User blog comment:Emperor Maximus/On the Civil War/@comment-1738746-20150408002407

Nice but very one-sided, I can tell quickly that you're on the Legion's side. I want this to be a short reply so I'll comment some quick surface details you missed:
 * Ulfric after returning from the war got betrayed by the Empire despite him acting in helping his people
 * You haven't discussed the Nord culture in detail e.g. warriors ARE soldiers, their religion is being overriden and their culture crushed by both Imperials and Elves
 * No neutral discussion of the "racist" comments Nords in Windhelm; if you walk to characters many will comment that the Dunmer themselves gathered in the Snow Quarter because they refused to integrate with the Nord culture, thus forming the Grey Quarter. After that, Non-Dunmer (because a High Elf also comments on this) are too afraid to go through the area, guards included, because they know the Dunmer are engaged in illegal Daedra worship (customary to their culture of course).
 * Ulfric never opened up Windhelm to the Dunmer or Argonians, this happened in 1E by Hoag Merkiller. Despite what "Scourge of the Grey Quarter" says, Ulfric is pretty lenient in terms of who lives in Windhelm- there are Imperials, Nords, High Elves and even a Dark Elf who doesn't live in the Grey Quarter and owns a farm which employs an elderly Nord woman.
 * "Firstly, he was good friend with King Torygg, and if he had asked him it is likely that Torygg would have joined him to overthrow the Empire." VERY wrong; they did speak and Torygg refused to fight for Skyrim, which is exactly why (among other reasons) Ulfric started all this
 * If you listen more to Ulfric, you'll find he's rather humble and not doing this for power; he will comment that he still has doubts every now and again and hopes that all he does makes his father and Talos proud. He's often seeking the council of Galmar and Jorleif rather than making decisions alone.
 * Again people with the fricken murder/kill point. This is because of a lack of understanding of the Nord culture again. You have to remember that these people live to fight; if you die outside of battle, it's not a good death. They seek to die in battle for that is the highest honour- they fight or die; to surrend is worse than to die, hence the extreme offence when the Empire handed themselves on a silver platter to the Elves. To do so is an extreme offense to all those who died for the battle. For a Nord, it is better to give it your all and lose than to surrender.
 * You completely forget in the "what happens next" that there's a new Dragonborn present. If you read up on past lore regarding other Dragonborns, you can quickly see that this new DB will eventually begin mantling into the past DBs and at this stage, will follow in Talos's footsteps. Win with the Stormcloaks, go to the Empire and defeat the elves and reclaim the throne where a new golden era begins under yet another DB (and Nord!!!)

This was all off the top of my head, and it got a bit long, sorry... But I hope you get my point in that you didn't do the Stormcloaks justice in your discussion! :)