User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140107032124/@comment-1600847-20140108145959

1) He still has no way of proving it, propaganda or not. A book made by a Legate with no proof using sources with no proof is a piss-poor piece of evidence.

2) No, it doesn't. Population sizes grow over time, even Elves, when it's been centuries. What you're saying is equivalent to saying that the modern American army can't possibly number over 50,000 men since that's what it was centuries ago. It makes no sense.

3) Yes, he's an Imperial Scholar. So what? That does NOT mean his book is immediately biased and in-admissable just because he has a different opinion than you, Zipper. And of course it paints the Forsworn in a sympathetic light: they were massacred, even the non-combatants. And they don't need to mention Ulfric directly, there was only one group of Nords present during the battle: Ulfric's Militia.

Point is, there's no evidence the book is propaganda. Just because the author paints Ulfric in a bad light doesn't mean his book is automatically in-admissable. Especially when his claims are corrobarated by outside sources.