You can now, with considerable difficulty, convince the Blades to continue to follow you, even if you do not kill Paarthurnax.Īnd so, many new outcomes will be available: Failure forces you to get involved in the Civil War. "Season Unending" is now much more difficult, requiring high Speech skills and political influence (Thane status). A new quest, in which you are captured by the Thalmor, gives you the option to join them, disband the Blades, and sabotage both the Legion and Stormcloaks. After completing "Alduin's Wall," Esbern suggests that you gain "influence" in the nine holds. You can "refuse" the call to High Hrothgar, postponing "The Way of the Voice" until you see fit, again freeing you to continue exploring and adventuring. After some time passes, Jarl Balgruuf sends you a letter, inviting you to speak with him, initiating "Bleak Falls Barrow." Dragons begin appearing.
Ralof or Hadvar, (whomever you DID NOT help in "Unbound") asks to meet with you, soliciting you to join their cause in the Civil War. After completing "Before the Storm," the quest "Bleak Falls Barrow" is delayed, allowing you to adventure as you see fit. The summarized, bullet-point version goes something like this: I would love to put together a modding team for this, so if anyone is interested in taking this idea and running with it, please PM me! While I don't personally know how to make mods, create or edit quests, or change dialogue in the CK, I can write dialogue and design quests at the creative level, and I can also lend my voice as an actor if needed. I think these ideas could be implemented as a mod fairly easily, though I know some parts are ambitious and rather challenging. So I came up with this revised story arc that allows the player to choose when to participate, adding more branches and different outcomes, and intertwining the civil war plot with the main story so it seems more relevant. In the face of the dragon threat, the civil war feels petty and irrelevant, and yet, even the dragon crisis has no real gravitas. You get pulled into the dragon debacle, and from there you never get a chance to do your own thing without feeling the nagging urgency of the dragon crisis breathing down your neck.
The beginning feels very rushed, dragging you along, never letting you CHOOSE to participate. I've been thinking about the Main Quest and Civil War quest in Skyrim, and like many, I am more than a little disappointed in poor pacing and lack of real consequences in the story arc.
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