Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5262726-20140704231751/@comment-5262726-20140730225645

(Found a hotspot. Dont expect this again)

You leave the room with the cells, only to be jumped by Maven with a knife, who slashes you only once. You drop to the ground (like that part of the (spoiler alert) Thieves Guild questline when Karliah tranquilizes you) and hear only the muffled speech of Maven saying "Don't worry, it's not lethal, but they wont know that, will they?" An unknown person (presumably an assassin or mercenary) rushes in with a greatsword and drives it through Maven, who gets lifted off of the ground on the sword and thrown to the ground, dead. He takes one look at your "dead" corpse, and runs out, and you black out.

The 3 groups storm Riften and bring down the Manor and Mistveil Palace, now under the Lanius banner.

You wake up on the ground of the burnt down Mistveil Palace, only alive and not crushed by sheer luck. Apparently, nobody seems to know you "died."