Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-3539474-20131101211806

Legate Alexandros wrote:

So I wonder, if by the time AD will get to Skyrim, they would be drawn farther and farther, until they encounter Skyrim's winter. Perhaps either Solitude or Windhelm would be given to them to make them think that they achived something. At the end, they would finally have to face the army of entire Skyrim, with all of their great swords, battle axes and the power of the t'hum. Not to mention if Dragon crisis isn't over yet, AD would probably be picked at by a random Dragon who owns no loyalties to anyone but Alduin. Wouldn't it be a fun excurtion of Aldmeri Dominion, into Skyrim? Both side in the Civil War faction weakened by the war, so the AD probably do similiar tactics they did to the Empire. Read The Great War, ithey instigating/ influencing a civil war among the Bosmer. The winner of that war were sympathetic to the Thalmor cause and after a time they withdrew Vallenwood from the Empire. Together with the Summerset Isles they form the Aldmeri Dominion.

Next was Elsewyr, the Thalmor took advantage of a strange astronomical event where the moon(s) disappeared. The Khajiit are a very superstitious people and when the Thalmor predicted the moons return they won great support throughout the cat's homeland. Eventually they also withdrew from the Empire to join the Dominion. The elves deceived the cats.

Now; The Stormcloaks are having a civil war over whether or not to stay in the Empire, which is exactly what the Thalmor want because they're playing the long game. They want to keep the Empire as weak as possible and maybe even make it weaker in preparation for the next war which they plan to win and finally reestablish elven rule over Tamriel. Divide & conquer.