What happens if you don't KILL Parturnax in Skyrim? The Ending is Correct

I love the meta commentary behind this quest. When Paarthurnax talks about the dragons inborn need for power and influence, he suggests the Dragonborn may also have this. It's an in-universe reason behind why you have to complete all these side quests, why you have to run every guild, why you have to own ever artifact. The player's need to 100% the game is the dragon blood. And the fact there's no alternative except to kill Paarthurnax plays into this further. To spare his life, you need to accept you'll never 100% the game. You need to, in a sense, overcome the very same urges Paarthurnax himself overcame.
Brilliant, just brilliant.

I couldn't kill Parthurnax. Screw the Blades. Daphne and Esbern can rot once I don't need them anymore.

To be honest I never beat the main quest 😂 I was to busy messing with the master illusion spells and and watching Lydia float away on the river when I paralyzed her for 75 years in game 3-5 years irl tho she kept blocking doors

I have never wanted to slap someone so hard in a video game as much as i do with Delphine.
The fact you cant reason with her or given any other option. You either do the quest or it stays uncompleted. And the sheer audacity, you just got back from saving the world after killing Alduin and she says you. THE DRAGONBORN. Arent welcome with the Blades till you get this job done.

He's such a weak dragon too 😂

12 years later and Paarthurnax still lives in my world. It makes sense to kill him but I will not.

What’s crazy is that after getting into their little hq, I never even had the conversation with them about killing him. I just kept going without even knowing he was meant to die

The Dragonborn has no free thought in many cases of the game. They're just a robot taking orders. 😢

I kind of though it was common knowledge you could not kill him.

What if partharnaxx gets corrupted again

Fun fact: the voice actor (Charles Martinet) for Paarthurnax is also the former voice actor of Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi in the Super Mario Franchise from 1991 to 2023.

gosh I hate delphine

Paarthurnax seems to be the only dragon that's like his father Akatosh. I'm pretty sure the Aedra is saying to himself "where did I go wrong?".
Servant: "What about Paarthurnax?"
Akatosh: "Oh! That one is a chip off the old block! I'm in a better mood now thanks for reminding of my little philosopher!"

There's a mod for this

The kind of people who kill paarthurnax are the reason the world is a mess

The blades are retarded in this game.

I knew I had it right... can't believe anyone would kill him. 😂

I never kill Parthurnax. I can't bring myself to murder Mario

I refuse to kill him. Never have, never will. The Blades can stuff themselves.

Yall killed paarthurnax!?

I replayed Skyrim and I chose to only talk to Paarthurnax after I was able to talk to him. Is it sad that I felt remorse for killing him for my first play through? Maybe that’s why I didn’t kill
him, remorse for an in game character.,,

I had no interest in killing him, despite not being able to start The Blades back up.

Killing parthanax was a mistake I made first time I played back in 2012.....I still regret it

I´d say Paarthurnax isn´t evil, but he helped during war, but I am pretty sure, Delphine wouldn´t hate him that much if he were human. She´s just hateful to all other races. To be honest, it´s been decades or even centuries, also he made up for all his past mistakes, he helped prevent another dragon war, he taught us some shouts, he helped us defeat Alduin, you cannot just brush that away.

I wish you could remind the Blades that you just finished dunking on the single strongest dragon to ever exist at the most thoroughly conceivable level with the direct help from Paarthunax. So if homie ever does become a threat, it'll be no diff.

I have no idea what I chose i might have to redownload this game it’s so awesome

Cool I always ignored it, because I didn't think he deserved to die but the game would not let you confront the blades about it. This time I will go through with it.

i have never even attempted to kill paarthurnax tbh, from my first playthrough to my last i have never ever touched the blades questline because i simply refuse to kill him. would unhesitantly tear delphine to pieces, never going to touch paarthurnax

Forgot about the Blades after Alduin's Wall and completed the main quest without them. Didn't even know killing Paarthunax was an option.

wish there was a quest tha paarthurnax gave to kill Delphine and esbern to end thier miserable failure of serving dragonborns
fvking losers were hatful even at the start of the game.

I don't get the point of this video, the game is so old it's a teenager now. EVERYBODY and their mothers know all this. you should find original topics cause you're interesting but in Skyrim there are no unexplored topis anymore dude.w

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW WTF

I went to kill the blades when they asked me to kill the dragon, they can't order me around after swearing they serve me as dragonborn. Plus. Without Parthumax, Alduin and the others would still have humans as slaves. Its not fair they cannot be killed as essential npcs, I didn't talk to them until I killed Alduin to see if it made a difference (third playtrhoguh) but it did not. just want them dead.

I love Paarthurnax, but I want to play devil's advocate a little.

The reasons the Blades choose for justifying his death are pretty dumb. He changes and he helped to taken down Alduin, twice now; and at this time in his life is very peaceful.

But that's not the future. As Paarthurnax says himself, dragons naturally seek to conquer. While he has overcome his nature today, he is an immortal being who, given enough time, may go back to his original ways, especially now that Alduin is gone and there are very few to defeat him. Not to mention, when the dragonborn dies there will be no mortal who can truly defeat any of the remaining dragons.

Considering that, I think the best course for the dragonborn is to cause the extinction of the dragon species because once he's gone then there will be no one to stop the dragons, no one to absorb their souls to put them to rest for good.

Alduin may return another day, but at least he would not have a dragon army on that day to aid him in the ending of the cycle, all his brothers slain at the hand of the Dragonborn.

This made me cry 🥹

What the blades fail to realize is that if it wasn’t for paarthurnax, humanity would still be enslaved, and honestly them failing to realize that is just stupid of them, this is why I don’t kill paarthurnax in any of my playthroughes in Skyrim because he saved the world long ago.

Wish there was more like this in the game. It's still a pretty shallow game.

A good act doesn't wash out the bad, nor the bad the good. Parthunaax deserves to live, but his past actions must never be forgotten.

why would you even kill him???

Only went through the main questline once, but i knew that keeping Paarthurnax was essential. The blades were truly evil for wanting Paarthurnax gone and were set in their old ways of holding discriminatory views of dragons.

i rather kill esbern and estrus delphine than killing paarthurnax

Anyone who kills Paarthurnax is no friend of mine!

Nice work put major spoilet on title.

Awesome. I'll remember that for my good Empire-sided playthrough.

However, right now, I'm doing an evil Stormcloak-supremacist playthrough and murdering everyone who speaks ill of the rebellion after they've lived their quest usefulness, while also betraying Talos-worshipping civilians by justifying it as getting closer to the Thalmor to backstab them.

I have never killed Parthurnax and I never will, I always use the console command to cancel that quest which makes The Blades think you killed him

Wait yall killed paarthurnax?

So you don't get anything looks like im killing him

I have never killed Parthurnax. I have never even been asked to kill Parthurnax. Once you meet Parthurnax the Blades are no longer relevant to the main questline so there is no reason to even interact with them. Like it was years later I found out you could even do more quests for them after you find Alduin's Wall.

I never killed phartaunax i just searched a video for how to spare them😊