TizzytheTormentor said:
Josh12345 said:
TizzytheTormentor said:
LetalisK said:
TizzytheTormentor said:
Ulfric is passionate, I will give him that, many were swayed by his speech in the Palace of Kings (hell, I almost was swayed) But that doesn't excuse his past crimes of regicide and discrimination.
Or did Ulfric kill the king in a duel the king accepted? Despite its faults, I think Skyrim did a good job of keeping things sufficiently muddy.
Ulfric basically killed the king because he didn't like how he was friendly with the empire, so he challenged him to something akin to bringing a gun to a sword fight (I doubt the king expected to have Ulfric use the Voice) then Ulfric turned tail and waged war on an empire trying to recover to fight a force that may spell doom for most of Tamriel (he could have talked or fought the empire AFTER the war with the Thalmor)
It was also revealed by Sybille that Torygg held Ulfric in high regard, had Ulfric simply talked to him about it, Torygg would most likely have been swayed.
swayed him to do what? Hand the crown over? I
I'm serious here because I never really understood what Ulfric would be swaying him to do exactly.
Huh? Talk to Torygg about making Skyrum independent and free of empire rule.
He wanted Torygg to not be so friendly with the empire that banned Talos worship, he skipped negotiation and deemed Torygg to young and weak and challenged him using the voice as his trump card. He then believed that since he basically killed the king of Skyrim, he would be the one to bring Skyrim to independence.
Whether or not you support the Stormcloaks, they are stupid for picking a fight when the Thalmor want to conquer everyone, instead of waiting, I dunno, after the impeding war? Instead of draining resources from an army that can fight back. We also have no idea if Ulfric would "ally" himself with any other province in any way. The empire wants to bring all provinces together to fight back against the Thalmor.
I know the Empire is not the goody two-shoes faction like some people want them to be, but as far as I see it, they are the lesser of two evils. They did leave Hammerfell to fight for themselves (although it was stated that the empire was so wrecked from the last war that going against the Thalmor would have annihilated them)
We have no idea which side is canon, the next game will most likely not bring it up or will give ambiguous comments towards it.
Well that's what I thought initially, but there's no way the Empire would just allow their only reliable source of manpower to just leave.
Also if you finish the Stormcloak campaign Ulfric states that he's sent envoys to other provinces for alliance proposals. Specifically High Rock and Hammerfell, and apparently the Hammerfell one has at least responded.
The reason I'm against the Empire is that they have Thalmor spies all over the place, and are in key positions that they could cripple the Empire from the inside if any war was to break out.
Plus, the Thalmor are playing the long game. They don't want provinces to secede. They want them nice and weak, but unified so that if any single province gets strong they can just slap down another treaty to weaken them again.
shintakie10 said:
Seriously, Black Marsh, Valenwood and Summerset seceded and the Empire did NOTHING. After Vivec's flying space turd flew into Vvardenfell at terminal velocity and covered Morrowind in ash the Dark Elves were in bad times. Then they get invaded by a hoard of Argonians that had nowhere else to live, House Redoran pretty much single-handedly fought the war themselves and quietly declared independence.
To be fair, the Empire really didn't have much it could do. The only ones to have been hit harder by the Oblivion Crisis are the Dunmer of Morrowind (though it is technically possible the Thalmor got wrecked and just haven't told anyone yet) and a good portion of those losses were because the Argonians invaded almost directly after.
Related note, I still don't quite understand how House Redoran was able to hold off the Argonians if they got their ass whooped by the Daedra and the Daedra got absolutely thrashed by the Argonians. Really wish there was more lore about that. Hell, really wish there was more Argonian lore period.
EVERYBODY got hit hard by the Oblivion Crisis. We only saw Cyrodiil's damage but it was like that across all of Tamriel. In fact Cyrodiil probably had it easiest since the ENTIRE LEGION was recalled to defend Cyrodiil. So they pretty much left everyone else to fend for themselves.
The only reason that Black Marsh is different is because of the Hist. The trees noticed all of these gates popping up and immediately went
'Shit, CODE RED. ALL ARGONIANS RETURN TO HOMELAND'
and it worked, because the Hist has a small sort of hivemind thing going on with the Argonians.
So just think. Every able bodied member of an ENTIRE RACE is sent back here and absolutely swarms the place. The Daedra shut the Oblivion Gates in Black Marsh because of the sheer volume of troops they had to fend off.
After the Oblivion Crisis the Trees then had millions of Argonians crammed into the homeland, many of whom displaced. So what did they do? Well their long time nemesis, the Dunmer, just went through Ragnarok. Lets throw our remaining surplus at those guys, afterwards they can all go home.
So the Argonians steamroll much of Morrowind, however Redoran and Telvanni were lucky in that much of their most concentrated power is towards the northern 'fingers' of the province and so they were spared both the Red Mountain ash avalanche and the first wave of Argonians.
Telvanni fills in little more than a support role, since a substantial amount of their power was still being devoted to Vvardenfell cleanup, but Redoran rallied what remaining troops the province had, (along with their remaining stockpile) and drove back the Argonan occupiers (most of which were inexperienced, as the Hist used EVERY ABLE BODIED Argonian, from farmers to salesmen to actual warriors)
For TES 6 Black Marsh will be the sleeping giant.
They COULD in theory wipe any province adjacent to them off of the map right now, but they don't because the Hist deem neither the Dunmer nor the Empire as a threat to its existence right now.
That probably will change when the Dominion come looking for Black Marshes' ''Pillar'' though.