User blog comment:Fimmion/Why Skyrim was rigged from the start/@comment-5135631-20120630145923/@comment-4975320-20120630204137

Without signing the Concordat, the Empire would have never have their breather. The Empire was being grinded, now if Ulfric didn't rise up, the Empire could catch its well derseved breather, no both sides are war-torn, and who's going to jump on that chance to rule Tamriel, certainly not Morrowind.

Besides Ulfic is fighting Talos' Empire, while they claim they want freedom of his worship. Even though the Septim Destiny is defunct, they should have expected that nothing lasts forever. The Mede Destiny certainly did not live up to the greatness of Septims', but it was better than having a High Elf to take the throne, and be manipulated by the Thalmor

Then we got the racism of the Stormcloaks. A Nord commiting crimes will be sentence in the same way if a Elf or Breton did the same crime. The Empire support racial unity, while the Stormcloaks are "If you don't help us in our war, then you can live in the slums" to the Dark Elves, when their most homeland was destroyed by Red Mountain. If they warmly opened their arms to them, then they might get support, and set a example for other races, then they could get more races to join Ulfic's cause. If he done that he could've overpowered the Empire, but he didn't, he shut the doors on pratically every race, except the Nords, of course.

This is all in my honest mind, no hate, intended