User blog comment:Zelron/Helgen Hometown (Dragons bring down my property values!)/@comment-16219425-20121130212430/@comment-3492791-20121130235744

As I said in one of the comments below, you'd need land to call yourself a hold. You have Helgen, a single settlement. A meager force of city guards can not compete with the entirety of Falkreath's forces, nor the side of the army that they support. You would be crushed if you tried to conquer the region. Maybe you could defend your single town from attack if you decided to go rouge, but only because your single town is not very important and will not be a priority and the attacks will be small.

Becoming High King would directly conflict with the Civil War questline, as high King/Queen is already determined by that. Also, Skyrim in about murder, not politics. It goes against the very basic nature of the game to gain a political position.

It's just, it's just bad. M'kay?