User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-72.12.193.150-20140103035941/@comment-1822253-20140103174722

@Zippertrain85 Where did Ulfric and the Stormcloaks want to talk about this? According to ingame lore, Ulfric forced the Imperial soldiers returning to garrison Markarth to abide by the Jarl's promise to allow Talos worship or they wouldn't be allowed in. According to ingame lore, while Ulfric kept the Legion out of the town, his militia wasn't able to completely stop the violence that was happening in the town and in order to quell the violence and deaths, they accepted.

It was the Dominion who discovered and forced the Imperial forces in Markarth to uphold the White-Gold Concordat. They had little choice and had to expell Ulfric and his militia, while some were arrested, it sounds like most got away. All ingame sources, both from Stormcloak and Imperial Legion support that it was the Stormcloaks who started the attacks.

And we know the state of the Empire. To win the war, they had to pull all the Legions who's sole purpose was to defend Hammerfell, High Rock and Skyrim, and they took a lot of casualties to finally wipe out the Dominion forces. We don't know what state the Dominion is in and there isn't much information on the makeup of their forces either.

@72.12.193.150 No, the Thalmor didn't, they just claimed they did. Just as how they claimed they were the ones who ended the Deadra invasion.

Nords under Ulfric tend to be xenophobic and racist towards non-Nords, especially Dunmer, Khajiit and Argonians. But they will show tolerance to those who own businesses that, especially essential ones that every town in Tamerial needs, IE a general store and alchemy shop.

It was the commanders decision. As the Dragonborn was arrested when they captured Ulfric, the possibility that he/she could have been a recruit/sympathizer is high. And in reality, this isn't uncommon. We've put people in jail and had them executed based on witnesses who put them near the scene of a crime only to find the real culprit later.

And much like Zippertrain85's, it's mostly speculation. While the creator does bring forth some good points for his views, the problem is that once again, it's his opinion, some of which isn't supported by ingame evidence.

I don't know about you, but plenty of the Imperial Legion are dying for what they believe in... but that's somehow nullified because they sign treaties? Doesn't make sense.