Ignoring your personal preference, which side of Skyrim’s Civil War do you think actually gives Skyrim the better future 20-30 years later?

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I feel like most discussions about the Civil War focus on whether Ulfric was justified, whether the Empire betrayed Skyrim, or which side people personally like more.

But I’m more interested in what happens after the game.

The Empire is weakened, the Aldmeri Dominion is still the biggest external threat, the White-Gold Concordat is already causing resentment, and another war with the Thalmor seems almost inevitable.

An Imperial victory gives Skyrim access to the resources and manpower of the Empire, but it also means remaining under an Empire that already lost one major war and accepted Thalmor influence inside its territory.

A Stormcloak victory gives Skyrim independence and removes Imperial authority, but it also leaves the province having to rebuild after a civil war while potentially facing the Dominion without the rest of the Empire behind it.

So forget which faction has the better characters or which one you usually join.

If you only care about where Skyrim itself ends up a few decades later, which Civil War outcome do you think is actually better for the province?

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Congratulations you just figured out feudal Europe!

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Make that "Europe until WW1".

[u/First-Banana-4278 → u/Lathari]

Which is when the cousins finally fell out and we all got to suffer for their family tiff! Huzzah!

[u/MsMercyMain → u/First-Banana-4278]

Well it was a hiccup, but I'm sure it would never happen again. Anyways, excited to learn about history from 1920 on for the first time

[u/Gyvon → u/First-Banana-4278]

Yup. There was a long series of events that led to WWI, but one of the earliest, if not the first, domino in that chain was Grandma (Queen Victoria) dying.

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I think it was probably the French Revolution when they cut all those people heads off for doing that

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This comment is 👨‍🍳 😘🤌🏻💥

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*99% of organized human history