Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-99.196.223.179-20150512170717

Regarding the civil war. I'm pretty sure Bethesda favored players to join the stormcloaks. After having played both sides multiple times. It feels like more effort was put into a stormcloak sided storyline.

When escaping helgen. It feels more immersive and interactive when escaping with Rolof and makes more sense fighting through imperials trying to escape an imperial controlled stronghold, Also there weren't even that many stormloaks who were initially captured especially since three stormcloaks die before you're even untied.

Also when you deliver the news to balgruuf his reasoning for believing who sent you (either alvor or gerdur) makes more sense with gerdur who's the "pillar of the community" for riverwood, compared to "oh the blacksmith". Theres plenty more exapmles throughout the campaigns on both ends but I would end up writing a book.

If anything, they could do something similar to what they did with TES: Arena. Where some sort of twilight sepulcher happened when the dragonborn entered sovngaurd to kill Alduin