User blog comment:Longdead97/Ulfric's war effort & gaining support. Smart move or no?/@comment-5558140-20130324032553/@comment-7371906-20130327195354

'''"who practically worshipped him and would have seceeded Skyrim had Ulfric simply asked" ''' Because he still had ties with the empire and also I honestly don't think Ulfric had any known relationship with Torigg during the time because during the time before they took the Imperial City he was captured by the Thalmor to extract information during this time when he was released he thought that the information that he gave under pressure during the interrogations was the cause of the loss of the Empire coupled with the signing of the Golden-White concordat came after the war he was contacted by Igmund to seek help from Ulfric in ousting the Reachmen invaders. He promised Ulfric that if he re-took the Reach, then Igmund as Jarl would allow free worship of Talos. Ulfric agreed and marched his militia to the gates of Markarth and retook the city and then he was submitted to the Aldmeri dominion or Thalmor for imprisonment which gave him a bitter resentment towards the Empire after being forced to deliver his eulogy thru a letter that he had smuggled out of prison wanting to to change the political outlook of Skyrim and seeing as Torigg took the payment that the Thalmor gave to each of the Jarls as constellation for agreeing with the concordat he saw him unfit to be High king so he challenged him in a traditional Nordic duel which he could have denied and then ask why and explain his alliances but didn't and lost the Empire with the lack of knowledge of Nordic culture seeing their vassal was dethroned and killed saw this as murder and branded Ulfric a murderer so he killed him not at all for power but because he wanted to change things in skyrim and end the turmoil that the Empire does nothing about coupled with all the traumatic events that occurred to him in the period of time he was released it was for personal reasons not power.

Considering Ulfric by the end of the Stormcloak civil war quest line said that he would allow the moot to decide who should be high king even it this would just be a waste of time regardless he still allowed the moot regardless of the fact that there was nobody their to stop him so yeah he doesn't seam to talk about becoming high king a lot either actually he hasn't talked about being high king thru out the entire Civil war quest line only once he mentions it and the player is the one who asks it really the only one who does mention it is Galmar Stone-Fist is second in command who pressures him into becoming High king Ulfric doesn't really care about being high king all that much he cares about is a Independent Skyrim not dictated by the Empire and no puppet high kings as their vassals either to stop the Thalmor continuing to kill their people and for the Empire to stop dragging them down with them and well that's mainly it.