Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10993011-20130618024431/@comment-6336669-20130820073944

You apparently didn't read the disclaimer saying I may not have gotten it all right.

how is a loading screen Imperialist Propaganda? It's written by the Devs and it isn't in any quote. It is stating fact, it is a statement. It is the truth. Hammerfell would have fallen if the AD had demolished the Empire, the AD only had to push a little further, and they had more than enough resources and manpower, utilising far more healers and magic than the Empire.

Oh, and they couldn't take Cyrodill? Well, they certainly did. They took it and killed many high-ranking officials, as they saw it as the last stand, but the Empire launched a counter-attack, taking the city back. The Concordat page, here, states that the Empire would have been crushed if not for the treaty, and that Mede initiated it, seeing it as the only way out of the inevitable counter-counter-attack. If the AD can send Thalmor agents in to Skyrim to crack down on simple Talos worship, which going by Alvor in Riverwood, only started after Ulfric started to allow open worship of Talos following the Markarth Incident, they sure as hell had enough man...I mean merpower to take down the pathetic remains of the Empire.

Titus Mede saved Mankind, and Ulfric launches a rebellion to attack the very thing that is keeping the entire AD out of Skyrim, which is even said by Imperial Soldiers, including Hadvar.

The White-Gold Concordat demands that any non-Empire territory be left alone, other than the occasional Thalmor patrol to enforce the requirements are being fullfilled. It's the very reason why Black Marsh isn't standing, or won't be standing for very long, on it's own.