and who cares about nothing other than his reward from dungeons, but also doesn't seem to care about gold and wants to do what's right. Heckles, even when she asks if she looks nice in a dress, the ONLY option you have is to tell her she does look nice, or even the very first time you meet her at the beginning of blackwood's main quest, there's a moment where you ask her to remind you what was going on, you don't have a choice to skip it, even tho I did the prologue quest just a day before, and I did NOT need nor want a reminder, so now it seems I'm playing with a kind-hearted worrying, coldhearted battleground butcher vampire with amnesiac outbursts.

But we don't even get those choices (I mean, you should've chosen not to join the dark brotherhood when that dlc first came out years ago if you didn't want to *** off Eveli 5 years later -speak of long-term consequences-)

So why was I forced to reveal I'm with the dark brotherhood instead of being able to pretend I'm not? The story won't change, it's just as I said above, an illusion of choice.

If you're part of the brotherhood, Eveli seems to be upset at you and even seems to hold onto a grudge (not sure for how long). If you're not part of the brotherhood, Eveli has a different set of dialogues for a specific part of the quest. Of course the game would be amazing if we could have star wars the old republic level of story and choices that actually have consequences. In the end you have to work with him but at least the player can express themselves with different dialogue. The last one I think is you being indifferent. One where u say you omly work with him because Emeric told upu to trust him. You get one where u hate him because he's a vampire. If you play rivenspire and talk to count Verandis and learn he is a vampire. Something as simple as getting angry at a NPC and they spit out alternate dialogue because of my choice. Maybe it is just complexity and they don't want to deal with options and branches in the story, given that they probably want everyone to end up at the same ending. All those alternative lines have to be spoken by some actor. There seems to be only limited space for alternatives in the story path. I like the ESO writing, but I also understand that the stories are on rails and we along for the ride.

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