First of I will write by my analisys some spoilers so readers of have not finished some main quest lines about the dragons and the damn thalmor be warned I have not deciced yet the side since the game leaves you with two sides that have good and bad points to prove: The empire is the side I will never go with because for me it ended with tha last Septim. after that it became corrupted and the morrowind volcano inccident did not help, the morrowind inccicent is on some books and with the dark elfs talking about it on Windhelm and other areas. Then 30 years before the start of Skyrim the Great war came (read the awesome book of the Great War and do not lose it since is quiet hard to find) The thalmor are a race of nazi elfs who want to conquer tamriel for unknow reasons unless I find about it later on. The empire was weak affter some civil wars and the expensive coin it takes to maintain an army in every post of the provinces just like Rome in real life. The book of the great war has some good points about how stupid, weak and sob is the empire when it abanonded Hammerfell to its luck, it was not the red guards but the Empire who leave them, and gues what hammerfell prove it can beat the thalmor with the use of nature remeber the thalmor army could not defeat the arik' desert and it worked in favor for hammerfell, thus becoming an independent nation with people hating the empire. the south provinces where conquered by thalmour and the imperial city fell to them and reconquered by the empire with guess what help the legion of skyrim, nords quiet frankly by my interpretation of the book the great war where the saviors of the empire since the other legions where destroy, the nords proved to be the most strongest of all the legions and the thalmor knew it after one of those crushing defeats at their hands. After the end of the great war the empire and the thalmor were weak, more the empire, and a treaty came that make me dislike them even more the baning of talos that caused the civil war of skyrim, all in the name of a fake peace. the thalmor are controling part of the empire politcal status look at marakat and the embassy in solicitude is full corruption. the stromcloaks are nords looking to rule free with no one telling them they should take out years of traditions towards a god. If they belive in a talos a man so be it but the empire has to follow the exact plans of the thalmor by banning talos and this is the result, I want to join them but ulfric is an idiot if the game gives me a choice to make the oath in the name of skyrim and not ulfric i do it because in my believe and creation of my nord character I want to fight for the freedom of skyrim before the empire backstabs behind and leave skyrim like it happened with hammerfell. a thalmor invasion to skyrim is complicated by that fact that nords know their land, are fearsome warriors proved by the legion of skyrim in the great war, skyrim is full of mountains exept one place that is a big open battlefield, other than that attaking form the south is almost impposible if not taking a close road and they can become a trap since most roads on the south are very streched, by sea is another problem if you believe in the lore that the sea of ghosts is the most treacherous sea of the north of tamriel, and the cities in the north have a great terrain defense like solicitude and windhelm with the exeption of winterfell. the other fact is the hate towards thalmor and the fact of dragons creating some problems and not forget of the dragonborn so it choices a side. Is complicated to decide which one since the empire is full of it *** and ulfric is another full of it**** I cannot join the stromcloaks with an oath that obligates me to be loyal ot ulfric, he is not skyrim is the people and the land and since the game does not allow it yet I am still confused about it and the fact that some of the empire jarls are good people who need to be tunerd down in favor of ulfric, I can wait but sooner or later I must go with the stromcloaks since what the empire did to hammerfell is the complete and uterly blow that changed my mind along with the banining of talos that makes choose more the stromcloaks anyway I keep reading and feel free to talk or correct anything since I have only read the lore once and is quiet interesting to keep reading it and to finish death to the Thalmor so*****
