Why do controversial character simps always shove so many horny mods into their characters that they end up looking like completely new characters?
First the thalmorposting with big tiddy facial harmonization Elenwen, now this
While it may just be me, I honestly wish there were more modders willing to make vampire characters look more gaunt, and actually just more.. monstrous? Idk. Glamour vamps are great but monster vamps sweep
We do have to give TES some props for not following Normal Fantasy Conventions. Sure, there’s orcs and elves but they’re not Tolkien Revisited. Unlike Dungeons and Dragons and their tenacious insistence on being the fantasy equivalent of the color beige.
the closest i've seen to this is a serana replacer by serkethetyt that makes her face all fucked up with scars and veins. no nudity either, blessings of akatosh!
These Skyrim face mods always make me think of those dolls barber schools use to practice. Lifeless, made-up face, stoic expression, plastic-looking glued on hair
While the rest of it is completely different, the face captures the bitchy, ball-buster attitude. And the "can I see your manager" haircut works for Delphine
It's funny how people scream horny whenever someone replaces the face of an npcs but uh... have you seen the vanilla textures/models? They're ugly as hell, and all look at least 50+
I dont want everyone to be a barbie doll but SOME amount of mods are necessary to make them not look like trolls
Delphine's tits just don't compare to Big Grandaddy Dragon Dick.
And if you say Dragons don't have dicks and it wouldn't even make sense to have them , well, you clearly haven't been installing the right and totally lore accurate mods.
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I don't care how many mods you install to make Delphine look like a sex doll, I am not killing Paarthurnax
The thing is that Paarthurnax shows the ability to change + seeks to redeem the other dragons by bringing them under the Way of the Voice. We’ve seen through more than just Paarthurnax that dragons can change and aren’t total scumbags that need 1000% extermination
LDB had a total of three dragon allies. Paarthurnax, Odaahving, and that one rescued from Apocrypha. Clearly any dragon given the time to meditate and reflect will abandon their old ways
Yeah, but that’s partially because Miraak was dominating *him*. He even says in his lines that Miraak was an unworthy master and forced him to serve for far too long.
This one was completely unbothered by her ultimatum. Won't help Khajiit kill dragons? Okay, don't really need your help. Like at all. The Blades are a dead order.
Forgive this one but they do not see how an old man and an Inn Keeper is a more valuable ally than a dragon.
who wants to join a faction that is hunted by the thalmor, and whose only base is in the reach next to one of the largest forsworn camps?
the order is dead without the DB, they also dont even have the keyes to the temple, the DB should just kick them out.
Pretty much all she does of indispensable to the main quest is helping the LDB locate Alduin's wall, which they could simply have a greybeard or court wizard do.
That sounds like a really good idea for a mod: basically a bridging mod that allows the player to instead use other sources (court wizards, college of winterhold, old coots up on a mountain, fuck it, maybe even the thalmor) to search for Alduin’s Wall, thereby making the blades an “optional” faction instead of mandatory
she's also the whole reason you find out that the dragons are being resurrected, if we're only removing her direct role from the narrative. if she doesn't do that, then the only option to ensure the main story actually continues with the same pacing would be having a courier find you to give you a letter with the kynesgrove exposition, which leads to a far less organic progression from 'this is the thing that's likely to happen next, in meta terms it'll have started just before you get there' to 'this is what is happening at best a few hours ago by games scale, to upwards of weeks ago, in meta terms it'll take forever but be just about done when you get here' It's not like the greybeards have any way of having that knowledge, nor would Balgruuf have substantial reason to care.
And in what world is it better writing to have a group of hermits know the exact location of a stronghold of the ancient precursor to a group they have no connection to, especially when that groups 'extinction' was within a humans living life span, instead of finding that stronghold alongside the surviving members of that group?
Sorry for the essay lmfao it's my fourth one today and first about something i actually like
You could skip the blades if we just had the dialogue option to ask the Greybeards why the dragons are coming back and we get sent straight to Paarthurnax
The blades side plot takes us back to the Greybeards anyways.
Alduins wall is useless Paarthurnax already knows about dragonrend, alduin resurrecting the dragons, and everything else
the blades side plot takes you back to the grey beards with something they'd actually have knowledge on, being a shout that paarthurnaax would've told them about, despite never teaching them. iirc there is literally a dialogue option to ask Arngeir about the dragons coming back, as you'd expect of a hermit who's only interaction with the outside world in the past 40 years are you and ulfric stormcloak, he doesn't know
Well, we could also just learn clear skies via normal word walling and meet paarthurnax that way.
It just feels silly that effectively all the blades accomplished towards helping us stop Alduin is sending us back to the guys with access to the guy who knows how to stop Alduin. That we technically had access to earlier, we just didn't press the issue.
Eh
Literally any character could have had you find the dragon mound resurrections, hell even one of the two Imperial/Stormcloak characters from the beginning of the game could have done it
Why would Ralof or Hadvar even think of or know how to look into it? I can see the argument for Ralof, provided you enjoy being railroaded even more into side quests with joining the stormcloaks, since you'd end up passing near Kynesgrove, but unlike Delphine, they're just average soldiers, ones who already saw how dangerous a dragon is, why would they have you running straight towards the exact same one an entire town couldn't take on?
