Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-135.23.140.68-20140815015516

Taking over the Empire might actually be a simple matter for the Dragonborn.

Think about it, you spend the entire game unifiying a large, powerful province of the empire under your leadership - every single piece of that province is connected to you directly. You also have a good reputation in every hold across the province because of your good deeds. All levels of people, from warriors to academics to criminals, they all know and respect the Dragonborn in Skyrim. They will spread word to their peers across Tamriel. You would be elected president in a landslide. T

The kind of unity the dragonborn would inspire in Skyrim itself would be frightening.

Let's say you choose stormcloaks. All you have to do is assume that you use your leadership of the Dark Brotherhood to kill Ulfric quietly. The people believe that Ulfric died in his sleep or from injuries hunting an animal on a trip.

Most of the men would be loyal to the dragonborn as the next in line, and anyone who wasn't could dissapear via dark brotherhood.

You have a network of theives you could use to inflitrate the empire. They would blackmail, steal, use their connections to your advantage and soe treason among the ranks of your enemies.

Either way, the Dragonborn will also have a veteran army serving him. If you choose stormcloaks, you have the armies of Skyrim to enforce your claim to the vacant throne. If you choose Imperials, the same might even apply, if you could rally them - considering the throne would be vacant.

As a candidate to the Throne, a general, and as a person who can ride and command dragons in battle, the dragonborn would be THE guy to watch out for in a civil war for the vacant throne. But using the dark brotherhood, he might even be able to kill all his rivals before they even become a threat.

If the Aldmeri interfere, that's a good time to bring Hammerfell back into the fold in an alliance against them - and if the Dragonborn could rally enough dragons, he could fly to sumerset Isle and devestate the Aldmeri. He could even prepare an invasion force off the coast of Hammerfell that would be supported via air with dragons, then sail south to smash the dominion navy and capture Summerset Isle itself.