User blog comment:Saratje/NEW Dragonborn content/@comment-3136998-20121128145007/@comment-1992639-20121201134257

Gave the Sapphire claim a thought. I find Sapphire and Delvin Mallory being related strange. After asking her name, the game dialogue has her reveal that she was the daughter of pig farmers, until one day bandits raided the farm and killed her parents. They then took her hostage and raped her on and off for 14 days straight until she relented and took her new life for granted and became a member of their bandit troupe. She kept a hatred against them and never truly broke, biding her time until she had the opportunity to strike, eventually slitting their throats. The way in which you have to gain her trust and how she softens up after telling you all that makes it doubtful that she lied or deceived you.

"Look, you want to know about me? All right, I'll tell you. I'll tell you about the time I was a young girl, barely out of her teens... living on a pig farm in the middle of nowhere. Didn't have a coin to spend between our entire family. Ate the same slop we fed our livestock.

''Oh, wait... it gets much better. How about the fact that our farm was attacked by bandits, and that they killed my entire family who didn't even brandish a weapon against them. Here's the best part. They took me as a prize, and violated me for a fortnight. Tossed me from bandit to bandit like... like...''

''Over time, I managed to gain their confidence. Then one night I grabbed a knife, waited until they fell asleep and cut their throats. I never returned to that pig farm you know. There's nothing for me there. So that's my sad story. What do you think?''

''It's fine... I had to tell someone I suppose. Carrying around a weight like that... it hurts after a while. Cuts you inside like a dagger to the heart."''

I'd be disappointed if all of that was acting on Sapphire's part. I'd then sure not trust anything she says from then on, unless they pulled a 'Luke Skywalker' and her true father dumped her at the pigs farm because he did not want to raise a daughter. It's just so, not very plausible. Of all the thieves guild characters Sapphire has the most redempting qualities, extorting Shadr, yet relenting and feeling sorry about doing so when you confront her and draw out her compassionate nature.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.