Why The Blades DESERVED To Lose 

Yes, but on the other hand I love trashing the place, leaving naked bodies everywhere knocking ouver everything and stealing all valuables. Because fuck the thalmor

Hey everyone knows that was just an excuse to crash the elven party

@@013wolfwarrior the type of guy who breaks in to his ex's and take a shit right there in her sink

They are not related but I liked that. Fuck the Thalmor

Until you realized the f*cking Thalmor's know nothing about the return of dragons.

"Oh, and if you don't do it then we'll stop talking to you"

@Rick O'Shay thanks

Sapody it's not even their fortress it's the dragonborn's fortress, heck they even needed your blood to get in through the door.

And that Dragon saved the Dragonborn from being beheaded. The Blades should drown in their own Stupidity.

Right besides IM THE DRAGON GOD

If Paarthunax died, the tower of skyrim will be deactivated.

@Drew Taylor not going to happen

Because he talked about that in the delphine video because at that point it was simply two people no longer an organization

NoOnes Home87 the throat of the world is indeed important, and one of the last towers to remain active. The Thalmor will stop at nothing to destroy it, ironic that Delphine wants to help them.

@@bogustoast22none25 There's a few towers that hasn't been deactivated, including Adamantine Tower/ Direnni Tower, which according to many theory will be the center main quest in the elder scrolls 6 But i got your point

Dread Angel amen

Yes, you are alone

@@Nathan-mf2yz yes

@@Nathan-mf2yz She's agreeable enough on an interpersonal interaction, but everything she does is led by massive bias. She shouldn't be in charge of anything. She's a terrible coworker.

@@Auriel_Direnni Dude she bosses the guy around she should be working and dying for, what do you mean interpersonal?

Yes but that's also the point : they got wiped out. Even if they weren't as stupid as Delphine, their heads ended in a big pile.

François Bergmans because of betrayal, AD had to get them alone with a group slowly and had to go full force on the temple to wipe them...

Delphine was one of the best Blades agents, the very reason she escaped the Thalmor for so long. Still, screw that bitch.

@@theodorepinnock1517 No. The thalmore just did not see her as being worth the time to get her. That is how trash she is.

Lmao, well said. But in all honesty. Yeah, for an intelligence gathering and spec ops group they’re very UNconvert and bad at not getting detected. It also says something when in the province of Skyrim, among hundreds if not thousands of people, there’s a wopping 2/3rd one alleged. The Thalmor don’t work in secrecy when gathering as they don’t need to, their job in Skyrim is basically to gather followers of Talos and at most, interrogate some people in hidden sites. Unlike the Blades who were a spec-ops/intelligence gathering group, a job that by nature, needs to be secret. And quite frankly, I don’t see what their “intelligence gathering” efforts lead to, I mean, despite their “intelligence” duties, the Great War was still lost, they still couldn’t predict and proceed to tell the Emperor about the Aldmeri Dominion attacking, to me they’re like a bunch of 7 year olds who think they’re great spies because they stole a cookie and no one found it despite the fact everyone knows it’s them.

"Have you learned nothing from us? Would you simply be a tool in the hands of the Blades, to be used for their own purposes?" "But heed my warning - the Blades may say they serve the Dragonborn, but they do not. They never have." -Arngeir "We have nothing to talk about until Paarthurnax is dead." -Delphine

And yet they still treat you like their own weapon to be used for their own reasons. 😑

Akaviri Barbarians.

The Graybeards and Parthurrnax are 100T integral to the downfall of Alduin and aiding the Dragonborn in increasing his power. The blades can 100% be avoided. If Delphine didnt tank the Horn of Windcaller then you wouldnt have had to go to the embassy and cpuld have definately defeated Alduin possibly weeks to months faster. The Blades are at every step of the way a hinderence. Also Partysnax makes your shouts cooler and the Graybeards just straight up tell you where shouts are. Side with the blades and your shouts are weaker and you have to go around shouting everywhere hoping a letter tells you where one is.

The Blades aren’t the problem. Delphin is.

Unlikel, nazeem seems to be average height while the ebony warriors towers over everyone at 7 feet.

