It started out as an annoyance.

I'd completed the In My Time of Need questline by killing Kematu and his band of wicked Alik'r warriors. (Or were they good Alik'r warriors? It's all so confusing.) Then, a few days later, I returned to Whiterun only to find two of the Alik'r - the same ones who had tried to slip into Whiterun the night I learned I was dragonborn - standing by the front gate. They had nothing to say to me - not surprising since I'd cut up Kematu like I was serving sashimi - but they didn't leave, either. It was, frankly, a bit embarrassing for the three of us every time I passed.

Day after day, week after weak, even as the seasons began to change, they stood there at the gate with their hands in their pockets, and all the while the Whiterun guards were whispering to me: "Those guys . . . they have curved swords. Curved. Swords."

Then one day, when I hit level 30, I entered Whiterun in the morning, shortly before midday. I headed towards the smithy as I wanted to see if they had EVER gotten that Ring of Smithing in that I need TERRIBLY, when off to my left I hear a woman scream, "It's the middle of the day!"

Well, not quite. But I didn't see the need to shout about it. So I glance in her direction and I see them. Two vampire thralls and a master vampire.

Of course, the entire city pitched in to destroy the blood-svcking menaces - but in truth it was the whispering sound of three swords (my Sorrow Katana and the two curved swords of the Alik'r) that brought down the living leeches. Even Amren, the one-hand trainer, was down on one knee by the time the vampire and his thralls were nothing more than the next day's conversation.

(You know, what I mean, right? "Someone needs to do something about these vampire attackes?" "Yeah? And which one of us in this conversation is the city guard?" Yeah, right then.)

Anyway, they're still standing there, like they were hired by the Jarl to, oh, I don't know, maybe fight the vampire menace? I nod at them when I pass. I doubt that they've forgiven me rendering them unemployed, but at least they have a purpose now and it's a fairly critical one. The next time a guard says something about the vampire menace, I'm going to suggest getting curved swords.

Curved. Swords.

Very nicely done.

Very nicely done, though I usually turn in the lying traitorous wench

If their annoying you why not kill them?

Not sure how to get them there after completing the quest either way, but if you just tab out of the conversation when they first try to speak to you, they'll stay there until you speak to them and initiate the quest. Very handy sentries to have.

I had completed the quest and they annoyed me so i terminated them and they did not respawan in the city. Of course i still come across their simpering bullying of redguard women along the roadsides wish i could stop that too.

Loved this. I suddenly have no issues with these new Whiterun Sentries. I believed it to be a glitch but I can now see they do in fact, have a purpose

LOL Oh these people with their curved swords. What you killed Kematu? shame on you! But hmm I didn't notice those guys with curved swords in Whiterun in my current play through.

You sound like a born story teller!

LOL.

I felt and feel the same way about them. They come in handy after the Dawnguard DLC. I can't count the number of times they've helped save Whiterun's citizens. Whiterun is the ONLY city I enter at night/early morning anymore.