Ulfric Stormcloak
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Oct 28, 2026
NateHOST
Anyway, how's it going guys? It's Nate here, and welcome back to another Elder Scrolls investigation.
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And let me just say, forget everything you know about Ulfric or Elisif the Fair.
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There's another monarch the people of this province should worry about.
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Indeed, Skyrim has a secret queen no one ever told us of.
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You see, there's this mysterious, powerful female character known only as the Matriarch that we can read about in various notes scattered across the map.
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The letters suggest this Matriarch lady is leading a handful of bandit as well as Forsworn tribes and clearly using them to work towards some sort of goal that we'll talk about later.
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All things considered, she may very well be the third most powerful individual in all of Skyrim, behind General Tullius and Ulfric Stormcloak respectively.
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Now, despite making the Matriarch such an influential figure, Bethesda's writers clearly wanted there to be a lot of mystique and uncertainty behind her.
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From there, she wants to raise all of the dead in Skyrim, to bring both the Imperials and the Stormcloaks to their knees, and end this silly civil war once and for all, finally avenging her husband to the Empire and ensuring that no one else ever has to go through what she went.
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You would think Lua might be a bit sympathetic to Ulfric's cause, but nope, she's livid at them for not rising up and coming to Hammerfell's aid sooner.
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Now, it's up to the Dragonborn to venture into this dungeon, defeat Lua, and let those two poor lovebird souls rest once and for all.
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Interestingly, if you do manage to defeat this Redguard Necromancer, you'll actually briefly get to see the ghosts of Fjolgir and Fjori appear before you, and they'll thank you for freeing them, before vanishing into the mist and leaving behind the unique one-handed Ancient Nord Sword, Ghostblade, as your reward.
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Not even after you've beaten the game's Civil War.
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Players who have tried to clear out Imperial or Stormcloak camps know that fact all too well.
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Essential status is certainly nothing new to Skyrim, but at the time of the Elder Scrolls V's release, it seems Bethesda went harder with it than they had in any previous game.
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Sure, there were essential NPCs in Fallout and Oblivion, but not nearly as many.
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Like, not in-game Skyrim years, real life years.
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And, because essential NPCs are not immune to the paralysis effect, at least not in general, this offers you a way to, in essence, permanently remove them from the rest of your game.
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Knocking out Jarl Bolgruf, General Tolias, Ulfric Stormcloak, Delphine, anyone you want for what is almost certainly going to be the remainder of your playthrough.
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This works absolute wonders with those Civil War camp commanders I mentioned earlier.
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Again, some more history here, but for those of you who don't know, a couple of decades prior to the events of Skyrim, during the Empire's great war with the Aldmeri Dominion, for a very, very brief period of time, the Forsworn successfully captured Markarth.
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And they were able to successfully rule pretty much the entirety of the Reach as its own little independent kingdom, At least, they did for two years until the Great War ended, and Ulfric Stormcloak himself was appointed the head of an army which marched on Markarth and retook the city.
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It's said that Ulfric was an especially ruthless commander, and after recapturing Markarth, he put innumerable men, women, and children to the sword, all for suspected Forsworn sympathies.
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At least, that's how the story goes.
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Just to avoid confusion.
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Now, already looking at this map, you can probably notice that it looks exactly like Skyrim's borders at the beginning of the Elder Scrolls V Civil War, just with Ulfric Stormcloak in the east and the Imperial Loyalists in the west.
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Bear in mind though, this is all happening before Skyrim was admitted to the Second Empire by Tiber Septim, so everyone's independent this time around.
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Furthermore, as I mentioned, since 2014 we've been allowed to visit the Rift and East March, and even interact quite a bit with the Eastern King over there.
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You see, it's located deep within Sarthal, perhaps the first Nord colony in all of Skyrim, and definitely the first one we know of.
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Nords, of course, are not natives to Tamriel, despite what Ulfric might claim.
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Their homeland, where their race really emerged, is the continent of Atmora, a landmass across the northern sea of ghosts that's never been mapped.
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while it was once habitable, since the First Era it's evidently gotten so cold no life is able to survive there.
Max SchererHOST
What the fuck? He's not even the leader of the, like...
Max SchererHOST
You're not picking Ulfric Stormcloak? Okay.
Sam SchererGUEST
And that was the end of the list.
Sam SchererGUEST
Ulfric's just kind of a grumpster, too.