Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
Who else would emerge as leader though? Laila Law-giver, who couldn't lead a herd of lost ducklings? Skald the crazy old man of Dawnstar? Korir the Ignored of Winterhold? The Stormcloak jarls besides Ulfric are laugably bad.
Yeah, if you assume that the only people with political agency are landed nobles then there's no other way a civil conflict happens, but that's a bad assumption and you shouldn't make it.