@@hazzmati illusion magic

After I spoke to the ebony warrior in whiterun, he walked straight up to the cloud district!

Goddammit you just reminded me of this comic : www.deviantart.com/janus3003/art/Skyrim-Oddities-The-Ebony-Warrior-539930405

It's basically a different version of Clark Kent. Come to think, I'm now realizing the Golden and Silver Age versions of Clark Kent are far better cover for Superman than the "realistic" post-Crisis Clark Kent.

Me in vampiric blood sucking armor and jewelry: 🧛🏻‍♂️ “ Oh no my darling, I’m much. . . much worse than that.”

Right as if the dragonborn is woth the thalmor

And claims she could kill you in an instant or something like that. Arrogant b*tch can do her own dirty work I'll get my help from the Greybeards or College of Winterhold. Her middle parted bowl cut with a ponytail having self can take her dumbass, leave and consider herself lucky I didn't make a call to Ondolemar. He may be a morally shit person because of his faction but he considers the Dragonborn a friend

@@thedankboyo2460 Tbh, i've attempted to kill her a few times during the quest, she's lucky she's got protection given to all important npcs. Granted that was on a rout where I decided to be evil, but not too evil.

The blades could have been removed and the Dragonborn could have saved the world and (mostly) ended the dragon threat faster by weeks to months. Literally every time you have the option you can ignore the Blades and get things done faster and far simpler by just asking the Graybeards. Not to mention the important training the Graybeards give you and how integral Partysnax is to success meanwhile the most important thing the Blades have to contribute is a sword they dont even want you to have (it's always stolen), and a wall that tells a legend that Parrthurnax already knows and could tell you (and pretty much already has by that point) only for you to be shown what happens by an Elder Scroll that Parrthurnax set you on the path for already. Seriously. They are entirely useless to the point of a hinderence.

@@John.McMillan Esbern was useful in gathering information on what shout was required(dragonrend), and a few other things. He also doesn’t do something immensely stupid that wasn’t a product of following Delphine if I remember correctly. Esbern is fine, Delphine is the worst

​@@John.McMillan I know this is late but you do know that you can just take Dragons Bane when you first enter the place and it won't be counted as stolen right?

Lanedude I get the feeling Delphine wasn’t actually a high ranking member of the Blades, she was just fanatical and self serving enough to will herself to survive

I blame the Delphine. If they truly followed my word and served the Dovahkin they would listen to you. I would have had them go village to village and try to sniff out bad individuals and keep safety.

@@squallthegriever It really bugs me that Bethesda doesn't even give you a third option to do stuff like that. You're the fucking Dragonborn, who says you can't redo the Blades in your own making?

Basically, it does highlight how self-serving the Blades had become. If they meant what they said then having a dragonborn to serve would be the be all and end all. They may try to sway you but your word would still be law. Instead as soon as they feel they can they give you and ultimatum. They want you to be their figurehead. Their right to rule. Much like the Greybeards said they were like.

Yeah They were so good at their “protecting the emperor” job that one died right under their protection (referring to Oblivion) while a prisoner managed to live. Sounds quite worrisome to me, but hey, one bad example right? and then they decided to become a spec-ops and intelligence gathering group serving the Dragonborn/“serving” the empire? Right-o, no one really asked them of that to my knowledge but okay, and yet what did they do again? I mean, their intelligence was good enough that they didn’t see the invasion of the Aldmeri Dominion (those things are planned and prepared out well in advance, already to plan it has to be a bit before the event and then even to mobilise the troops takes time, this don’t happen overnight), they wiped themselves out and ultimately the empire still had to concede to some of the Aldmeri Dominions demands. Second time is a coincidence? Then they go into hiding. After that they.......actually that’s a good question, what do they do afterwards? They sorta half help the Dragonborn, and also endanger his life by sending him to an embassy needlessly. Then they read Alduins wall, and that’s pretty much it. You can’t really say they fight Dragons, they don’t, they don’t protect you like their original job, they don’t give you intelligence of anything, they pretty much sit in their temple all day long and boss you around, despite supposedly serving you. The majority of their time they’re either doing something poorly, or they’re just wasting their time twiddling their numbs. If I’m being honest, I think they did more harm (both to the Dragonborn, the empire and to themselves) then they ever did good

And People say that Bethesda isn't stupid.

