User blog comment:Ulfric nord/the stormcloak rebilion/@comment-7371906-20130322220221

I sided with the Stormcloacks because the Empire is failing horribly because in the span of two hundred years they did nothing in the 4th era 4 to 6 years in when the red mountain erupted did they help the Dunmer survivors rebuild their home did they send aid to the Dunmer when they were invaded by the Argonians or helped them relocate the survivors of the Red Year to other parts of the Empire and help rebuild Morrowind  after their war, no they did not. let the refuges wander to Skyrim to ask their ancient enemies for help and surprisingly even the "simple-minded conservative racist Nords" who had wars with Morrowind over the course of their history did more to help than the apparent "Equalistic Utopian Empire" and apparently their high king allowed them to have Solstheim as their new homeland or at least somewhere to house their refuges and in 4th era 22 when they finally had an Emperor Titus Mede I the man who gathered a thousand men to attack the Imperial city and succeeded and became emperor did he use his new found power to reunite the continent under the Empire, did he send aid to the Dunmer refuges to ensure that the ties of Morrowind have not been severed ensuring a ailed force in-case of any conflict in the future, did he see the assassination of chancellor Ocato who ruled before him as a warning of a future threat to his empire or did he at least noticed that the loss of contact with Summerset Isle and the rulers were overthrown no for the time he spent as a Emperor he did nothing except for the events of the Infernal city but that's it.

One hundred and fourth nine years later after losing contact from them over seventy years when the Thalmor from Summerset Isle now named Alinor sent a Ultimatum stating that they relinquish the southern portion of Hammerfell to the second Aldmeri Dominion and abolish the worship of the ninth divine Tiber Septim or Talos the man conquered all of tamriel so when the descendant of Titus Mede II rejected this Ultimatum did he ready his troops to defend the borders of Cyrodill and Hammerfell or to post troops around the borders of Thalmor controlled land or have scouts sent to thalmor controlled and to survey for approaching or garrisoned armies no he did nothing apparently he thought that the Thalmor's actions over the years probably meant nothing and the ultimatum with very foreboding demands that was sent to him couldn't possibly mean that they wouldn't respond aggressively right well considering that a force that was only meant to conquer the southern part of Hammerfell which succeeded in doing so was able to take the Imperial city and the Entirety of Cyrodiil and after the Battle of the Red Ring where the Empires forces was finally able to reclaim their capital their "Ever Vigilant Emperor" decided to just strike up a treaty and basically agreed to everything that was stated in the Ultimatum in the first place spiting at all the graves of those who fallen and those who fought in the great war making their actions and deaths amount to nothing he didn't even try negotiate different terms he didn't even offer other lands other than southern Hammerfell to prevent them from obviously defecting from having their land seceded after they fought hard to prevent this event in the first place and couldn't he decrease the penalty of Talos worship to imprisonment form basically being witch hunted by the elven equivalency of the Spanish inquisition the Thalmor to be tortured an executed well apparently he didn't.