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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:14 am

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Why do you think they give you the option to kill Titus Mede II



Believe me, I took it.
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Marina Leigh
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:08 pm

I am almost positive that a Stormcloak victory will be canon. You can really tell with the end of each civil war questline. The Empire one just falls... flat. "Yep, Ulfric is dead... so... maybe Elisif might be high queen... yeah... Empire's just gonna keep truckin' I guess..." Ulfric's victory just brings out so many possibilities for how the story can go... for good or for bad. That is overall why I love the Stormcloak side. You finish the questline really anticipating what will happen next. I would be really disappointed if they had the Empire win. It would just be dull.


Or better yet they could mesh them, Part of Skyrim being independant, part being in the Empire.

Let's wait for the Expansions.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:55 pm

Ulfric wants to require his face painted on your sweet rolls as a symbol of national pride. The empire wants to take your sweet rolls away to support their damaged economy. The Aldmeri want to open bake shops in all your cities that are better than the ones there now. They want to give you their sweet rolls...

You should support the Dominion.

If the Aldmeri have the strongest military and the wisest leadership shouldn't they rule all of Tamriel? It's how the empire got started and justified its existence for so long. The loss of a few civil rights for uncivilized and barely cultured monkeys is a small thing next to real progress that could be instigated by the races of Mer for the benifit of all...


Oh, and the nazis were awesome, right?
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:57 am

These are the trials which separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and true patriots from selfish power mongers.

When the going gets tough, the foolish strike out on their own. Yet it is those with the will and the integrity not to abandon the righteous cause of unity at the first wrong move who will prevail.

Don't like the decisions being made by the present representatives of your Empire? Time WE THE PEOPLE take the power back, not slap on territorial war paint and abandon the progress we have made.

To do that, we have already lost.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:43 am

Bethesda usually tries to fit all endings into one by either being vague, irrelevant, or applying a Dragon Break scenario. One interesting theory I've heard is the mantling of a new Talos. Metaphysical TES Lore is an area I'm not too versed in however, so I'm not quite sure how that would happen besides the parallels between the PC/Ulfric/Tullius triangle and Tiber Septim's tri-apotheosis into Talos.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:19 am

Looking for interesting parallels? Read this:

http://www.infowars.com/the-year-america-dissolved/
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Amy Smith
 
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:41 am

Which is why I help the Empire :)
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Andrew
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:46 pm

I love how imperial sympathizers make up strategic facts not in evidence just so the beloved empire is right.

If Hammerfell can kick the Aldmeri Dominion out then skyrim should have no problem


The Nord beats the red guard any day for war based on skyrim racial stats

The Skyrim is farther away from the thalmor homeland then hammerfell

The weather in skyrim should easily route most of the thalmor once they leave the posh area around Solitude
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:02 am

One interesting theory I've heard is the mantling of a new Talos. Metaphysical TES Lore is an area I'm not too versed in however, so I'm not quite sure how that would happen…

I am thinking of the story from Lord of the Rings, of how Gandalf expels Soruman from the court of King Theodan, returning him to his former power as “his fingers grasp his sword” as perhaps a proper anology, at least in modern times.

There is a long unspoken tradition among power brokering religious fanatics of ritually sabotaging that which grants power, or more specifically, security, confidence (and we see Theodan certainly did suffer a “crisis of confidence,” with his speeches of “what can men do, etc.”), which is something you will never hear these “harmless” sects speak openly about.

All the ways they identify and rob the righteous families and individuals of their power, so they are less likely to become a threat to their agenda...

Eugenics is a powerful enemy, and their devices are truly insidious. I suppose one could argue if they were truly righteous they could overcome these devices of sabotage with the power of their conscious will. Yet if we have the technology to make it right…

I wonder how one "wills" themselves to overcome a brain implant. Or, in the TES universe, how their righteousness alone might overcome having their tongue removed, such that they are still able to pronounce their dragon shouts.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:09 pm

I love how imperial sympathizers make up strategic facts not in evidence just so the beloved empire is right.

If Hammerfell can kick the Aldmeri Dominion out then skyrim should have no problem


The Nord beats the red guard any day for war based on skyrim racial stats

The Skyrim is farther away from the thalmor homeland then hammerfell

The weather in skyrim should easily route most of the thalmor once they leave the posh area around Solitude


No one is making up any facts - it's all conjecture based upon the books and lore we have to work with.
Most people actually have a point, whether a supporter of the Empire or of the Stormcloaks.

And there are more variables to a war that plain logistics.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:01 am

If Hammerfell can kick the Aldmeri Dominion out then skyrim should have no problem

Hammerfell was only able to "kick the Aldmeri out" after a brutal battle and very heavy losses, AFTER the Empire had severely weakened their forces. If the Thalmor had thrown a blitzkrieg at Hammerfell first they would have been routed before the Empire had a chance to respond.

The notion an even weaker force of Stormcloaks could fight a now more powerful Dominion is not only naive, it is SUICIDE.
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Post » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:37 am

Hammerfell was only able to "kick the Aldmeri out" after a brutal battle and very heavy losses, AFTER the Empire had severely weakened their forces. If the Thalmor had thrown a blitzkrieg at Hammerfell first they would have been routed before the Empire had a chance to respond.

The notion an even weaker force of Stormcloaks could fight a now more powerful Dominion is not only naive, it is SUICIDE.


Lol...You still won't accept the fact that the Empire is gargage. You've guys got your asses handed to you and know you serve the very people that stomped you into the ground. Cowards and slaves, the lot of you.
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