Wack nigga-

well to be honest the blade logic of dragon returning benefitted thalmor is true tho. weakening skyrim for the thamors for future invasion. the blades are fine until the last part where they want me to kill parthurmax. greybeard are just clown dragon cult that refuse to do anything even when the world and people lives depend on it. the dragonborn-humans in the past fought hard to kill dragons to humanity can survive, use their last of their breathe to send alduin into the future, hoping the future dragonborn is strong enough to defeat it. greybeard logic : maybe the world is meant to be destroyed. if only the past dragonborn heard this, they would have raze the temple themselves.

Idk that's not completely unreasonable, maybe the assumption was that Alduin was controlled/brought back by the Thalmor That aspect I have no problem with, everything else though . . .

This isn't a plot hole as people say it is. The Thalmor were able to fuck with the lunar cycle, thus messing with Khajiit births, then un-fuck it in order to present themselves as saviors. That's reason enough to suspect that the Thalmor had the power to pull Alduin out of time early to destabilize the Empire.

You have to realize blades are dragon hating crusaders who forgot thier purpose why they were protecting septim bloodline because of dragons of course they know dragons are immortal like beings and only dragonborn can absorb thier soul so they can never get resurected soooooo Even if our reasons to not kill Parthurnaax they still want you they see you as a killing machine for the dragons

Even arngier said this one of the greybeards

Honestly, having Delphine boss me around the way she does frustrates me to no end, I wish that there was a way to proceed with the main quest without having to deal with the blades, like through Balgruf and his cort wizard, or a dragon who decided to rebell against Alduin like parthanax or a yet to be seen character activly seeking out the dragonborn, or even one of the gods or daedra.

Neloth would be a good choice to lead the Dragonborn as well as the Greybeards

How to start the Blades again? Simple, don't. They don't deserve to be forgotten, but they don't deserve another chance, either

Dragonborne:*Do Tell*

Reasons why Paarthurnax needs to die 1) his nature is domination 2) he tells you Dovah can't be trusted 3) he tells you he can be trusted after telling you Dovah can't be trusted 4) he's only suppressing his nature by meditating, which he stops doing when you kill Alduin 5) he knew Alduin had to die but he didn't *want* Alduin to die

@@misterkid why all of your points are wrong 1. Creatures can overcome thier nature 2. He meant common dragons 3. Paarthurnax is clearly not common 4. No , he changed himself 5. Who want thier brother to die ?

@@lightyagami8645 your 1 is wrong, your 2 is wrong, your 4 is wrong.

Hunter Kiddo actually yes he overcame it and he will struggle the rest of his life. He has changed himself and from what we see he never actually left the peak of the world. He stayed up there. Every animal on earth has over come instincts before. In some way or another

@@mrhalfwit972 no, not instincts. Nature. A dog doesn't stop being a dog

Majin Ketsu out of the 8 years I’ve played Skyrim Paarthurnax is the only character I’ve never killed/ attacked

@@dickgraysonsdick6011 You have no reason to. Plus like I said he should be protected. He's the only way How your to train your dragon 4 can come out

Majin Ketsu I remember the first time I played they told me to kill him and sense then I’ve hated Esperanto and Delphine

@@dickgraysonsdick6011 Same here. Plus they got on my nerves before that to

@@dickgraysonsdick6011 DId you not like Paarthurnax, or just think he was stupid? He tells you their wanting him dead was wise, and that he would do the same in their position,for no day goes by that he is not tempted to revert to his evil nature.... you see, when he reverts to his evil nature, which he knows he will, everyone that he kills will be on your head, for you rejected Paarthurnax's wisdom

Well met, Knight-Brother/Sister. I too joined our most noble order to protect Martin and was truly disgusted to see how much it had declined by the time of Skyrim. Delphine and Esbern are false Blades, having forsaken their oath to the Dragon Blood.

what if we find out that Paarthurnax Mantled Alduin and began eating the world, destroying all of Skyrim, Morrowind, and part of Highrock, as well as altering the rotation of Nirn, causing massive catastrophes before the Dragonborn managed to Stop him, being lost in the process?

