Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3211446-20180430220252

From a lore point of view, this quest is nonsensical. It starts out promising enough:  Poor schmuck is a werewolf and hates it. He desperately seeks the Ring of Hircine hoping for some measure of control, but the ring is cursed and now he transforms randomly...(which is somehow different from his previous state) and apparently does so in a frenzied state. This results in the death of a little girl. He feels very bad about it, and accepts his execution as a just punishment. His last hope is that someone removes the curse from the ring so that others don't suffer from his mistake.

So far so great!

Then suddenly the ring, which he couldn't remove, leaps onto your finger, and now you can't remove it. And then, he instantly transforms himself and escapes prison. Then the next time you meet him, he's still in werewolf form but not only is he in full control of his mind, but he can even  speak in his human voice!

Either he's a spectacular liar with a much larger backstory than what is apparent in game, who was working you the entire time...OR this quest was dreamed up before the werewolf mechanics were actually finalized. I'm guessing it's the latter, since, as a werewolf, you suffer from no such loss of mind or control, and can indeed transform at will by default (once per 24 hours).

Yes, I'm sure there are mods out there that can make being a werewolf much more of a curse than a boon...but in vanilla Skyrim, Sinding's entire situation shouldn't even be possible.

I took great joy in killing, skinning, and eating him. 