User blog comment:Fimmion/Why Skyrim was rigged from the start/@comment-1727531-20120630045723

No, one but a wealthy and powerful altemer born into the thalmor can join them. They are the inner circle.

No, one is against the imperials but half the nords. The other half love them and understand sometimes you have to be uncaring to win. Even then the Nords that hate the empire really just want it to allow talos worship. The nords were put up by the thalmor who sent ulfric back to start civil war.

The Big game in Skyrim is this - Thalmor vs Empire... The Thalmor want to wipe out the humans who are a threat to them and because they are angry that the humans dare put themselves higher than the mer. They feel mer are the superier and altermer the chosen race. Hello Nazi Germany

The thalmor have taken most of the southern lands, The empire holds the center, morrowind is with the empire but was nuked and is now fighting the argonians so take both those lands out

Summerset Isles+Valenwood+Elsweyr   vs Cyrrodil + Highrock

Morrowind vs Blackmarsh (out of the war fighting each other)

Hammerfell (pulled in defense for itself only)

Skyrim (civil war)

If skyrim was by itself it would weaken the empire even more and thus let the altemer win, skyrim could not beat the rest of the world itself ,

This is a battle for who will rule the world humans or mer, dont get caught up in the little details