Am I the only one that thinks this? So you go to Windhelm and you start speaking with Galmar's brother. He clearly expresses how he doesn't like the dark elves nor the Argonians. He tells you that every night he walks up and down the gray quarters and let them know what he thinks about them. I thought he was all talk but soon to realize that he wasn't joking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBrEP-VUonE

Hes not just talk, but also an action kind of man too.

He doesn't round up prisoners to interrogate, though. Ambarys Rendar would kick his [censored], what with that Imperial armour upstairs in his inn.

agreed, I lol every time

Amazing how our sheltered society finds things like this titillating.

well, fantasy =/= reality

Is it wrong that I took great delight in punching the living crap out of Rolff?

Skyrim BELONGS TO THE NORDS.

I'll be fighting alongside NPCs/followers and they'll yell this.

I'm an Argonian.
Given I am wearing a Dragon Priest mask, but I think the tail raises questions.

Not at all.

It's very cathartic.


Well...it's been the nord homeland for thousands of years...maybe it belongs to the Khajiit?

My character's spouse follower yells the same thing, and my character is a dunmer!

Kinda funny that Rolff accuses the dunmer of not helping fight the empire, but Rolff hasnt joined the stormcloaks either. Another armchair general I guess.

Yeah me too. I would had liked if some random dark elf pops out of nowhere during the night time and start beating the hell outta Rolff.


I always wondered about that myself. I wonder whats his story for not participating in the war.

Arrow in the knee?

For getting an arrow in the knee he has no problem walking at night yelling at the dark elves in the gray quarters. I'm sure he can be his brothers assistant.

I beat the crap out of him in a brawl late at night, but why is this guy essential? He should be killable! Of course then I would Reanimate him and beat the crap out of him again!

Usually racism in a sprite (in a RPG NPC) is a clue that they're supposed to be the "bad guys". While watching a youtuber do the Stormcloak questline, there are some disturbing hints of racism you see in the progression of the quests. In that way you tend to want to support the Imperials. Yet, you start off falsely accused of ... you never really find out what and almost executed by the Imperials, which would make you want to side with the Stormcloaks. Though while doing the Imperial quest line, there was nothing really disturbing as far as racism (though one quest was a little disturbing for other reasons). The finale was a trifle disturbing as far as the Imperial general's bloodthirstiness.

I guess the point is that for all the Imperium's problems, I'm still convinced the racism is a clue to which side might be made "canon" when the next game rolls around. The imperium holds onto Skyrim and probably gets into a war with the Thalmor. At last an enemy you can REALLY sink your teeth into ... possibly literally if you're a Werewolf. I barely allow the Thalmor to get a word out about their great mission before I cut them to tiny little elf-like pieces.

i play an argonian so i wasn't really pleased about him. punching him to trash wasn't really enough for me.... so i removed his essential tag and suprised him with a deadly present

Why do people assume Rolff is Galmar's brother- because of the name or is there some dialogue I missed? I assumed Galmar's was a military nickname. Maybe Rolff's is meant ironically.

I don't know what you mean about disturbing hints in the progression. Personally I think the racism angle is a play on expectations. In one of his posts MK talks about how the "Nords' largesse to their ancient enemies" is one of his favorite things out of the Red Year. And you expect the Nords to be backward and inward looking. On the surface that's what you find, and some people just stop there. But there are all sorts of inversions of the tropes in the details. In Skyrim it's the Stormcloak holds who took in Dunmer refugees and have the most "diverse" populations. The guy on the docks in Windhelm is exploiting his workers, but Bolli in Riften is a convert to Mara and the soul of generosity. The woman being harassed by Rolff and Angrenor will later talk about worthless lizards when you meet her in her office on the docks. And the fact that the Argonians are kept out of Windhelm probably has to do with the fact that they slaughtered their way through southern Morrowind after Vvardenfell, in retaliation for centuries of slavery. A couple of the Stormcloak jarls have more non-Nords in their households than the imperial ones do.

So all these things I see as a bit of trolling on the part of the writers. You're expected to think the Stormcloaks are racists and Nord supremacists, but the truth is much more complex and is in some respects the reverse.

The two of them being brothers would explain his Stormcloak support, which is vocal than that of other Windhelm NPCs, and why he's not in the field. It also might explain why he's so paranoid about Imperial spies.

As a Dunmer, I gladly brawled with him, hoping he would learn a lesson. He didn't, and still goes on about the "gray skins."