Its rumored the aldmeri dominion tries to keep the war going. Both sides are mostly made up of nords from Skyrim. The civil war helps keep the empire weak while also pitting a group known to hate elves against each other. Many stormcloaks would glady fight along with imperials if they were spilling high elf blood.
There’s a dossier on Ulfric in the Thalmor Embassy that straight up calls him an asset, though a currently dormant and uncooperative one. It also says that keeping the civil war going is exactly their goal and that him being executed at Helgen would have harmed their position
Its rumored the aldmeri dominion tries to keep the war going. Both sides are mostly made up of nords from Skyrim. The civil war helps keep the empire weak while also pitting a group known to hate elves against each other. Many stormcloaks would glady fight along with imperials if they were spilling high elf blood.
There’s a dossier on Ulfric in the Thalmor Embassy that straight up calls him an asset, though a currently dormant and uncooperative one. It also says that keeping the civil war going is exactly their goal and that him being executed at Helgen would have harmed their position