Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.139.116.236-20131222233804/@comment-73.42.114.175-20161202051525

1:it seems to me that regardless of who win the civil war the empire is on its last legs. the septim dynasty has ended. the empire is opressing its own people so it can delay and inevitable war. they are losing control of their surrounding territories one by one. even if they win the war the tensions in skyrim wont have gone away. in fact while the empire is fighting the dominion in the second war whats keeping the nords from taking skyrim while the legions are fighting in cyrodil? and if the dominion conquers the empire they will opress and kill the humans and the humans will rebel. regardless of who wins the final result i see in a fractured tamriel with each province ruling itself.

2: you have suggested 2 ways for the dominion to enter skyrim, by either sea or land. well the dominion is basically ruled by powerful wizards, is there anything stopping them from opening a portal that connects skyrim with valenwood. a few conjurers could open a gate to oblivion and let things pass through in ESOblivion. in which case the dominion would definately win. however i dont think the dominion cares at all about skyrim they are focused on cyrodill, so i dont see them even trying to conquer skyrim until after they take cyrodill.

3: all the empire needs to do to win the war is convince the khajiit that it was the dominion who removed the moons from the sky in the first place (which is probably true) and that they have been fooled into serving the dominion. they do that and valenwood is surrounded and the dominion is on the defsive instead of the empire.