Did the Nords really have an empire as powerful as they are said to have had?
Honestly, I like the Nordic Empire, but when I think about it in general (at least as far as I remember), the Nordic Empire doesn’t seem to have been all that powerful. What I mean is, the conquest of Skyrim took several centuries, and their conquests in Morrowind happened back when the Dunmer were still living in tents. High Rock, for its part, didn’t even have a unified kingdom. And then there’s the Battle of Red Mountain. I don’t think I need to explain how badly that battle went. They lost the war during what was supposedly their prime.