User blog comment:VaughanTES/The Second Great War?!/@comment-208.54.80.143-20131205214022

Everyone needs to consider the first Great War. The thalmor nearly won, they were inside the imperial city for talos' sake!!! Morrowind is still rebuilding from the red mountain eruption a century ago ( the An-xileel surely didn't speed things up ), hammerfell isn't on good terms with cyrodiil , and after the civil war, skyrim obviously doesn't have men and resources to exhaust on the thalmor. It's cyrodiil and high rock against the aldmeri dominion. (The orcs are not part of high rock, they consider themselves independent) and just because not all bosmer and altmer like the thalmor, enough do because they overthrew the entire government in three provinces. Considering these facts, one would definitely favor the elves to beat the empire. Don't get me wrong, i want the empire to be preserved, but it would take a miracle ( - cough - divine aid ) for them to win...