";s:4:"text";s:3388:"chases11545e 3 years ago #1. Poll. Honestly, I think canon is meant for the player to side with the Stormcloaks and push the Imperials out, because I believe the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be about a prisoner suffering under the evil elves, starting a revolution somewhere in the Dominion, after their brutal takeover of Tamriel (all thanks to the Stormcloak rebellion, which allowed them to capture Skyrim). Twitter; Facebook; Reddit; Copy. In this quiz there are more than two results as I think both imperials and stormcloaks got both good and bad qualities, there's two sides of every coin. 46.15% (60 votes) 60.
So the other answers point out that Bethesda is known for not confirming anything about past games in their lore, even going so far as to create space-time-altering cataclysms just to avoid having to make a decision. Description. As part of the main quest, there is a war council where you have the possibility to favour one side or another (or neither, if you want to be an even-handed Dovahkiin), but that's it. Stormcloaks seem like they’re more likely to fight the Thalmor than the Imperials, so I sided with the Stormcloaks. Poll: Imperials vs. Stormcloaks; User Info: chases11545e. But neither side is really blameless.
This poll is now closed. Neither. Stormcloaks. Merici the Bosmer is an unscrupulous, murderous shithead. Why? +1 Imperials to … the thalmor WANT the stormcloaks to beat the imperials because it would weaken the imperials to the point where they could just finish them off. Which side do you prefer? Like Tullius inviting his bff Elenwen to a summit where she was neither wanted or needed. It also seems sort of like a dictatorship, where everybody is serving the Empire, as opposed to Stormcloaks, who all love Ulfric.
tl;dr: Which side do you prefer, Imperials or Stormcloaks and why? 6.92% (9 votes) 9. The Thalmor have backed the Imperials into a corner, and they are making the best of a bad deal, until they can reject the White Gold Concordat. after that they'd move on to conquering skyrim from the nords.