Poll: Did You Kill Paarthurnax?

[Vale]

He was a cool guy and not much of a threat even if he were to turn out no better than Alduin (being that he's weak as shit). Besides, Delphine is a god damn ***** and I literally refuse to do anything she tells me to.

So naturally, I murdered every NPC I could and then made the essential ones non-essential and killed them too.
Skyrim failed to make me care so hard that I decided nothing less than total annihilation would suffice.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

'Hell no.

He was the ONE truly friendly dragon. I mean yeah, you kinda dominate that one towards the end, but ol Paarthy was my bud.

Plus, the Blades are huge douchebags in Skyrim.

 

[Smeggs]

No, that'd be totally idiotic.

He was not only the one who taught humanity the ways of the Voice, but also the one who helped overthrow the rule of the old Dragons long ago, and ever since had never even left his mountaintop, perfectly content in just staying there to speak with the Graybeards. Not to mention, he helped you along as well.

That'd be like me turning around and spitting in the eye of a guy who just saved me from falling off a cliff.

He has worked and meditated long and hard to overcome his nature, and even if he were to return to his peasant burninating ways, he's no Alduin, he'd be short work for the Dragonborn or a very adamant guard troop.

 

[ShiningAmber]

I couldn't do it. He helped me after all, even when he didn't have to. I know he did some bad things, he said so himself, but he tried to make up for it. I know it's just a game, but I've done some things I wasn't proud of and was given a second chance. I really couldn't do it seeing as I've been on the other side.

 

[Kaymish]

no Parthanauxx was a tool that was still useful in the long run (if the game extrapolated that far) it would have been better to leave him alive than to off him though i did have a problem with his way of the voice crap
and the blades would have gone off and attempted complete my agenda weather i was the boss or not though not being able to see my husband did push me towards me killing the dragon but i remembered to be strong and do whats best for the greater good
and so parthanauxx lived until he was no longer useful or turned on me

 

[busterkeatonrules]

Nope.

I was curious to see what the Blades might do for me once Paarthurnax was dealt with, but ultimately decided I'd rather leave part of the game unexplored than kill a creature that's actually smart and selfless enough to accept that I might have to do so.

Maybe on my "evil moron" - playthrough.

 

[Valkrex]

Hell no. He was a bad-ass and my friend.

 

[Arvid Rydahl]

Nope, never killed him. In fact, did as little as possible for the Blades, because I'm so sick of them.
Did their bidding through Morrowind
Did their bidding through Oblivion.
I'm bloody not lifting a finger for them in Skyrim if I can help it.

 

[Jiveturkey124]

I chose for the blades questline. Which sounds lame but it was actually a huge turning point for my character RP wise. Before this point I had only killed dragons that attacked me, I never sought them out. It was just a general rule I set for myself, and my character actually respected Paarthurnax...but I had been in bed with the blades since the start of the game. I even had my three main companions join the blades and my first companion Jenassa had even just died in Morrowind to a Dragon fight...

So I killed him, my character basically told himself it was for the blades but secretly it was his hunt for power and revenge that drove him to kill the dragon lord. From that point on he took a very Chaotic Neutral Alignment stance on all his reaming quests.

Thats the best thing about Skyrim is you get so many unique tools and stories to play around with, every story is different.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

Delphine is *****, the blades are useless even if you do kill him, and the grey beards can locate word walls(in other words they have a use unlike the blades). Also is Paarthurnax is one of the few interesting if npc's in a game filled with mostly bland and uninteresting npcs.

 

[Abomination]

I already killed the Emperor... why would I then help the Blades?

Emperors come and go but timeless dragons are a rarity.

 

[God's Clown]

All my characters want power, they all serve every Daedric Lord. Paarthurnax gave my character power, and still has a lot of knowledge that my characters could theoritically obtain from him. I let him live because of that. Blades have nothing to give, my characters are all better with weapons and magic than them.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Hells no!

The Blades were just a bunch of needy bastards that wouldn't leave me alone about it and too chicken shit to do it themselves, and Paarthurnax was just awesome every time I talked to him.

Why would I kill an awesome dude?

 

[soul_rune1984]

No. Never will either, I role play as being dragonborn is a curse, not an honor. I guess that's because dragons are my favorite mythical creature.

 

[Arafiro]

No, I didn't kill him. He was a bro and I didn't have any reason to kill him just because some randomer told me to.
I did however use a console command to keep him alive but complete the quest. Consider it me lying to Delphine.

 

[Akexi]

There is actually a mod called The Paarthurnax Dilemma essentially allowing you to argue down Delphine and ending with a threat to Shout her to death. It's a nice little thing that allows you to keep Paarthurnax alive, but still be involved with the Blades.

 

[solemnwar]

Delphine is *****, the blades are useless even if you do kill him, and the grey beards can locate word walls(in other words they have a use unlike the blades). Also is Paarthurnax is one of the few interesting if npc's in a game filled with mostly bland, uninteresting, and utterly forgettable npcs.

Eh all you have to do is shout in a city and wait a bit and then you get a letter from "A Friend" telling you where a word is. So they're really not that useful. And once you run out of word walls... well then what?

And I never found Paarthurnax all that interesting. I skipped through most of his dialogue because he just. Drones. On. And. On. And doesn't get to the goddamn point. So I guess basically I just don't really care. Although the only Dragonborn I have that got that far in the quest line had him glitch and he was IMMORTAL so I just used console commands to get through it so hey he's alive woo.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

He helped me with a lot of information and he became my friend so no, I didn't kill him regardless if the Blades or Greybeards wanted me to.

The overall main story of Skyrim I found rather lackluster so there isn't more to say about it really. I enjoyed the Guilds storylines way more.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

I sadly did kill Parthunax the first time, because I was kinda swept up chasing quest markers. Thanks to the inclusion of SkyHavenTempleEnhanced, now I don't need to do that! (I was going to install "The Paarthurnax Dillema" but this mod looks more solid)

Not this time. No. Never again. Paarthurnax risked too much to help me. I'll risk enough to help him.

Does "SkyHavenTempleEnhanced" also give Paarthurnax some dragon buddies who started learning the way of the voice? "The Paarthurnax Dilemma" gives Paarthurnax five disciples; two of them sitting right next to him and three more circling overhead. I attacked him once to see how I would hold up against them...
They wiped me clean off the cliff.

Not that I didn't see it coming, I had several mods running to increase the difficulty of dragon combat after all.
I might have held up against them if it wouldn't have been for that one mod that gave them a knockback when landing or swooping down. Ragdoll physics are not not your friend when you're on top of a mountain.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

Delphine is *****, the blades are useless even if you do kill him, and the grey beards can locate word walls(in other words they have a use unlike the blades). Also is Paarthurnax is one of the few interesting if npc's in a game filled with mostly bland, uninteresting, and utterly forgettable npcs.

Eh all you have to do is shout in a city and wait a bit and then you get a letter from "A Friend" telling you where a word is. So they're really not that useful. And once you run out of word walls... well then what?

After the gray beards have no use I still see no reason to kill Paarthurnax. I like Paarthurnax's voice and the blades are assholes.