User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1840877-20120819104842/@comment-5423369-20120821062717

Ulfric's bigotry would be a part of this argument if he really was a bigot why is it when I play as any other race other than a Nord he would say the exact same thing when I played as one and the only one who remarked on my race was Galmar Stone-Fist and the only time Ulfric remarked on my race was at his speech in the end of the quest line and it was a compliment to support the Main character (or Dragonborn) to his soldiers that regardless of what race that the Main character was he is still considered as one for there own stating that he is aware of the Main characters Race and is not a gameplay flaw but intentional.

His treatment of the Dunmer does not stem from any racial distrust it stems from his apparent belief that your either with him or against him and they refuse to support the war so they are second rated by him not because he despises them racially its because they wont support him also if he is a bigot wouldn't he be extremely racist to the Altmer population of his city I mean he was tortured by the Thalmor which consist of mainly if not all Altmer and yet Niranye is a successful merchant, Nurelion is the owner of the The White Phial an alchemist shop, Ulundil  is the owner of the Windhelm stables, and  Belyn Hlaalu  a Dunmer owns a farm outside of Windhelm and I find it strange that the Empire seemed to do nothing to aid the Dunmer during the Red year I mean I see no Dunmer refuges in the Imperial controlled cities and most of them have been in Riften or Windhelm since the fifth year of the fourth era when the Red mountain erupted they had nearly 165 years before the Great War to relocate them to other places in the empire instead leaving the with their ancient enemy since in first era "just saying".

You think the Nords are Xenophobic you should have played Morrowind they kept Nords, Khajiit, and Argonians in cages and used them as slaves for plantations and I think I remember a quest where there were two Dunmer slavers transporting Khajiit slaves and the dunmer wanted to make one of their slaves to stop complaining by I think beating him or persuading him well it turns out they shoved Moonsugar down their stomach until one of their stomachs ruptured and a drunk and a beggar making threats is so bad I think I remembered in a city I am not certain which a Dunmer openly shouted that every outsider should get their throat slit by every well minded Dunmer citizen and also they wrote a book about something like this in Skyrim they probably shouldn't have done that so...yeah Nords aren't as bad in comparison.

well the treatment of the Khajiit and the Argonians seem to evident on all the holds in Skyrim regardless if they are Imperial controlled or not in all holds the Khajiit caravans cannot enter the city and I cannot find a single Argonian in any of the Imperial controlled city except for Jaree-Ra the one in Solitude unfortunately he one of the leaders of the Blackblood Marauders and a criminal one of the sole reasons as to why they wont allow them into their city which is sad that the only Argonian allowed into a city became a Ironic statement for his whole race.

If there is someone trying their way into the thrown and has the will to fight the Thalmor does that really mean he is experienced in warfare he has the will to fight but how does he handle a battered and beaten down empire versus the Thalmor who haven't suffered any losses since the Great war, most ikely has spies all over the empire, and what if he gets assassinated that's what they did to Ocato and with the empire this weak in comparison to what it was when Ocato died I don't know friend I just dont know.

In response to TheEpicShot

A: Races are treated equally, if you work hard you are rewarded, if you just sit on your ass be lazy sucks to be you

Same thing with the Storm cloaks look at the Altmer population in Windhelm as stated above.

B: I don't care who the Emperor is as I am loyal to the Empire not the Emperor there is a difference. Such as I am loyal to the United States but I cannot stand Obama, exact same concept.

But you have to because this isn't like modern day politics the Emperor regardless of what the rest of the people say has the final word and has more power in position to control the actions of the people I mean look at Emperor Thoriz Pelagius Septim III (or Pelagius the Mad) you think a person like him could get elected to be leader in today's society no because he have to be elected the way the empire pretty much worked is that it would take a long period of time for the council for...some ...reason to find an emperor if the previous leader passed away and had no kin to pass it over to or have some outside force invade and have their leader become the Emperor I really cant find any Emperor who haven't conquered or inherited the thrown of the empire in someway.

C: Some of you may say Tullius is egotistical and power hungry but I don't care about Tullius because during the storyline he calls very few of the shots and Rikke calls most of them and she isn't particularly unlikeable.

Really I just thought he didn't understand Nordic culture in fact I he was pretty ok General except for being incredibly uninteresting and very unobservant during Helgen or just didn't care but personality wise he was just a rank and file general with nothing to stand out in personality and why couldn't Rikke just had been the general she cared about the well being of Skyrim more her goals were just he had good ambition but instead we got some guy who looks like he couldn't care less for Nordic culture and just wants to get this civil war over with.