Skyrim Player Shares Interesting Theory About Jarl Elisif
While the Civil War in Skyrim may not be the game's primary plot, it is deeply connected to the main quests in a way the other major storylines aren't. More importantly, it provides the political and social backdrop of the Nord province of Tamriel, as well as offers players a chance to resolve and evolve it in a way that befits their character or the story they want to tell. Jarl Elisif is one of its major players, and while at first glance she appears to be a player of circumstance and little more than a figurehead, there is more to her than meets the eye.
At the start of the game, Jarl Elisif is the widow of the slain King Torygg – who had left no heirs in his wake. She is the appointed Jarl of Haafingar and the ruler of Solitude, though she leaves most of the administration in the hands of steward, Falk Firebeard. She is an important ally of the Empire in Skyrim, and yet many Nord traditionalists worry that her influence is minor and that she is nothing more than an Imperial puppet. A young and inexperienced political player would be anyone's initial assessment of Elisif the Fair, but her inexperience may serve to belie Elisif's natural cunning and cleverness.
Skyrim Player Creates Political Map of Tamriel
Such is the claim of FreshwaterOctopus on Reddit, and the theory he has put forward regarding Elisif's political savvy matches with the events of Skyrim in a surprisingly plausible way. The public opinion of Elisif is that she's a young woman too dependent on the Empire, with no real power on her own. The theory introduces the idea that Elisif uses this opinion to her benefit, playing the role of an inexperienced and absent-minded monarch while orchestrating events from this unassuming position to get the outcome that
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