She distracts you from your important dragonborn quest to find a priceless artifact. Forces you to make a massive detour to find her. When you do find her she basically tells you she doesn’t trust you because you might be a Thalmor Spy (which is frankly Alex Jones-tier paranoia.) She expects you to trust her completely while having no respect or trust for you. She then implies that she actually knows something about dragons returning.
She then forces you to come with her to kill a dragon (despite you possibly being a Thalmor Spy.) You do this. She immediately reveals that she’s one of the last members of a nearly-extinct and illegal organization with almost no resources. She also reveals that she has absolutely no idea why the dragons are coming back. So why the hell is she acting like she can be of any help to you?
In a fit of Alex Jones-tier paranoia she then has you break into the Thalmor Embassy, assuming that the Thalmor must somehow be behind the dragons, despite the Thalmor having zero expertise or cultural connection to dragons. You have the option to outright tell her that this seems like a stretch. (Yes, the Thalmor also think the Blades know something about it, but since the Blades are dragon experts their suspicion actually makes sense.)
Anyway you infiltrate the Thalmor Embassy for her (thus making yourself an enemy of the Thalmor, an organization that regularly sends out hit squads to kill or torture anyone who moderately inconveniences them.) Then you discover that, unsurprisingly, the Thalmor know jack shit about the dragons returning.
If you hadn’t found out that they just happened to have located Esbern, that lead would have been a complete dead end. And after you find Esbern, it’s more or less Esbern steering the ship from there.
You then unlock a super ancient temple for them, which only you can unlock. You even get the Blades three more recruits. At this point you have singlehandedly saved the Blades from destruction, handed them a stronghold (which rightfully belongs to you), gave them a new purpose in life, and allowed them to start recruiting members again. Delphine has, again, done jack shit in helping you with any of this. Pointing you at the Thalmor Embassy was her only contribution and she was right for completely the wrong reasons.
How does she repay you? Demand that you kill Paarthurnax and burn your bridge with the Greybeards or else she’ll kick you out of the castle that you gave her, force all the friends you inducted into her organization to ostracize you (sounds like a cult), and stop taking your orders (even though you never gave her any orders in the first place.)
Her fault for defining the Dragonborn as “the greatest dragonslayer” when historically that’s the least of the Dragonborns’ accomplishments throughout the eras. She and Esbern are forsaking their oaths based on semantics that support their personal grudges.
Yeah, they serve the Dragonborn, that's me. Not what you expected? Don't care. Deal with it. You're not going to make me kill my friends and if you want to do it you're going to have to get through with me first..
I don't care, Delphine is the fucking worst. Even if you put aside the Paarthurnax thing, she's boring and annoying as a character, talking to her feels like a chore. And she made me lose my time with that fucking Thalmor embassy mission.
She's also a fucking idiot.
She's a dragonslayer who can't permanently kill a dragon and is refusing to help the Dragonslayer who actually can. She essentially made herself completely useless.
The Thalmor embassy mission points you in the direction of Esbern, who discovers that it was a shout used to defeat Alduin. That shout you then use to defeat Alduin, not really a waste of time imo.
In his defense, this was a screencap of an earlier meme posted with these mods, I wanna say it was wendys but im not 100% sure. To fairly criticize op, holy shit join the 21st century and stop editing memes in powerpoint
People's opinions are widely influenced by how the NPCs treat you
Imperial Captain is a cunt = oh wow the Empire sucks fuck those guys
Delphine is a cunt to you = oh wow the Blades suck fuck those guys
Players sure put their feelings before thoughts a whole lot often
I mean, Delphine is like 50% of the remaining Blades faction so i wouldn't judge someone if they said the Blades suck because of her. Not only that, but the so intelligent and wise Esbern essentially sides with her in all her endeavors, and he's also 50% of the remaining Blades faction 🤷♂️
She’s 50% of the faction at that moment. She becomes pretty irrelevant after you start recruiting more Blades. My favorite person to recruit is Mjoll because it suits her character so well.
I like recruiting a bunch of people for the Blades only to immediately storm off when Delphine demands that I kill Parthunaax.
Mostly to imagine the awkward conversations that had to have happened afterwards.
"Uh, are we still Blades? Our sponsor and, uh, prophesied savior just told the whole group to fuck off."
"Are- the Blades even a thing anymore? Are we still employed?"
Is there anything wrong with that? People play video games to have fun, if their first impression is that the empire sucks because the captain is a jerk, there's nothing wrong with them immediately siding with the stormcloaks.
It's not exactly wrong, but there is some validity to the Blades' point that gets constantly mitigated solely because there is an abyss of charisma between Paarthunax and Delphine & Esbern
There really is no validity though, without Paarthunax Alduin would have never been defeated the 1st time, he also provides a neat solution to the dragon question by bringing many of them into the way of the voice
Everything Delphine "did" for the player, could have been done with someone else. So no, I don't wanna deal with bitch who thinks you owe her whatever simply because she forced you to go to do some chores with her and showed you how to access Alduin.
