Skyrim is for the Nords and the Thalmor can’t invade Skyrim. Ulfric is making Skyrim great again. The Thalmor are used as a boogeyman to keep Skyrim under the thumb of the globalist Empire. Ulfric being a Thalmor puppet is fake news.
I calll em as I see them.
It is a massive flaw in any narrative if you have to step away from the work itself and go dig through ancillary materials to understand the setting, which luckily I don't think is the case for TES. How many skyrim players do you think have played arena?
So, how come hammerfell managed to take them on all by themselves, and win?
Presuming that's true (which I have doubts about, bottling them up in summerset until the internal pressure tears them apart sounds at least possible), that doesn't sound like it'd be impossible.
Skyrim is for the Nords and the Thalmor can’t invade Skyrim
Honestly, you don't need to play arena, just read a wiki article. And it really isn't a flaw, to actually understand a well written setting you should need to dig. And Morrowind is better, if you actually made it in a modern engine it would be superior in all metrics. Today, it does suffer from being dated, but everything else that made it good then still shines through.
Because the Empire and Hammerfall pretty much intentionally screwed them? Intentionally let Hammerfell leave the Empire, and then happened to "release" all the veterans who were from Hammerfell at the same time?
You'd need the forces of more than just Skyrim and Hammerfell. The Empire if it wins, has High Rock, Cyrodiil, Skyrim, and at least nominally Morrowind.
That does not match what I've heard about Morrowind (or rather, I've heard the setting is great, but it's weighted down by an awful plot).
Ok, so those two claims don't seem to align. Hammerfall only won because they had help from legionaries that were from hammerfall (not additional forces from outside hammerfall, just people that would have been in hammerfall had it been on it's own), but you can't fight the dominion with just one province, you need all of them together.
Or it could be reinstated with an independent Skyrim and no, Thalmor can’t invade the Stormcloaks.It depends on if you want the Thalmor to win round two or not. Despite banning Talos Worship it's still practiced privately and could still be reinstated after a victory in the next war.
Or it could be reinstated with an independent Skyrim and no, Thalmor can’t invade the Stormcloaks.
Hammerfell repelled the Thalmor. You would need to first conquer Skyrim or conquer High Rock in order to even reach them. “And don’t say go around it” lol. That’s like saying we invade Russia by going through Canada and over the North Pole. Skyrim is A-Okay on its own. Cyrodil needs Skyrim for bodies to protect itself, to throw Nords into a meat grinder while giving them nothing in a return and making them have an open borders immigration policy to the rest of the Imperium. Skyrim has nothing to gain by staying and actual national sovereignty by leaving.
Tellius, meanwhile, is clearly taking a longer-term view, is not focused on his own personal glory and concerns, but rather is attempting to work a pragmatic long game against the the real enemy: the Dominion. As such, he tries to do everything he can to prepare for the real fight.
Ulfric didn’t really do anything wrong though.It might be better for Skyrim to be free and not under the Empire, but not under Ulfric, who is likely to turn into a tyrant if things don't exactly go his way.
Except he did?Ulfric didn’t really do anything wrong though.
Yeah and Caesar crossed the Rubicon, destroying that tradition and breaking those laws. Caesar did what he did for both himself and for Rome and Rome was better for it.He at least violated the spirit of the rules of the duel in the "old Nord way" by using a Dragon Shout to kill Torygg and in fact killing him was minimally irregular (as the duels historically were not to the death).
Based. Skyrim is for the Nords. Khajit are drug addicts and argonians are degenerates. They don’t belong.As to him being a tyrant, he expelled Argonians and Khajit from Stormwind for no legitimate reason that I have been able to find.
again this is perfectly fine. Skyrim is for the Nords.The entire way he governs Windhelm, in fact, point to a rather tyrannical aspect. Strict restrictions on races allowed and where they are allowed,
A Skyrim without Nords or one replaced by non-Nords isn’t Skyrim any longer.These do not paint a picture of a man who is a good ruler, nor one whom will end up governing well or wisely. He clearly like pitting those under him against one another and uses non-Nord peoples as scapegoats even if they've done nothing wrong. These are not traits of a person who is a just ruler, but one who is likely to walk the path of tyranny.
it’s not a question of what they’ve done, it’s what good for the Nord people. These groups bring drugs, they bring crime, they take jobs and opportunities from Nords, and a million years can’t make a Khajit into a Nord. Khajits have elseweyr, it sucks so they come to Skyrim, and people who can’t make their own nation good certainly aren’t going to make yours any good.He clearly like pitting those under him against one another and uses non-Nord peoples as scapegoats even if they've done nothing wrong. These are not traits of a person who is a just ruler, but one who is likely to walk the path of tyranny.
Based. Skyrim is for the Nords. Khajit are drug addicts and argonians are degenerates. They don’t belong.
. . .Based. Skyrim is for the Nords. Khajit are drug addicts and argonians are degenerates. They don’t belong.
You don't get to cloak yourself as a "traditionalist" and upholding tradition as Ulfric does while breaking tradition. All it showcases is that he is opportunist and self-serving, willing to say whatever best serves his immediate purposes and interests. Thus lacking honor and morals. All ingredients for petty tyranny.Yeah and Caesar crossed the Rubicon, destroying that tradition and breaking those laws. Caesar did what he did for both himself and for Rome and Rome was better for it.
In addition to that, lets not forget that, unlike Caeser, Ulfric isn't a victorious leader of men.You don't get to cloak yourself as a "traditionalist" and upholding tradition as Ulfric does while breaking tradition. All it showcases is that he is opportunist and self-serving, willing to say whatever best serves his immediate purposes and interests. Thus lacking honor and morals. All ingredients for petty tyranny.
This basically seems the be-all of it, and much as I amuse myself with my own 'actually, the Thalmor's nefarious plans will backfire on them!' navel-gazing, there being a conclusion one way or another is probably the better result in terms of confounding the elves.when it comes to the skyrim civil war it is important to remember that the thalmor wants it to continue.