If you beat the empire in the game I have noticed not only is the east empire company is still doing trade in solitude. Now to think of it. During curtain quests there are still empire officials in solitude including titu mede's cousin. Is there a proper explanation why?

I don't know, same reason I guess that if you do the Dark Brotherhood quests after the civil war you will still find certain Imperial characters or Imperial sympathizers on some quests in Solitude or nearby Solitude (trying to avoid spoilers here).

Economics>Politics.

Countries and corporations are not the same thing.

there's a poiler button

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because, the games not dynamic in that sense ;p congratulations you know have experienced why some folks say nothing you do matters in the game ;p

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The EEC is not the empire, they're a merchant's guild.

Well I did play the game enough to notice that choices doesn't really matter. (just like oblivion) However they still should of atleast gave a reason why. Sure they may be a merchants guild but the fact that they are called the east empire company may make the stormcloaks think they are associated with the empire and thus ban them from skyrim.

The east empire company isn't actually part of the empire, they are a company that does trade PRIMARILY in imperial ports, but they also go where the profit is at, and even stormcloaks agree there business helps ALL of skyrim.

Pretty much. You can pretend that the stormcloaks get money out of it, I guess.

Because the game world doesn't recognize the completion of the Civil War questline whatsoever.

True, but it's highly unlikely that an Empire affiliated organization would still be tolerated in the borders of Skyrim after such a bloody civil war.

Perhaps we can pretend the EEC is under very strict supervision, since the Stormcloaks need supplies flooding into Skyrim. And while the EEC is not a cell of the Empire, it's undeniably closely affiliated with it.

This. How can you deny the EEC is not affiliated with the empire when it even has the word "empire" in the name. For all we know maybe the empire may use it as some sort of spy network to help retake skyrim? Though that plan svcks.

East Empire Company is directly associated with the Empire itself, so yeah he has a point when he states it kinda turns heads when the Stormcloaks who supposedly hate everything that is the Empire, still allow the EEC to run under the former capital of Skyrim ;p

If the East Empire Company is directly associated with the Empire why all the gossip about Victoria Vicci being the Emperor's cousin? If it was so direct people wouldn'tt be commenting it because it was to be expected. I think that (specially with the fall of the Septim Dynasty) the EEC separated itself from the power-struggling Empire.

Also, there is a East Empire Company in Windhelm itself.

Why does the Emperor visit and act as if nothing's changed after a Stormcloack victory?

PR.

yes there is, and it isn't doing to hot (GET IT?)

Only because of the pirates interfering with business.

It's currently raining here in Southern California. That has about as much effect on the game as anything your character might do.

Why does Heimskr keep preaching after an Imperial victory?

Pretty much this. The Stormcloaks would be pretty stupid to cut all economic ties with the Empire and the other provinces. That would tank their economy and probably ultimately set off another rebellion since starving, impoverished people are generally unhappy people, and see removing the rulers who got them into that situation in the first place as a good solution. See also: what happened to Imperial Russia.

Something tells me the Stormcloaks aren't so dumb as to seize power and then immediately commit economic suicide. The EEC may face a number of restrictions and sanctions, but they'll still be allowed to trade in and with Skyrim.

...For pete's sake, they have a warehouse in Windhelm. I don't think the Stormcloaks are going to toss them out anytime soon.


For the same reason the real life East India Company took the name they did. They were formed to trade primarily in the East Indies, hence the name. (They actually wound up trading mostly in India. Name still works though.)

The EEC, when it started, presumably traded in Imperial ports and provinces (I imagine that's changed somewhat, with the last 200 years or so being one big secession party for a lot of the former Imperial provinces), which is why they picked the name they did. They may well have--or had, during the Septim Empire--some sort of imperial patronage. That's definitely not unheard of in RL history, either. And it would explain how the Emperor's cousin has a top position in the company. Nepotism lives indeed.

However, that doesn't mean they work solely at the service of the Medes, or that they're all Imperial spies. They're still an independent organization, despite the misleading name. They're capitalists first and foremost, and imperalists second at best. I'm sure there are a few Imperial spies within their ranks, but certainly not enough to stage a takeover of a Stormcloak-led Skyrim.

This , leadership stll want excotic goods from the rest of tamriel.

The same reason there was still a Dutch East Indies company after the United Provinces left Ceylon.