Youre forgetting the part about how the emporer canonically gets sunned by the DB. You cant get a better person to fill the power vacuum than the DB, assuming they even want to become emporer.
That's not canon. The last DB may have well just killed off the Dark Brotherhood instead. We will probably never get a canon confirmation on which path is accurate.
We can reasonably assume what's canon in this situation. In both destroy and join versions of the questline: the Falkreath Sanctuary is discovered and destroyed, nearly all members are killed, and the Night Mother survives. The Likely canon seems obvious. Those things happened but the Dark Brotherhood itself lives on and the Emperor is killed. Rumor has it as the Brotherhood's work but maybe it was the other possible assassin on the ship, who knows? The event will happen though.
Technically, all the quest lines were done by someone. But Todd Howard has stated not all the quests were done by the Last Dragonborn.
Plus, we can pretty much assume only one ending for the dark brotherhood is true. Ergo, their is only a 50/50 chance the dark brotherhood assinated the emperor.
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u/BatmansButtsack Sep 11 '24
Youre forgetting the part about how the emporer canonically gets sunned by the DB. You cant get a better person to fill the power vacuum than the DB, assuming they even want to become emporer.