Then he did what Alduin should of done a long time

@@orangeminotaur4668 The whole kalpic cycle is unsettling to me, it's right on par with the Reapers from the Mass Effect Series...hey, Alduin could be a Dragon Reaper xD

No thats the dragon born, Alduin is the reset button

@@orangeminotaur4668 Yeah, different kind of Reaper -'J ...ever play Mass Effect? Awesome game ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-clbFOyJTnvg.html

I prefer FUS RO FUCK OFF

That doesn’t mean they are bad at their job which is to protect the empire

@@Valencetheshireman927 you can't separate the empire from the people

Fair enough

Thats just morally bad. I think the "bad" part of the blades is that they're idiots who made bad decisions on an operational standpoint rather than a moral one.

It sounds like the Penitus Oculatus wanted to be the new Dark Brotherhood based on their training requirement of committing murder. Seriously?

Not a challenge, just make them not useless baggage and actually do something of worth.

@@wolfman6696 I'd be happy with another Cassius type from Morrowind, who's at least likable, even if you can't tell if he's really a Skooma addict or not.

@@publiusdraco2557 Hell at least he's actually interesting and unique, that alone is something that would've made dull as dirt Delphine at least notable. For such a big part of the main questline, the Blades in Skyrim offer so little in terms of development it's maddening.

@@wolfman6696 I think the Blades will be back, or they might change things up and replace them with the Penitus Oculatus, but notice that Bethesda always overcompensates and replaced Delphine in the next BGS game with Preston Garvey. Similar core problem, but at least Preston is always polite.

I was going to say have good writing.😂 But yeah making the blades likeable works too.

True, they were the biggest organization with the most Talos worshippers. Perhaps their purpose now could also be protecting Talos worshippers from Thalmor persecution.

The blades in the lore with few members destroyed legions of the thalmor.

Dragon born:SHUT IT!

@Hoàng Nguyên I'm curious about the first part. The second one is bullshit. Nothing is know about TES asians or if they even exist anymore, or existed at all (as asians I mean). Blades takes their everything really from snake bois from Akavir

@Hoàng Nguyên we dont know if the Akaviri are Asian looking we may never know what they look like or ES6 will finally show us cuz a 3rd Akaviri Invasion may be the plot Morrowind said that the Akaviri are waiting for the empire to be weak so they can Invade again

Is Elder Scrolls 6 based right after skyrim?

@@808pblank3 Who knows? Bethesda never confirmed anything.

Esbern is fine! He's cool. But Delphine..she cut off Esbern explaining about what's bout to go down while he's trying to translate Alduin's wall. If she miss him then she better pray to Talos that if he dies then there goes the Blades. Hell! If there's this option in the game then i'll pick over the option where you can rebuilt "Knights Of The Nine" in Skyrim after you helped the stormcloaks and reform their military!

@@IamaDinosaur yea sad esberns voice actor passed away this year

@@gptechnologiesmangalore6909 Just looked up right now! Jeez...RIP mate!

@@IamaDinosaur yup sad but he is immortalized in skyrim as esbern

I'd vibe with Fultheim. He just gets drunk all day and doesn't tell the Dragonborn he could kill you

And Some say that Bethesda isn't stupid.

Well you just ruined the thieves guild for me :(

@@impossibleegaming1570 nah Mercer did that for you

I always do a headcanon of the Thieves Guild that Gallus was murdered two or three years ago, since that makes much more sense plot wise.

Got a point there. Poison took *years* to perfect but, translating my lover's journal? Ain't nobody got time for that

KARLIAH. Glad to have helped in spelling it for you.

But the dark brotherhood has members who are just that capable though. Any shadowscale are given to the db to be trained to become an assassin since their childhood. The mythic dawn sent an army of assassins because they are a fanatic cult of chaos, not trained assassins by nature like the dark brotherhood. The dark brotherhood however, never sends out more than one assassin to complete a contract, doesn't matter who the target is or how many targets there are. Of course, db also only sends an appropriate assassin for an appropripate contract and has a proper command structure.

there maybe blades in hammer the dominion only attack the southern parts of hammerfell the windscourn temple is in the alikr desert which was one of the parts left un touched by the dominion so the blades maybe in hammerfell

The end of the world, and beginning of a new

@@yep1486 bingo

It's not that the Altmer don't breed so very much, it's because of their bullcrap doctrine. They only look for the baby that is most pure. Any that is not pure is killed. And considering that the unpure are more common than the pure, they have lower than average numbers.

