User blog comment:Lord of 23 Dragons/Civil War Opinion/@comment-4129359-20120203232721/@comment-4129359-20120207173317

@Dishwad My Empire? Where my Empire is now is of small consequence, where we are is where we aren't. And we aren't dead on a battlefield whilst the Thalmor take our homes and families, we aren't crying to the gods to protect those whom we could not, we aren't hiding in constant fear that the Thalmor may pass and rip what's left of our lives, we aren't watching our sons die protecting what has already been lost, and our last moments won't be watching our wives and daughters taken by Elves. You speak of honor, yes there is honor, and then there's stupidity. You ask where we are now? We are protecting a land from itself, we are trying to stop men from condemning themselves and their children, we fight today to stop more deaths tomorrow. Yet the Stormcloaks would trade their family, their homes, their lives for their pride. And if they were to win, they would lose, to spend so much men and resources to push out the Empire, would be to open up for a killing blow from the Thalmor. Do the Stormcloaks really believe that they can do what their fathers and a thousand times more couldn't? To defeat the Thalmor? Will their wall withstand the fury of a hundred storms? Will their armor block a flurry of lighting, or their shields the flames? Ulfric's men won't get into sword range, and his archers will die at his feet. To win would mean to doom all of Skyrim, to defeat the Empire would be to defeat hope. You ask me where my Empire is... it's where it needs to be.

Translation: SHADDUP!!