Related: RPGs Are Better When You Have A Home Base That Changes With The Story It’s an ancient order with strict rules and an inherent sense of know-how. As stated by Lachance, this is an organization of “like-minded individuals,” which, to me, is as fundamental to the Dark Brotherhood’s identity as assassins. In Death Incarnate, Astrid betrays the Dark Brotherhood to save it, which makes zero sense. It displays a deep understanding of the people it’s telling a story about, while Death Incarnate is a messy, premature wrap-up of a fairly dull questline packed with directionless radiance and forgettable faces. Both of these quests involve a culling of the Dark Brotherhood’s ranks, but The Purification is far more cohesive and compelling.
I want to refer back to the selfishness I mentioned at the start of this article and apply it to two separate quests: Death Incarnate from Skyrim, and The Purification from Oblivion. We are, more than anything, a union of like-minded individuals." "Have you not heard of the Dark Brotherhood? Of the remorseless guild of paid assassins and homicidal cutthroats? Join us, and you'll find the Dark Brotherhood to be all that, and so much more. Here’s a quote from the aforementioned Lucien Lachance, former Speaker of the Black Hand: The Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion has some of the strongest factional storytelling I’ve ever seen in an RPG. I’m not talking about that here - I’m judging this on a pure narrative basis. This argument obviously acknowledges the caveat that Oblivion is a hilariously broken game in many ways. That’s why I’m annoyed that someone made an absolute balls of this. I think the fact you can summon Lucien Lachance as a spectral assassin in Skyrim is more of an admission of its inferiority than it is a nod to Oblivion’s masterclass - a sort of, “Remember how good we were?” moment. It’s a blunder I’ve never been able to make heads or tails of given how incredible the faction’s questline was in Oblivion. Best of all, it captures the concept of the Dark Brotherhood’s slow and steady decline into obscurity perfectly, particularly in its decision to send you back to a derelict, last-resort sanctuary after your own one is destroyed.Īll of the above being said, Skyrim still seriously dropped the ball with the Dark Brotherhood. It honors the structure of the organization and amplifies the invisible selfishness buried deep within each of its members. Skyrim gets some things right with its Dark Brotherhood questline.
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