User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-5302371-20120728161339

Very nice article, I completely agree but I still tend to think of Ulfric as racist when him and his people make the Dark Elves live in the rat holes and won't let them fight (although both sides only have Nord or Imperial fighters except the Legion has Elven leaders). Then on the legion side, they murdered a girl who was only a healer and to add on to that, they burned all the bodies so the families couldn't burry that. I have a hard time with this because of these two facts. Elsif at least talks to you and treats you as a human when the war is over, Ulfric makes comments saying he is a busy man and needs to do other things than talk to you. My first account I joined the Stormcloaks because they were Nords and I was a Nord so it felt natural, on my second account I went around talking to almost every family about it and a few things that came to me when deciding were these:

Stormcloaks:

They think they are better than everyone else.

They have Norse history (this was what I picked up and I have Scandanavian in me).

They hate most other races that aren't human or use battleaxes (meaning they like Orcs most of the time).

They don't have the greatest armor.

They are relatively new.

Their leader can be a jurk.

Imperial legion:

They outlawed the Nords favorite God.

They make the Elves as higher than them.

They have more history in Tamriel.

They have more forces.

They do not allow people to burry their family if they were Stormcloak.

They have a dragon as a symbol (I love dragons...).

Their leader is somewhat nicer.

This is what I thought of when I decided to pick so I picked the Imperial Legion just because of the history they have and the army they have. Plus they have a frickin dragon as a symbol....