Grogmar Ghrobash
'Tis better to be alone, then of bad company.
I must repeat myself because I keep reading the same nonsense over and over again. Perhaps I should dedicate some time to create FAQ and save it on my hard drive therefour each time I see ignorant post like "Ulfric is Racist" or "Ulfric is a murderer" That I can just open up that FAQ and do a copy and paste. It amazes me the excuses that some people use to be on the imperial side. It's actually quite funny if you ask me because what they say cannot be fact up with facts.
I respect the Greybeards but I do not agree with some of the things that they do. Regards to what the greybeards wants to believe in the Thu'um is a tool, a weapon. To that respects Delphine was right when she said that the greybeards are afraid of power, and wont use it.
"The Greybeards were founded by Jurgen Windcaller after a devastating defeat at Red Mountain in Morrowind where he tried to use the voice as a weapon to destroy his enemies. When he failed, he wondered why the voice had failed him. Jurgen went into personal exile near the throat of the world. Through meditiation he learned the way that mortals can understand and use the voice. It was called the Way of the Voice, and it taught a lifestyle of pacifism and meditative study of the Thu'um." Taken off of Lore:Greybeards - UESPWiki
So here we have the founding father of the Graybeards who decided to use the voice as a weapon and came back with devastating results. Perhaps he wasn't the master of the voice? Perhaps he was a pacific person and didn't like what he saw? Either way the Thu'um is a weapon. The Graybeards need to learn and accept it. pushing people to use this gift for medication reasons will only drive many people away, like Ulfric who refuses to watch the world get torn apart. He was about to become part of the group but his heart was in politics.
If the empire gave Ulfric and the people in skyrim free worship to Talos then why is their a ban of talos? Why didn't the empire told the thalmor to go pisss off? I'm certain that the empire would be getting a hell of a lot more support then what they have now. Even one of the Legates from imperial supporting city said that their limit to recruiting the locals.
Your argument about the grey beards is futile. For a time they did use it as a weapon, but once Jurgen Windcaller discovered that he couldn't use it any more he investigated and figured out that Akatosh had taken the voice away from them because they were using it for the wrong purposes. So after that they became who they are in Skyrim today, believers in pacifism and all that. And I can't find anywhere that tells the real reasons why Ulfric left the Grey Beards but I can probably bet you that he only joined the Grey Beards for his advantage and that he has been planning on how to usurp the thrown all these years. Or perhaps the Grey Beards discovered his ill intentions on using the voice and exiled him before he could learn anything more. All just pure speculation. And sorry but when you said " Perhaps he was a pacific person and didn't like what he saw?" what did you mean by being a pacific person?
Their's a ban on talos because that's part of the peace treaty that was made by the Thalmor. Just because the Empire signed it doesn't mean they liked it. They had to sign it in order to rebuild and regain strength. And I'm sure if the Empire had told the Thalmor to "piss" off instead of signing the peace treaty there wouldn't be anything left for the people of Skyrim to support. If you ask me I'd say the Thalmor made those conditions knowing it would cause chaos in the Empire. Part of their divide and conquer strategy which Skyrim is doing an excellent job of executing. By creating the Civil War the Aldmeri now have the perfect opportunity to watch as the Empire struggles and waste resources while they sit back and regain strength for the second Great War. The Thalmor probably made those conditions in the peace treaty with the full intention on weakening the Empire. And I don't see how being limited to having to recruit locals really relates to anything. All it says is that the Empire is as the Aldmeri had planned and is being weakened.