THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS OF THE MAIN STORYLINE!

 

 

So, when we all started to play Skyrim and went trough the main storyline, we thought that The Blades were going to be way more helpful than the Grebeards... Thanks ti The Blades, we got to know more about the Thalmor, about the Dragonborn and the past of The Blades itself. Thanks to them, the Dragonborn managed to move faster about Alduin's return in order to stop him in time. Esbern and Delphine told the Dragon that their goal is to eleminate all the evl dragons of Tamriel and to serve the Dragonborn...

 

I mean, once we finnaly meet up with the leader of the Greybeards, Paarthurnax... wow! He's a freakin' dragon! Thanks to him we learned more about Alduin's return and about the Elder Scrolls... He taught us new Shout words and the meaning of certain mysteries burried in the past of the Dragonborn's legacy... like the ancient Nords and the wars...

 

And bam, The Blades tell you to kill him... What the hell is that? Paarthurnax helps the Dragonborn, a lot... and wasn't The Blades's main goal to serve the Dragonborn, but no... Delphine and Esbern are using the Dragonborn, not helping him. The Blades are dead... Dead! They no longer have a purpose and since Alduin's defeath, dragons are no longer a problem. Some are still wondering around Tamriel, but they're weaker, whille other Dragons are helping the land...

 

How was your reaction when The Blades sent you to kill him? "You're either with us or against us".... So, just because of a simple dragon, you'e not gonna help me anymore? My answer was to shout them over the cliff... if PS3 had the codes that the PC has, I would have killed them and enjoyed it, a lot. But since I can't do that, I shout them off a cliff in hope of them getting stuck and never come back. Delphine is stupid and Esbern is too old to even think. Pfft...

Edited January 30, 201411 yr by Marcomax

I said I would kill him, but I never did.

yeah I killed him, because I wanted to see where the storyline went... it didn't go anywhere

I saved right before but the save got corrupted so had to delete my firetrucking max level character

Yeah, the Blades were firetrucking morons. The moment they told me to kill Parthuunax was the moment I never spoke to them again.

I tried butchering them, but they're essential. I hate essential NPC's

Did it for the trophy, reloaded the game, never saw or talked to the Blades again.

I think that was the point actually. The Blades were almost extinct from Oblivion, right? I think they were supposed to be portrayed as broken, bitter and irrational. It hammers home what happened to such an influential group.