October 30, 2012 10:43 AM EDT
My Imperial warrior/paladin was a proud member of the empire, and a proud member of the Imperial Legion. That was, until he started seeing how his vaunted empire was becoming a lapdog of the Aldmeri Dominion, and the Thalmor. He didn't care who worshipped what, that was up to the individual, and he believed that a belief that was not hurting anyone was not to be touched by politics.
But the empire should be allowed to govern itself, not cater to the whim or will of egotistical, elitist, jack-booted, jack-nosed elves who were the east ends of west-bound mules. When he spoke out as such, he was ordered to retract that statement, and publicly apologize. He refused. The Thalmor had his family executed, using fellow imperial officers. In anger, he spoke out again, adding that the empire turn it's back on the people, on their history, on their hero, Talos, and have become just another conquered people, under the Aldmeri Dominion.
Again, the Thalmor had all possessions of his, including his house, destroyed. Again, utilizing imperial officers to do it. His final words to the empire before he was ejected from Cyrodiil, he said "as long as the empire bow down to the dominion, I will fight anyone who sides with them, even the empire itself". With that, he was "handed over" to the imperials that captured Ulfric and the Stormcloaks.
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