http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0N294NFy0&feature=feedu
I have to say, I am encouraged by the turn the lore is taking. The characters are in the right place...
I would gladly retire from the world, were such a day to dawn.
Which is why we must ACT!
You don't think this is a war already? Sir, I...
Thank you legate. In the future I'll let you know when your opinion is needed.
But what are we supposed to DO?
Skyrim needs the empire as much as it needs us.
"Because there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." -LotR
Even if we ourselves may not survive...
I fight for my people, impoverished to pay the debts of an empire to weak to rule them, yet brands them criminals for wanting to rule themselves.
Awesome line! So, HOW would our rule do more to solve these problems? What is our list of grievances, our specific plan of action? Where are our priorities?
HOW were they too weak? To fall into the trappings of greed? Or is it because with all that we have spent, we are still unable to protect our people, from the real threat of our time... that being, DRAGONS!

Perhaps for our own survival, or the survival of our kind, of humanity, or a better future, and the experience of WHAT survives determining that, when all that is past
inevitably fades. Whether the future will be heaven or hell, based on the sort of people left in it, who we manage to save, and the things others are willing to do to get what they want, even if it lowers us all, and more are lost who could have improved us, and why we are so desperate...
Because we are dying as much as any empire... But is that how we would be remembered?
Have we ceased to even care? What becomes of
US? Because we ourselves may die?
Khajiit has wares, if you have coin.
Stem cells? Molecular manufacturing? Yeah, we got that.
So, what can i do for you today?
If you earn it from someone else. Along with bread, water, and oxygen.
I have work if you have the backbone.
Sound like you can handle it?
Some jobs are better than others! Respect!

No doubt, the appearance of a Dragonborn at this time is not an accident. Your destiny is surely bound up with the return of the dragons. If you are Dragonborn, then... there is hope after all!
"That happened. We're here."