Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5262726-20150722204556/@comment-24696651-20150722235847

(Ah, OK then. Will I be able to raise an army of Whiterun citizens soon?)

Accept the non-agression pact from the Empire.

Use Halted Streams Mine to provide cheap iron for the apprentices. Advise them to make simple things, like farn equipment, before more complicated weapons.

Keep a small garrison at the new mine, return most soldiers to Whiterun, and use a few soldiers as muscle to create farms, using the White River as irrigation.

Point out to the Companions that the Stormcloaks want to steal Wuuthrad, using this to try and secure there help in a war against them.

Try and persuade Isran to expand the role of the Dawnguard to be anti-Daedra as well as anti-vampire, whilst covertly trying to spread Daedra worship in the dark elves of Windhelm and Riften. Make sure this is done any delegating the work, so no known workers of Ragarr (or even the man himself) hires the missionaries, making it difficult to trace back.

Set up a few corrals in the plains of Whiterun, and buy a few war horses for breeding.