I also wish they had given him random jibber jabba dialog like they did with the guards and innkeepers. Of course I don't know how many people would bother to go through his idle chitchat messages.



...well, probably most everyone who played the game, honestly XD

I also made sure to shout their entire dinner and silverware off the table before I left the temple. There really should have been achievement points for using shouts in humorous ways.

LOL. Next time I play through the game I think I'm going to do this.

It would probably be all but impossible to actually code in and track it, but something like that would certainly be funny.

' Sheogorath's favorite Disciple: Fling or move, whether through shout, magic blasts or just plain physical work, 1000 misc. pieces of house decorations from their starting positions.'

Other possible shout-related achievements include:

'Would you like ice with that?: Freeze 50 NPCs with your Ice Form shout.'

'No fly zone: Use Dragon Rend on 10 hawks while they are in the air.'

'Scuse me, coming through!: Use Whirlwind Sprint shout to knock over 25 NPCs'

'STEEE-RIKE!: Use Fus-Ro-Dah to send 10 NPCs flying at once.'

'Not a people person: Use Storm Call while in a zone with at least two dozen NPCs close by'

And ironically paarth would probably be a lot more beneficial by 'inflicting' pacifism on his kinfolk, as per the end of the main quest. In the long run the blades are just making their jobs harder. (I'm not sure if this actually impacts the gameplay or not; I've had a couple dragon just circle me for a while then fly off since I finished it though.)

Also I agree about the thieve's guild thing... the ES4 quests were classier than that. I've only done the first couple but it seemed more like being a repo-man than a thief.

Yeah, Paarthurnax's spreading of the 'Way of the Voice', and peaceful co-existence with the other races would be, in the long run, much better for everyone.

Compare that to what the dragons would likely do if you killed both Alduin and Paarthurnax, they'd likely come to the conclusion that mortals are just bloodthirsty animals, since you killed both the one who was trying to conquer people /and/ the one who was interested in peace, apparently just because they had scales.

After something like that, the idea of 'peace' would be flat out impossible, so yeah, ordering you to kill Paarthurnax would very much just make things worse.

Regarding the 'peaceful dragons' after the main quest, if memory serves it was originally a bug, where the dragons wouldn't attack you every so often, but after finding out about it the game designers made it intentional(which is a royal pain if you're a stealth specialist, how are you supposed to tell the difference without revealing yourself?)

Thieves quest wise, the main questline for that one is more focused on dealing with issues in the guild itself, though it does have some stealthy quests, but for the most part the thief/stealth-centered quests are the sidequest ones, where you go to a location and rob enough stuff, or steal a particular item, or stuff like that.

Personally it was interesting the first few times, but the fact that you need to do it five times per major city to unlock the quest to take that city over(which gives you a fence and the ability to pay off the guards basically), and what city it's assigned to is random... it got old quick.

Still, armor you got about 2/3, 3/4's of the way through the main faction questline for that one is probably the coolest looking set you can get for a stealth character, or even any other type of character.

I dunno about if you fiddle with the crazy guy on the roadside, but if you pretend to be Dark Brotherhood to kill that bitchy old lady in Riften and then the DB kidnaps you? You CAN kill the dirty whore sitting up on the bookshelf. Remember, she says "no one is leaving until someone dies". So I went "okay, then that's YOU then" and I gave her a taste of daedric steel. Then you have the option of going into the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary and just killing them all. Damn satisfying.

Doubt you can kill crazy clown guy(Cisero), as I'm almost sure at that point he's tagged as an essential NPC, but yeah, you most certainly /can/ kill Astrid, something I've done several times, both to clear out the DB, and for the sweet, sweet gloves for my dagger build.

Mmm, one-shotting a dragon with a dagger, good times.

Even funnier to kill an entire guild of assassins without any of them knowing what's happening to get the gloves, and get /paid/ for it too. That's all kinds of irony at work.

'Talking them down', right...

Delphine: So, that's that. Either you kill Parthunax, or the Blades will refuse to have anything to do with you.
Dragonborn: Hmm, tough choice, tough choice... I think I'll have to go with FUS RO DAH!
Delphine: AAAaaaaaah -*CRUNCH*.
Esbern: I was wondering why you insisted on moving this conversation to the practice yard behind the temple.
Dragonborn: Problem?
Esbern: Oh, not at all, now that Grandmaster Bitch is gone, we can refocus our attention on what the Blades were /meant/ to do, /serving/ the Dragonborn. So, what are your orders?
Dragon Born: I'm in the mood for a little elf hunting and world saving, why don't we do that for a while?
Esbern: Thalmor shanking it is Dragonborn. Heh, 'Fus Ro Dah', classic...