Really just depends on what the dragonborn does, the war could be paused until the dragonborn leaves, or could be started by the dragonborn. But seeing as Bethesda sees the dragonborn as a male Nord Imma guess that war happens right after the the last battle in the dragonborn's story. Probably no possible way the empire losses there, so they'll have to start the war themselves, because they're ahead as long as the dragonborn is alive and on their side.

@The Nova renaissance exactly

Key thing is the fact that that was the past. The last blades we know of are Delphine, Esbern and maybe Fultheim. So an arrogant inn keeper who tells the Dragonborn she could kill them (bitch what?), an old recluse hiding from the Thalmor super urgent when you first meet him but literally wastes time looking at unrelated walls on the way to the Alduins Wall (seriously there's time for that later as long as I get this done and save the world) and an unconfirmed former member who walk around flashing a blades sword and drinking all day. The blades are evolving, just backwards

Theres a huge difference with 'The Blades' and 'Delphine.'

Maybe because they're up against the dragonborn? Hm?

@@aaa-hy7up fair point

Perhaps if someone else did it they might fail

Still, they failed to kill babette, nazir and astrid

@@lyka1392 Astrid was going to die from her wounds regardless, and as for Babette her looking like a child would probably make it easy as hell to escape. Nazir is probably the most competent member of the Dark Brotherhood. There is no quips or airs he puts on, he doesn't need to impress you or threaten you, he knows what he's there to do, to kill people. Nazir strikes me as pretty much one of the only members that doesn't need some trick to get the job done, in fact he's the only one who doesn't even use any of the typical shrouded gear, because he just that good.

Build a new Numidium.

@@Morbacounet send it to wreck summerset, and blam it on thalmor enlightenment

Kick out the Medes and give the throne to the Dragonborn

The Medes are the reason the empire survived after the Oblivion crisis

I don't like cheese

@@YesDudeNoMan you monster! Why wont you think of the children

@@YesDudeNoMan Sheogorath has entered the chat

@Man Yor its also the least perishable food you have but ok

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The Blades are devout in their beliefs. The PO just seem to be a bunch of thugs.

@@misterkid you really are a blades lover

Yes because for True Elder Scrolls fans there is only two choices Daggerfall or Morrowind and if you feel like playing a meme generator Oblivion

@@linguisticallyoversight8685 isn't oblivion good though?

@@delta2372 Its absolutely great

@@choide2317 then how is it a mene generator

Delta 23 the random dialogue between npcs is quite meme worthy.

Ollanius Pius if youre a weeb, sure. I prefer the Imperial Guard armor myself

@@Jager-Style Oh for sure. I just like the blend of Roman and Samurai armor

@@Jager-Style "Weeb" 😹😹

I just stole it, sold it to a fence, and bought it back. I don’t need the blades whatsoever. lol

Same, I'm really hoping they'll return to their glory days pre-Oblivion Crisis.

J wall Jesus Christ, with Paarthurnax as the new defacto patriarch of the dragons, informing him that the Thalmor want to tear down the World Towers, many of which such as the Snow Tower the dragons deem sacred, the brute force that could be mustered would at the very least put the Empire at a marked advantage in the second great war

Ethan Quirk I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of storyline relating to this in ESVI

What's the name of it?

They've only really killed the Brotherhood

@alvi syahri That's because the Thalmor have better spies and the Blades are stupid. They rely on sneaky tactics to surprise the Empire but in a head-on battle they won't last long. All those dead elves and their training time can't be replaced easily.

I always take the view that they gave the Thalmor a pretext on the homefront to instigate the war in the first place.

No.bad.bad. your no longer a human please stop. Breathing

@@firstnamelastname7124 the reason is hes clearly suicidal and in debts so hes hoping to piss of somebody so bad they kill him

Nazeem mastered the art of the Cloud District.