Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-110.146.134.32-20130814063646/@comment-71.1.228.206-20131229061136

PsijicThief wrote: 23.16.99.83 wrote: Except, PsijicThief, that - I would assume - the Dark Brotherhood would refuse contracts on their own, if only on principle. (otherwise Dark Brotherhood assassins would probably still be trying to kill you) The "well done" is most likely just her congratulating you on an impressive kill (she always was a bit... full of herself) It's more a reference to the foreshadowing of the ultimate end of that questline. As in, the Nightmother wanted her dead, therefore she was eventually going to die. However, it makes no real difference if you kill her then or if she dies later. . . she must be done away with in order to restore the Dark Brotherhood to it's true glory. Uhh, no; in that questline, The Night Mother doesn't want Astrid dead, but rather, she performs the Black Sacrament on herself and takes a contract out on herself as attonement for betraying the Brotherhood. The Night Mother doesn't want anyone dead, she's basically just the telephone through which all Black Sacrament requests go through, with the Listener being the only person she's able to relay the contracts to so that he/she may delegate them to the other members.