Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-110.168.240.168-20140424104245/@comment-2601:140:8000:9C0:4039:26EA:1EE8:FF96-20180322190159

65.24.92.99 wrote: Way I see it is paarthurnax tells you not to trust him. He changed once he could change again. You're the last dragonborn. If you don't kill him his immortal ass could get tired if talking to the sky and he could give into his desire to subjugate that he is always fighting and enslave man and bring the terrible age of dragon domination back. Killing all dragons is your job as the last dragonborn. No amount of regret is payment for Mass murder, you wouldn't forgive Hitler because he was sorry would you? Paarthurnax deserves to die. Paathy said don't trust him because his inborn nature is to dominate, like all other dragons. One's personality is hard to change, and even if you overcome it with control, it may come back later at time(similar to mental disorder, there is only management, no cure, and there may be relapse in a later time). He is being very honest about himself and his current condition.

While on the other hand, I am not exactly sure if the Blades you are working with are the real Blades. Delphine lied to you, the dragonborn, the very first time you met her(unless you didn't enter Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood); she stole the horn to trick you seeking out for her. During quest in the Thalmor Embassy; she sent you to do her bidding which put you and Malborn both in grave danger(this trigger me the most, like...seriously, why did you do this to that woodelf? If dragonborn did not rescue him, he will certainly be killed by Thalmor). In Sky Haven Temple, while Esbern trying to explain the Wall of Alduin, all she did was asking "So did it say how we can kill Alduin?" She wasn't even paying attention to anything else Esbern mentioned.

​​​There are plenty of evidence that Delphine just don't care about others, not the Dragonborn, not her contact, not Esbern, not even the historical record of the Blades. Based on her attitude, I think it's safe to say that she is just like Astrid, who went too far on power-grabbing and won't give a damn to the old tradition of her group. (What are the tradition of the Blades? Based on Delphine's own word, they are supposed to "guide and guard the dragonborn". I am sure sending the dragonborn to the lair of Thalmor and get him/her almost killed is a very good way to show "guide and guard"...)