I know there are a lot of these kinds of threads, but I was interested to see more reasons why people joined which side.

Imperial Legion, because I believe they are the best choice in order to defeat the Aldmeri Dominion and free Tamriel from their reign. I usually have more reasons to it, but it gets kind of tiring having to type out the paragraph.

Stormcloak supporters, please have mercy on my soul.

Oh god another Imperial Vs. Stormcloak we get a lot of these. I choose Neutral. No matter what character I create they always remain neutral to the civil war. Neither side appeals to me.

Totally agree. Empire needs to be unified to defeat the dominion. Skyrim couldn't do it alone. Unless they resurrect talos...

I chose the Stormcloaks, because even though Ulfric may not be 100% what he says he is, the cause is true and Skyrim's independence could put them in a good place to work with Hammerfell and I think that they would have a good chance against the Thalmor.

Long Live The Empire.

Imperials. Reasons as follows:

1. While Ulfric's cause (religious freedom) is just, I'm suspicious of his motives. Until he started the war, the Empire was only giving lip-service to the Aldmeri's ban on Talos-worship. Indeed, Elsyf (the Empire's favorite jarl) and Rikke (the second ranking Legion officer in Skyrim) both seem to worship Talos themselves. Ulfric's actions forced the Empire to change that stance. In essence, he's fighting to solve a problem that he effectively created.

2. The Aldmeri have no reason to care who a bunch of mere humans a continent away worship. UNLESS they're trying to fracture the Empire. The fact that they consider Ulfric an important asset lends credence to this statement. By "liberating" Skyrim, Ulfric is playing into their hands, turning a united empire into a bunch of isolated and easily conquerable provinces.

I don't know. I think that the Stormcloaks have more passion about what they are fighting for. You can force people into the Legion but you can't force them to feel the cause in their hearts.

I see it as a choice between two evils, with no good choices. In the end I may be more supportive of the Empire, but not a whole lot.

Agreed. Neither side is better than the other. Both have their cons.

He was thrown in jail(before murdering the high king) for worshiping Talos after the Jarl of Markarth agreed to look the other way while Ulfric and his band worshiped Talos. If free worship wasn't a problem before that, he wouldn't have needed to demand it as payment for liberating the Reach from the Forsworn. The Thalmor found out somehow that the Jarl was letting people worship Talos and threatened to send an army to the Reach(which the Imperials would allow through their territory because they were enforcing the White-Gold Concordant).

He is considered an asset because he ties up the Empire in Skyrim. The Thalmor don't want either side to win, and this is all mentioned in Ulfric's dossier. Tullius is as much an asset in this instance as Ulfric.

Muahaha, another Civil War poll! Somebody pass me popcorn, please.
As for me, I'm neutral. I could play both Imperial and Stormcloak characters, but I personally don't support either.

If it weren't for the Altmeri threat, maybe I would be friendlier toward the Stormcloaks. Like I said, self-determination and religious freedom are just causes; they were two of the freedoms that we fought for in our own revolution, 230 years ago.

-gives popcorn- Let the verbal bloodbath begin.

Elisif does worship Talos. If the Stormcloaks take over Solitude, she also swears loyalty to Ulfric. She is the only jarl who swears loyalty to the other side when their hold is conquered. This just shows that she is not as supportive to her side as she says.

I chose the Stormcloaks so I could break up and weaken the Empire so the Dominion could conquer either side with ease.


Haha, I've almost single-handedly [censored] the Empire up.

I side with Ulfric Stormcloak, True High King Of Skyrim!

They would have trouble conquering a mountain goat with ease I think...unless they attacked with surprise, then they could force it into a treaty.

How nice , and then the Aldmeri Dominion will freely destroy the Nords race

Doesn't matter if he is an elf.

Exactly! The Nords hate the Dark Elves, so I made sure that the Nord's homeland is doomed.

They made the mistake of letting a Dark Elf into the ranks of the Stormcloaks too. Their imminent destruction is closer to 'assisted suicide.'

You have a point

*takes popcorn and puts bloodbathing cap on*

Personally, I'd love a third option (maybe via DLC) where you get the two sides to patch things up, then go into Elseweyr or Valenwood to fracture the Dominion the way they fractured the Empire. And then, the Nords, Imperials, Bretons, Redguards, Khajiit, and Bosmer all team up and just spank the living crap out of Summerset, turn the whole place into a parking lot. Only no one knows it's a parking lot because there's no such things as cars. Unless the Dwemer invented them at some point.

I'd sink it and park my ship there personally...then use the souls of the Altmer nation to fuel my own personal forcefield to protect my ship from the rain.

No no no no , I think such thing should go into TES6.
Imagine it , you begin in a battle ship near the coasts of The Summerset Isles for the battle.
Or you work inside the Isles and open a resistance against the Dominion.