Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27007772-20140611204941/@comment-26356342-20150609061430

Ottoman Hold wrote: Precisely. I agree completely. The game wants you to believe one side, and expects you to run with it. You are forced to think that The Empire wants you dead and they are completely evil, which is what many people who first joined the thread were like. Luckily, many of them have at least found reasons to support their ideas. The truth is simple: The Almeri Dominion is the true enemy, unless you are routing for them. It's weird... we've always started as prisoners of the Empire, yet this is the first time people seemed to take issue with it. I never saw it as the game was setting me up to like the stormcloaks more... The Horse thief really "sells it" when it comes to conveying you're both at the wrong place at the wrong time. He knows that since they caught Ulfric, leader of the rebellion, they're going to kill us all regardless. A lot of people forget it is an Imperial standing up to a superior officer on your behalf stating that you are not on the list to die, it's the Imperial Captain that dismisses it. It's also that same Imperial soldier who could end up saving your life, and giving you a new start by the end of it.