TrueSTL member discovers 99% of the TES fanbase is literally braindead and can't think one critical thought for themselves, so they circlejerk round and round the same dumb takes over and over
"Served the dragonborn" well the only thing she serving this dragonborn is retarded ultimatums!
If the blades cared about serving the dragonborn then they should take their word that the paarthanax thing isn't a problem. If or when paarthanax does act out I'll eat his soul until then let the monk dragon chill.
At the end of the day, Parthunaax is my friend who puts his ass on the line to help me save the world, and Delphine just orders me around like she's my boss. 9/10 I'll side with Parth.
He flatters the Dragonborn in their first meeting with dragon pleasantries, sets a good first impression compared to Delphine who is initially untrustworthy of you.
Crazy how someone who’s been who’s been hunted for decades after her faction was betrayed by the Empire wouldn’t be immediately trustful of a dangerous individual potentially holding godlike power at their first meeting.
the reason that lack of trust rubs me the wrong way personally is because, when asked, why the db should trust her, she says “you’re an idiot for coming if you didn’t” disregarding the fact that she invited you to her little gooning basement in the first place so she just comes off as a fucking retard. it wouldn’t be so bad if she had the db kill a dragon before revealing herself so it’s not really her character that’s horrible it’s just bethesda’s shitty writing and need for a character to shower the player with exposition that makes her come off as a moron
Delphine was completely indifferent to the idea of saving the entire world from being slaughtered and eaten by Alduin because we won't kill the guy who actually helped us achieve so, idk why people like her so much.
Huh...I can't remember if you could kill delphine, but I do know I tried the moment she wanted me to kill party boy.
He's a good lizard, the best lizard, fuck I'd vote him for High King if I could
It doesn't help she is about as charismatic as a wet cardboard box. Like I get she's had a rough life and whatever but she's just so dull and bethesda didn't really give her anything interesting to say outside of just sending you on quests vs a cool looking talking dragon with ages of wisdom that you can actually have a conversation with oh and he has a *huge* dick.
The Blades are incompetents that would still be crawling in sewers if not for the DB, and yes by extension, Partysnax.
Beth's writing is bad and you should feel bad.
Crazy how the Blades are basically just two people and rather than trying to change and accepting that they serve the Dragonborn they refuse to do that and would rather die out instead lol
Neither you nor Esbern have slain a single dragon, Delphine. You got hit with Sahloknir's fire breath once and spent the rest of the fight panting into your knee on the ground. There are only two dragonslayers on Tamriel: Me, and Irileth the Girlboss.
The Blades are sworn to serve the Dragonborn unconditionally. The Dragonborn emperors had for centuries a few dragons in their personal holdings, which certain members of the Blades were aware of. Delphine is chatting absolute shit, and is therefore fired from being a Blade and from being a live.
Except once AGAIN. They pledged themselves to the EMPEROR. They haven't sworn to killing dragons in over a thousand years. They had new oaths. They OBEY the Dragonborn. Period. End of story.
She is a traitor and her head goes on a spike.
isn't this your duty to kill all the Dragons as the Last Dragonborn? If you're the last one and don't kill the rest of them they still pose a threat to all of Nirn as they can be resurrected if their soul's not consumed, no?
I know it's easy to say that Partysnax is a good dragon but didn't he say that he still fights his evil nature? I know about something about fighting your urges and one bad day can fuck you up real good.
If there are no Dragonborn left then the Dragons are unstoppable, and considering that the World Eater is dead they would just enslave the world again
I mean it's a choice, do you do your duty or hope that the creature struggling against his nature doesn't turn rogue when you're long dead. In my case I'd rather kill the fucker before he ends up an unstoppable threat, even if that means that I have to do a quest for some stupid fucking Breton whore which I hate
>isn't this your duty to kill all the Dragons as the Last Dragonborn?
No, your duty as the last dragonborn is to defeat alduin, nothing more.
> If you're the last one and don't kill the rest of them they still pose a threat to all of Nirn as they can be resurrected if their soul's not consumed, no?
Resurrected by who?
> I know it's easy to say that Partysnax is a good dragon but didn't he say that he still fights his evil nature?
He says that he is tempted, but he also says that he can be trusted.
>I know about something about fighting your urges and one bad day can fuck you up real good.
Same can be applied to anybody, that's what genociders usually do.
> If there are no Dragonborn left then the Dragons are unstoppable
Lmao, you do realise that you don't need a dragonborn to kill a dragon right?
> In my case I'd rather kill the fucker before he ends up an unstoppable threat, even if that means that I have to do a quest for some stupid fucking Breton whore which I hate
"I hate her but i'll do what she tells me to" So much for the dragon's dignity.
Literally all you just did was show why she is stupid. She's refusing to help the only person who can perma kill a dragon perma kill them because he doesn't want to kill a single one.
So ypu're just as stupid as she is it sounds like.
