Civil War as a Bosmer

[ygaz]

Lore wise should I side with the Imperals (who work with the Thalmor who I dispise) or the Stormcloaks (who don't want me in skyrim, my home)? I'm not a lore follower (this wood elf is in both TG and DBH), but both sides don't fit with this build's logic and I can't convience myself either way.

[GrimCat]

So don't do either. Let the humans fight it out for themselves.

[Dr. Uncredible]

Yeah, neither. Both sides are being manipulated to some degree by the Altmer and neither side offers an opportunity to move against them, so let the humans duke it out between themselves.

[alexander_dougherty]

Lorewise each person who joins a side does so for their own reasons, choose one based on how you think your wood elf would.

[fauxpas]

Also it's a myth that the Stormcloaks are racist.

[Ashardalon]

yea, that teddy bear wearing dude explains it good enough
you just need to hate thalmor and believe that a nation should make its own rulings to join the stormcloaks
imperial propagandists are just making up the racist claims

[TSP]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Also it's a myth that the Stormcloaks are racist.

Very true, they are fine with all sorts of races as long as they're respectful of the old ways. You see tons of evidence both in towns and written lore in books.


As for ygaz; It really does seem out of place for a Bosmer to go and fight someone else's war unless you'd have personal RP reasons for it (i.e. your family being suppressed or something like that). By default, Bosmer don't have a strong connection to either the Imperials, Thalmor or Nords - nor are they really opposed to them.


If you feel like you want to side with a faction (Because it's a game and you play for fun and want to pick one) then just make up some personal RP for it. Perhaps your Bosmer fell in love with a Nord that had his/her family die in the war. Or perhaps you're leaning towards sociopathy and just like to see things burn and escalate between other races so that your race becomes stronger because of it.

[fauxpas]

Doesn't even have to be that involved honestly, simply living in Skyrim and wanting to see your homeland independant works too.

When I get a chance I might share my Imperial's story and why she choose the side she did in the Civil War.

[Ashardalon]

maybe you go resque the greymane boy because pity for old lady but after seeing the talmor stuff tolerated by the imperials done there you decide something bigger needs to be done against them then a single vigilante and hope the stormcloaks are a good start?

[MightyJean]

Originally posted by Dr. Uncredible:

Yeah, neither. Both sides are being manipulated to some degree by the Altmer and neither side offers an opportunity to move against them, so let the humans duke it out between themselves.

That's not exactly true. Both sides are manipulated by the Thalmor so the Civil War goes on until both sides are so weakened they don't stand a chance. Picking a side is making a move against them, a small one but still a move to f%$* up their plans.

[fauxpas]

Aeryin is a young petty sneak thief (not that good of one as the claw marks on the cheek the kat who caught her hand in his purse left her with) aspiring bard (she actually isn't half bad for someone with no classical training) and one time apprentice hedge witch (her master dismissed her when he caught her trying to learn a spell he didn't approve of ((bound dagger so she wouldn't be caught defenceless again))) who was trying to cross the border to visit her deceased mother's family who according to her exlegioner full time drunk and part time caravan guard father, lived in Helgan.

For her the fight against Alduin was personal, and she barely needed the dragonic urgings in her soul to hunt the wyrm who probably killed her kin to the ends of Nirn and beyond.

She was conflicted about Ulfric's uprising, on one hand, she had been a loyal Imperial citizen, and her nordic father fought and bled in the Great War. On the other hand the Empire was allowing the hated Thalmor (she blamed the Thalmor for the bitterness that was driving her father to drink himself to death) to roam free, kidnapping, torturing, and murdering the very people the Legions of old would have fought and died to protect.

She forced a temporary truce in order to banish Alduin back into the void (secretly she considers that a defeat, she wanted to burn his soul), but in her time wandering Skyrim she grew to love its people and although her imperial blood made her suspect in the eyes of some she enlisted in the Stormcloaks, because in the end, a leader who is unable or unwilling to protect his people doesn't deserve to rule.


If her father ever learnt of her choice, it would surely finish killing him if a broken heart.

[fauxpas]

The moral of Aeyins story is that you need to forget typical racial alliances when deciding what path your character is going to take; as the only common denominator that should weigh on every Dragonborn is the dragonic urgings that they all share.

[GoreTiger]

If you want the best possible outcome Lore-Wise, Side with the Empire and crush the Stormcloaks quickly.

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by KrayToast (KlaxosaurSquad):

If you want the best possible outcome Lore-Wise, Side with the Empire and crush the Stormcloaks quickly.

Once again, nope.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Originally posted by KrayToast (KlaxosaurSquad):

If you want the best possible outcome Lore-Wise, Side with the Empire and crush the Stormcloaks quickly.

Once again, nope.

Yep. Deal with it I guess.

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by KrayToast (KlaxosaurSquad):

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Once again, nope.

Yep. Deal with it I guess.

Considering that this very argument has been raging without conclusion since oldrim was first released; its unlikely that you've stumbled upon some hidden nugget of lore that can back up your claim.