Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-15888551-20130823092654/@comment-1738746-20150921081919

109.60.7.129 wrote: I still like Blades because they helped Martin and Hero of Kvach end the Oblivion Crisis Ironic considering they helped someone who worships a Dragon-Man deity.

That, and the debate about dragon vs wyvern aside, I'm very much a big hater of the Blades like many people in this thread. Someone earlier spoke of the Dragonguard hunting dragons while Alduin was already terrorizing people in Skyrim- what they forgot to mention was that Alduin and his dragons came from Akavir, and it was referenced somewhere they most likely came from there fleeing from said dragon hunters. So no, the Dragonguards were indeed the first to make a genocidal move. (Likewise, for the sake of accuracy, I might point out that Alduin wasn't committing genocide- he was enslaving the human race. Different things but yeah...) As others have pointed out, there are plenty of dragons who did wrong against humans (Alduin in this) but there are also plenty of dragons who were good or just stayed out of other's business. The same goes for humans- yes, there were other humans apart from the Dragonguard/Blades who hunted dragons too, just as there were humans intend on staying out of dragons' business. There is good and bad on both sides of it, we can't deny that. The difference that the Blades set for me is that they've literally founded their entire group's existence on the genocide of a single race. That's literally their entire purpose. And don't even bring up the "but they're purpose is to serve the Dragonborn!". Yes that's their other purpose, but why? Because according to them, the Dragonborn is the ultimate dragon killer. So of course they're going to worship and work hard as hell for this Dragonborn person- this Dragonborn is their group's ultimate weapon.

When it comes down to the fact, the Blades are entirely founded on genocide. And despite some dragons doing something wrong, not all should have to die for this. It would be like Jews today declaring a faction to kill all Germans for what Hitler did their ancestors in the past- yet not all Germans were Nazis. Not even Hircine and his hunters/worshippers are as cruel as the Blades when you think about it- they don't target specific races or animal breeds on hateful premises. And people complain that the Nords are racist- the Blades are comparable to Nazis.

The Blades just piss me off further from a lore-ish point of view as well because they go out of their way to brainwash the Dragonborn to be the "ultimate dragonslayer". Thinking about it harder, the Dragonborn is part dragon themselves, a dragon on the inside due to their dragon soul. They are in some small way, a direct child of Akatosh just as dragons are- a dragon trapped in a human body. And the Blades are using this child of Akatosh, a human who is part dragon, to kill his own kin and to kill his father's children. Very messed up, but that specific point is strictly my point of view now.