Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4290456-20140319121732/@comment-24075086-20140409224032

WC-83 wrote: He isn't respectful at first, but he ends up gaining their respect by the end, as he stated. He ends up wanting to learn, it is in the nature of Imperials to learn other people's cultures, due to the area they hail from being so cosmopolitan, it is required. As for the Argonians, how do you think they got that way, they have fallen on hard times and have taken to behaviors that would help them in one way or another, and the Dunmer would probably want to segregate themselves, but not at the cost of being treated like second class citzens in rundown houses (do you think they would just by another house? why would the Nords let them?) and while Nords are avenged after bandit raids, people turned a blind eye when they suffered their wrath. See...problem is it's not that Ulfric doesn't care about refugees and caravans it's that it simply isn't realistic in being able to protect mobile units. Refugees and caravans don't stick around any place long and make easy targets for bandits, it's not like Ulfric can have guards roaming every corner of eastmarch protecting every traveller out there. Settlements are easy to protect because they are stationary and only need a few guards sent there, while to protect caravans and refugees he'll need guards patrolling every corner of eastmarch...not really possible even during non-times of war.

The empire had a duty to protect the lives of its citizens a duty they grossly neglected by allowing the thalmor to come into its borders and kill its people. It doesn't matter if it's temporary "until the empire regains its strength" the very fact that they allow the wholesale slaughter of people voids their right to rule.