What is the best choice for a Khajiit? Stormcloacks or Imperials?

That depends on how you're roleplaying.
There is no right or wrong answer.

As the person above said, there is no right or wrong choice, however the Empire seems to be a bit more logical choice. Nords seem to be unfriendly towards other races, plus khajiit homeland is Thalmor territory now and for Thalmor the empire is more logical choice (Since they can boss them around, can't do that with nords).

a khajiit would not be bothered to join the civil war.

IF a khajiit would join the civil war, it would be the empire. the khajiits surrendered to the thalmor after all. stormcloak khajiit makes no sense, just like an argonian joining them.

Depends. Consider the following if your khajiit is from Elsweyr.(He could be a native to any of the provinces if you wanted. Though probably not summerset. The altmer are a little guarded with that place)

Is your Khajiit a thalmor sympathizer? Stay out of the war. Either side winning will hurt thalmor interests.

Does he want to end the thalmor influence but doesn't want imperials to control his homeland again? Stormcloak

Does he think the imperial influence was a good thing for his homeland(If your khajiit is traditionalist, he/she might not be a fan of imperial law) - Imperial


But there's multiple situations and plenty of reasons for any race to join either side.

Yeah, if anything the Khajit would be on the side of the Thalmor it seems. Eh, I really don't see either of them joining this civil war.

Neither, both because the Khajit seem rather apolitical when it comes to the civil war as long as they are left alone, and because the Thalmor (who control Elsweyr) are staying out of the war.

The Khajit fully support the Thalmor and the Second Aldmeri Dominion, therefore due to the White-Gold Concordat, they would then support the Imperials and the Empire by de facto. This is all according to lore, so therefore if you were to follow the lore and be a supporter of your own people and the current two ruling kingdoms of Elsweyr, which are client states of the AD you would also do the same.

Of course, if you RP to rebel against the two kingdoms and the current political state of Elsweyr, for whatever reason, you join the Stormcloaks.

My next char will be a Khajit and will be joining the Imperials.


Just a note, they are not Thalmor territory as they are ruled by their own governing bodies. They are part of the Second Aldmeri Dominion though. Remember, the Second Aldmeri Dominion is the actual nation, the Thalmor are the governing body of the Summerset Isles and Valenwood. They happen to be at the top of the ruling body of the entire thing though. Just as Cyrodil is still ruled by it's Emporer, but he is no longer the highest authoratative figure in the land because he bows to the SAD too.

The Empire winning goes against the Thalmor's interests. If said Khajiit is really a Thalmor supporter, s/he would probably want to stay out of the war.

They don't make this known though except to it's secret agents, which you are not.

And they really don't have a true interest in a winner or loser, they just want a fight to happen and the victor to be in a weakened state. The preference would be the Stormcloaks to win because they are the small force in general right now, but that could all change once Ulfric unites the land making the Stormcloaks stronger than what they were before the beginning of the civil war.

[imagine your best khajiit voices when Reading this]

Jixui feel that the men should be let to fight there silly battles, he feels that his presence on the imperial side would just cause further hatred from the nord against his people.

But he feels joining the stormcloaks would be as equally bad, this is because of angering those high elfs further, best to stay out of it.

Imperial I would say though my only Khajiit to complete the civil war did side with Ulfric. I will say though she is really watching her back now. She is responsible for the civil war turning to his favor and she personally handed him Solitude. But his "Skyrim for the Nords!" speeches are getting to her. She has a feeling Ulfric will have no issues stabbing her in the back.

You really, really don't understand nords do you?

Depends on if your character hates or likes the Dominion. If they like them they might go with the Empire since those two have the shoddy peace treaty going but if you hate them your character might think the Stormcloaks are another good blow to the Dominion.

That makes sense. Maybe s/he would join the Empire to stop the rebellion which s/he considers to be dangerous.

Though I still stand with "neither". I think most Khajiit (emphasis on most, not all) wouldn't be interested in a civil war in Skyrim.

If the game forced every class to be true, then Ulfric would not have allowed a Khajitt to enter in the first place. Everyone always says Khajitt is not allowed into the city but they let you in? In reality we should have had to sneak into the cities.

As a Thalmor agent, a khajiit could be an inside man on either side. Joining one side would also allow him to peddle his goods more freely to one side of the conflict.

"Skyrim for the Nords!" just means that the political authority of Skyrim belongs to it's people.

If a Khajiit wants to join in the Skyrims civil war then there can be only two reasons for that:
- He is totally tired about attitude of many Nords towards his people. -> joins in the legion to have a chance for revenge.
OR
- He is planning to live in Skyrim for long time and wants good future at there. -> joins in Stormcloaks to proof Nords that he can be trusted and is loyal and equal to them.

If you had actually talked to Ulfric and Galmar, you would've learned that they don't care what race you are so long as you're committed to skyrim and not just a sellsword.

That Khajiit ban is not really clear either. Seems more like caravans aren't allowed in the cities.(Due to skooma trafficking) And that's ALL cities, not just stormcloak ones. Yet there is Shavari who walks around Riften in the open during

Well, ask yourself this, did the Stormcloaks try to cut off your Khajiit's head at the beginning of the game, or the Imperials? I think that answers every question of 'Should a X support the Stormcloaks or Empire?'



Not exactly. They say the Khajiit caravans are not allowed in the cities because everyone believes they are thieves and drug dealers. In fact, some of them are the first, and all of them are the second. Not wanting drug-dealers in your city is not racism, it is simply common sense. It just so happens that all the Khajiit in the game seem to be in the caravans. So we do not know how Nords feel about regular cat-folk who do not peddle skooma.

Have you started the game as an imperial? They want to cut off your head too. They call you a traitor. So by this logic every character should join the nords.

Yep. I take it very personal when someone tries to murder me. Most folks do. The fact that the Empire cannot wait to murder a person, without having any actual evidence that they broke any laws, tells us volumes about the kind of State it has become. This is not our father's Empire, where truth and justice, or right and wrong, meant something.

The caravans are on both sides and at the same time on neither side.

However, since the Elsweyr seems to be under thalmor control, I'd say the khajiit might want to side with the stormcloaks, to "defeat the thalmor", so to say.

Blame Legate Rikke for that, not the whole empire.
Both the Stormcloaks and the Imperials have bad apples or have just made some mistakes, Legate Rikke being too tired to care shouldn't affect your disposition between Hadvar who didn't want to see your Head cut off ._.