Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-120.28.157.86-20140406014559/@comment-26893431-20170220184044

183.171.182.148 wrote: Its still pretty impressive Ulfric mustered his own private army which is able to match the empire's legion. Anyway there is no 9/10 time empire victory, only 10/10 time dragonborn victory.

Ulfric's stormcloak started the civil war which may indirectly aid the thalmor in the long run. But the empire also aided the thalmor by signing the concordant. The empire captured you when ulfric was smoking weed beside you but they decided to chop 2 heads instead of one. As long as the civil war is ended the thalmor loses. His mustered millitia is on par with a locally recruited Legion of scouts and skirmishers, if anything, that goes to show how petty the Stormcloaks are. A proper Legion would destroy the Stormcloaks, a Legion that's being assembled at Pale Pass.

The Empire is winning the war, it's hinted towards, unless if Bethesda mentions a Stormcloak victory or gives good reason for them to win, the outcome would clearly be the Empire.

But there's a pretty big difference here, the Empire did it because they were forced to in order to survive, Ulfric did it out of his own agenda.

They thought you were a Stormcloak, Hadvar later elaborated that you were accidentally put on a cart with Stormcloaks, moral of the story, no rebellion = no beheading.