Damn just had a wild idea: Gerron is building up his home town, once he gets the whole teleportation technology sorted out he could connect his home town to the collage of winterhold and whiterun, then make deals with both and start a magicpunk revolution (industrial revolution but using magic as fuel) and that'd have all kinds of chain reactions im not gunnaa get into but it'd help all 3 town/cities grow and become central points economically, i can see whiterun becoming a security force, winterhold acting as research and magical education whilst gerron's home town being the primary manufacturer and development hub for the advancements, also i see the companions willingly helping becuse if gerron gave them phase blades they'd loose their minds over the weapons. Could also add in both the dawngaurd and vigilants of stendar into the deal which would help against all the cosmic chaos thats happening, so they'd all be neutral parties in the civil war but are waging a war against all deadric influence and the dragons, acting as support for eachother and the dragonborn