So this exists, the sheer amount of mounts not in game. What the hell.
https://www.warcraftmounts.com/unusedlooksgallery.php
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That list is unreasonably long… come ON… 
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Don’t worry gamer, I’m not going anywhere.
I’ve been on WOW too long. I can’t even imagine life on the outside no more.
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I don’t even want to look ;-;
Vin Diesel pulls up in a muscle car
We don’t leave family behind.
I don’t care who Skyrim belongs to, I always side with Stormcloaks because Ulfric shouted the high king apart (based) and because general Tullius literally just decides to let me be killed off because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Empire enthusiasts always like to point out how Ulfric is actually really bad man behind it all and/or that the nords have no real chance against the aldmeri dominion or how this is all in the elves best interests yadda yadda yadda, but nobody ever stops to consider that Empire, for the most part, really come off as exceptionally cruel, dismissive or outright neglegtful throughout the game about several issues.
Sure Aldmeri dominion is the big bad but the Empire during the time of Skyrim isn’t any goody two shoes either. Plus, the game’s literally a heroic fantasy and numerically far superior foes have lost before too.
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Ulfric had, among fun things, a little kid beheaded in front of her dad because she didn’t want her dad to be killed for the crime of existing as a non-Nord in Markarth in his campaign of ethnically cleansing an area rich in mineral deposits
The dude is decidedly more cruel than the Empire is
Yes, I’m also aware of the Markarth incident as whole as well.
Meanwhile, the empire is willing to sacrifice Skyrim (and more) just so that they get a fighting chance to throw the elves back. They don’t actually care about the individual parts of the empire during the events of Skyrim, they just want to win- And Skyrim is just a piece in a puzzle.
At least with the Stormcloaks they (read: Ulfric) gets to choose what happens to the Nords instead of letting some bum emperor decide it for them. There’s no point saving for a future if it’s a future under another regime.
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How are they sacrificing Skyrim anymore than they are their own lands? Ulfric & pals like to talk about the grave losses of Skyrim’s people because of the Dominion, but the Empire’s own losses are significantly worse.
one of them’s an ethnonationalist fool that got MK Ultra’d by the species he blames for his woes whose dream is killing all of them + all the reachmen (although enslavement is fine too for those I suppose) that only has a fighting chance because his greatest enemies clandestinely supply him with weapons and assorted resources while sabotaging the Empire’s attempts to take him down, the other’s a war-weary man who’s actually won some big battles and is giving humanity a fighting chance against a regime intent on destroying the species
Ulfric’s only +++ over the Empire is that he’s got a cool voice (hehe) with which he talks about how he fights because he fights for his people so that they can fight because they fight for the fight so that they may fight (while actually doing significantly less than the Empire has in that regard when it comes to anything other than executing Reachmen men/women/children or dragging those into slavery in the mines)
In the end he’s a largely incompetent fellow that can barely handle ruling a city let alone all of Skyrim, whose continued position of power is only held intact by his greatest enemies because he’s a useful resource drain in their eyes - he’s good at rousing speeches for his target audience, but that’s about it
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On the topic of 9.1 and so on… Where’s Gallywix?!
forgotten, lost to the ages
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You could concede the point that the Empire signed the part of the White-Gold Concordat that banned Talos worship – but the Empire never enforced it. If the Dominion wanted to stomp it out, they’d have to come and do it themselves. Mede never complied with enforcing that law – until Ulfric started his rebellion based around the fact that it was now illegal (but still not enforced) which compromised the Concordat ahead of schedule as the Thalmor intended and forced Mede’s hand to start enforcing it.
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they decided he was too interesting a potential plot point for this expansion
Pretty much - I don’t think the Empire’s good in the slightest, but Ulfric’s just worse in right about every way other than pure charisma
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All of this comes down to Ulfric getting MK Ultra’d by the Thalmor and becoming a useful pawn to drain the Empire’s resources while the Dominion recovered from the 
show that was the Battle of Red Ring that destroyed the Dominion army.
The Empire spent the last 25 years rebuilding while the Thalmor were busy putting down bosmer uprisings to the point they had to start thinning the population through genocide just to be able to control them. Their army was destroyed and they were killing even more potential recruits while Mede was rebuilding the lost infrastructure the Dominion took out with them.
“But the Empire let Hammerfell stand alone against the Dominion” - Yeah, and he discharged every possible Legionnaire he could so they’d be patriots “returning to defend their homeland,” thus unofficially sending dozens of Imperial Legions to defend Hammerfell while still complying with the Concordat’s specific wording. They just weren’t affiliated with the Imperial Legion anymore, but a mass exodus of independent partisan fighters.
