User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-5558140-20130507032648

on the whole gray quarter paragraph, your right that they arent forced to live there, but for a people who have nowhere else to go, they are definetly stuck there, and the fact that its called the gray quarter was intended as an insult. the argonians are kept outside just like the khajit, and while it may not specifically be exclusive just to the stormcloaks, its obvious that windhelm, the stormcloak hq, was intended to be a personification of the stormcloaks motif "skyrim is for the nords". the story writers obviously made a mistake if everyone interpretted the stormcloaks as pure good and the empire pure evil. they were both meant to be balanced in terms of goals and moral ambiguity. as for the smaller details like "no one talks about him or all the bad things he's done" i really think people over analyze what goes on in the game and try to relate pretty insignificant things to larger events in the story, for example one argument i've heard that you didn't include was "if ulfric is so racist why can the player join the stormcloaks as any race?" things like that are done soley for the sake of the game, just like how no khajit are allowed inside cities, yet a khajit player character can roam freely. i havent heard the "ulfric admits he was wrong" part. he definetly lost hope once he reached sovngarde, but no real evidence that he became disillusioned with his cause.