User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-173.49.68.39-20140718165316/@comment-173.49.68.39-20140719154212

FINALLY!!!, Thanks you, Zippertrain, someone who knows what they are talking about. First off, although I am an avid Legion supporter, I do believe the Stormcloaks cause and I did play through the Stormcloak questline on my first playthrough and then joined the Legion on my 2nd playthrough, it was funny how I joined the Legion I know I'm getting very off-topic so i'll make this quick. I was going to join the Stormcloaks on my 2nd playthrough but I decided to ambush and attack all the Stormcloak camps I could find so I told myself I should join the Legion and ended up liking them better, but getting back to your arguments, I agree with almost all your points and I will give my 2 cents on most of them.

1. You are right, they are not racist, they are NATIONALIST in the sense that they want to protect their home country and, hey, that's fine with me. What I'm trying to say is that they're basically patriots and they want to secede from the Empire and the thing with the Gray Quarter is at least they get a home and aren't thrown out into the streets and where the Argonians live, I heard that in-game, they can leave whenever they want and they aren't even run by Ulfric, they're run by Torbjorn Shatter-Shield, so Ulfric isn't the one whose making them live there.

3. From what I hear, he used the Thu'um to knock down Torygg and killed him with a sword, so he actually killed him with a weapon instead of his voice.

4. I think whichever side wins the Skyrim Civil War has a good chance of defeating the Thalmor, but when it comes to the Stormcloaks I always hear people saying "Oh, the Stormcloaks don't stand a chance against the Thalmor" Umm they actually do stand a chance. I feel like the Stormcloaks have a chance against the Thalmor, I will give the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario.

Best-Case Scenario- Stormcloaks drive out the Legion in a quick war, Hammerfell and a few other nations ally with the Stormcloaks to drive the Thalmor out of Skyrim and they try to make a new Empire.(I couldn't think of anything other than that.)

Worst-Case Scenario- The Skyrim Civil War is long and bloody and depletes the resources of Skyrim, Stormcloaks end up winning but lose most of their army, Thalmor attack the weakened and bloodied Stormcloaks whose resources, populace, and army are depleted from the long war and the Thalmor step in and take over Skyrim, thus using Skyrim as a staging are for an attack on Cyrodiil. So basically, the Stormcloaks have a fighting chance against the Thalmor, they just have to end the war quickly to get enough time to fight them.

5. I agree with you because if he was an asset, the Thalmor would probably end up having secret meetings with Ulfric to discuss how to screw up Skyrim, so he's not an asset to the Thalmor but he did start a war in Skyrim, which is what the Thalmor wanted, so it's a coin toss about Ulfric helping the Thalmor.

6. Yes. It is PURE IMPERIAL PROPOGANDA and this is coming from an Imperial Legion supporter.

7. I totally forget what he says to your character when you meet him in Sovngarde, so I'll just go with what Zippertrain says unless I find a video of him in Sovngarde. Overall, Zippertrain, I thank you for making this and for clearing up many of the dumbest points that I have heard against the Stormcloaks. Again, although I support the Imperial 4th Legion in Skyrim with the utmost confidence, I do agree with the Stormcloaks cause and whichever side Bethesda picks to win the Civil War, I will end up making a new character in Skyrim just to play that side.