User blog comment:Lord of 23 Dragons/Civil War Opinion/@comment-4129359-20120203232721

HA! What you like to forget is that the Empire is what's keeping the Aldmeri Dominion out of Skyrim. I fought and died in the Great War(during my second play through), and I gotta say, I don't hold any love for the Thalmor, but we were forced to sign the White Gold Concordant or else the Empire and all her citizens would be killed. And as for Ulfric the 'true High King', bah! you talk about honor yet you slay the TRUE High King using ancient Sorcery! You didn't show your strength or bravery, you were a coward and couldn't face the High King in true combat for fear of injuring yourself! And about your 'honor' your 'die hard cause'? yet you surrender to your greatest enemy Tullius, before the first cutscene, without so much as a mark on you! You would pit brother against brother, child against parent, turn the land against itself for your selfish crusade and what would you gain from it? If you won would you be able to defend yourself against the onslaught of the Thalmor? You can barely survive against the loyal citizens of Skyrim, how would you retaliate with so many losses? No, the Empire may not have done the most 'honorable' thing and fight to the last man, but you were there, you saw the losses, this was the only way. So you fight, you lead your men to Sovingard, but when we meet on the final battlefield, know that all the deaths have been for naught. Until then, could I have your autograph? It's not for me, it's for a... friend...

Anyways, as you can tell, I think the Stormcloaks are deluded. I mean, in a perfect world sure! if all of Skyrim were to take a stand it would be worth something, but to start a Civil War? That seems a bit counter-productive. If Ulfric would have played nice and tried to talk Torygg into rebellion, Torygg might have gone with it(considering how much Torygg hated the Thalmor and how much he respected Ulfric), but Ulfric isn't honorable, he just wants to be High King. I don't see what point he's trying to make, it's obviously not one of unified brotherhood fighting against a common oppression from the Thalmor, considering his desire for a Civil war over that of peace, even if everyone agreed with him, so it must just be his own personal desire for glory or something, I don't really know.

Anyways again, if you haven't guessed it, I'm all for the Empire, or at least, not for Ulfric.