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I made distinction between the two Dominions. However, in the Fourth Era Dominion during the events of TES:V, the Khajiit ended up joining the Aldmeri after the Aldmeri claimed to be saviors who restored the moons, which were essential to the Khajiit as they are born based on the lunar cycle. The question in this part was why the Khajiit joined the Elven alliance during the events of ESO, seeing as Elsweyr is generally a bit of a backwater place that doesn't get involved in the greater Tamriel much of ever, and they don't see themselves as similar to the Elves but rather as a greater race made by their feline god.

I understand that Cyrodiil was in the Interregnum at the time. However, the land being filled by barbarians and warlords seemed to be more the implication than ESO's now-assertion that everyone made coincidentally enough alliances to bring the entirety of Tamriel into a conflict over the land present there. And then after this Tiber Septim will win the Interregnum, without any mention or involvement of the previous alliances jumping in, including the fact that Morrowind resists him for a number of years.

Basically, the alliances were all force-inserted and though the events that supposedly formed them were documented, their formation and now government is sudden. For example, another thread asked why the High King of Skyrim headed an alliance with one of its members run by three living gods, which then begged the question how much the Tribunal got involved, and then why it might not have (They did in the Akaviri invasion, of course). What's more, if the Akaviri truly attacked the entirety of the Ebonheart pact, they wold be mounting an assault on between a quarter and a third of the coast of Tamriel. Yet the page on Akaviri invasions only specifies that the Tsaesci sacked Windhelm and accredited much of their eventual defeat to the efforts of the Tribunal. That, plus they had historically attacked very rarely, with hundreds of years if not thousands between, and some of Vivec's "36 Sermons" suggested that they might only attack three times.

I'm not an expert at Daggerfall Covenant politics myself, however the page suggested that they mostly allied due to an absence of trade from Cyrodiil. I find this somewhat suspect inthe case of the Orsimer, who have traditionally kept to themselves to the utmost. Notice that in Skyrim the majority stay in the strongholds and ignore the civil war, and those outside the strongholds are clearly not the norm. In their homeland, I imagine the Orcs practice this to a higher extent except when engaging in their wars. Though they would have some trade, their culture wouldn't be reliant upon it. In many ways the Bretons seem more likely to ally with the Nords than anything, though this is mostly idle speculation. It seems to me that they have historically had a good relationship, with no wars between them. The Reachmen are a blending of blood between Bretons and natives there, suggesting that the Bretons have always had a significant presence in Skyrim, which is maintained to this day.

The Bosmer may or may not have reason to invest against Cyrodiil, since I imagine in the time of the Septim Empire they came to be largely dependant on it, but I haven't extensively researched their history. They were likely more friendly to the Altmer at this time than in the Fourth Era (where it took a coup to install the Dominion), but I don't know how unified they would be in carrying forth this war.

Now storyline wise, fine I didn't play Oblivion, so I must at least partially concede the point. But it sounds very similar with their supposed anchors to gates and the like. At the base, it seems to be the same concept without making the interesting claim made in Oblivion that Nirn was actually once Mehrunes Dagon's Realm.

(As a side note, the "Imperial Empire" is not the best term for it, though it is an empire headed from Cyrodiil which is populated by Imperials. The Imperials get their name from their historic Empires, of course, and Imperial is just an adjective for Empire. So it's basically saying Empire Empire. The Cyrodiilic Empire has always struck me as a better term.)