There are few tests of character quite as telling in video games than whether or not you choose to slay Paarthurnax at the end ofThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Allow me to give you a little background if it’s been a while, or if you’re one of the two people left on the planet that have yet to playSkyrim.
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So! You can either head to meet Paarthurnax and kill him, or ignore The Blades and leave him be. The overwhelming majority choose the latter option, because we all know capital punishment is whack.
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Except sometimes, players who are going throughSkyrimfor a new playthrough, get bored. One Reddit userrecentlydecided not only to kill Paarthurnax, but to take his bones and forge an incredible sick and extremely powerful sword.
“This is on my 5th playthrough ofSkyrim,” they explained. “I’ve kept Paarthurnax alive in 3 of my save files before this, but I built my character to be an evil undead. So I couldn’t just kill Paarthurnax and be done with it this time. This time I forged him into a great weapon capable of inflicting terrifying, chaotic pain.”
I guess at least he kind of gets to live on fighting evil with the Dragonborn, though I’m not sure he’d be particularly thrilled about this fate.
Topics:Skyrim,Bethesda,The Elder Scrolls
