User blog comment:Ulfric nord/the stormcloak rebilion/@comment-1600847-20130320194750/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130325111423

The officers leading the Nord forces in the Great War would have been Imperials.

I do not feel the Imperials much wanted to fight the Altmer as join them, so they may not have given their all as it were.

So the Nords would have held back some by that.

It was probably "around" 500 hundred, give or take any given amount.

Sure, that would be suicide but 500 hundred or so assasins striking from the shadows equipped with all manner of potions could do a lot of harm to the arrogant elves.

They always were keen on over confidence and overreaching, over extending Mer.

I'm sure that fact helped take out the Snow elves too, unwarrented arrogance seems a racial trait for Mers. Oh wait, it is.