[quote=@Parzivol]
I'm hooked. I expect good things from this. 

Question though: When you say ALL hist trees, do you mean ALL hist trees? Did the hist trees not have some populations moved into the impassable zones of the Black Marsh? Or did the Imperials surpass the impassability of those Black Marsh regions?
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I had to really think about that and I later decided [i][/i]some (maybe three) would be more reasonable. I'll do a rewrite, but basically they got to the edge of the Argonians swamplands, got sick of being slaughtered relentlessly by the same race that invaded oblivion, and instead used magic and the sheer might of dragons. The fact their forces could fly helped quite a bit, that and without any dragonborn souls, the dragons were able to keep coming back to try again, and again, and again. To the Argonians credit, they managed to submerge some of the dead dragon bones in the swamps, making them hard to find/revive. Some of the Hist trees were just burned down. So, the Hist population is already lower than normal and some of the Black Marsh's forest has been burned to the ground, mostly near the border of Blackwood.

Of course, the hostage situation hasn't entirely worked out. The Argonians are only pacified into underground resistance.