Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24587225-20150902024621/@comment-188.27.20.75-20160907213321

If Ulfric is a Thalmor agent, he would more likely aid the Thalmor. By the way Ulfric actually didn't even try to get independence for Skyrim. Speaking to the court wizard in Solitude reveals that  Ulfric challanged Torryg and didn't even try to convince him to declare  independence from the rest of the Empire. It is also very likely that Torryg would have declared independence which would have avoided a bloody civil war wher . e the only winners are the Thalmor. This can be seen very easily that the "peace" between the Thalmor and the Empire is so fragile that the Thalmor are most likely waiting for the half-destroyed Empire to weaken itself with internal affairs which are most likely to happen in other provinces as well 'cause the White-Gold Concordat couldn't ban nothing but the worship of Talos. When the Empire is but a shell of itself weakened by its own people the Aldemeri Dominion could destroy it fast without lots of casualities and prevent it from rising ever again. If Ulfric saw this(and he would've been an idiot if he hadn't) he would've tried to avoid any conflict whatsoever to build an army strong enough to be a match against the Thalmor in upcoming war. He most likely had an agreement with the Thalmor(perhaps they even offerd him a position as the High King of Skyrim). I don't know what was he thinking otherwise because he most likely ensured that Skyrim won't be ready for a full-scale invasion against the Dominion... The other thing is that before he started to speak openly about the ban of worshiping Talos the Thalmor didn't realy care and most people still could worship him, as Alvor(the blacksmith of Riverwood) said: " ''We didn't pay much attention to it when I was a boy - everyone still had their little shrine to Talos. But then Ulfric and his "Sons of Skyrim" started agitating about it, and sure enough the Emperor had to crack down."   ''

