>>3808390
So the game sets it up so you're more likely to pick Stormcloaks at the start. You *can* go with the empire, but they just tried to cut your head off and its easier to find the stormcloak guy.

I suspect because of that the game put more effort into 'subverting' things by making Ulfric just kind of insufferable. He's basically a massive hypocrite, generally dishonourable and an obvious useful idiot for the Elves.

Some stuff Ulfric does which would annoy people, in no particular order.

He has the voice because he learnt it from the Greybeards - who swear to use it for peace. He obviously isnt' doing that so he's an oathbreaker. He uses it to kill the High King in a duel. A duel which 1) was not meant to be to the death 2) He could have won without the voice because he was just a better warrior than the king, so he denied the guy a fair fight for no reason 3) the king he killed actually respected him and had his own doubts and probably would have listened if Ulfric had just talked to him.
When you speak to the king post-death (it's complicated) he's now very pissed off at being dishonourably murdered by someone he liked and who left his wife a grieving widow.

(Usually magic is a big no no for Nords, it's seen as cowardly and dishonourable outside of restoration and using it in the duel is arguably just murder. The only reason his shouting the king apart wouldn't count would be because the voice is not called magic.)

In-universe the whole thing comes across as a pointlessly violent powergrab that was in no way necessary and makes people nervous of him. If Ulfric had just dueled him, won and then let the king live (usually the loser is exiled) as was tradition then he'd have been in the same or better position and probably have more widespread support. Instead he outs himself as a violent shithead.

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