So now that the game is out, has it been stated why the pact is after the Imperial city?

And more importantly their goal once they capture it?

Dominion wants elves to take over

Covenant wants to restore the Empire the way it was and return Tamriel to prosperity

And the pact and far as I know only are in Cyrodiil because the developers wanted to balance the game.

Yeeea EP doesn't make much sense because the whole point of the pact is for each country to remain independent.

As far as I know it , pact doesn't want to be ruled by anyone so they figured out that if their guy will sit the throne he won't come up with some silly laws that will limit their freedom. Also they want to stop Molag Bal . Unless of courese they changed theri motivation since the last time .

The problem is that person is technically ruling the pact which defeats the purpose of independence. The EP shouldn't have the ability to place an emperor on the throne.

They want to form a "Tamriel Pact".

At least that's what I read in one of their propaganda papers.

Either the EP set up a king of cyrodiil or they shouldn't be allowed to put an emperor on the throne, either one works.

Emperor has been imbedded into Cyrodillic culture there king is there Emperor and his Empire is just cyrodill