Are you just so sodding stupid that you took somethingnout of a spoiler tag to openly comment on.

Both the empire and the stormcloacks have bad taste when it comes to Jarls. Making the Silverblood guy jarl of Markath is equally bad if not worse.

Maven is the kind of person with the right connections everywhere. On the bright side, you don't have to perform all those tedious quests to obtain the house in Riften afterwards,