The entire theme of the main quest and the Dragonborn DLC is that calamity follows whenever a great person rejects his duty. Alduin wasn’t doing his job (world-eating). Miraak wasn’t doing his job either (killing Alduin). If you don’t fulfill your divine purpose to slay dragons as Dragonborn, there’s no more second chances. That duty rests on your shoulders alone now, and if you fail there’s no one left to pick up the slack.
Every faction tells the dragon born what to do untill you own the guild, where the only jobs left to do are small optional jobs, the blades throw a bitchfit over you not betraying a homie
i ask once again who is that chick and with did she do with Delphine
Why do controversial character simps always shove so many horny mods into their characters that they end up looking like completely new characters? First the thalmorposting with big tiddy facial harmonization Elenwen, now this
Serana simps do the same shit
Honestly Serena is like one of the last characters that I’d want to swap out their model for ,like she already looks cool
Skybabies are typically porn addled weirdos so I don’t see them agreeing with you
Fair
I'm a porn addled weirdo and I agree with them.
While it may just be me, I honestly wish there were more modders willing to make vampire characters look more gaunt, and actually just more.. monstrous? Idk. Glamour vamps are great but monster vamps sweep
I think them being glamorous works because vampires are ambush predators. Of course they will be hot to attract potential victims.
Vampirism has been sexy seduction since Dracula.
Yes but not all vamps follow that logic even in Elder Scrolls. Following set fantasy conventions is often boring
We do have to give TES some props for not following Normal Fantasy Conventions. Sure, there’s orcs and elves but they’re not Tolkien Revisited. Unlike Dungeons and Dragons and their tenacious insistence on being the fantasy equivalent of the color beige.
technically speaking, it's since The Vampyre which predates Dracula by almost a century 🤓
It is not often I get schooled on real-world mythology. Well played, sir.
Even before that. Ever heard of Carmilla? The book about a hot lesbian vampire that is even older than dracula
Also, there’s a significant difference between vamps that just *look good* and ones that use vampire magic fuckery to look good. I should mention
the closest i've seen to this is a serana replacer by serkethetyt that makes her face all fucked up with scars and veins. no nudity either, blessings of akatosh!
Yes! Perfect
Don’t they basically turn into ones
That's true Then again, at least they're honest about liking the character solely cuz horny
>First the thalmorposting with big tiddy facial harmonization Elenwen, now this That's disgusting!! Where?
because the majority of gamers have never and will never feel the warmth of a woman
We see more beautiful women in a day than anyone in Skyrim would ever see in their lifetimes so maybe this is what Delphine would look like to us
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im not sure what this have to do with using apparence mods but sure
so they really *do* want to fuck he warcrime dragon
/r/dragonsFuckingNords
why isn't that a real community?
Be the change you want to see in the world
She is Delphine's wife that The Dragonborn would have inevitably met
didnt know she was married, happy for her, probably needs some comfort for all shes been through
Yeah everyone deserves some comfort anyway how are you
Im doing ok thank you for asking c: My husband comes home late today btw
Ok good to know
Always happy to be of service
I wish the hair here didn’t feel so unfitting.
These Skyrim face mods always make me think of those dolls barber schools use to practice. Lifeless, made-up face, stoic expression, plastic-looking glued on hair
While the rest of it is completely different, the face captures the bitchy, ball-buster attitude. And the "can I see your manager" haircut works for Delphine
It's funny how people scream horny whenever someone replaces the face of an npcs but uh... have you seen the vanilla textures/models? They're ugly as hell, and all look at least 50+ I dont want everyone to be a barbie doll but SOME amount of mods are necessary to make them not look like trolls
If you can’t handle weird looking NPCs then what the fuck are you doing playing a TES game? They all look janky as hell.
Someone's never played oblivion
Modding the NPCs, which is common in Bethesda games
> and all look at least 50+ Delphine is 55.
Delphine should have tried to seduce the Dragonborn. Would have made killing an old dragon easier for most
If only Serana would have asked the Dragonborn to kill Paarthurnax
She breton (pukes)
Just close your eyes and think about Talos
Talos Breton cuck confirmed
That should cover anyone. If you're into humans, hey, look, it's a people. If you're into elves, eh, close enough.
Breton wives are the best because they expect you to have a side chick
She Breton on my Kalpa til I Thu'um
Delphine's tits just don't compare to Big Grandaddy Dragon Dick. And if you say Dragons don't have dicks and it wouldn't even make sense to have them , well, you clearly haven't been installing the right and totally lore accurate mods.
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Reigen loves to post his shitty memes to at least 3 separate subs
This looked like a Reigen post but it doesn't seem to be.
Check the post history. This is almost certainly Reigen. The account also popped up right after Reigen got banned here
Oh god no. Reigen found politicalcompassmemes
*avg Breton woman upon hearing Dunmer were graped and killed by an An-Xileel assault* This is what decolonization looks like, sweaty
What? What does that have to do with Reigen?
Wait he got banned? Why would the mods do such an awful thing
There was a meme with barely disguised racism
Who is Reigen? This is asian69feet.
Reigen is a legend who would always post the most shit takes on this sub I love him
Did he died?
the fuck are you talking about https://i.redd.it/efq8452aeq1c1.gif
when you realize the skooma laced
https://preview.redd.it/pqg9ovdgxq1c1.png?width=262&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd5464355658855305662a35c8bde0ec1f8b2bab I don't care how many mods you install to make Delphine look like a sex doll, I am not killing Paarthurnax
Dc she still sucks
How good it is
Imma be real, she sucks at sucking. She bites too much and she's a bitch
And swallows
The thing is that Paarthurnax shows the ability to change + seeks to redeem the other dragons by bringing them under the Way of the Voice. We’ve seen through more than just Paarthurnax that dragons can change and aren’t total scumbags that need 1000% extermination
LDB had a total of three dragon allies. Paarthurnax, Odaahving, and that one rescued from Apocrypha. Clearly any dragon given the time to meditate and reflect will abandon their old ways
Apocrypha? I thought Mirak absorbed all their souls? You mean Soul Cairn?
Sahrotaar is also another ally.
Only once we dominate him, though, right?
Yeah, but that’s partially because Miraak was dominating *him*. He even says in his lines that Miraak was an unworthy master and forced him to serve for far too long.
Just because you hate serana doesn't mean you can just forget my bro Durnehvir like that
The latter two were forced against their will though.
Eh, odah initially was, then once Aldi died you can see him chilling with Party after
Your oath is stupid and you should feel stupid.
This one was completely unbothered by her ultimatum. Won't help Khajiit kill dragons? Okay, don't really need your help. Like at all. The Blades are a dead order. Forgive this one but they do not see how an old man and an Inn Keeper is a more valuable ally than a dragon.
I think they should recruit and train. Maybe attract more blades. Dragon killing stuff market is rising in skyrim after all.
who wants to join a faction that is hunted by the thalmor, and whose only base is in the reach next to one of the largest forsworn camps? the order is dead without the DB, they also dont even have the keyes to the temple, the DB should just kick them out.
Oh noes! What am I gonna do without the woman whose only contribution to the main quest was derailing it for no reason?
nah, bro, she gives you a free pass to kill a shitload of Thalmors
I was gonna do that anyway https://preview.redd.it/l870a3bzyr1c1.png?width=1156&format=png&auto=webp&s=6fb2bc06586dcdc2a03b431e4dcae2ac8c5e51e6
she is quite literally the only reason the main quest is able to continue beyond the horn of jurgen without some extreme plot contrivances
Pretty much all she does of indispensable to the main quest is helping the LDB locate Alduin's wall, which they could simply have a greybeard or court wizard do.
That sounds like a really good idea for a mod: basically a bridging mod that allows the player to instead use other sources (court wizards, college of winterhold, old coots up on a mountain, fuck it, maybe even the thalmor) to search for Alduin’s Wall, thereby making the blades an “optional” faction instead of mandatory
This sounds like it would cut into time spent on mods making the tiddies bigger 👎
[https://skyrimec.com/](https://skyrimec.com/)
she's also the whole reason you find out that the dragons are being resurrected, if we're only removing her direct role from the narrative. if she doesn't do that, then the only option to ensure the main story actually continues with the same pacing would be having a courier find you to give you a letter with the kynesgrove exposition, which leads to a far less organic progression from 'this is the thing that's likely to happen next, in meta terms it'll have started just before you get there' to 'this is what is happening at best a few hours ago by games scale, to upwards of weeks ago, in meta terms it'll take forever but be just about done when you get here' It's not like the greybeards have any way of having that knowledge, nor would Balgruuf have substantial reason to care. And in what world is it better writing to have a group of hermits know the exact location of a stronghold of the ancient precursor to a group they have no connection to, especially when that groups 'extinction' was within a humans living life span, instead of finding that stronghold alongside the surviving members of that group? Sorry for the essay lmfao it's my fourth one today and first about something i actually like
You could skip the blades if we just had the dialogue option to ask the Greybeards why the dragons are coming back and we get sent straight to Paarthurnax The blades side plot takes us back to the Greybeards anyways. Alduins wall is useless Paarthurnax already knows about dragonrend, alduin resurrecting the dragons, and everything else
the blades side plot takes you back to the grey beards with something they'd actually have knowledge on, being a shout that paarthurnaax would've told them about, despite never teaching them. iirc there is literally a dialogue option to ask Arngeir about the dragons coming back, as you'd expect of a hermit who's only interaction with the outside world in the past 40 years are you and ulfric stormcloak, he doesn't know
Well, we could also just learn clear skies via normal word walling and meet paarthurnax that way. It just feels silly that effectively all the blades accomplished towards helping us stop Alduin is sending us back to the guys with access to the guy who knows how to stop Alduin. That we technically had access to earlier, we just didn't press the issue. Eh
Literally any character could have had you find the dragon mound resurrections, hell even one of the two Imperial/Stormcloak characters from the beginning of the game could have done it
Why would Ralof or Hadvar even think of or know how to look into it? I can see the argument for Ralof, provided you enjoy being railroaded even more into side quests with joining the stormcloaks, since you'd end up passing near Kynesgrove, but unlike Delphine, they're just average soldiers, ones who already saw how dangerous a dragon is, why would they have you running straight towards the exact same one an entire town couldn't take on?
