User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-200.152.225.183-20120629172012/@comment-1840877-20120629201922

"Yet he was captured, beaten and sent to the block without even a fair trial. His name wasn't even on the list."

You can't blame the entire Legion for the fact that the captain who ordered your execution was such a bitch. Personally, I hope she burned to death with the rest of the Helgen victims, but I have the utmost respect for the rest of the Legion.

"Is he escaping Helgen with the one who sent him to the block or with the one who helped him once Alduin attacked?"

Again, it was the captain who sent you to the block, not Hadvar. Hadvar clearly wasn't happy about you nearly being executed -- he even admits that it "wasn't the best introduction to the Legion". Maybe your Nord bore a grudge about it, but my Argonian accepted that it was just a mistake.

"Are the Stormcloaks perfect? Hell no. But in a conflit, nobody is perfect."

Agreed, but one side may still be better than the other, and in my mind, that's the Imperials. One look at the Gray Quarter and Argonian Assemblage in Windhelm and one read of "The Bear of Markarth" was enough to convince me of that.

"...if he is able to counterbalance the xenophobic pattern of the stormcloaks"

Good luck with that. Ulfric is way too set in his ways to change his "Nords are the best" mindset. Sure, he'd probably listen to the Dovahkiin (and the fact that you're a Nord can only help), but I feel that in the end, Ulfric will ultimately look out for Ulfric.