Just on a side note, dragon names are themselves words of power.

"Paarthurnax" (Paar-thur-nax) actually translates as "ambition, overlord, cruelty" or "Cruel and ambitious overlord". Subtle? xD - I still save him though...

I don't think you're evil for choosing to side with him.. I see it as a buildup for tragedy though. At least, that's how I would write it. And who am I? No one, of course. Maybe it is the happily ever after ending.

I haven't killed him and I'm still not sure that the record keepers wont condemn me later for my idealistic naievite when it's Paarthurnax who leads our new dragon overlords and the oppressed peoples of Tamriel are praying again for a Dragonborn, this time one from the Akaveri who come from a land still populated by dragons.

Names don't make you live up to it. Grelod the Kind is one good example.

he was clearly named to be a cruel and ambitious overlord, sort of like naming your kid Alexander knowing the name means great leader, back when the dragons still ruled the humans...

It's the mark of a fool to dismiss that which is outside his experience as impossible
- Farengar

As for motivations.. It's really simple. They see you as a dragonslayer. Not a friend of a dragons. It's up to you whether you see it that way as well.

Well, it's already said that this dragonborn is the last. That said, there don't need to be another since Alduin is dead they cannot come back to life, they can be killed like any other creature.

(Paarthunax, creation/offspring of Alduin, aspect of Akatosh, )

Well, it's already said that this dragonborn is the last. That said, there don't need to be another since Alduin is dead they cannot come back to life, they can be killed like any other creature.

I didn't hear anywhere that we're the last of the Dragonborn.

When misrule takes its place at the eight corners of the world
When the Brass Tower walks and Time is reshaped
When the thrice-blessed fail and the Red Tower trembles
When the Dragonborn Ruler loses his throne, and the White Tower falls
When the Snow Tower lies sundered, kingless, bleeding
The World-Eater wakes, and the Wheel turns upon the Last Dragonborn.

Umm, Alduin did not create any dragons. He is simply their oldest brother.

I didn't hear anywhere that we're the last of the Dragonborn.

Found it, pretty easily actually. The "Prophecy of the Dragonborn", generally attributed to the Elder Scrolls (and some times to the ancient Akaviri) tells that, at the end of time, in the wake of the World-Eater, the wheel will turn upon the "Last Dragonborn". http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonborn.

It's in a prophecy somewhere. "The world eater returns to devour the world, and the wheel turns and spits out the last dragonborn." Something along that.

Already ninja'd your hard work -Should've just scrolled up

I don't know why you blame the Blades specifically there. It's Bethesda's fault (i.e. plot hole). Not everything is a herp derp moment.

The Akaveri were Dragonslayers before they became an army of Dragonslayers that served the Dragonborn. Their first and most primary purpose was to be Dragonslayers. Delphine tells you right at the start that the Blades have been searching for their purpose since the last Dragonborn more than 200 years ago (Oblivion-Martin was his name.)

In the game there's a book that walks you through how the Blades were in all the capital cities of Tamriel and that as the Emperor's personal guard they were also keepers of intelligence about most groups in Tamriel and about certain individuals... like the Thalmor for the Aldmeri Dominion. In fact, I would suggest that it's exactly this power that marked the Blades for complete extermination by the Thalmor when more than 100 of them were found and killed inside the borders of the Aldmeri Dominion and then the Blades were ordered to be hunted and killed everywhere else.

Delphine has a Dragonborn to serve, swore to be a Blade and protect the Emperor and then was hunted for her devotion. Now Dragons are back and her primary purpose is clear again. No matter how she's going to go about it, she is a Dragonslayer and she serves the Dragonborn. Except we "fall in love" with Paarthurnax and spoil her perfect little future. A Dragonborn who is not a Dragonslayer wasn't in Delphine's plans because it makes no sense. We're born to absorb their souls and keep them from coming back over and over again, why wouldn't we be driven to destroy them all?

In her mind you need to be educated and so she's going to "educate" you by making demands. She's entirely off her nut, and besides that, she's being insubordinate. We don't have any option that allows us that answer and so we abandon the temple that can only be opened by us and we leave her and Esbern in our temple to plot and plan and become a future problem because we can't take control over them.

Her motives make perfect sense. She's a Dragonslayer who serves the greatest Dragonslayer of all time, the Dragonborn. We're the ones not making sense... if you look at it that way. I don't have to agree at all to understand it.

I don't know why you blame the Blades specifically there. It's Bethesda's fault (i.e. plot hole). Not everything is a herp derp moment.

I still like choosing them for rp reasons, plot faults aside. It's just simply where I see my character going. And where I'd personally want some story potential develop. I don't see him sitting around with the Greybeards.