Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150928140042/@comment-109.186.183.183-20151006061357

i don't really like ulfric, for all the reasons mentioned already, and also because:

1. his city is the second worst city in skyrim (after riften). i certainly woldn't want this kind of ruler to be my high king- one that is extremly untalnted or worst one that puts other things before the well being of his people. ulfric sacraficed windhelm for the bigger picture, skyrim. what will happen to skyrim once ulfric scrafices her for the bigger picture? not that it matters, since ulfric will fail against the thalmor in the stormcloack wining timeline unless the super OP dragonborn is actaully made canon and he helps kick some thalmor ass.

2. ulfric is stupid if he thinks he can beat the thalmor, but all of the stormcloacks made me feel more like they think "better to die fighting then not worship talos". okay, it's their choice to be idiots, but they also kill everyone who disagrees with them, so there really isn't a way around the death. they remind of of real life terroists.

also i would like to point 2 things: first of all, the choices are not only stormcloacks or empire. you can also choose to make peace, or to not intervene. making peace actaully seems like a fair option for canon, since that is what you will be doing if you don't want to pick a side but you do want to kill alduin. they may be temporarly options, as you can always choose a side, but they are options non the less.

second, have you tought of the thalmor as a side to support? i mean sure you can't support them in the game but if there is a debate about who is right, i think i'll pick the thalmor. but wait, the thalmor are a bunch of assholes, why would anyone like them? that change of prespective hitted me when i tried to find how old bretons are (or can reach). i realized that high elves can reach about a 1000 years old (or at least that what many people claimed). that means some of them lived in a time where there was no empire, no wonder they hate the empire. furthermore, some of them actaully saw talos. imagine you would have seen someone who invaded your land and killed your friends, and then someone would have told you that he is now a god. first of all, as stupid as the "he was so awesome that he rose to godhood" story is, knowing the person when he was still alive makes it even stupider (however, we do know its true, which kinda sucks, since i think it's a serious question about this whole war thing). also, talos is a painful reminder of their defeat, but that much was obvious already. also, they claim to be "superior to men". that didn't seem very objective when i dodn't knew about the age thing, but knowing that they live 10 times more then a men, that claim suddenly starts to sounds a lot more reasonable.

correct me if i am wrong, i don't remember everything about the lore, and sorry for my bad english, it's not my native.