User blog comment:Snow X Arrow/What side in the Civil War did you choose?/@comment-2236231-20120817000523

Well, after much thought I became a Stormcloak. I feel that the Empire can take care of it's self with out Skyrim. How's one legion going to make a difference? The Empire is not what players remember from Oblivion, it's back to being it's old repressive "End's Justifie the Means" that it was during Redguard. It's end has already been fortold (that's what Oblivon was about). Even Talos (see Wulf from Morrowind) is tiered of the Empire. I joined becouse I could relate as an American to their plight, becouse I did not feel like a criminal while playing them, when I do play the legion I feel like a bloody stormtrooper, a machine, the face of an Empire. I want to be more then that I want to be a Hero and when I see a stormcloak here their cries here their speechs I feel like a Hero, I see them as Heros. I played the Legion and what did I get? Basicly someone telling me "Orders secure, kill the Reminants, oh and the Thalmor are at our gates and we just wasted a whole lot of men and have to stay here to keep order amongst a lot of people who we will more then likly force into concription, All Hail the Emperor!" Not to mention that I see no way the worship of Talos will ever be legal agian (Visit the Temple of the Devines in Solitude, read the Talos Mestake, look at the Thalmor's Handy work, remember this is the frontier so what's Cyrodiil like?). I don't buy the whole racist thing going around, Ulfric's father turned the Snow Quarter into the Grey Quarter and mixing them with the hostile Nords would be a recipe for trouble. Besides most Argonians in other games enjoy and willingly live near the water the Argonians of Windhelm only resent it becouse they are forced to. Riften is alliegned with Ulfric and is a very peacefully mixed city. I do not like all those associated with the Stormcloaks but I feel more will be accomplished with them then with the Empire (I image a lot of Battleborns if I think of an Imperial Skyrim, not to mention a land at the mercy of the Blackbriers who are by far worse then the Silverbloods).