During the Mages Guild quest "Investigation at Fort Windmoth", the player is supposed to bring up the matter of Francine's arrest with Arvs Rethrari (through the dialogue topic "got arrested"). He then responds with forcing the player to pay her bounty of 5000 gold, simply because the player is sent by the Mages Guild to investigate the matter, and then refuses to explain what the arrest is all about. Fine, he is rude and corrupt, but he acts like this even if the player has a superior rank in the Imperial Legion (even against the Knight of the Imperial Dragon!). It is completely irreasonable both that he is not more humble against his superior, and that the player cannot use their rank to force the information out of him (for instance by threatening to remove him from his position). I know that most quests are written to be independent of the progress in other factions, but in some cases it would not make sense to not take it into account. This is definitely such a case.