Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-209.7.3.188-20160303204000/@comment-28589830-20160313183954

Aramirtheranger wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: Ashley Kirshbaum wrote: one of the reasons i side with the empire is because ulfric is a power hungry warmonger. he claims to fight for religious freedom, but this is nonsense, as he did not allow the Forsworn their religious freedom. he claims to fight for the people of skyrim, but this is also bullshit, for if he loved skyrim, he wouldn't tear it apart with a civil war. he's only waging this war to become high king. Giving Forsworn religious freedom would basically lead to anarchy, so...

Ulfric did not start the war, if you actually read his back story you would know that the Legion attacked the Stormcloaks first(before he even killed Torryg, the group existed as militia first before becoming a true army).

Earlier you said that the Dominion had not recovered from the war when it fought Hammerfell, this is true,  but it still hasn't. Elves reproduce and mature slowly, so even if all Altmer born the year the war ended had kids the very year they were biologically able(highly unlikely) their children would be only five or six in 4E 201, while an entire generation of humans matured in a shorter time and (based on how in times when human lives were short in our world many people married early) a lot may have had kids by this point. ^ Ahem, that was directed towards you... sorry, missed that.

why would forsworn religious freedom lead to anarchy? when has religious freedom ever led to that? didn't Markarth thrive under their rule?

i was definitely Ulfric who started the war after he was released from prison. the militia you mention existed to drive the forsworn from markarth. i do not believe there is any mention of them after that. ulfric was peaceful for a time after, seeing that he attended the moot that elected king Torygg, though he did want independence even back then. all hints point towards the war starting when he killed torygg.

you make a fair point about the state of the thalmor, i haven't thought of it that way. i might consider that on my future characters.