User blog comment:Some Argonian Named Kesch/Stormcloak Rebellion: Is Anyone Really Right?/@comment-5700881-20131111004831

I will correct you on the duel, Torygg consented to the duel, but knowing how the meathead Nords look at honor and crap, I don't think he had much of a choice, if he refused he likely would have been looked at as a false Nord or something equally idiotic, compromising his honor, and Ulfric could have called another moot. Not to mention Ulfric could have tried diplomacy first, but you know how Nords are, fight first ask questions probably not. Then there's the issue about Ulfric using the Voice, I just look at that and say there's no way a fight with him using that against someone who had no way to defend against it is fair, plus the guy who said it was was a dick while he was living. So I will take anything he says with mountainous piles of salt. As to whether Ulfric's doing this whole thing out of self-interest, it's more of an opinion than anything else, since we can't peek into his head and see his true motives, it's an opinion I share, and one I think is not without some merit, but it's still an opinion. And even if he is doing this out the kindness of his heart, he still 1. Caused too much damage doing something that he could have at least tried to prevent, not to mention the Stormcloaks use siege weapons on populated cities, Pelagia dies, and the replacement Jarl has the gall to act like the damage THEY caused isn't their fault, I'm aware the Empire uses the same weapons, but the Stormcloaks are supposed to have the moral high ground, but their and Ulfric's actions show otherwise, like how I feel about Obama, "I (mostly) don't care what he thinks, I care what he does". And 2. He started this over religion, what Andrew Ryan rightfully calls a "tribal fetish", when's the last time war over an ideology like religion tured out to be a good thing? That's right, there isn't a time when it turned out okay, it's stupid and no good can come of it, especially when it's over a god who doesn't do crap, and who's only note worthy achievement is creating an Empire that never did anything, the remains of which Ulfric is fighting.