>>530570157
Makes sense it's just behtesda being lazy, but it still should have been nords as the imperial soldiers since as you said they recruit locally. Just makes it seem like a shit ton of imperials were already living in Skyrim.
>>530570298
I'll be honest, it's been years since I did the vanilla intro, and I never bothered to actually look at the generic soldiers stationed at Helgen since they all die before you get a good look at them. Atleast they put some effort into the intro.