User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-4692902-20121102005428/@comment-5215868-20121102202934

I sided with the Stormcloaks, even though I knew that:

1. Ulfric is power hungry man. So much as to kill Torygg, when Torygg was planning to declare independence, and declare himself High King. (If Torygg was given the chance to declare independence, Skyrim would not have been torn in half.)

2. It was going to seperate Skyrim from the rest of Tamriel, leaving it to keep itself from the Empire, the impending Thalmor attack, cut off trade, make people hate me, and just wreak havoc.

3. It would make me a target.

You know what made me laugh? Right before I killed Tulius, he said something that summed up to about: "The Thalmor are the real problem here!" and I just said:

"That's why I joined the Stormcloaks, so they would have no presence here, where I am." I don't like to be told what to do! :D

Funny thing though, if I could take the fight to them, they wouldn't stand up against the Dragonborn.