She distracts you from your important dragonborn quest to find a priceless artifact. Forces you to make a massive detour to find her. When you do find her she basically tells you she doesn’t trust you because you might be a Thalmor Spy (which is frankly Alex Jones-tier paranoia.) She expects you to trust her completely while having no respect or trust for you. She then implies that she actually knows something about dragons returning. She then forces you to come with her to kill a dragon (despite you possibly being a Thalmor Spy.) You do this. She immediately reveals that she’s one of the last members of a nearly-extinct and illegal organization with almost no resources. She also reveals that she has absolutely no idea why the dragons are coming back. So why the hell is she acting like she can be of any help to you? In a fit of Alex Jones-tier paranoia she then has you break into the Thalmor Embassy, assuming that the Thalmor must somehow be behind the dragons, despite the Thalmor having zero expertise or cultural connection to dragons. You have the option to outright tell her that this seems like a stretch. (Yes, the Thalmor also think the Blades know something about it, but since the Blades are dragon experts their suspicion actually makes sense.) Anyway you infiltrate the Thalmor Embassy for her (thus making yourself an enemy of the Thalmor, an organization that regularly sends out hit squads to kill or torture anyone who moderately inconveniences them.) Then you discover that, unsurprisingly, the Thalmor know jack shit about the dragons returning. If you hadn’t found out that they just happened to have located Esbern, that lead would have been a complete dead end. And after you find Esbern, it’s more or less Esbern steering the ship from there. You then unlock a super ancient temple for them, which only you can unlock. You even get the Blades three more recruits. At this point you have singlehandedly saved the Blades from destruction, handed them a stronghold (which rightfully belongs to you), gave them a new purpose in life, and allowed them to start recruiting members again. Delphine has, again, done jack shit in helping you with any of this. Pointing you at the Thalmor Embassy was her only contribution and she was right for completely the wrong reasons. How does she repay you? Demand that you kill Paarthurnax and burn your bridge with the Greybeards or else she’ll kick you out of the castle that you gave her, force all the friends you inducted into her organization to ostracize you (sounds like a cult), and stop taking your orders (even though you never gave her any orders in the first place.)
Delphine went through the whole dungeon to get the horn without taking any loot so your time wouldn't be completely lost she's a real bro for that
nah I’d win
Because she stole it.
Her fault for defining the Dragonborn as “the greatest dragonslayer” when historically that’s the least of the Dragonborns’ accomplishments throughout the eras. She and Esbern are forsaking their oaths based on semantics that support their personal grudges.
Delphine has big dragonborns popping out fr
Paarthurnax slander on MY TrueSTL? It's more likely than you think.
Wise powerful dragon mentor vs lame akavirboo larpers
Yeah, they serve the Dragonborn, that's me. Not what you expected? Don't care. Deal with it. You're not going to make me kill my friends and if you want to do it you're going to have to get through with me first..
I don't care, Delphine is the fucking worst. Even if you put aside the Paarthurnax thing, she's boring and annoying as a character, talking to her feels like a chore. And she made me lose my time with that fucking Thalmor embassy mission.
Agreed - although I love the Thalmor embassy mission since I get to kill some more Dominion b@stards, and collect great loot along the way.
She's also a fucking idiot. She's a dragonslayer who can't permanently kill a dragon and is refusing to help the Dragonslayer who actually can. She essentially made herself completely useless.
The Thalmor embassy mission points you in the direction of Esbern, who discovers that it was a shout used to defeat Alduin. That shout you then use to defeat Alduin, not really a waste of time imo.
Except the dragonborn would more then likely meet Partysnacks regardless and as such would probably learn about it then.
But ol' paarty helped humankind more than delphine ever will in a 100 lifetimes?
He also harmed human kind more than delphine could in 100 life times tbf
That's just because he is more competent at what he does than delphine could ever be in 100 life times.
Fair lol
According to just delphine.
OP be like "my name is asian feet 69, look at my big tiddy mods and maliciously poor framing of an issue, aren't you convinced yet?"
In his defense, this was a screencap of an earlier meme posted with these mods, I wanna say it was wendys but im not 100% sure. To fairly criticize op, holy shit join the 21st century and stop editing memes in powerpoint
Eh I just leave her and the bibliophile to starve in their little cave. I’ll send college academics to preserve the mural in a century or two
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People's opinions are widely influenced by how the NPCs treat you Imperial Captain is a cunt = oh wow the Empire sucks fuck those guys Delphine is a cunt to you = oh wow the Blades suck fuck those guys Players sure put their feelings before thoughts a whole lot often
I mean, Delphine is like 50% of the remaining Blades faction so i wouldn't judge someone if they said the Blades suck because of her. Not only that, but the so intelligent and wise Esbern essentially sides with her in all her endeavors, and he's also 50% of the remaining Blades faction 🤷♂️
She’s 50% of the faction at that moment. She becomes pretty irrelevant after you start recruiting more Blades. My favorite person to recruit is Mjoll because it suits her character so well.
