Or why does no one realize there's something fishy about Ulfric's motives? He claims to be fighting to allow Talos worship, when Skyrim had been getting away with it for 20 years, and he happened to start his war after he killed the guy who had recently won the moot even though by all accounts he was a supporter of his and in fact was expecting to be invited to join. How could Astrid have ever thought that giving away the location of their hideout, and then killing the son of the very man she revealed it to, was a good idea? Who could seriously be THAT incompetent? Why does the TG just blindly accept this 'translated' document that they couldn't read before, written in a handwriting they had probably never seen before? Why do the blades boss you around and threaten to kick you out when Delphine says they're supposed to be serving YOU? You didn't even do anything to piss them off. Besides being largely uninteresting, many of the questlines have obvious plot holes in them. Of course, let's be honest, the writing in this game is garbage. Seriously, what was he doing during the literal thousands of years that they were hiding? Was he just moping around in his castle waiting for them to show up again? Why not just find another? Or perhaps, just make another just so he could use them to bring the prophecy to fruitiion? Then again, it makes no sense that Harkon didn't just find another after his wife and daughter vanished. Also, there's no mention that there's any limitations to becoming one (beyond being a follower of Molag Bal), so in theory Serana is just one of many 'daughters of coldharbour' that could be used, so killing her wouldn't really accomplish much. Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:Serana isn't the only 'daughter of colharbour'. I mean, the guy killed the High King out of nowhere, and then tries to replace all the Jarls that don't like him. Even Rikke is convinced he's fighting for what he says he is, and she's seriously in a position where she can get into arguments with Tullius himself! At least the Jarls that side with Ulfric acknowledge that he can't fully be trusted, though they never outright point out that he's obviously doing this just so he can be High King. Its so freaking obvious what his motives really are, but even his sworn enemies never point this out.

Why would Ulfric start a rebellion so that nords could get away with what they had already been getting away with without issue for two decades? Why does no one in-game point this out? I mean, nobody makes it apparent that the Great War had actually happened 20 years prior, or make it that apparent that Torygg had only recently been elected High King. The dominion clearly wasn't doing that great of a job of suppressing Talos worship before.

There's also Talos Shrines active in both Windhelm and Markarth. I mean, Whiterun has a freaking Talos shrine complete with a giant statue in their town square, and the Solitude temple only recently removed their Shrine. Serana isn't the only 'daughter of colharbour'.

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