Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12323583-20131117093148/@comment-207.216.27.99-20140125182657

If you think about the factions from a normal citizen's eyes you can get a feel for good or bad. Say if you saw a vampire in real life, you would be discusted and think they are evil. But if you saw someone trying to end the bloodsuckers' reign and save man and elf ind, they would be good in your eyes. So here's what I think using my previously mentioned opinion about the joinable factions.

Dark Brotherhood-An assassins's guild so any normal civilian would say EVIL

Thieves Guild-No one wants to be robbed EVIL

Volkihar Vampires-They feed on the innocent and want to block out the sun, which would mean little to no Vitamin D and we would all eventually perish,as well plants wouldn't get sunlight and would die depriving us of much needed oxygen(sorry im a science geek) so EVIL

Daedra Worshipers-There are aedra(the divines,good) and daedra(bad). So even the good ones like Asura are, if you think of it from a religious point, demons or devils so in this way of thinking they are EVIL

Bard's College-They are musicians, and who had ever heard of someone beating up a person with a flute?NEUTRAL

Companions-They are mercenarys that will help with little info about the offerer and a lot of cash so they could either be good or bad so NEUTRAL

College or Winterhold-They just want a safe place to study magic away from all the criticism and never mean to hurt anyone so NEUTRAL

Blades-They are an ancient group of warriors created to protect the emperor but now protect Skyrim from dragons so GOOD

Greybeards-Monks that live in seclusion to meditiate peacefully,like the Buddist monks,they don't take part in any goings on in Skyrim so NEUTRL

Dawnguard-They kill the vampires and protect our precious sun and the planet of Nirn so obviously GOOD

These next two are difficult to place in one of the three categories so I will put a bit more detail.

Imperial Legion-They want to ban the worship of Talos,sound familiar?Think WWII With Hitler trying to eliminate the Jewish beliefs. and want Skyrim to become part of the empire,sounds like medieval fights over land between the European countries.Putting this in perspetive would you side with the Legion?But you can tell Bethesda put some actual history behind the two waring factions.So if you compare it to WWII to the German's eye the Nazis were good,so to the Empire's eyes the Legion is good.But to people now Nazis are evil and sence the Legion seems quite like them I'll put the Legion in the EVIL category.

Stormcloaks-So the Stormcloaks are the rebels trying to stop the Empire,kind of like how Britian put a stop to Germany,or like how the rebel fighters in Star Wars stopped the Galactic Empire.But the Stormcloaks want Skyrim to belong to the nords.So they are racist as proven in recent posts above.But they don't want oppresion like the Legion they just want freedom. This seems kind of like the slaves from recent US history or like the Jews from WWII. So in this case i'm labeling the Stormcloaks GOOD.

Remember these are just my opinions and feel free to have your own, just take what i've said into account.