The Blades, Spoil me please!! Options

[McBadgere]

Are the Blades nerfed in Skyrim...I love the Blades in Oblivion...Couldn't wait to be one of them...But having glanced quickly at the guide book, it sounds like they're a*ses this time...Why would I kill a Dragon that helps me fercryingoutloud?...

So?...Are they cool, good and ace to be one of?..Or are they bad guys?..

Cheers...

[mALX]

Speaking of Michael Kirkbride, here is something he wrote years ago regarding the Altmeri and dragons. Since it is rumored in Skyrim that the Thalmer were responsible for the return of the dragons:


What appears to be an Altmeri commentary on Talos:


To kill Man is to reach Heaven, from where we came before the Doom Drum's iniquity. When we accomplish this, we can escape the mockery and long shame of the Material Prison.

To achieve this goal, we must:

1) Erase the Upstart Talos from the mythic. His presence fortifies the Wheel of the Convention, and binds our souls to this plane.

2) Remove Man not just from the world, but from the Pattern of Possibility, so that the very idea of them can be forgotten and thereby never again repeated.

3) With Talos and the Sons of Talos removed, the Dragon will become ours to unbind. The world of mortals will be over. The Dragon will uncoil his hold on the stagnancy of linear time and move as Free Serpent again, moving through the Aether without measure or burden, spilling time along the innumerable roads we once travelled. And with that we will regain the mantle of the imperishable spirit.


* Hope he was sent royalties on the use of his idea when Skyrim was released, lol.

This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 26 2011, 06:52 AM

[Black Hand]

Those writings are exactly why I love Skyrim. You went from a game that has little to no lore, to one literally dripping in it.

Sorry McBadgere, a little slip on my part perhaps, but I love the Lore of the TES and was steeped in it and Michael Kirkbrides works, before the game came out. Than when it did...it was... disappointing to put it mildly.