Bear in mind that the existence of a Legio VII does not necessarily mean that Legiones I through VI exist: both in actual Roman history and in the Cyrodiilic empires (again pointing at Disaster at Ionith), legions disappear by being annihilated, merged, reorganised, split up etc. I don't think any legions but the VII are mentioned in ESO, although there might be some things in the Reaper's March and Shadowfen storylines that I forgot about. That they are designated legions at all rather than cohorts, in my opinion, probably is due to legal or political privileges that would be unavailable to a lower-ranked commander, such as the right to order capital punishment. For scale, consider that Claudius conquered modern-day England and Wales with four legions, and you can see how a massive army of ten legions at 5000 heads each doesn't really reflect the cash-strapped, casualty-ridden army we see in Skyrim. I like to think those are small, ad-hoc formations tailored to anti-insurgency warfare in Skyrim's inaccessible terrain rather than the (nominally) 4200-5200 men legions of the Roman army (which, in general, is a figure that seems reasonable for the Septim empire's legions, again with an eye to Disaster at Ionith). In Skyrim, there are ten named characters with the rank of Legate if we assume that the Mede empire follows the practises used throughout the Principate (which makes as much sense as any other assumption), each of them including Rikke is in command of a legion, giving us ten legions active just in Skyrim during the 4E 200s. For the Septim Empire, we have Disaster at Ionith, which names several legions (V, VII, IX, X, XIV, XVII), and I'm not aware of any other sources that actually speak of the legions as units rather than part of 'the Legion' as a whole. Spoilers are not against the rules-you have been warned! c) Don’t ask /r/teslore to check the lore of whole stories (e.g.

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