User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-5700881-20131108114507/@comment-5700881-20131126171056

May I ask where that's from? The UESP page clearly states it was Hrolfdir who offered it to Ulfric, and I think I implied I'm far more willing to trust that than this wiki.

I'll agree with everything except who offered it and your opinion on Titus, he is many things, an incompetent emperor one of them, but a wuss he is shown to not be.

He made things things worse, but I'll just say I don't see the big deal over the ban, practice it in private in your own home behind locked doors and chances are you'll get away with it, especially if everyone does something similar, as it's not possible for them to moniter everyone at the same time, just look at Raerek.

I never said the Quarians were right, I personally find them to be wrong and if forced I'll choose the Geth every time, my point was/is that regardless of previous actions the Quarians were driven from their homeworld and colonies along with losing a majority of their race, they had a good excuse to not try and build bridges or contact them, not to mention the only contact or events they heard of the Geth since were of hostility, the only time their general point of view is challenged is when you have them stop shooting the Geth and the subsequent assistance they can receive from them. It's somewhat the same with Toryyg, he had time but current evidence implies(to me) that his view point or opinion was never challenged or debated, if I grew up and lived in a violently homophobic environment that tries to quash critical questioning and opposing views for 35 years and I had a mindset that reflected that, would I be at fault? I say not, and I say Toryyg wasn't either. We'll have to disagree, as I see Ulfric using violence that only causes more violence when if he had simply brought his views in a persuasive manner, it could have been avoided, but it wasn't, it's not even a matter of being a politician, just a good arguer, which Ulfric is supposedly competent at.

About Whiterun, you can have a siege without siege weapons, they are just associated with such an action and certainly help, but not a requirement, and the walls are not an issue, as the only thing you really do is secure the gates, which happen to be unlocked.

I wouldn't doubt that, and can certainly see that. But that goes to a question I've had for a awhile that most Stormcloak supporters seem to brush off, or don't have an adequate answer to, if the Empire which is comprised of 3, formerly 4, couldn't take on the AD on their own land with reasonable odds of success, then what does 1, possibly 2, countries have when they themselves have fairly recently gone through some damaging wars? I don't doubt Skyrim fending off the AD on its own should it attack, I'm just questioning the long term strategy, as I see trying and fighting them on their own turf as a suicide mission with very low odds of success.

Lore-wise it seems to imply that the Divines(Akatosh at least) always had the power to do something like seal the barriers of Nirn by themselves, but don't because they want dependence on them. And if I remember Alduin was never a real world ending threat, just to its populace both living and in the after life.

That was more or less because of their arrogance. But I see more to be gained than lost if the races were to pursue logic than religion.