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Alignment choices and why


MidbossVyers

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War is war.

 

The Reachmen have been driven into the ground by thousands of years of oppression, and so they have been forced to turn to an organised guerrilla war in order to liberate themselves. As such, they need to make it as difficult for the Nords and Imperials to operate in the Reach as possible. Sadly, acts of liberation (through guerrilla warfare at least), often involve civilian casualties. Ireland freed itself through such tactics, Palestine is trying to free itself through such tactics, Vietnam through of French occupation with these tactics, and the list goes on.

 

As Ulfric Stormcloak (public enemy number 1 of the forsworn) states: "There is no wheat without thrashing the Chaff".

 

Although I'll admit, some of their religious practices are simply revolting, and cannot be justified by any progressive means.

I would disagree with that, guerrilla warfare and sabotage are legitimate tactics when one side has to fight against a superior force, which is certainly the situation the Forsworn are in, but that's where the similarities end. The Forsworn aren't accidentally causing collateral civilian deaths in the course of targeting militarily or politically significant targets, they're just targeting anyone who doesn't wear furs and feathers: miners, farmers, wandering merchants, skinny dippers, and non-Forsworn Reachmen to name some examples we get to stumble across. Their strategy isn't to chip away at the enemy forces until they win, it's simply to strike terror into everyone in the region until they a) flee or b) die in the impending genocide campaign. That goes way past guerrilla warfare and goes neck-deep into the realm of terrorism.

Agreed, the Forsworn have taken a legitimate tactic too far, I understand that civilian casaulties are often unavoidable in war, but this isn't accidental. If the Forsworn see a group of farmers walking on the road, do they let them be? They're not a threat, they could leave them be if they wanted to. But they don't want to, they attack these people and if their victims are lucky they are killed quickly. Forsworn victims are rarely that lucky.

 

There is a silver lining though, as bad as the Forsworn are my Dovahkiin is a hell of a lot worse when you piss him off, and the Forsworn have done exactly that.

 

"We hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

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