Personally I have nothing against the Blades but ain't no way I'm killing my dragon friend voiced by Mario
are dragons gay?
do dragons commit crimes?
this is an important set of questions
uhh no one, show me for research purposes
edit: wait weren't you the person who was banned for hornyposting gay furry stuff?
i'm gonna go ahead and say that someone does not willingly cloister themselves on a mountaintop and swear off violence for thousands of years unless they actually mean it. on no playthrough did I ever kill him because theres no justifying it. which i think is a failing on bethesda's part; they failed to write a convincing moral quandry into the game surrounding his fate. he is clearly a good guy and nothing Belle Delphine says actually provokes any new thought or doubt about paarthurnax's redemption
I think Bethesda definitely believed restoring the Blades would be enticing enough to justify killing Paarthurnax because of the role they played in Morrowind and Oblivion, but for people like me who haven't played either game I had no such attachment
I mean, restoring the agency run by the guy who sold his shirt to pay for Skooma isn't exactly a thrilling proposal.
Caius is what happens when a CIA agent gets addicted to their own supply of crack
you see, our game about how bandits have an insatiable drive to murder you, which is unquenchable even by fear, is very realistic and not politically problematic at all
Sometimes they put their sword away and run, but if you wait about thirty seconds they'll pull it back out and attack you again.
I think I played like an hour of that game and was too drunk to vibe with it so I uninstalled. Worth picking back up? Still have it in my steam library.
Wait, the metroidvania game GRIME? We're thinking of the same thing? If so, I actually just took today off work and will reinstall. I definitely did not give it a fair shake, and then I got caught up in other shit I played.
You also loot the graves and corpses of all the people you kill.
Maybe I'm alone in this but I never loot corpses in Bethesda games unless there's a quest-related item I need to take off of it. It just feels wrong to call myself the good guy while carrying around dozens of pairs of shoes.
cold blooded murder for no reason is truly the most chad decision
The Blades were written to quite literally be the Cyrodilic Empire's version of the CIA, so.... yeah don't listen to them...
Don't kill the dragon, from a simple gameplay perspective, the blades give you less in return: if you kill master P, the blades will give you a sword buff thing against dragons that you have to return to them for every time you want to use it (essentially the buff on that one enchanted blades sword you find at the blades temple, but they'll apply it to whatever weapon you want for I think 24 hrs or something?)
Paarthurnax gives you permanent buffs to your shouts, which are still kind of piddly, but they're still better. Also fuck the blades. If you're gonna play these games at all, why not play it as a power fantasy? Would you want to go along with two ballsacks who try to browbeat you into murdering the cool dragon who has been nothing but helpful and supportive to you, simply because they have some wienery "justice" complex? And who the fuck are they to try to pressure you? They fucking need you! WAAAAY more than you possibly need them.
plays video game where anything is possible
pol voice :le-pol-face: IT WAS THE REALISTIC CHOOOOOICE
Yeah, I'm not dragon racist, so I'm not gonna kill a dragon just because he's a dragon
Nah. Me and my werewolf husband aren't about killing nonhumans for the sake of it.
Real answer is no, but download the mod that let's you tell the blades you're not doing it and continue their quest line anyway.
That reminds me, I should finaly add that mod and do the blades quest line
It's pretty underwhelming, but it is the only new thing I've done in skyrim in nearly a decade since I never kill my boy.
I remember thinking the armor looked cool but then walked away when they asked to kill your dragon buddy.
Last time I played Skyrim downloaded a mod that would let me adopt all the orphans but since this new update I haven't gotten around to fixing the mods I had that broke.
Killing Paarthurnax struck me as a test of faith from the Blades, and frankly I don't think that the Dragonborn should feel so beholden to any earthly institution that she would kill an ally and a friend because that organization says to. Same reason I think that the only good canon choice in the civil war is negotiating the ceasefire because the Dragonborn should view that type of politics as far below the fate-given task of preventing Ragnarok in importance.
Same reason I think that the only good canon choice in the civil war is negotiating the ceasefire
Join the Imperials, execute Ulfric Stormcloak, join the Dark Brotherhood, and assassinate the Emperor to usher in an era of accelerationism and heightened contradictions. :both-sides:
