Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-105.158.238.148-20140417030552/@comment-24180901-20140428174038

@Faasnu:

Basically yes. Hunting is not about some weird "honor and glory"-thing. It is about the efficient and clean kill. The deer is not supposed to get anything like a "fighting chance" - it is supposed to get a death that is as quick and painless as possible. In most cases that is not at all easy to set up.

"The last thing you never see coming." The sniper´s motto is also the hunter´s.

Back on topic - One of the extremely weird design decisions Bethesda made.

To me it ranks right up there with not being able to join the Silver Hand - They may be thugs, but that is nothing a strong leader could not remedy and Hircine IS A F**ING DAEDRA-Lord.

To protect people from his followers is a worthy goal in my book. Remember what Sinding did and don´t tell me you have control. You have all the control Hircine gives you - on HIS whim alone.

The other decision I did not get to make was killing Serana outright. Do I know it is basically a misguided Emo Teen when I wake it? I know it is a freaking Vampire, someone who traded life itself for loyalty to another DAEDRA-Lord. Molag Bal in this case. Even the Dunmer had enough sense to class that one into the house of troubles.

So all of a sudden, when it matters the most this free and open world suddenly is a railroad.

And yes, after I heard the plan to kill Paarthie I was about to FUS-RO-DAH them for being that conceited.

Good deeds don´t cancel out bad deeds, so much is true, but revenge is not justice, that is the other truth. And has Paarthie not shown to truly repent over thousands of years of lonely vigil on top of his mountain? Who but he himself even remembers what he has done so long ago it is legend rather than history?

Compare the conspirators of the 20th of July 1944, when a group of Adolf Hitler´s top Lieutenants finally broke with their leader and tried to assassinate him - unsuccessfully. They are widely considered heroes because they mustered the courage to act at all, as belated and as inadequate as their action was. They were beyond judgement too, because they failed and they paid the ultimate price. The same would have happened to Old Paarthie "My teeth to his neck!" as Alduin put it. Had this group of resistance fighter he fostered been discovered early or failed in the final battle he would have been next.