User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Why the Empire should prevail over the Stormcloaks!/@comment-70.29.153.219-20131226231059

People dont like Ulfric because he is the leader of the stromcloak rebellion, who belive skyrim should be free of imperial rule and free itself from the empire. Ulfric used to study with the greybeards where he learned to shout (like the dragonborn and greybeards) but couldnt stand being away from the war, so he left the greys and went and joined the imperial legion to fight against the aldemri dominion. skipping ahead a bit to the great war,( where ulfric was captured and tortued for information by the aldmeri then lead to belive the information the extracted led to the sacking of the white gold tower in cyrodill) The Redguards, outraged at the Empire paying for the treaty with their hard-won lands, began their own separate war with the Aldmeri. This resulted in the Empire renouncing Hammerfell as an Imperial province and, in effect, abandoning the Redguards (pissing off ulfric and leaving him feeling abandoned, rightly so). Through the resilience and might that has become expected from them, the Redguards fought back and defeated the Aldmeri, but relations between Hammerfell and Cyrodil have become bitter as a result.Secondly, the worship of Talos was outlawed (as told by the guy standing in front of the statue in whiterun who preaches all day and doesnt care), and the Nine Divines became the Eight Divines once more. Many Nords saw this as an affront, particularly Ulfric Stormcloak; some continued to worship Talos in secret, and the anger over the White-Gold Concordat is one of the driving forces behind the current civil war in Skyrim. The White-Gold Concordat was signed in 4E 175, consequently ending the Great War. The war lasted for 4 years. During the Great War, the Thalmor claimed the Imperial City, forgetting the other provinces. The Nords lost possession of the Reach to the Breton Forsworn. Ulfric and his men liberated the area, with the aid of the Thu'um. Some believed him a hero, while others labeled him an opportunist. As a result of the battle, known as "The Markarth Incident", Ulfric stationed a Nordic Militia in the area to aid in keeping the Forsworn that had retreated from retaking the city. The Jarl Ulfric, in return, promised to see the worship of Talos restored to the Hold. Hearing of the battles in Markarth, the Thalmor returned to the area and threatened to wage war on The Reach; the Jarl relented in favor of avoiding bloodshed.His father, the Jarl of Windhelm, known simply as "The Bear", died during his incarceration with the Thalmor. Leaving prison, Ulfric took claim and controlled Windhelm as its Jarl by succession. Nationalistic and wary of foreign influence, Ulfric sequesters the Dunmer population in Windhelm to the Gray Quarter (formerly called the Snow Quarter) and the Argonians to the assemblage off the docks.In 4E 201, after years of brewing resentment for what he believed was betrayal to the Empire, Ulfric now Jarl of Windhelm, challenged High King Torygg (of the imperial empire) to a duel in order to usurp the throne. (where you hear some people saying sometimes he shouted the high king almost to pieces) Ulfric claimed it was a formal duel in the "Old Nord Way", whereas many others in Skyrim, such as General Tullius, believe it was murder. After Torygg's death, Ulfric attempted to flee, but was captured by the Imperial Legion and promptly scheduled to be executed at Helgen. which is where you meet up with him at the beginng of the game where he is about to be put to death for murder. So, in a nutshell, people are pissed at him because they feel he killed the previous high king of the imperial empire, and he wants to overthrow the throne of the empire and end imperial rule ( and is fighting a civil war to do so, and there are lots of people who love the empire and belive in it as you can hear by some of what they say), and he pissed off dunmers and argonians by sequestering them to the gray quarters and assemblage off the docks, because of his paranoia to foreign influence. STORMCLOAK FTW!