Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.72.49.241-20130930130812/@comment-41.58.84.107-20170424074032

Can we all just agree that the cw, although a stupid idea for the nords and people of skyrim, was a brilliant idea put in motion by the thalmor. Both the imperials and Ulfric were used as puppets to by the thalmor.

The imperials were made to accept the white gold concordant and as a result lost great favour with the people of skyrim. This is obviously a really bad and not properly thought out diplomatic move, and evident to the fact that they lack real knowledge or respect for nordic culture as seen from General Tullius.

During the war, while the thalmor were torturing and killing off a bunch of nord soldiers, they came across Ulfric. Seeing as he was the son of a jarl, they tortured and brainwashed him to go and start a rebellion in order to weaken both the imperials and nords of skyrim. Ulfric did not dissapoint as his erratic and unnecessary actions led skyrim to chaos.

In the end our only vanilla choices are the unstable high king (aka Ulfric) or the ignorant imperials. With the help of the dragonborn either party can overcome their challenges and become decent rulers of skyrim.

Unfortunatelly, looking at this more realistically, no matter who wins the cw the thalmors have already won. They've gotten their conflict and have suceeded in taking the lives of possibly thousands from both imperials and stormcloaks while sacrificing no more than about a hundred of their own men. It would take a very exceptional individual to turn this tide.

The only hope for skyrim is the dragonborn!!

DRAGONBORN FOR HIGHKING !!!!