Dagmar
Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
OFFS what constitutes high treason and that Ulfric is guilty of it has been well established in the game and in this thread at least half a dozen times. Some of the players in here who are renewing the argument against it are either guilty of intellectual dishonesty or memory challenged stupidity. It doesn't matter how Uflric killed Torygg. It only matters that he killed him. High treason is a crime apart from homicide.
As for using Thu'um, we can only speculate, but it seems way off to use magic in a duel based on Nord traditions of warriors settling matters by right of challenge. Vilkas implies it's dishonorable in your initiation fight into the Companions. The Nords generally disdain its use. When you think in particular how powerful Thu'um is it's counter-intuitive to everything we know about Nord society that in an honor duel between two warriors you could simply call down the lighting and fry your opponent, or summon a Dragon to kill him for you, or turn him into a block of ice and it wouldn't be considered dirty pool by most Nords. If you want to think that's deemed honorable combat by Nords who generally believe in settling things with steel have fun with that but my character wasn't buying into that notion even when she joined the Stormcloaks.
As for using Thu'um, we can only speculate, but it seems way off to use magic in a duel based on Nord traditions of warriors settling matters by right of challenge. Vilkas implies it's dishonorable in your initiation fight into the Companions. The Nords generally disdain its use. When you think in particular how powerful Thu'um is it's counter-intuitive to everything we know about Nord society that in an honor duel between two warriors you could simply call down the lighting and fry your opponent, or summon a Dragon to kill him for you, or turn him into a block of ice and it wouldn't be considered dirty pool by most Nords. If you want to think that's deemed honorable combat by Nords who generally believe in settling things with steel have fun with that but my character wasn't buying into that notion even when she joined the Stormcloaks.