Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24098614-20150903093108/@comment-4544033-20160203155822

And why would they betray you? The blades have served the Dragon born their entire existence. They lived to serve the empire, and even when the Septim Bloodline died out they still served the empire in their own way. They live to serve the Dragonborn now, and to fight Dragons. Their only problem is that they hold on to old grudges.

And they know that at least one Dragon is alive, they hear about you riding it out of Whiterun, they do not ask what happened to it, and it never becomes an issue. Call it broken game logic if you wish, but I have summoned dragons in front of the Blades and they do not attack them.

I have no problem with the Graybeards, but their perk is mooted out by the letter, and the meditating on words only effects one at a time, and I do not swap it out, I keep the one perk and leave it at that, so the Greybeards have no use after that. I am torn about how I feel about them not using their powers to help people, but it bothers me they are so willing to let the world end. The Blades are not perfect, no faction is perfect, but only one is willing to follow me into battle.