User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-5871119-20121214234640

the empire the nords are too focused on preserving their way of life and dont much care for the other races that make skyrim their home. talos is the only thing that bothers me about joining empire.

skald- old man who basically had issues against the empire and turned without a minutes concern if it was correct. according to many citizens hes not a very good leader.

layla- is a tool, marrionette she thinks shes incharge but maven is really pulling the strings. her advisor is probably working for maven. maven clearly should run it shes just a figurehead. who does nothing.

winterhold jarl- is too focused on the past trying to reclaim glory, still blaiming the college of winterhold.

dengeir- is paranoid as hell about the empire, he doesnt sound like a sound of mind jarl. it probably proves he was asked to step down because he was not fit to be jarl. his nephew is a crappy jarl but his steward does an amazing job doing his job.

thongeir silverblood i thinks- his family are clearly not good people, they kidnapped the forsworn king just so they can use the forsworn in their attempt to conquer all the reach. if he gets made jarl his citizens complain he imposed new taxes. hire forsworn to invade places then send mercineries to offer to get rid of them if they sell the land to them.

vignar- he just became jarl because his family supported the stormcloaks. always saw him as a angry old man.

Ulfric- man is a skyrim for nords person everybody else is treated as crap. he refuses to help the dark elves and doesnt let the argonians live inside the buildings. his followers seem to think that to worship talos you have to do it in sight. looking at legate rikke if you ally with empire she still says talos be with you to ulfric after he dies she still believes in talos even if she cant do it openly.

reading thalmor diary he seems to have been working with the thalmor at the markarth incident. upon further read he turns out to been considered an asset before he went cold.

the man who replaces ulfric treats everybody fair the dark elves already loved him. he also thinks skyrim should be for everybody. the dark elves say how nice it is to have him as jarl.

"what the stormcloaks like to forget is that the empire is what is keeping the dominion out of skyrim"- empire soldier. so true.

the war is inevitable empire/stormcloaks victory both assures old way of life, talos etc.

reading the thalmor diary at the embassy it would seem ulfric was working with the thalmor to cause the markarth incident. he is considered i believe a dormant asset. so i assume he has assisted the thalmor. now with the civil war going on who would benefit most from it? the thalmor. who caused it? ulfric.

it mentions also that the civil war must go on as long as it can, empire victory is to be avoided and of stormcloaks but if some controlled assistance to the stormcloaks would be most helpful to the thalmor.

also the diary mentions that the thalmor were going to interfere before ulfric got executed because it would mean the end of the war, but as we know the dragons interfered.