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Ulfric killed his king and wanted to break for the Empire. He makes it clear that nothing but his absolute victory or death would end things. Te fact is it's impossible to negotiate with him. Is that really the Nord way?
So is she being roleplayed as having lived under a rock for quite some time?
actually as being on a bad skooma bender that wiped her entire memory prior too
They wanted to execute him because they thought he was a Stormcloack. Maybe that's a hint that the Stormcloacks are out of control?
You don't simply cast aside faith. Every Nord is perfectly capable of revering and praying to Talos. However, that's not good enough. They have to be vocal about it, and how they're not happy with the WGC one bit. They even started a war over it! Also, although it's a false peace, it's still peace. The Dominion isn't sending armies, and there seems to be nothing to stop the rest of Tamriel from recovering for round two except for this civil war. Guess who started that?
Because he was running away. Before anyone could even try to be a voice of reason, he was all "You're not gonna catch me!". So lets say a criminal who is suspected of killing an unknowable number of people was trying to escape. What would you do?
I mean Sidonus. Remember him? Nice guy. Good with a crowd. Eventually gained an evil empire that the people handed to him with thunderous applause.
No the fact is that abolishing the segregation law isn't even on his list. Repealing the segregation law doesn't require taking any priority over his war campaign. As I keep telling you, all he has to do is issue an edict repealing the law. As Jarl of Eastmarch his word is law and it takes no more effort for him to dictate an edict than it does for him to order lunch. He chooses not to repeal the law because he supports the segregation of the Dunmer which is why your opinion that he's not racist is about as valid as an opinion that the Earth is flat. As others have pointed out it's by no means even close to the most oppressive forms of racism and by inference one is free to assume he's not an extreme racist, but to deny any element of racism to his character is to deny the existence of the content that the game presents to you.
This is a false analogy. Hammerfell was essentially of one mind when the Redguard resistance carried on the fight agains the Aldmeri Dominion. Skyrim is not. The Redguard resistance was fighting against an occupying force. The Stormcloaks are largely fighting against their fellow Nords who don't want to break apart from the Empire. The tenacity of the Redguard resistance to continue their fight before the ink was even dry on the White-Gold Concordat isn't even remotely comparable to a portion of the Nords deciding to impose their will on the rest of the Nords who disagree with them after tolerating the situation for over a quarter of a century.
Try and read what I actually wrote instead of respponding to what you would like to pretend that I wrote. I never said that the Thalmor Justiciars were there because of Ulfric. I said that the level and severity of their activity is because of Ulfric and that's backed up by NPC dialogue as early as the quest Before The Storm if you talk to Alvor as he states that the extremity of the steps that the Thalmor are taking to enforce the ban on worship of Talos are due to Ulfric's actions and it's reaffirmed when you find the book Flight from the Thalmor at Sky Haven Temple which illustrates the lengths one had to go to before attracting the scrutiny of the Justiciars prior to the Stormcloak rebellion.
The Thalmor Justiciars would be there regardless. It's their right under the White-Gold Concordat and they would be foolish to think that the Empire would comply with the ban in good faith without their presence to at least monitor the situation. Further, the Empire's lukewarm enforcement of the ban is hardly a valid argument against it as it makes it more sympathetic by portraying an Empire that is trying to do what it can to tacitly allow the discrete worship of Talos even though it's in violation of the treaty.
She doesn't act like the High Queen of Skyrim. She acts like the Jarl of Haafingar because that's what she is.
He clearly does even if you choose to ignore game content to pretend otherwise. But for his actions the Thalmor wouldn't be detaining and interrrogating so many people in Skyrim.
Everyone should have that right. However, please remember that the Talos ban was the Aldmeri Dominions idea. If the Empire did not agree to that, the war would have continued and more people would have died. Tell me, is the right to worship openly worth suffering and dying for? Talos loved his people, and they're killing each other over him. He must be so proud.
This is not analagous. The United Nations has no sovereignty over any nation that is a member of it and no citizen of any member state owes any allegiance to it. What would be analagous is the statement "If the United States Federal Government enforced an applicable federal law on the citizens of New York would those who defied the law be breaking the law?" The answer of course is yes.
