He'll deny this at first saying Skyrim hasn't even had a true high king in a long time. He used a thu'rm or dragonshout to weaken the king which he learnt from the Greybeards which is a violation of all the Greybeards beliefs in the way of the voice. After weakening the high king, Ulfric plunged a dagger into the king which he admits if you talk to him about it; People are split over if it was a fair fight or a cold blooded murder, it's likely the latter given the weapon of choice.





So he claims, it's hard to know if he is really telling the truth but his actions do show that he has no care at all about the other races.



Primarily this is the Dunmer who fled Marrowind because of the issues with the Red Mountain which caused a lot of Dunmer to flee Marrowind. The Dunmer alive when this happened kinda deserved it however on the most part, their children do not tho. As for the Argonians in Windhelm, they're treated as virtual slaves and have done nothing to deserve this, if you aren't a nord they don't care. Ulfric also played a part in the raids/invasion on the Forsworn home city of Markarth, which appears to be a generally unprovoked attack against the primarily Breton inhabitants and Nords of skyrim have a horrible history of attacking the Bretons in usually unprovoked attacks.



Imperials are Humans just like the Nords and are of common descent, Imperials tend to care about all the races which can be a weakness sometimes considering a lot of the provinces would like to see the Imperials dead. The Imperials are over-stretched and the Aldmeri Dominion believes all humans have to die, so the Imperials need to harden up and accept that a real war with Summerset Isle may be needed. Not all Altmer support the Aldmeri Dominion tho, some even stand firmly against it and so a war with the Aldmeri Dominion may not be as bloody as everybody thinks it will be.



yes and no, Skyrim has a high king and pretty much rules itself, it is a part of the empire as are all the provinces so the empire does remain the highest authority. I would suggest you think of it a bit like USA but without democracy, the Emperor is a bit like the president, the high king is state governor and below him are the more regional Jarls. It was the Nords that pretty much set this up to begin with, the only thing that changed is the line of succession for Emperor switched to Imperials instead of Nords (dragon borns are primarily candidates for the position of emperor). The problem the Nords have is the peace treaty, the White-Gold Concordat which is a sign of weakness on the empires part for having even fallen into the position to have to sign that. Hammerfell also are not happy with the Imperial Empire over that either and feel the Empire abandoned them in their moment of need.



Not exactly, they signed the White-Gold Concordat with the Aldmeri Dominion and are pretending it's banned in-line with the White-Gold Concordat which prohibits Talos Worship; however the empire has made no real action in the enforcement for it and so the Thalmor are having to do that manually themselves. Everybody knows they is going to be another war and the Thalmor realize they can't really enforce the ban on Talos with the empire doing effectively nothing, instead they're trying to use it to force a loss of confidence in the Imperial Empire. The harder the Thalmor push the more the Nords react but they react against the Empire instead of against the Thalmor. The stormcloaks unfortunately aren't very bright else they'd realize the deeper strategy at play, however racism is also fairly common among the stormcloaks and it shouldn't be a surprise they're not the brightest of people in the world.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that they're "pretending" the ban of Talos
because from what I've seen while playing skyrim is that the imperial guards really do want to enforce the ban as much as they can

It's because the Thalmor are now in Skyrim and they are watching the Empire closely to see if they are really upholding the treaty. Before the Thalmor were in Skyrim the ban wasn't enforced as long the people kept it private, but the Markarth incident changed that. The Markarth incident got the Dominion's attention that the Empire wasn't upholding their end of the treaty as such they sent their agents the Thalmor to do the job the Empire wouldn't do.

I can make this easy for you...

Stormcloaks are very similar to a German political party that was large in the 30's - 40's. Am not gonna say which really..
Hence why i did NOT join them

Ive always believed in unitation. Anything that can unite several countries to one is good (UN for example) So i chose without a doubt the Empire

If only the Empire was strong enough i would like them to pull out of Skyrim and let the Thalmor ravage the stormcloaks, we'll see if "NORDS SHOULD RULE SKYRIM" works now, idiots.
Man the more i play, the more i hate the stormcloaks. Anyway what Alvor says at the start (if you followed hadvar) makes all the sense in the world to me and pretty much sums up the whole imperial/stormcloak thing

so what exactly happened at markharth?

During the Great War the Empire recalled its legions to fight aganist the Dominion. Because of that the Forsworn took the opportunity to take back the Reach away from the Nords. After the Great War ended, the Empire wanted the Reach back however they didn't have the resources to take the Reach back. So in order to take back the Reach the Empire turned to Ulfric to take it back in exchange to being allowed to worship Talos publicly. When both sides agreed to this Ulfric took back the Reach from the Forsworn in a bloody battle. However the Dominion heard about this deal and demanded the Empire to clean up the mess they created. The Empire then arrested Ulfric and his compatriots to show they were upholding the treaty. This was also one of the main reasons for the Civil War as well.

so.. it's not really ulfric's fault, I take it?
not entirely, at least. because people were making it sound like ulfric made the markharth incident happen and that the ban on talos got even tighter because of him.

I personally loathe Ulfric. The moment he used the Voice to try and win political power for himself, he violated The Way that he was required to devote himself to as an aspiring Greybeard. A power that is only to be used (unless Dragonborn) to glorify the gods, and NEVER to be used for personal power, or the glory of man. (The Dragonborn is allowed to use it in service to Akatosh's design.)

He used the Voice to violently seize power for himself, rather than trying to negotiate, or call for a Moot to change the High King. This makes him no better than a normal dragon, wielding their Thu'um for personal power and conquest.

Even if I didn't side with the Empire, I'd stand against Ulfric.

so.. it's not really ulfric's fault, I take it?
not entirely, at least. because people were making it sound like ulfric made the markharth incident happen and that the ban on talos got even tighter because of him.

The part the gets to me is the second you enter solitude everyone says that the high king would have sided with Ulfric, so the kill was out of nothing more then lust for power. To be honest i am a little mad that i am stuck on ulfrics side in the war, i want to join the join the legion but i have already helped with a few quests.

Tiber Septim was Dragonborn, serving Akatosh's design. He's allowed to do things with the Voice that others are not.

There's a reason that the Greybeards don't rule Skyrim with an iron fist.

If Ulfric was that great with the voice, and he wanted to do that, don't you think he would?

He probably only knows "Fus." He didn't kill anyone with a shout. He merely knocked him down with it and then stabbed him in the heart.

True, it wasnt entirely his fault. But what really tarnishes ulfric's name is the fact that he ordered the murder of tons of innocent women and children that belonged to the forsworn. And the Forsworn are actually the real natives of the reach and ulfric ran them out of there by killing innocents. So his whole "skyrim belongs to the nords" is a completely moot statement when he himself runs natives off their land.

If Ulfric was that great with the voice, and he wanted to do that, don't you think he would?

He probably only knows "Fus." He didn't kill anyone with a shout. He merely knocked him down with it and then stabbed him in the heart.