Its rumored the aldmeri dominion tries to keep the war going. Both sides are mostly made up of nords from Skyrim. The civil war helps keep the empire weak while also pitting a group known to hate elves against each other. Many stormcloaks would glady fight along with imperials if they were spilling high elf blood.
There’s a dossier on Ulfric in the Thalmor Embassy that straight up calls him an asset, though a currently dormant and uncooperative one. It also says that keeping the civil war going is exactly their goal and that him being executed at Helgen would have harmed their position
Honestly, it was that dossier that convinced me to side with the empire… Not because I liked them more but because I thought them winning would be the worst outcome for the Thalmor and the best chance of being able to resist them (either side winning was bad for them, but a rapid end to the war by the empire would allow Skyrim to recover with imperial resources and not become isolationists… I didn’t see a Stormcloak lead Skyrim wanting to work with the empire for mutual gain for a long while)
But I did also assassinate the emperor, so I was kind of sending mixed messages on my loyalties…
Its rumored the aldmeri dominion tries to keep the war going. Both sides are mostly made up of nords from Skyrim. The civil war helps keep the empire weak while also pitting a group known to hate elves against each other. Many stormcloaks would glady fight along with imperials if they were spilling high elf blood.
There’s a dossier on Ulfric in the Thalmor Embassy that straight up calls him an asset, though a currently dormant and uncooperative one. It also says that keeping the civil war going is exactly their goal and that him being executed at Helgen would have harmed their position
Honestly, it was that dossier that convinced me to side with the empire… Not because I liked them more but because I thought them winning would be the worst outcome for the Thalmor and the best chance of being able to resist them (either side winning was bad for them, but a rapid end to the war by the empire would allow Skyrim to recover with imperial resources and not become isolationists… I didn’t see a Stormcloak lead Skyrim wanting to work with the empire for mutual gain for a long while)
But I did also assassinate the emperor, so I was kind of sending mixed messages on my loyalties…