User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-5280592-20120730061537/@comment-5135631-20120730155225

No, it's just a lot of the stuff is just stupid. Of course Ulfric is smart enough to worship Talos in private, he just doesn't want to because unlike the Empire he actually has a sense of honour and knows how to stick up for himself.

Ulfric is a great military leader, certaintly an experienced one, sure he got captured but you can't expect him to win every battle.

Elisif/Tullius both ask you to get the same crown and they never wear it either which completely invalidates that point. The crown does mean something, a King needs a crown and the jagged crown represents Skyrim before it was forced by it's tyrannical empire to surrender to Elves.

Balgruuf explains the axe is an offer of alliance or threat, depending on what the recipient does with it.

Tullius does order your execution because it was his idea to have the prisoners rounded up and executed, the Captain goes along with it.

OP needs to be more sure of his/her facts.