User blog comment:MonkeydashUnderscore/Imperials Or Stormcloaks?/@comment-166.82.245.89-20120509022154/@comment-166.82.245.89-20120521051400

I apologize for not responding to you sooner, I have been fairly busy.

As for the Dunmer, remember, if real life is any indicator and as I said before, if you were being oppressed and mistreated by the Nords your whole life, I doubt gaining their favor would be on the top of your to-do-list, especially if it means risking your life by fighting in a war that you may consider to be rather pointless or just a Nord problem (the best analogy I can think, remember, just an analogy, nothing close to real life, of would probably be a Jew joining a war for the right to practice some other religion while those who practice said religion are rather oppressive to said person joining that side, from a real life perspective, I don't see this happening on a large scale, of course, there will be individuals who do that, but I don't see the majority of Jews\whoever, doing that, they will probably see it something that doesn't concern them)at the top of my list would be to just stay out of trouble. After all, if your a member of a race that has\is viewed with suspicion and hate, people will treat you terribly, especially if they think you're remotely involved in something fairly trivial, but still unfavorable, even if you had absolutely nothing to do with it, again, this is a racial issue and things aren't so black and white (pun intended), but as I said before any initiative on either side is greatly appreciated, and I don't see anybody on the Stormcloak's side doing this.

As for the Dunmer's situation as a result of karma, no argument there, from the asteroid impact to the Tribune to the war with the Argonians.As for that Skooma smuggling involving the Khajit, that's, well, pretty bad. Although as I said before, I have not played Morrowind, so I'll be taking your word for it. And of course there is no comparison from stuffing Moon Sugar down a person's throat until their stomach tears to simply harassing a Dunmer (IMO they seemed pretty intent on doing something more than just insulting her) they seemed pretty intent on doing something to her other than simply insulting her, but it seems rather obvious that ther is still racial discrimination not just from those two, but from a lot of Nords, and personally? I think that kind of thinking needs to go and die in a little insignificant hole. I don't think you can really compare slavery to racial discrimination in this case effectively, I get that its not nearly as bad in Skyrim as it was in Morrowind when slavery was still legal, but its still fairly bad. What's that about New Gnis Cornerclub? Sorry, but I don't know what that is.

On the issue of guerilla war fighting, while I agree that as far as defending Skyrim goes, the Nords definitely have the advantage, but this whole problem goes beyond just defending against the Dominion, I'll get to that in a second, but look at it this way, assuming the Stormcloaks won it's safe to say that they're numbers are rather low, add to that they're cut off from the Empire so that commerce I mentioned earlier isn't there, so even if not a lot they're that much weaker, while the Dominion, on the other hand, has the resources of around 3 (4 if you count Cyrodill, I do,) countries, and are very good at biding they're time. As for that whole "This goes farther that Skyrim" thing I mentioned earlier I would ask you to read this:

http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37245&start=30

So yeah, they need to be taken care of as soon as possible IMO.

And about the Southern part of Hammerfell, if I remember correctly the Dominion basically attacked all of a sudden after Titus rejected the Ultimatum and took everyone by surprise, as I said before I think he's fairly capable in battle, but his decision making and negotiation skills are rather lacking, its possible he didn't think the Dominion were that much of a threat, or that they would attack with such overwhelming force so quickly, a mistake obviously, but I just thought I'd let you know. I know the history of "The Great War", so no need to explain it to me.

And if I may ask, what was the point of telling me the history of the Nords and Redguards?

And whoever commented that Reachmen are evil and worship Hagravens, that's like saying all Nords are a bunch of dumb warriors who only really care about mead and songs. The original Reachmen culture is most likely similar to what the Forsworn do, but remember the Reachmen were probably sick and tired of being oppressed, just look at most of the workers of Cidhna Mine, most of them are just normal people trying to get by without getting into trouble, lets not forget that one native Reachman who didn't want anything to do with the Forsworn, was obviously being muscled out by the Silver-Bloods, and that's what led to the Markarth uprising, only after Ulfric got rid of them, rather barbarically if you believe The Bear of Markarth book (I do to an extent, it sure sounds to me like something Ulfric would do, although I'm sure the Forsworn were a little bloodier than described in the book, it sounds like they overall weren't that bad), did they start to devolve into the rabid, Hagraven worshipping people we know today.

Anyway, its been fun talking with you! :3