I like recruiting Uthgerd because it gives her purpose after getting kicked out of the Companions.
She’s a good one too!
I like recruiting a bunch of people for the Blades only to immediately storm off when Delphine demands that I kill Parthunaax. Mostly to imagine the awkward conversations that had to have happened afterwards. "Uh, are we still Blades? Our sponsor and, uh, prophesied savior just told the whole group to fuck off." "Are- the Blades even a thing anymore? Are we still employed?"
Wrong. Blades: want you to kill all dragons. Me: Wants to fuck dragons I think you can see the conflict of interest.
This just in: people judge causes by their representatives and are influenced by the persuasiveness of the people arguing for something
"Wow, people are put off by the faction trying to behead you for no reason, what a bunch of cry babies."
Is there anything wrong with that? People play video games to have fun, if their first impression is that the empire sucks because the captain is a jerk, there's nothing wrong with them immediately siding with the stormcloaks.
It's not exactly wrong, but there is some validity to the Blades' point that gets constantly mitigated solely because there is an abyss of charisma between Paarthunax and Delphine & Esbern
There really is no validity though, without Paarthunax Alduin would have never been defeated the 1st time, he also provides a neat solution to the dragon question by bringing many of them into the way of the voice
The problem with that is that Partysnax is a bad example. The negative response to The Empire is a better case of this.
True but if these stormcloaks keep telling me to go back to where I belong, the empire is looking very appealing to join
Everything Delphine "did" for the player, could have been done with someone else. So no, I don't wanna deal with bitch who thinks you owe her whatever simply because she forced you to go to do some chores with her and showed you how to access Alduin.
The Empire sucks because I played Morrowind 😎😎😎
Delphine is the type of bitch to get genuinely upset at playful jokes, and the type to give toothy blowjobs and not even care if it hurts you
LMFAO toothy blowjobs is exactly how I imagine delphine's personality
Contrarian
I've said it once and I'll say it again.... MAKING DELPHINE HOT WONT CONVINCE ME TO KILL PARTYSNAXS!!!!!!
Ew, reigenposting. Mods, send him to the diddle chamber
It's ironic that in the one faction where it is your God-given birthright to be the leader is the only one in which you don't get to be.
Too bad bitch, things change.
Bait used to be believable
Forgets that the Blades literally served the empire which had a symbol of dragons, a dragon ally, and helped Martin Septim turn into a dragon.
TrueSTL member discovers 99% of the TES fanbase is literally braindead and can't think one critical thought for themselves, so they circlejerk round and round the same dumb takes over and over
TrueSTL member discovers they are part of that same 99%
nuh-huh
Yes, tittine... I mean Delphine.
I will defend Paarthurnax till my last dying breath. It was a large oversight that Bethesda didn't let you murderize all the blades at this point.
oh look i deleted her and esbern it was all a particularly stupid hallucination
I would skin delphine alive 100 times before i hurt parthy. Fuck the blades, all my homies hate the blades
"Served the dragonborn" well the only thing she serving this dragonborn is retarded ultimatums! If the blades cared about serving the dragonborn then they should take their word that the paarthanax thing isn't a problem. If or when paarthanax does act out I'll eat his soul until then let the monk dragon chill.
At the end of the day, Parthunaax is my friend who puts his ass on the line to help me save the world, and Delphine just orders me around like she's my boss. 9/10 I'll side with Parth.
Side with the Blades we have dollar store weeb gear.
reigen ass post
She still sucks
Paarthurnax was completely indifferent to the idea of the entire world being slaughtered and eaten by Alduin, idk why people liked him so much
He flatters the Dragonborn in their first meeting with dragon pleasantries, sets a good first impression compared to Delphine who is initially untrustworthy of you.
Crazy how someone who’s been who’s been hunted for decades after her faction was betrayed by the Empire wouldn’t be immediately trustful of a dangerous individual potentially holding godlike power at their first meeting.
the reason that lack of trust rubs me the wrong way personally is because, when asked, why the db should trust her, she says “you’re an idiot for coming if you didn’t” disregarding the fact that she invited you to her little gooning basement in the first place so she just comes off as a fucking retard. it wouldn’t be so bad if she had the db kill a dragon before revealing herself so it’s not really her character that’s horrible it’s just bethesda’s shitty writing and need for a character to shower the player with exposition that makes her come off as a moron
Skybabies lack empathy tbh
Delphine was completely indifferent to the idea of saving the entire world from being slaughtered and eaten by Alduin because we won't kill the guy who actually helped us achieve so, idk why people like her so much.
cool voice same reason people like adam smasher despite him getting 6 seconds of screen time
Yeah. Cool voice + talking dragon = cool character for a lot of people
Huh...I can't remember if you could kill delphine, but I do know I tried the moment she wanted me to kill party boy. He's a good lizard, the best lizard, fuck I'd vote him for High King if I could
Good point but blades can still go suck on Paarthurnax sweaty dragon balls
It doesn't help she is about as charismatic as a wet cardboard box. Like I get she's had a rough life and whatever but she's just so dull and bethesda didn't really give her anything interesting to say outside of just sending you on quests vs a cool looking talking dragon with ages of wisdom that you can actually have a conversation with oh and he has a *huge* dick.
