User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-5709731-20121215135055/@comment-5709731-20121216074736

Well, I just feel like they blame the Empire for the Thalmor's victory. Ulfric Stormcloak was in the battle himself, he seems like he is too much of a sore loser. The logic of the Stormcloaks on this matter is: "We lost the battle. The elves were so great in warfare, that they actually managed to break in to the freaking emperor, and give him an ultimatum. The emperor should have let himself get killed and we should have fought on till every last one of us died, and the elves would win anyway, and ban the talos worship." HOW can you possibly blame the empire? As for the sinking ship thing, I'll use another metaphor: The aldmeri Dominion has a giant of a ship. And now, half of the crew (The Stormcloaks) is fleeing the ship of mankind, who is already badly damaged. Now, the Empire's ship is undermanned, and can never defeat the elves. And the Stormcloaks are escaping in a rowboat, with which they will attempt to not only push the Dominion out of Skyrim, but actually wage war upon them. I know, I know, miracles happen some times, but odds are the Stormcloaks would be defeated and the Dominion retake skyrim.