Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-121.216.87.214-20130131113203/@comment-108.204.7.182-20130204001634

I'm afraid I must respectfully disagrree. The empire is already fractured beyond repair, and half of it is already under elven controle. The tactic within the white gold concordant is an elven ploy to weaken the unity of the empire, which they did because ulferic started his civil war over it. That not only takes any support skyrim would have given the rest of the empire against the elves out of the equation for the time being if not permanantly, it forces the Empire to further weaken its position with the effort of re-securing Skyrim. Not to mention the posibility of the dark brotherhood assasinating the emporor, leaving a vacume in power which could lead to another civil war in Cyrodil.

Now on to the dragon born problem. Even in the event that he joins the empire and leads it to a quick decisive victory over  ulferic, the damage is already done and any remaining enemy forces will fight to the last rather than surrender, even if it only means raiding supply trains. Further, the dragonborn is only one person amidst a large world of people. that being said, for every battle that he destroys the elves, the elves will win 10 some where else, and though the dragonborn may eventually kill them all, the war would be lost by then. If the dragon born sides with ulferic then the odds will be far worse.

lastly, even though everyone can do magic, Elves (Altmer/Dunmer)and Bretons are by far the most suted to its use. as for the other cultures Redguards hate magic and almost never use it, Nords fear it and discorage its use so much that there are maybe 20 truly talented mages in all of skyrim. Imperials are suposed to be competent, but not naturally gifted with magic, and most of the rest are either to small or already beaten. While the Dark Elves have not yet merged with the dominion, i believe that the odds are favorable that they will given their maltreatment at the hands of humans.