Skyrim has always stood with the empire.
Skyrim siding with stormcloaks.
The name stormcloak was first used to belittle the stormcloaks.
The stormcloaks may be racists but they aren t making slaves of people who disagree with them.
Joining the stormcloaks is a quest available in the elder scrolls v.
On of the best weapons for staying alive.
There are several ways to join the stormcloaks.
Completing this quest does not lock the dragonborn into the stormcloak line of the civil war as the dragonborn may switch sides in the next quest.
The dragonborn has the option of joining the stormcloaks after alduin s assault on helgen regardless of whom the dragonborn followed ralof or hadvar.
When you enter the game ulfric stormcloak has recently killed the king and you are in a cart with him ralof and lokir ready to be beheaded.
At the end of the stormcloak quest you get an amazing ebony weapon from ulfric that absorbs 25 points of health each hit.
Can t remember what the equivilant for the legion is though.
Personally i think the stormcloaks are the better option for both enjoyment and rewards.
Most groups were more motivated by the desire to stop the thalmor but liberal imperials were ever so slightly more motivated into siding with the empire because of the racism of the stormcloaks.
Skyrim in which the dragonborn must complete the initiation into the stormcloak rebellion to fight with them in the civil war.
Conservative imperials were the least sensitive to racism and the most likely to be interested in keeping the empire together to defeat the thalmor.
This was filmed so some people could see what its like if you choose to be a stormcloak instead of an impereal soldier.
This is the very reasoning cited by many of the nords when asked why they re siding with the empire during skyrim s civil war.
The stormcloaks believe that the empire betrayed skyrim by signing the agreement that ended the great war.