User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-5700881-20131108114507/@comment-17114085-20131108193253

Its better to star from the top, it gets annoying scrolling down all the time.

About Alvor, again this is his dialogue

''"People are rightly stirred up about the damn Thalmor being allowed to roam around arresting people, just for worshipping Talos." "When the Emperor was forced by the Thalmor to outlaw Talos worship. We didn't pay much attention to it when I was a boy - everyone still had their little shrine to Talos. But then Ulfric and his "Sons of Skyrim" started agitating about it, and sure enough the Emperor had to crack down. Dragging people off in the middle of the night... one of the main causes of this war, if you ask me."''

Like i said before read the last sentence..."one of the main causes of this war" see the word CAUSES, for something to be a cause it needs to happen before something. Otherwhise he would have said:'' "one of the main consequences of this war". ''As consequence means it happened after said event. So logically it means that Alvor believes that the kidnappings are a cause for the war, one of the reasons why nords join Ulfric.You can't argue against that fact.

About Ulfric,

By the time of Skyrim the war has already started, Ulfric has already said all he wanted to say to the Imperials(though he still enjoys making speaches for his men), he has already called out the Empire on their b*** and killed the High King. So that explains why he isn't in the center of town constantly saying: The WGC sucks, down with the Empire, etc. He is the leader of the stormcloaks not the town crier. I do admit Ulfric did make the Thalmor presence in Skyrim stronger, as more Justiciars were probably called to make it seem as if there were trying to help the Empire. More thalmor means more stricter Talos ban(like the quest were the Dragonborn can help them to prove some Nord has an amulet of Talos) Though it doesn't mean the Ban wasn't being enforced, as i have stated above.

About Religion,

If anything this game is sort of a parody of Medieval times, when religion was the most important thing, causing many wars and battles. In modern days Money is the most important thing, if Ulfric was fighting to conquer Cyrodiil's Oil supply(or if you want to be lore-friendly "liquid ebony", if such a thing exists) then it would be a parody of real life.

In TES universe gods do exist, praying to them does benifit the fateful. You can't judge TES universe while comparing it to our universe. Hell if Ulfric was a mage and the WGC banned all magic in Skyrim, then he if would start a Civil War because of that would you criticise him for fighting for something that isn't real?(comparing it to our world).

About Reachmen,

Yes the reachmen treatment in Markarth is bad, yes Bothela is an Exeption. Now let me tell you a secret, The first citizens of the Reach weren't the Bretons/Reachmen. The Nordic Ruins in the Reach prove that Nords have lived there since the Merethic Era, before the breton race was even born. So the Reach has been home to many, is contested by many. Now it belongs to the Nords, maybe later the Redguards will conquer it, maybe the Orcs, who knows. If the Reachmen weren't so stuborn then they would have left long ago. Hell i used to live in South America, were i was born, and moved to the US in search for a better life, i miss my country very much but i left all the same. Reachmen haven't controled the Reach since the end of the 2nd Era, nearly 700 years before Skyrim takes place. I think if they had any sense they would have left (some probably did).

Nords have mixed with other cultures just fine, the obvious example is the Imperial Culture which has influenced the Nords the most, it changed their religion for crying out loud. The problem is not cultural mixture the problem is that the Reachmen, namely the Forsworn want controle of the Reach for themselfs, and to kick the Nords out. What would help this dispute would be of we learned how life for the Reachmen was like before the Great War, i do believe the the Markarth Incident and the Forsworn have made life a lot harder for the hard working Reachmen that just want to peacefully coexist.

Talos guide you-Harold Burned-Mane