Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-29461586-20150927002008/@comment-26893431-20151101102842

Psychophant wrote: I really wished there were a way to progress in the storyline without needing to put up with Delphine. She acts so snide and self-assured that I'd have been much happier just knocking her out after she hands over the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller and sticking the rest of it out with the greybeards.

I see everyone saying "Empire good :)! Stormcloaks Bad >:(!" But I can't bring myself to agree. Honestly, the Empire and Solitude in general just present such a horrid first impression: ("I said, NEXT. PRISONER." "You Nords and your bloody sense of honor..." "My scrying suggests nothing suspicious in the area." "Let's just say we all have confidence in General Tullius' leadership." "Oh, a pair of drunken imperials who thought they were above the law.") I can't bring myself to support the Empire in Skyrim. They feel too... soulless. Oh right, because the Stormcloaks are such angels? Racism in Windhelm, Alduin's return, cause of Thalmor being in Skyrim, cause of you being sent to the chopping block, cause of families torn apart, cause of a loss of men for the next war, claiming to fight opression while they do the exact same themselves. The Stormcloaks are not the good guys.