User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why The Imperials Are Wrong/@comment-3025184-20130808145935/@comment-3025184-20130809183846

The Dominion has ships that shoot Arcane fire. So... yeah the ships they fight against will burn quickly. When the Dunemr fled they went to Windhelm becuase it was close to Morrowind. Not very Dunmer can afford a boat to take them to Solstheim. Because you know, their refugees fleeing a natural disaster. They would leave Windhelm if they could, but it's too dangerous with a war going on. I can assure you that the Houses of morrowind would sooner join the Empire than the Stormcloaks. Yes, Hammerfell did unite itself but i can assurer you there are still tensions between them. High Rock would not join Skyrim because they are still an Imperial province. You think they will just join the stormcloaks? No, they would join Hammerfell  (they have had alliances in the past) and the Empire (since the Empire has been good to High Rock) . But Ulfric would be too stubborn to join an alliance with the Empire in it. Also, Skyrim will have to rebuild itself after the civil war, and that is when teh Dominion will swoop in.