The Politics of Skyrim

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But it takes skill to use the pistol, too. You still don't have one and I do. How is that fair to you when all you have is a sword?

Torygg had a voice. He could have trained it to do what Ulfric could do, but he didn't. That's his lookout.

Kynareth, the one they're worshiping with these shouts, was originally a storm goddess and goddess of warriors.

Storms and warriors - and fire, and etherealness, and domination, and trickery, and clear skies, and moving really really fast over short distances. But not anything that's not geared towards adventurers. It's an eccentric domain, that one.

Edit:

Well Ulfric does have the support of a number of the jarls. It could just be a matter of Torygg's faction not approving of it because Torygg is 'their guy'.

Yep, exactly. We have to bear in mind the politics going on here. Nobody's opinion or account should be taken entirely at face value: every single character in the game has their own agenda and is, whether they even realise it or not, spinning like fury to present the most favourable case they can for their own team.

It seems to me that a lot of people here apply that sort of scepticism only to one side, they take Team Torygg's view as unvarnished truth.

Further edit:

He shows up in MOrrowind in person, for a bit.

Weell... some elderly dude in a legion officer's uniform turns up for a brief cameo. Maybe he's Talos, maybe he isn't - there's no definitive statement.