Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11441888-20130804174441/@comment-24400038-20140109232343

24.101.220.156 wrote: I chose the "You'll never take me alive" option and completely decimated all the guardsmen...Screw Markarth. Screw the Stormcloaks. Can I walk into Windhelm and assassinate Ulfric without doing the war?

Sadly, I think he's marked as essential until the end of the quest.

Personally, I dual weilded the shivs in prison.