User blog comment:Sgt. S.S./Why I support the Empire/@comment-5399524-20130327210238

I personally don't like  for a number of reasons that I don't feel like going into. The side I choose to join is based on the character i'm playing as. Like my Dark Elf tries to stay out of the war all together while trying not to piss off either side because - as a simple merchant - she sees the situation as this: If the Stormclocks win and she supported the Empire, things are even worse for her than they already are but if she sides with the SC in order to look better to them and they lose than buisness with the Empire would suffer. Plus she feels both sides treat her people like crap.

My Argonian, Wood Elf, and Khajit couldn't care less about Skyrim's problems. Nords and Imperials want to kill each other? Fine, that's their buisness. No matter what happens, there's plenty of valubles to steal and the dead make much easier targets.

My High Elf actually supports the SC because she feels like if they win, the AD would have an even easier time taking over Skyrim.

My Orc and Imperial always side with the Empire for...well pretty obvious reasons

As for my Nord characters, it's different each time. Some of them agree with Ulfric, while others feel that the only way to beat the AD is a united Empire. They're content with worshipping Talos in secret and making any suspicious Thalmor disapear. The woods of Skyrim are dangerous, who's to say a Thalmor patrol wasn't killed by some random bandits or SC soilders?

I just have to mention this one thing though, anyone ever join the Empire after assassinating the Emperor? I broke character and decided to do that, hoping for some slightly altered dialouge but Tulius and the Imperials had no idea the guy was dead, yet all the guards seem to know as well as...that other guy (forget his name). "Long live the Emperor"...Yeah...sure...And shouldn't the SC guards be glad he's dead? They don't seem very pleased.