User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-166.82.242.97-20130507214604/@comment-166.82.242.97-20130508004343

Answer me this, how the hell would you expect Toryyg to defend against the Thu'um? It is basically a blast of unrelenting force that he could not stop, it's a skill, sure, but so is sniping effectively, and we don't exactly see that as a fair fight. Also, going by Toryyg's dialogue, he didn't expect to be blown away by it. Look at it this way, if someone challenged you to a duel, and you said yes, expecting a fight on even ground and you're given a knife while your "friend" has access to the Thu'um and a sword, you probably wouldn't like the situation would you? I admitted Booth and Ulfric were using different methods but at its core it's the same, they both used an unfair weapon that they're opponent had no defense against nor were expecting. You argue that using the Thu'um is a skill and therefore somehow different than a frikking flashback grenade, but they are used in roughly the same way so I'm counting them as such.

I'll just go ahead and say I'm the kind of guy that looks at "brave" people as dumb meatheads and cowards as someone with a self-preservation instinct and having some brains. Obviously Ulfric isn't a god or invincible, but the fact that he got captured so easily says his general skills as a leader are questionable.