User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-3217145-20130508040546/@comment-166.82.242.97-20130508042622

I'm probably wrong but I think you meant "secede". That only shows to me he was only after the title of High King. No, the war officially started after Ulfric killed Toryyg, the Markarth incident only sowed the seeds of unrest that eventually boiled into such tension that exploded into full scale war. And as I have said before I see the Markarth Incident was more of the Dominion's doing than the Empire, the Empire and Ulfric only did what they wanted to do.