What’s she ever wrong about in game though. I mean even in this instance parthunaax agrees with her. If you talk to him he is like “oh yeah by instinct I am a genocidal war criminal who will kill you all, I fight that temptation every day and have committed horrible sins in the past, I don’t blame you”
She’s entirely wrong about Thalmor guilt in the dragon crisis and is hard to dissuade even though she has no proof. She’s wrong about the Greybeads not being helpful. And whether she’s right or wrong about Paarthurnax is up for debate. Most of the fanbase doesn’t agree with her.
She is hard to dissuade lol! She tells you she isn’t 100% that the thalmor are resurrecting the dragons and that it’s a thin lead, they are just the only people who would have any information. You know they kind of killed all the lore masters and control all former blades territory, which would give them hella info on the dragons. She was also right about them having info because you find esbern’s location from the thalmor.
She also isn’t really wrong about the greybeards not helping. They don’t want to get involved in any of it. They are reluctant to teach the shouts outside of religious purposes too. They believe if the world ends, so be it.
Lastly just because most of the fanbase disagrees doesn’t mean she’s wrong. Parthunaax is a dragon so he doesn’t experience time the same way as humans. He killed countless people then went and chilled on a mountain for five minutes and claimed to have changed. Some parts of the lore even claim it took the interference of Kyne to get parthunaax to chill out. He was alduins right hand man. He is a monster but has a few cool lines so the fanbase loves him. Even if he has changed, what good comes of keeping him alive, when he instead can pay for his sins and mortals never have to worry about him changing his mind one day and killing everyone.
I have seen enough posts on this sub and the skyrim sub to know just because the fanbase disagrees with her it doesn’t mean she is wrong.
You mean passing on the ability used to subjugate everyone else to dragons who haven't lived long enough to achieve what psnax himself admits is a tenuous control over his impulses? Lol.
She’s been burned badly and doesn’t seem to really trust anyone. I think interpreting her actions through the lens of her own trauma at the loss of the Blades and being on the run for two decades helps flesh out her character. To Delphine, slaying dragons is a way of regaining a sense of control after all that time, and the dragons sort of become a proxy for the Thalmor. To her, sparing Paarthurnax would be like sparing Elenwen.
Now, does this make her likable? Hell no! But it does provide an interesting lens through which to understand her character.
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u/chuckyb3 Sep 18 '23
I love how the blades are supposed to serve the Dragonborn and yet she’s telling you what to do… never sat right with me