If Hammerfell can defeat the Aldmeri Dominion alone and gain their independence, then why can't Skyrim? Aren't Nords equal in combat prowess to the Redguards in TES lore?
no, theyre absolutely not
Isra-erm, I mean the Thalmor don't have sleeper agents working in Hammerfell
>>719400182Nords literally have the equivalent to magic with the Thuum
>>719400421How many really use it
>>719400192Wasn't Saadia, the Redguard woman who was pursued by the Redguard warriors in Whiterun, accused of being a Thalmor agent? Her betrayal led to the slaughter of a village or city or something..
>>719400656Ulfric captured all of Markarth with the Voice from the Forsworn. Imagine how powerful 1 man must be to have this ability. Now imagine if you have like 10 of them.
>>719400138Nords, Orcs, and redguards are the non magical melee races. nords are niggers
There are no Nords left. All of the Nords in Skyrim have completely assimilated into Imperials. Even the Stormcloaks. In fact they are basically reactionaries, because they want to go back to an even more Imperial Pantheon of Gods than the one the Imperial worships right now.So the Stormcloaks don't even want to leave the Empire. They just want to make it a renegade province. Kinda like Switzerland, which claimed to still be part of the Holy Roman Empire, but no longer having any obligations towards it. So the Stormcloaks basically want to turn Skyrim into a poor shithole version of Fantasy Switzerland.True Nords would form warbands led by Leaders capable of Thu'um, who go around the continent to create new chiefdoms. Ulfric Stormcloak should have gone into Morrowind and conquered the western part of it and created his own private kingdom. Instead he and his family gave away an entire island and half of his capital city, as well as lots of rural farmland to Dunmer immigrants.
>>719400782He probably had the element of surprise And does he train anyone
>>719400138gg
>>719400138While I agree with the overall idea that nords would be fine on their own too, collectively, redguard prowess is more technique and militarized society, whereas nord strengths are more being large and hardy while dealing with dangerous creatures on a daily basis
How come it took the Romans a couple of centuries to exert some level of control over the whole Iberian peninsula, while vastly more populous Hellenistic successor states fell to their sphere of influence pretty much on first contact? As a corollary, how come Umayaad Caliphate conquered almost the entirety of Visigothic Spain almost without a fight in a few years in 711, except for Kingdom of Asturias in the North? Or how, during Reconquista, Emirate of Granada survived for a few hundred years after the fall of rest of Al-Andalus?I'm pretty sure there's no consistent explanation in TES fluff, but these sort of things happen for highly contingent reasons. Terrain, social organization, internal politics, etc, etc. You'd have to read relevant history books for more thorough answers for the rhetorical questions, but some of these contingencies involve hilly train, lack of state structures you can co-opt, the systems for raising armies, the general will to resist Roman conquest, presence of Roman bridges and roads allowing armies to move quickly, internal division in the Visigothic Kingdom at the time, Ibn al-Ahmar making himself a useful ally to Kingdom of Castille, Cantabrian and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges and fortifications there being even more difficult to traverse than the rest of the peninsula, the development of gunpowder weapons and the modern administrative state that can field large armies for many years, logistical challenges in general...It's utterly wrongheaded to think of this sort of thing in terms of tallying up "military power" of a population in two regions and seeing which one is the biggest.
>>719401258>He only Fus Ro Dah'd open the gates of Markarth because he got the 3.0x sneak attack bonus
>>719401245>Instead he and his family gave away an entire island and half of his capital city, as well as lots of rural farmland to Dunmer immigrantsMade me wish there was a third, more extreme Nord traditionalist faction in the game. Ulfric is clearly a pussy who doesn't give a shit about Skyrim or it's history and just wanted political power. I think it would have been cool if there was another choice in the civil war that would do shit like burn down temples to Imperial deities, force out non-Nords violently, sacrifice people and strive to make Skyrim a more brutal and savage society. Also I could imagine you could only join this faction if you were actually a Nord, or married to one.
>>719401258It's takes years for someone with inate talent to master a simple shout. Which is another thing that's fucked up with Skyrim's timeline - How long was Ulfric with the Graybeards? If the Great War was 25 years ago and he left High Hrothgar to join the legion, he would've had to have been in his early teens when they accepted him.
>>719400869Magic is for the weak
>>719400138Same thing that happened to America. They couldnt keep sending armies so far away to deal with any problems, by the time the armies arrived it would be months later, so they just cut their loses and left it.
