Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-3539474-20130916215418

Pink Slim wrote:

I believe the Empire is bad for tamriel at this time in the age of tamriel, they are focused almost entirely on the capital, they should have been focused on the people they were to defend, instead they left many places undefended to save a city that is so easily conquerable, even though it's in a pretty decent strategic military position.

If all provinces had to defend themselves and only themselves they'd be much more self dependant and they'd be able to defend themselves from the AD.

Look at the dunmer, after the empire left them to deal with the oblivion gates in cyrodiil, they had to defend themselves, with little military forces, against the invading Daedra, then after that the Argonians attacked them, the Dunmer had to rise up and defend themselves, and that is exactly what House Redoran did, they're not as strong as the legions that were in Morrowind before, but the Dunmer themselves have a much stronger army than they have had in a long time. Look at Hammerfell, they have much less forces than before the empire left, yet they were able to fend off the threat that so plagued the Empire, they had to adapt the style in which their forces fought, and they're stronger than the empire before them. Now look at Cyrodiil, they were so used to having backup from every other province that they have to destroy the forces in skyrim that want to seceed from the empire because they fear they will be left to fend for themselves, and why wouldn't they be, they're so used to pulling in everyone when they have a threat. If that is how you feel than it's better for Ulfric fanboys to support the Stormcloaks since they are more likely to start a newer and stronger Empire than the Imperials are. The Imperials tarnished their alliance with the Redguards and probably caused High Rock to reconsider supporting the Empire. The Stormcloaks on the other hand could likely convince the Redguard to form an alliance since their views on Talos match the Redguards. From there, High Rock may secede from the old Empire to join Skyrim and Hammerfell..

This basically sums up my stance in a nutshell. Problem is, Ulfric and some rebels aren't really fond of non-Nords, go to Windhelm and you see a sad bunch of migrants "not-looking for sympathy", but confidence and for the discrimination to be over.