User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-6044976-20131228125415/@comment-24355185-20140106202204

Ulfric wants to be High King. But not because he's a power hungry dick, it's because he, as king, has the power to do what the people want, what he believes is right. He isn't doing it for the personal benefits, he's doing it for his people.

He didn't 'murder' Torygg. Toryyg agreed to a duel and everything was nice and legal, but when he won, and the Imperials realised that this was a threat to their rule in Skyrim they branded him a murderer and a traitor.