Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150127181142/@comment-17114085-20150129224913

Lab Coat Billy wrote: (I didn't quite catch the name of the village between Blacklight and Silgrad, so I decided to not bother.)

In return for their pledging alleigance to the People's Empire, Empress Sysene begins sending resources to Cormar View in return for the exchange of resources back to Blacklight. In return for goods like iron and corundum, food and guards are sent to the small village in order to protect and feed it.

Only a few days later, another courier arrives and urges Silgrad to reconsider, using the military expansion of the nearby Jarldom of Eastmarch into Winterhold as an example of what might happen to them without the protection of the People's Empire. They also use the example of Cormar View, which (despite it's initial hesitance to join) is more secure and it's people are kept better fed than they had been on their own, when they'd been forced to create a militia and farm what they could from their poor soil. (Cormar View already has 300 soldiers to protect itself.)

Silgrad Tower ignores the Empress, claiming that the happenings of Skyrim don't interest them.