The Aldmeri Dominion - Ulfric things always seems like something to repeat. It's not like he was paying tithe to them or anything. Just because they want him in power doesn't mean he shouldn't be, and paying to that line of though only leads to more trouble. You see Skyrim mostly liberate itself, if the elves had helped or offered assistance, I think this claim would have been made to be more intentional rather than the oft-repeated reddit-spteak it is.