Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.113.101.215-20190103102306

I ran into the Velehk Sain miscellaneous quest during the Winterhold College questline.

The reward turns out to be either some treasure or a Daedric Heart.

I had some trouble figuring out which option to choose from, from both a practical and a moral matter. Practically speaking, the treasure is probably more useful to me than a Daedric Heart, rare as those are. Morally speaking, I'm letting loose a force of madness and evil upon the world if I choose the treasure. (Though he was said to be a tough battle, I killed him in one cinematic death blow. That might be due to my level, though. I doubt there are a lot of level 60 people out in Skyrim who can kill demon pirates that easily). He doesn't come up again in the game, so I can't just release him and kill him later to clean up my own consequenes. In a meta practical sense, the moral dilemma doesn't matter since he never shows up again to wreak any consequences on me.

Thoughts on the best decision to make? I might be more invested in this if there were heavier consequences either way. 