User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-1840877-20120629132604/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120706035753

If one goes with Ralof one can kill the captain in question, so there's one reason.

The Aldmeri Dominion had suffered great losses (dare I say greater than, yes yes I do) just like the empire did and could not have taken all Tamriel, and certainly not hold it even if they could have taken it(which they could not have done).

It is just wrong and lying to claim that the empire would invariably have lost if, instead of giving up at the drop of a hat, dug in and gone of the defensive.

They could have easily gotten better terms, such as a simple return to status quo.

But no, titus II prefered to completely nullify all the fighting and make it so all the dead had died in vain.