after the Empire has retaken control of Skyrim and has used its coin to repair the damage done by Ulfric, or the Empire goes to war with the Thalmor while the Stormcloaks are still around, at which case, the Stormcloaks would rather choke the Thalmor to death rather than keep fighting an Empire which, by that time, has discarded the White-Gold Concordat if war with the Thalmor has already begun.