User blog comment:The Milkman/To Build a Guild/@comment-3202167-20120904070115/@comment-3492791-20120904175517

It's a spoiler if someone lives, only if it seemed like they wouldn't. If Isran had been captured by Vampires, and you had to try to rescue him before they decided he outlived his usefullness, it would be a spoiler to say he survives. It creates suspense to not know who will survive. When you know someone will die no matter what you do, or that they will live no matter how long you take, you no longer really care about them. One of the reasons GoT is so good is because they have the balls to kill off main charactors. When someone's fate is uncertain, it makes you more immersed in the story. So someone not dying as a spoiler is usually the indicator of a good story.

However, Isran not dying really isn't a spoiler, because nothing ever happened to him. His life was never in danger at any point. I honestly kind of wish he died though. He was almost a bigger douche then Ulfric. At least Ulfric's voice didn't sound like a cat trying to claw it's way out of a glass jar with no airholes.

Also, since rumors in Skyrim spread like mitosis, you'd think that the other guilds would start to hear that every group the Dragonborn joins is always struck by catastaphe, and the guild leader dies. And come to think of it, they are never better off. With the exception of the thieves guild (and only if you do like 100 of those shitty radient quests) every guild always returns to the status quo. No one is ever actually better off from you joining.