User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-173.189.226.24-20130915092257/@comment-173.189.226.24-20130915165853

I've thought about it, and it doesn't make sense, but with testimonies from people like Alvor(I'm aware his nephew is a member of the Imperial Legion, but he seems to honestly call stuff as he sees it) and others, while nobody I've met on either side flat out says something like "The Thalmor have been stopping Talos worship ever since the White-Gold Concordant was signed". And there's the fact that the Thalmor just happen to put pressure on the Empire when they allow Ulfric the right to publicly worship, like the circumstances around 9/11, I just find it all rather fishy, I don't think Ulfric is best buds with the Thalmor, but with all the stuff he's done that happens benefit them, or further their interests. I find it questionable.

Yeah, but have you seen the way they're treated in Markarth and the Reach in general? Considering crap like that has been going on for THOUSANDS of years, that was all started by the Nordic people I might add. Ask yourself, is the fact they were opportunistic and took over while killing the Nords that oppressed them for so long not understandable? Also, do you think Bethesda would program the game just so that only Nords would be attacked by Reachmen? I don't really care either way, I'm aware that Reachman culture is violent, but have you looked at the Nords recently? Their whole concept of afterlife and getting to it is based around dying while fighting, we only have one example of something similar in real life to my knowledge and we all know how that has turned out. Also, they don't worship Hagravens, they revere them as matronly figures and look to them for guidance, I don't understand it, but where do you have the right to judge a people based on their cultural practices that isn't necessarily violent? Considering you have a self-blessing for a god who's existence is questionable at best.