User blog comment:Ulfric nord/the stormcloak rebilion/@comment-4113369-20130322143609/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130322235706

Mayhaps the empire was losing at the end of the Great War but the AD was also losing, neither had the advantage.

For the empire to accept the same terms that were rejected and started the war in the first place is...

It's folly is what it is.

If the terms had been rjected and more favorable ones been waited on, the AD could not have done anything since they had NO FORCES to press on with.

The war was over, and a phony/cold war would have happened if the mede regime did not love the thought of kneeling to elves so much.