Ulfric Stormcloak is one of Skyrim’s most fascinating figures. A rebellious Nord Jarl, fighting against the Empire in a bid for Skyrim’s independence. Is he a hero, a villain or is it more complex? What’s going on with him, why is he the man he is and is he a threat to Skyrim or its saviour? In today’s video I endeavour to understand the man. I must say, the angst of tackling the subject knowing how hotly debated it is did make producing this video quite a longwinded experience, maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree. Nonetheless, I thought I’d grant my perspective.
Subscribe to our history channel, Decades:
https://www.youtube.com/c/DecadesVideos
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DecadesVideos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decadeschannel/
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FishyYarpster
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/fizhye
The Four Pillars Network:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvlJN1JzToq4CfGjry3FMw
If you feel like tipping, go here: https://streamlabs.com/XN3RDXD3RPXakaEthan
Channel merch:
– https://teespring.com/stores/fizhy-store
– http://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/FishyYarpstore
Join the Union for Gamers: https://www.unionforgamers.com/apply?referral=abxx7xmy545t2c
My second channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZWJLyBPE
Snapchat: cabbagefishd3
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EJWoodgates
Woof: https://twitter.com/DoggoOfHappines
Like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FishyYarpster/
Thanks for watching!
Please:
Like
Subscribe
Share
Comment
TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT ME (please?)
NO SELF ADVERTISING WHETHER IT BE OF PRODUCTS OR CHANNELS (if you want me to notice your videos/products then be sure to privately message me)
I hope you enjoy the video!
Music from Epidemic Sound: http://www.epidemicsound.com
#Skyrim #ElderScrolls #bethesda
40 Comments
In summary:
Racist Nord Jarl intent on wiping out the Empire because he can’t see beyond his own bigotry for even a second to see that the Empire also hates the Thalmor. The end.
FOR THE STORM CLOAKS FOR ULRICK FOR ALL OF SKYRIM! LET THE TRAITORS WHO SLOD SKYRIM TO THE MER BURN IN THERE FAILURE!
Hell yeah! This is going to carry me to the end of my work day. Thanks Fizhy 🤙
It’s the legend himself let’s go 🙏
SKYRIM IS NORD LAND! GO back to Cyrodil, yall Elven boot licking Imperials!
He’s a nord supremacists. The Empire may suck for letting the Thalmor arrest Talos worshipers, but the Empire could defend the Skyrim against the Thalmor better than the storm clocks.
Ulfric Stormcuck, the true short king.
…you would release a Skyrim video at the exact moment I'm playing it, Fizhy? I approve. And what great timing too! 😂
Ulfric was based as hell, Make Skyrim Great Again!
Simperial walls used to make me feel so LOCKED IN
The imperials may try to chop off my head, but the stormcloaks don't bother to unbind me. They tell me to jump through the roof while my hands are tied. Screw them.
Just in time for a new play through
If Ulfric had asked Torygg, it goes differently. Especially with the assistance of Hammerfell, the Empire would have had a chance against the Thalmor.
All hail to Ulfric! You are the High King!
In one generation Skyrim could build a massive stormcloak army.
Ulfric Stormcloke is my favorite character in skyrim because he is the most interesting.
I sincerely hope you’ll cover our great General Tullius at some point in the future, to let both us Imperials and the Stormcloaks properly see both sides of the coin ^^ ♥️
Bro I’d love if you did Skyrim videos this is awesome
Ulfric got played by a High Elf baddie and made it everyone else’s problem
TALOS BE PRAISED
Empire forever
I always side with the storm cloaks. Felt like a weird Brexit analogy before its time so it was always fun to pick the controversial option. Plus the elves are dicks.
Not having extensive irl novels about Skyrim is downright criminal! I barely found Skyrim volume 1 and it just contains the in game books's texts and immediatly ordered it for about 40 US Dollars I believe! I've read most if not all books in the game but I'd like to have a collection of REAL LIFE books about the game that I can open and immerse myself in
Ulfric stormcloak is the true high king
it’s a crime that camelworks gets millions of views for their half-assed theorizing, and you cover the same topics with far more quality, sense, and stylish editing and get far less. I hope you get far more attention with time. Your videos and your steady, measured approach have been a comfort in some difficult personal times. Appreciate it all.
ulfric is an idiot.. end the video
Im going to love sitting bacn and watching this like a movie. Break out the popcorn!
Jumping in at the start, I can already tell I'm either going to love this or absolutely hate it. Let's see where it goes.
Always side with the Empire. The Empire with Skyrim is the greatest threat against the Thalmor.
Ulfric obviously sees the Dominion as the main bad guys he'll have to face, as seen after you complete the civil war on his side. He just thinks that the Empire is worse than the sum of its parts, the Cyrodiil mismanaged the first great war and was way too eager to sacrifice the provinces.
I understand why Ulfric is mad but he’s going about it the wrong way he should ally with powers who are against The Aldmeri Dominion like The Redguards in Hammerfell and considering the discrimination The Wood Elves and the wood elves of Valenwood experience from The Thalmor I’m sure they’d support him but instead Ulfric for some reason doesn’t trust The Redguards or Wood Elves
Niceeee
The thing about the discussion around Ulfric Stormcloak is that I feel like everybody talks about how Ulfric is shortsighted and his actions play right into the hads of the Thalmor, which is TRUE, but it's not like he is the only one, or even the most important character in the story to fall for this. I'd Argue the Emperor, in signing the White-gold concordat, fell for the same mistake.
I mean, why would a foreign power want to ban the worship of Talos if not stirr up this controversy in the first place? You can spend all day arguing that the law wasn't truly enforced, but it's exitence is a constant reminder that they had lost the war and their Empire didn't make decisions by themselves and had to respond to a foreign government. Not only that, but the fact that the redcloaks kept fighting and eventually got to keep their country serves as evidence that maybe if the empire had fought harder, they could have won. The White-gold concordat was WRITTEN with the explicit intent to sew division and strife within the Empire, in the hopes that the divided lands will later more easily fall to the Aldmery Dominion.
In the end of the day, if it is folly for Ulfric to start the civil war (and yes, it is) it was folly for the Emperor not to insist on terms that didn't naturally divide his country and expose the Empire's weakness. So, while Ulfric is playing on the hands of the Aldmery… So is the Empire.
And, hey, maybe it's innevitable. It may be that the structure of the empire and the vast array of interests that dispute the Emperor's attention were already breaking the empire from within for a while, and the Aldmery are just speedrunning that decay. Or not. But I really think it's unfair to put Ulfric as the cause of the downfall of the Empire in the hands of the Aldmery.
Ulfric is the symptom. Not the disease.
I love you
Can you bring that dossier to Ulfric?
Ah yes the Skyrim KKK
It was nice to kill Ulfric.
I finally got the Hjerim house for it, too!
👏
Guess I’m not reading on my dinner break, tonight 🥰
Ulfric is basically trump version lol