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Which is exactly the point. The empire doesn’t care about skyrim. It cares about itself- And it will sacrifice anything and everyone (including skyrim) to reach the said goals.
Yes, you’d (maybe) defeat the elves but now you are ruled over by another regime that’s only interest is its own existence.
You could put it that way. You could also put it in the way that asks that if Tullius and the empire are so great, why do they commit/allow such neglectful actions in the first place? Since, apparently, end justifying the means is not okay for Stormcloaks, but somehow it is an okay thing for the empire?
And if General Tullius truly commanded such renown and respect, how come he acts in the way as he does in Helgen? Those are not the actions of a wise, collected and/or experienced man. But, again, I suppose it is okay for empire to do what needs to be done, not for the others. It’s also a noble idea what the empire wants, but what it achieves and actually ends up doing are miles apart.
Ulfric has a simple goal with a simple, single purpose. And so far, in the game at least, he’s been very successful at it, though I am not aware of just how much is it due to the elves hoping to sabotage the empire, and how much because he actually is a war veteran himself and has seen combat and warfare plenty as well, and he understands strategy. I don’t believe he’d pull off a stunt like what he’s done if he didn’t believe he had the chance.
In fairness, I feel like Ulfric did it above all else because the current high king was weak and incompetent, and he knew Skyrim would need a high king who actually dared to take drastic measures. And even the high king seems to admit this, before his death.
Ulfric also won the duel, fair and square, but the empire (supposedly a law-abiding and all-better alternative) didn’t even attempt to work with him and/or sort out the situation, but rather chose to hunt him down and chase Skyrim down into a civil war (which Tullius then blames on Ulfric).
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I joined the imperial legion AND i killed the emperor.
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Ah, Gallywix… finally facing exile and consequences for his actions, having dodged them for years and years thanks to Thrall and then his usefulness, arguably the architect of the 4th War due to his ambition and greed, and unrepentant cos ‘gold azerite flying suits are COOL!’.
We finally see what happens when karma comes knocki-
What? … What do you mean ‘Not going to be mentioned’? Don’t tell me this is yet ANOTHER plot point just le-
It’s all just being left on Azeroth for the sake of ‘The New Shiny!’ again, isn’t it? Give me STRENGTH… -_-
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They aren’t, but they at least aren’t barring people from entrance to a city despite working there based on their race, don’t put civilian populations to the sword while forcing the survivors to do slave labour, and in general don’t subscribe to the idea of valuing people based on their race (and instead culture, which isn’t good either…) - they’re not good, but they’re a marginal step better over Ulfric’s lot
He’s not the Emperor, for one, and instead a cynical war veteran (kind of like Ulfric!) who doesn’t really understand why people can even support his enemy
ackchually ulfric was simply in Thalmor MK Ultra prison for most of the Great War 
(he’s definitely got experience too though, yeah - not much as a leader though, interestingly!)
It’s not presented very clearly in-game, but you can find various books and reports in the Thalmor’s headquarters on how they’re supplying him with the resources he needs to stay in the fight (but without him being aware that he’s getting it from them), and there’s some other hints at their sabotaging efforts - in the intro, for example, Elenwen shows up to demand the Empire hands over Ulfric to them, the plan obviously being for an “oh no, he managed to escape while on the road! How horrible and unfortunate!” kind of scenario.
Ultimately, the Stormcloak cause manages to hang on entirely due to a combination of the one individual’s charisma, and resources secretly given to them by what they proclaim (and consider) to be their greatest enemy, whereas the Imperial Legion is faltering because it’s recruiting locally instead of sending its experienced troops, which can’t get to the province due to an avalanche blocking the major entrance route to the province from Cyrodiil - there’s a report found in a fortress when the Stormcloaks win that talks about scout reports showing that the ‘proper’ Legion is getting ready to march in and that that threatens the continued existence of the entire rebellion despite them owning the entire land (I guess this also gives Bethesda a convenient excuse for dictating who ‘won’ the Civil War…)
I’ll say that I think it’s generally a well-written plot though - case in point discussions like these still taking place a decade after the game was released, and it really being a scenario where nobody wins except for the perfidious CIA- err, Thalmor…
the ultimate centrist
Tbh Hammerfell is based for just btfo’ing the Aldmeri Dominion almost on its lonesome.
Haha desert go swoosh
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okay I guess the cinematic won’t be revealed before I go to bed then
I’ll just wake up to the shenanigans I suppose