Dunmer did it. Everyone sure loves them. If the Forsworn want it, they're free to take it, like Ulfric did.

And I'm sure they will take it, the killing or saving of their king is probably the final push they need. Also I don't think everyone loves the Dunmer for slavery, personally that's the only thing I dislike about the dunmer.

Unreasonable people that need to be destroyed.

I'm sure they don't, but I don't see too many people condemning them for it. As for the Forsworn, maybe during the next great war, but not while its populated. Even if they do, there's no way they can keep it, they're sandwiched between nations that all hate them. It's like Orsinium all over again.

The way I see it, they could. Skyrim's manpower is limited no matter which side wins, both sides have a lot to deal with after the civil war which creates a perfect opportunity to retake it. At the end of the civil war there are still remnants of both sides, bandits, pirates, unhappy citizens and of course dragons. From a tactical position if the reachmen retake Markarth after the civil war they could probably hold it, especially if they focus on fortifying the valleys and focus on stealth tactics to take out any nordic resistence coming into the Reach.

How are they going to take a walled city though fully guarded and filled with men? I can't even see them laying siege, its too populated. As for the civil war, Galmar and Ulfric's dialogue makes it seem that most people in Skyrim are undecided, still waiting to see who to join, and both sides are undersupported. So not much manpower's really lost in Skyrim. This is a land where almost everyone at least knows the basics of swordplay because their land is dangerous. That and the Dragonborn ends the war quickly. At least it seems that way, though the devs could say it lasted longer, since there's still remnants of the other side later. Who knows.

Anyway, it's possible, but I wouldn't call it probable, personally. Especially not holding it. Stormcloaks or Empire, I don't see either of them letting them keep it. Not forever.

The problem with both sides being unsupported by a majority of the people is that if something wrong happens and the side can't fix it causes the people to lose faith in the current rulership.

That's before you know who dies.

They're only unsupported fully while the two parties are fighting. After one wins, there's only one side to join.

You actually don't need to kill him, you don't even have to visit him to complete the quest, it's entirely optional. Plus you have the possibility of the forsworn recruiting disgruntled Reachmen who are being oppressed by the silver-bloods and are tired of living in the Warrens.

I voted for horny headgear. While I think that they were wrongfully treated, I make no hesitation to put them down because they svck.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see which is canon then, though even with all that, it seems unlikely what amounts to basically terrorists can take an entire hold of Skyrim, one of the most important ones due to the Silver mines, without the distraction of a Great War. If they could, why not during the civil war when they're distracted and losing numbers compared to when they're bolstering their numbers after the fact?

Those operatives are there in part

The Forsworn love to use stealth as their weapon, most guerrilla warfare tactics include stealth after all.

Which is something Nords excel at. Not that this does much good against taking a city. You don't guerrilla warfare your way into a fortified large soldier filled city. Even if they infiltrated a few numbers in again, the last time only worked because as Celan said, it was backed by Silver-Bloods.

Excel at what? Also yes, guerrilla warfare tactics do involve infiltrating fortified cities filled with soldiers, look at the entire vietnam war, it was essentially a favorite tactic of the Vietcong to infiltrate American protected cities and cause problems, they would blend in with the locals something the forsworn can easily do.

They're easy kills, many in one place, owners of good lightweight loot. They're on par with bandits in my fun-to-kill list.

The Forsworn are savage bandits with an affinity to the Reach. Doesn't matter how you dress them, they're just a binch of savages who deserve to scrabble in the dirt like animals. If it were me, I'd enslave them all and force them to mine the very silver mines of the Reach. If it's their land, they can spill blood, sweat and tears to work it.

Anyone who chose option 1 have obviously not done any forsworn quests. They are the oppressed ones.

Most people apparently don't care about the reachmen being oppressed and forced into slave labor. Sure not all reachmen are Forsworn and I don't particularly care for the Forsworn's religion or tactics but I don't like the idea of them being oppressed by the greedy and corrupt nords who rule the reach.

What are you saying?

All of Skyrim belongs to the Nords. Parts of Highrock and Morrowind should also be under the Nords dominion. The Nords are the single true rulers of Tamriel, and when Ulfric liberates Skyrim from the oppressive Empire, they will drive the Elves out and hopefully begin the long road to domination as they rightfully deserve.

Yea..I doubt it

Well then you belong with the rest of the rabble below Markarth, or outside the walls with Khajiit Caravans.

It's blasphemous to even have the Elves in Skyrim.

I don't even think Ulfric has the power to govern a single city let alone an entire kingdom or empire, we see no evidence to suggest his skyrim won't just go crashing down.

Reachmen =/= Forsworn

Read the thread, discussed already.

That sounds a lot like wishful thinking.

We have no idea how some future hypothetical conflict that may or may not happen will play out. Too many factors unknown.

Excel at guerrilla warfare, and this isn't vietnam. They're not going to get a force big enough in there to take the city. Especially when the guards would be looking out for that. They've only managed a handful of people with inside support.