User blog comment:Longdead97/Ulfric's war effort & gaining support. Smart move or no?/@comment-5558140-20130324032553/@comment-7371906-20130327214605

"if Ulfric simply murdered all the Jarls who opposed him and declared himself High King, the people would not support him."

Why it makes more sense for him to kill them as it instills fear towards any who oppose him in his apparent conquest for High King and by killing them would show his strength towards his men and the Empire but by letting the live he might show his troops that he still claims sympathy towards Empire supporters and make them think that as a sign of weakness to their cause. The Stormcloaks would root his name if he held a public execution an execution that they probably witnessed for each one of their love ones, family and friends accused by the Thalmor or the Empire as a Talos worshiper or for siding with them in the war. for each of them an wouldn't shed a tear and he would probably just get more supporters The Nords are a warrior culture they eat up acts of power like this especially the Stormcloaks which all inhabit Skyrim by the End of the Civil war but well nothing.

well considering he was holding a war no one finds it unexpected for him to kill these Jarls at all and well what do you thing happens to the vassals of an opposing faction in a war any war and yet they are all alive and for some reason they are all alive and Elsif is still Jarl so yeah and they all live in one place so yeah "who would oppose him from power," I'm sure they are probably still agitated from being striped from power "what Jarl would dare oppose him?" Elsif is still Jarl and she sided with the Empire "He'll get a uninimous vote and be crowned High King. Like rigging an election". Sabotage can still happen even more so with them so yeah and hes wasting time for this moot if anything I mean I'm thinking really hard but there is so many factors against this here and if hes power hungry he was probably as power hungry as any revolutionary that fought in a war in real life even more so considering most of them openly tried to kill their oppositions when given the chance.