Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27007772-20140611204941/@comment-26213507-20150610123154

College Mage: Ferris wrote: Ottoman Hold wrote: Precisely. I agree completely. The game wants you to believe one side, and expects you to run with it. You are forced to think that The Empire wants you dead and they are completely evil, which is what many people who first joined the thread were like. Luckily, many of them have at least found reasons to support their ideas. The truth is simple: The Almeri Dominion is the true enemy, unless you are routing for them. It's weird... we've always started as prisoners of the Empire, yet this is the first time people seemed to take issue with it. I never saw it as the game was setting me up to like the stormcloaks more... The Horse thief really "sells it" when it comes to conveying you're both at the wrong place at the wrong time. He knows that since they caught Ulfric, leader of the rebellion, they're going to kill us all regardless. A lot of people forget it is an Imperial standing up to a superior officer on your behalf stating that you are not on the list to die, it's the Imperial Captain that dismisses it. It's also that same Imperial soldier who could end up saving your life, and giving you a new start by the end of it.

Yeah. The Captain is the idiot, and either way she dies. When she is rebukes, she tells the executioner to "Just...do it!" Good thing that corrupt dumbass was slain. The real issue is people like her, which in truth, there aren't many. Unfortunately, there still are people like that on both sides. Let's do something different. Lets say You, a few soldiers, Tullius, and Rikke were captured by the Stormcloaks. Ulfric Stormcloaks personally watches the execution in Windhelm. Lokir does his thing, and he dies. Ulfric smiles as Rikke is put to the axe. Galmar snarls "You betrayed your own kind!" she responds, "I only do what is best for man" and she is decapitated. A soldier yells "Why are you betraying your own kind?" He is put to the axe. Ulfric says "How so?" and the soldier says "The elves are the enemy. Not the Empire. Long live the--" and he's gone. You are put to the axe. Ralof looks down, as you are innocent. Hadva, in chains, tells you everything will be alright. "He's innocent. He's not of the Legion" says Ralof. "This Imperial scum certainly is. He betrayed Skyrim, so he will die" tells Galmar. Just then, Alduin attacks, and Tulius, Hadvar, and you run off. Ralof and Hadvar try to tell you to go different ways. And the rest of the thing is pretty similar. I'm not saying that this is how it will go down if roles are reversed, but if the game started like this, it would seem the Stormcloaks are evil and The Empire is innocent.