Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-1600847-20170311203413

Blizzard1289 wrote: I believe there's also a randomly spawned Imperial the Dragonborn can witness trying to join as well. Weird thing about that is if you follow him, once he reaches the Windhelm main gate, he vanishes.

Whereas his counterpart (a Dunmer heading to Solitude to join the Legion) gets to Solitude, enters the city, goes to Castle Dour, and sits around there for the rest of the game. Not sure if the Imperial vanishing at the Windhelm gate is a bug or intentional.