You will be asked to take sides in the civil war being fought between the imperial legion and the stormcloaks a historical description of which may be found here you can only choose one side.
Skyrim civil war changes if siding with stormcloaks.
After the civil war i joined stormcloak this play through i had been hitting empire camps as i ran across them and killed everyone in the camp including the legate.
First of all we must discuss how the study was done.
This stance came about due to the aftermath of the great war and the imposition of the white gold concordat by the aldmeri dominion the stormcloaks consider the empire as just a puppet of the thalmor because the empire surrendered.
A google form was created that asked five questions.
Strong imperial lean imperial neutral lean stormcloak and strong stormcloak.
The stormcloaks believe that the empire betrayed skyrim by signing the agreement that ended the great war.
The stormcloaks believe skyrim should secede from what they feel is a corrupt crumbling empire.
Ulfric stormcloak commanding a group of stormcloaks in a battle.
While comparatively simple compared to the faction alignment systems of previous elder scrolls games choosing a side to take up arms for in skyrim s civil war can still.
I m well over 200 hours in this play through and one of the first camps i hit after the war was outside of markarth and it has never respawned its still empty as i just checked.