User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-3217145-20130508040546/@comment-9062114-20130508041556

But everyone knew Ulfric wanted to succeed. Sybille even says that when Ulfric was coming in to challenge Torygg people thought he would ask him. That should mean Torygg knew, but since he didn't actually do it, he probably had no interest in doing it. Ulfric didn't start the war ether, it started at the Markarth incident, which in a sense was brought upon by the Empire.