User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140107032124/@comment-1822253-20140108030846


 * Sigh* No, it's not a problem to respond to a long post, you were making plenty just a few days ago. So claiming that it's an issue all of a sudden now... sorta absurd.

And yes, the Empire had something to gain by lying, as I and Draevan13 have repeatedly pointed out, but you continue to ignore it because if you admit that we have a point, the entire cornerstone of your argument is drastically weakened and parts of your argument disappears! And your reasoning is illogical. There is very good reason to lie, because they had just been forced to pretty much abandon defending every province of the Empire so they can pull all their remaining Legions and resources to attempt to take back Cyrodiil and the Imperial City that had been abandoned for around a year. If they stated anything but the complete wipe out of the occupying Dominion forces, the moral of both troops and civilians would be extremely low considering the sacrifices they had to make in order to take back the seat of the Empire. Not to mention that any rumor of another Dominion Army being sighted on the border, it would send the citizens of the Empire into a panic.

Ummm... how about everything?Nothing in game or in lore supports your claims such as that being the largest elven army; or that the Dominion threw everything into fighting that battle; only Altmer were allowed in the Dominion army; or that the entire Dominion Army was wiped out (it states that the Dominion Army occupying Cyrodiil was wiped out); and the fact that you dismiss almost everything but this book as embellishment or nonsense... calls your entire argument into question.

You're right, it's not a medieval kingdom, it's the Roman Empire. There were people who believed in equality among the various races; various religions were respected even when they differed greatly from Rome's. I can keep going, but I've got news for you, anything you consider "modern values" were already valued long ago, we just re-discovered what was already thought up; but as humans, we like to think we were the first ones to believe in this. Even steam technology was discovered and used in ancient times, though more as toys and amusements.

Oh, and the Blades were agents of the Emperor who did his bidding. And last time I checked, assassinating people, whether they are dangerous to the Empire, or simply because the Emperor/Empress wills it, would fall within the "doing the Emperor's bidding" job description. And just an fyi, the Blades almost never wrote anything down because their jobs were to keep the secrets of the Empire a secret. The best way to keep something a secret is to let it die with whoever is keeping it in their head.