User blog comment:IGotsAName/Empire vs Stormcloaks... Gray & Grey Morality? Really?/@comment-4544033-20120406162704/@comment-4020664-20120409131612

Are you familiar with the warp in the west, used to basically remove any chance of continuity errors surrounding the end of Morrowind? Bethesda will find a way to make the choice unimportant in the long term, whichever side you pick. The fact that YOU, the dragonborn are compared with Talos so much (i.e. the training with the greybeards etc.) leads me to believe that either way skyrim will go to war with the aldmeri dominion, with you at the head of AN empire, be it a new one or the old one itself renewed. The end result by the next game will HAVE to be the same, even if this issue is the theme of one or more of the DLCs.

As a summary, I can't help but see that the intention of the whole questline was to make the dragonborn seem bigger than Tullius or Stormcloak - ultimately, when they are leader, (yes, WHEN) you can lead as you see fit.