Having chosen Stormcloaks in one savegame, I was quite sad how that affected nice people. Jarls, families and thanes driven away from their homes, the kids saying they hoped a monster would come and eat me.. I was quite shaken by how my actions of wanting a "free Skyrim" was affecting people. The Stormcloaks are racists, Ulfric doesn't care about the nords! He killed Torygg and left his wife alone to rule over a city when she's obviously not ready for it. I'd rather have a multi-cultural Skyrim, with Khajiits, Dunmer, Argonians, and whatever race that isn't Nord, being nice to me, greeting me like I've done good for them instead of being greeted like a racist scum who'd hang them on a wall and make carpets out of them. With that, I'm hoping to help the Empire grow strong enough to rip the Concordat and vanquish the Thalmor, because we all know this peace treaty isn't going to last and is barely even being followed by those bastards. With all this you might be thinking I have something against Altmeri. I don't. In fact I like Faralda and Nirya back in the college, and we also have Fasendil in the legion (yes, there's an altmer fighting for the empire! Isn't he awesome?), and Calcelmo and his quest for romance, and so on. These are nice Altmer and the Thalmor do nothing but make people prejudge their race. With all that said, I do support the Legion and their multi-cultural Empire.