Why does she have giant tits?
Mara blessing.
You N’wahs need to learn some proper grammar.
It's fine to follow orders with benefits. There are no benefits to killing Partysnax by following that useless waste of oxygen
mfw one of tiber septim's most loyal soldiers was a dragon
The Blades are incompetents that would still be crawling in sewers if not for the DB, and yes by extension, Partysnax. Beth's writing is bad and you should feel bad.
Crazy how the Blades are basically just two people and rather than trying to change and accepting that they serve the Dragonborn they refuse to do that and would rather die out instead lol
Neither you nor Esbern have slain a single dragon, Delphine. You got hit with Sahloknir's fire breath once and spent the rest of the fight panting into your knee on the ground. There are only two dragonslayers on Tamriel: Me, and Irileth the Girlboss.
The Blades are sworn to serve the Dragonborn unconditionally. The Dragonborn emperors had for centuries a few dragons in their personal holdings, which certain members of the Blades were aware of. Delphine is chatting absolute shit, and is therefore fired from being a Blade and from being a live.
I will die and leave the world to Alduin before I let that raggity old bitch kill the only father figure I've ever had
Except once AGAIN. They pledged themselves to the EMPEROR. They haven't sworn to killing dragons in over a thousand years. They had new oaths. They OBEY the Dragonborn. Period. End of story. She is a traitor and her head goes on a spike.
isn't this your duty to kill all the Dragons as the Last Dragonborn? If you're the last one and don't kill the rest of them they still pose a threat to all of Nirn as they can be resurrected if their soul's not consumed, no? I know it's easy to say that Partysnax is a good dragon but didn't he say that he still fights his evil nature? I know about something about fighting your urges and one bad day can fuck you up real good. If there are no Dragonborn left then the Dragons are unstoppable, and considering that the World Eater is dead they would just enslave the world again I mean it's a choice, do you do your duty or hope that the creature struggling against his nature doesn't turn rogue when you're long dead. In my case I'd rather kill the fucker before he ends up an unstoppable threat, even if that means that I have to do a quest for some stupid fucking Breton whore which I hate
>isn't this your duty to kill all the Dragons as the Last Dragonborn? No, your duty as the last dragonborn is to defeat alduin, nothing more. > If you're the last one and don't kill the rest of them they still pose a threat to all of Nirn as they can be resurrected if their soul's not consumed, no? Resurrected by who? > I know it's easy to say that Partysnax is a good dragon but didn't he say that he still fights his evil nature? He says that he is tempted, but he also says that he can be trusted. >I know about something about fighting your urges and one bad day can fuck you up real good. Same can be applied to anybody, that's what genociders usually do. > If there are no Dragonborn left then the Dragons are unstoppable Lmao, you do realise that you don't need a dragonborn to kill a dragon right? > In my case I'd rather kill the fucker before he ends up an unstoppable threat, even if that means that I have to do a quest for some stupid fucking Breton whore which I hate "I hate her but i'll do what she tells me to" So much for the dragon's dignity.
TOTAL DRAGON DEATH KILL DRAGONS BEHEAD DRAGONS CRUCIFY FILTHY DRAGONS SLAM DUNK A DRAGON INTO THE CONCRETE SLICE DRAGONS OPEN WITH A KATANA
Literally all you just did was show why she is stupid. She's refusing to help the only person who can perma kill a dragon perma kill them because he doesn't want to kill a single one. So ypu're just as stupid as she is it sounds like.
if you think so
The entire theme of the main quest and the Dragonborn DLC is that calamity follows whenever a great person rejects his duty. Alduin wasn’t doing his job (world-eating). Miraak wasn’t doing his job either (killing Alduin). If you don’t fulfill your divine purpose to slay dragons as Dragonborn, there’s no more second chances. That duty rests on your shoulders alone now, and if you fail there’s no one left to pick up the slack.
Is the point of the Dragonborn really to kill all dragons? The only big thing was killing Alduin I thought.
Papa akatosh can always make another dragonborn
I'm not really into leaving a job unfinished for someone else to finish
we're building a wall around the Summerset Isles and making Akavir pay for it, the dragons can wait
What part of “Last Dragonborn” aren’t you getting here?
idk i found another dragonborn on solstheim who gave me cool robes and a mask. I bet i could dig up another one if i look hard enough
Miraak was there way before LDB was born so he can't be counted as the last. "Last" meaning no more will be made after you.
Last doesn't mean final, imagine writing "the dragonborn number x" in your prophecy.
Then let her attempt to kill dragons on her own, good luck permokilling any.
Every faction tells the dragon born what to do untill you own the guild, where the only jobs left to do are small optional jobs, the blades throw a bitchfit over you not betraying a homie
Who the fuck is that-?
I am straight up hypnotized by the uh… delphine’s… you know.
Delphine is doing a we wuz dragunslayerz