you got fucking kings, Torygg, Helseth, living gods of the Tribunal… under an “Emperor”? who puts some garrisons around but does… what exactly?
theres an “East Empire Trading Company”? whats that do?
it kinda seems like a holy roman empire, kinda seems like a regular roman empire. they’ve got knights, dukes, but a Legion…
yes i know the answer is technically “these jackoffs just made it up as they went” and don’t care a lick about political theory but this is exactly the kind of excercise that makes fun speculative historiography
Skyrim only joined the Septims, the other iterations it was conquered.
also this is a humans-indigenous-to-tamriel thread so dont bring that Septim propaganda in here abt atmorans bringing in all the men.
Drewmora recently did a lore video on Tiber Septim/Talos where he pointed out that the whole “stormcloak”/Thu’um mythos surrounding him may have been a calculated lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGdNhEVU13E
Broseph is going to get hit with the “Aldmeri Dominion State Media” flair on YouTube.