Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-26213507-20151203152203

Shigeru Thalmor Slayer wrote: 184.151.36.160 wrote: But the thing is that what if the police WANTED to return? The Legion hates the Thalmor just as much as every man besdies maybe High Rock.. If they played their cards right and looked formidable enough to the Imperials then no doubt they'd ally Why would the Empire defend Skyrim if they lose it in the civil war? They just lost an entire legion to a bunch of pro-Nords barbarians yelling about how they want to kill imperials dogs, the wounds would be too fresh to even think of an alliance. Although the Empire would have been stronger with Skyrim, I agree with Shigeru here. Although an alliance would be beneficial, Ulfric would never go crawling back to the people he claimed were the enemy, because Nordic pride. The Empire lost their soldiers, so if The Dominion assaults Skyrim, The Empire will probably just watch them burn. Hammerfell and Morrowind have grudges and will do nothing unless directly attacked, so that's that.

With the real world example: The US and the USSR were both attacked by axis forces. They never really allied, they just didn't attack each other on the battle field. It was an "Us against them" situation. The US didn't just break away from the Soviet Union, and they had to take down a power that would destroy them anyway. It was an uneasy alliance, but the situation is not a good example for this thread.