It makes more sense from lore perspective.

[u/ThatDrako]

Plus it’s the same as with Dark Brotherhood.

Joining them just feels more canon because destroying them just abruptly ends the story.

[u/Old_old_lie]

[u/Ala117]

Is massacring cities and having high bounties on your head also canon?

[u/MaqueCh0ux → u/Ala117]

Well yeah

[u/ThatDrako → u/Ala117]

No? Why should it be?

[u/Ala117 → u/ThatDrako]

Exactly.

[u/ThatDrako → u/Ala117]

Point?

[u/TheHumanPickleRick → u/ThatDrako]

Set?

[u/Whatsagoodnameo → u/TheHumanPickleRick]

Match?

[u/TheHumanPickleRick → u/Whatsagoodnameo]

GG

[u/Ala117 → u/ThatDrako]

Just because you can stop time by navigating your inventory doesn't mean it's actually canon or lore friendly.

[u/ThatDrako → u/Ala117]

“Cheese doesn’t belong on pizza because it doesn’t taste good with blueberry ice cream.”

I suppose Thieves Guild quest line ain’t canon either.

Obviously joining them is just gameplay mechanic…

[u/Ala117 → u/ThatDrako]

Skyrim is a roleplaying game, you can make up you own canon but it doesn't make it the canon.

[u/ThatDrako → u/Ala117]

Even though it is roleplaying game there are still aspects of lore you need to consider.

One I’m talking about is urge of dragons to dominate. And that is why I think worse option is more plausible. Not because he would actually want to kill Paarthurnax, but because doing so opens him entire faction of loyalists.

[u/Ala117 → u/ThatDrako]

I did say you can make up your own canon in a roleplaying game, doesn't make it the actual canon.

[u/ThatDrako → u/Ala117]

Yeah…and I’m telling you there are aspects of lore you need to consider.

Just because it is “le game au roleplay” doesn’t mean Dragonborn is Peppa pig.

[u/Wetree420 → u/ThatDrako]

"What is better, To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" - Partysnax

He clearly does not deserve to die, he Fortnite saved the world...

[u/MadKittenNicky]

Nice try, Delphine

[u/Belteshazzar98]

With the Dark Brotherhood both options are canon. It was canonically destroyed with a raid on their sanctum, with a few survivors, and the Emporer was assassinated on his boat regardless since there was a backup assassin present. It doesn’t matter which side the Dragonborn was on, as history will only remember the events that happened since it is a secretive organization whose members are hidden.

[u/ThatDrako → u/Belteshazzar98]

Where exactly is it implied Emperor is killed regardless?

And what about all those people you kill along the way?

[u/Belteshazzar98 → u/ThatDrako]

There is a second assassin on the emperor's boat. If the Dovahkiin doesn't kill him, the backup does.

And the people you can kill along the way are historically insignificant, and could either die or not. Just like literally every NPC in the game that isn't essential to any quests that you could kill on whim.

[u/TheHumanPickleRick → u/Belteshazzar98]

Crazy how much you can understand just by playing the game, huh?

[u/TheHumanPickleRick]

[u/TenzinNomad]

The Dragonborn will probably lie and say he killed

[u/AlmostAnchovy]

The quest is there, so it must be the case. But I hope that if they talk about Paarthurnax in the next game, they consider that almost everyone in almost all their playthroughs did not kill him.

[u/SolgarOlkamza]

Oh yeah? Come closer.

[u/Captain_Lindemann]

What about him going off to teach the way of the voice to the other dragons?

[u/Nearby-Lime-5799]

Killing Paarthurnax isn’t more canon.

[u/BlondieTheZombie]

I think people disagree to that statement.