User blog comment:Fimmion/Why Skyrim was rigged from the start/@comment-4984498-20120701143041/@comment-1727531-20120703061710

Im not saying the thalmor are the only ones fighting, im saying all the empire needs to do is unseat them, no thalmor...... then no one else is pushing the war the empire wins. The thalmor want to prove the altemer are the superior race and are angry the empire tries to say stuff like the Martin septim ended the oblivion crisis not them. They also dislike that the empire says talos is a god (since all the other gods are mer and having a man as a god makes them equal)

Morrowind was begining to rebuild by the time the argonians attacked, The argonians pushed up along the river and used freed slaves as auxillilary.Do you really think the argonians wouldnt keep pushing till all of the dunmer's slaves were free... or that they would only destroy house telvani. They began to become overextended and were stopped. Might have something to do with distance from the hist affecting them too but ive never really understood exactly what the hist was so no clue. Either way the empire would be able to defeat them readily if not dealing with the thalmor.

While its true the agonians told everyone they were succeeding right at the begining of the fourth era... they attacked morrowind right when it was weak and they saw a chance, they did not declare war but blitzkrieged up till they were halted then began to absorb the land and free slaves