User blog comment:MonkeydashUnderscore/Imperials Or Stormcloaks?/@comment-166.82.245.89-20120509022154/@comment-119.93.43.60-20120511060311

Rejecting the duel was an option but it depends if your honor to your people is more important than your life and I dont think it would even matter for Torygg since most of the High Kings in skyrim ever since they joined the Empire have been hand selected by the Empire so he would still have the Empire to back him up even if every one thinks that he's a total coward yeah I think it was for the best interest he accepted and I didnt just joined the Stormcloaks because I wanted religious freedom its because the Empire is as of now week, corrupt, and couldn't even make good descisions for there people any more they may have equal rights for all races but their leadership skills is horrible ever since the Mede dynasty took power and even if you won Skyrim back and united it It only means you get more of the same there would still be Forsworn (they never really did anything about that in the first place), the Dunmer in Windhelm could of just confirmed to their ways and support the war to earn their respect from the Nords like how all respect is earned or if they hated it so much they could just all move south or further west to the Empire where the Elves are treated better and even if Brunwulf Free-Winter is Jarl and the Dark Elves are no longer taxed unfairly does it mean the Dunmer would be treated any better by the general public if they apparently made no effort to support skyrim in anyway since they got there which was well Red Mountain erupted in 4E 5-6 era and the refugies came between that and its 4E 201 so  maybe a century and a few decades lots of time to establish good relation but nothing really happened between and them they have to make an effort to get the Nords trust they cant just complain about it and wait till relations magicaly get better and why isn't the Empire doing anything about the refugies I dont see alot of Dunmer Refugies in their cities 'the next High King or High queen would probably just be hand selected again or is already in power and is living in the Blue Palace, the fact that they just legalized the Elven equvalent of the spanish inqusition in everyway whithout opposition doesn't help, I hope there would be new Emperor that would accualy be compitent and credible and I really dont want to fight the Thalmor if there actualy going to invade which is unlikely due to the geographical location of skyrim and their nature suggests a more subtle type of warfare, with a bunch of mooks that never use shields wearing leather skirts, vests (which sometimes have a little chain mail), and boots which would make wandering thru a cold hazardous climate which is half of skyrim very difficult and offers very little protection all around even if they have Steel armor in disposal to bad its only for officers (even if this is what Roman Centurion and Imperial soldiers should look like) at least what the Stormcloaks are wearing makes sense even if it looks sort of bad but thats only due to them being a millitia force before the rebellion at least it offers some protection and practicality (except the guards helmet which looks like its hard to see with which they love wear often) from the cold I know that the cold does nothing to npc's but they just look odd and not very well protected wearing their armor and their stats in combat are not very good their archerers are the only thing that actually deals damage but up close their range advantage disappears unless im fighting 50 vs 20 were only a forth of the soldiers would survive and their way with dealing with war criminals is questionable.