User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-6044976-20131228125415/@comment-9062114-20140106000842

1: In-game dialogue explains this. From both Ulfric & Sybille Stentor.

2: Why did you bring it up then?

3: Based off of Dialogue from Erikur and the Chef from the Blue Palace it seems that Elisif is just a figurehead and Tullius is the true power in Skyrim. So it seems if Elisif gets into power, Tullius will.

I never denied that Ulfric wanted to be High King, I denied that he just  wanted to be High King.