Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.97.80.106-20130811163656/@comment-92.13.116.74-20131224202312

Pink Slim wrote: 92.13.116.74 wrote: So, you're saying that two factions that despise eachother should work together to fight a superior army that beat them the last time when they had all of the continent (except for Summerset, Valenwood and Elsewyr) not metioning the fact that a lot of of legion soldiers are now dead already. where did you get that they despise eachother? they just want two different things.

The Stormcloaks want to kill their enemy and be free of the government that forces their enemy into their homes.

The Empire wants to survive at any cost, even if it means letting the thalmor kill a couple nords.

And you do know that said 'superior army' was completely annihilated right? the aldmeri dominion no longer had a standing army at the end of the war, yes they had defensive forces, but every available soldier was sent to one of two battlefields, hammerfell, which had a pretty small force, or The Imperial City, and every single Aldmeri Dominion Soldier at the imperial city was killed, EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

what the aldmeri dominion has now is only what came back from hammerfell, and what has joined since. to say that a united army would be unable to defeat the aldmeri dominion now doesn't seem right. and this is even the reason why many nords joined ulfric at the beginning, the war was in the hands of the empire and Titus Mede II just threw it away. While the Thalmor are weaker the Legion has been weakened more so. The only reason they got the Imperial City back was because of reinforcements from Skyrim and imagine how many of them have died in the Civil War. The Thalmor still have a superior army to the legion and stormcloaks combined.