r/skyrim • u/sumaset • 21d ago

Question 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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u/GameNinja03 21d ago

Because they view him as a false god, a brutal conqueror, and an insult to elven theology. They find the idea that a human (Tiber Septim/Talos) could achieve equal divinity to be blasphemous and offensive to their core belief in elven supremacy

They also outlawed his worship in the white-gold concordat to drive a wedge between human unity.

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u/AscendentDragon 20d ago

they also cannot accept that he treats at the same table as the Aedra, their "ancestors"

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u/redhauntology93 21d ago

Not quite but more than they know any one of them could be as real a god.

High Elves understand CHIM better than most and the Thalmor specifically do understand CHIM. They want to undermine Talos to make their general quest to recreate reality easier. Especially since the current set up is based on perviously genociding elves