Elder Scrolls Kink Meme

Thank you so much OP! And I'm so glad someone caught that. That was one of those lines that I was afraid would lose all of its punch if I tried to draw attention to it. But I really wanted it in there, because in many ways I think that's Ulfric in a nutshell: the fact that he's internalized what happened to him, and made it a weapon. They say the qualities you most despise in others are the ones you're afraid are true of yourself, and he's no exception. He loathes the Empire for capitulating to the Thalmor, but no more than he loathes himself for capitulating to Elenwen; he sees the White-Gold Concordat as a betrayal of Talos and of all those soldiers who died in his arms on foreign soil - and in the darkest corner of his heart he believes it's his fault, because he broke under torture and betrayed information. But he projects all that rage and guilt outward onto the Empire, and thus you have the Skyrim Civil War. :( Bethesda deserves a medal for how well they managed to paint that particular psychological portrait without ever spelling it out.