Which assassin's guild do you think is better Morag Tong or the Dark Brotherhood?

I like the idea of Morag Tong, but I didn't play Morrowind. I'll say the Dark Brotherhood is smashing!

Morag Tong is the original, and we all know that means they're real OGs.

Morag Tong definitely. You can't be writs of execution. :deal:

I liked them both for different reasons. The Morag Tong seemed a little more honorable. The Dark Brotherhood kicked butt too, though.

Well I liked the Daggerfall DB as opposed to the whole generic emo wannabe assassins from Oblivion. That being said I tend to prefer the Morag Tong just because of their interesting role in Dunmer society.

The Dark Brotherhood is, by far, superior. I would love to drop something big and heavy on the Morag Tong. Oh wait! Never mind. It's already been done.


I agree. I prefer the Dark Brotherhood as it was portrayed in Daggerfall and how it is in lore much more than it was in Oblivion.

The Morag Tong is responsible for two of the most daring and notorious assassinations in the history of the Empire:

http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/2920.shtml#12


http://www.imperial-library.info/history/2.shtml


The Dark Brotherhood is a gaggle of journeymen in comparison.

This shows you how big Morrowind is. I never even knew you could JOIN the Morag Tong in Morrowind until just now, and I played that game for 3 years, 4 characters over level 60 on the xbox. :facepalm:

Wow! I cannot argue with that.

I prefer the Morag Tong personally. However I did grow quite fond of Lucien...

And the nightmother was just annoying. (to me)

Dark Brotherhood all the way but i kind of get freaked out by its members

Morag Tong for sure. It's really a great example of the delicious moral ambiguity that permeates Morrowind in general.

The Dark Brotherhood is too "mustache-twirling evil" to really be all that interesting to me.

After what my Neverarine went through in Tribunal, when Lucien interrupted my sleep in Oblvion, I wasted that bugger and threw the Blade of Woe away.

Morag Tong for liiiiiife.


The Dark Brotherhood questline was great in Oblivion, but overall I love the Morag Tong the most. Only House Telvanni impressed me more.

Morag Tong.
Writs is epic!
And for the reason that Dogsbody said.

Thou I really enjoyed the DB in Oblivion as well, but... I'm not sure.

I will have to disagree on this one. I loved Morrowind but I thought that the Dark Brotherhood quests were the best part of Oblivion.
DARK BROTHERHOOD for me.

If the events in Oblivion are anything to go by the DB would struggle to organise a piss up in a brewery. Perhaps if they spent less time on applying make up and doing their hair and more time on recruitment they wouldn't have to clean house every five minutes.

I too prefer the Morag Tong to the Dark Brotherhood. The Morag Tong had a lot of structure. I appreciated the fact that you could not just kill anyone, you had to have a writ of execution to hand out justice, and sometimes, yes the writs were a little skewed, but that added to moral dilemmas one found themselves in inside Morrowind. The Dark Brotherhood did have a unique storyline and was generally inclided to the evil side of things, one that led to an epic end, and I enjoyed playing it very much, but the Morag Tong, each of its targets generally had their own story. If I remember correctly you could even talk to your targets before killing some of them to get their "side" of things. It added to the ambiguiaty and mystery surrounding the Morag Tong.

I would absolutely LOVE if TES V incorporated the ability to join both of these factions, perhaps with a war between them, or competition in assassination of targets, stopping the other from assassinating targets, or even framing one another. Maybe they could even throw the Camonna Tong into the mix to make things REALLY interesting (Not sure if this is lore friendly though, someone can edumacate me on this if they wish). I would buy a game just for this any day.

Heh, now I want to play Morrowind and run through the Morag Tong questline again....

Morag Tong, for sure. Though the Dark Brotherhood as presented in Daggerfall and Morrowind (read: not as presented in Oblivion..) is quite cool as well.

Definitely the Morag Tong for me. Government sanctioned assassinations are awesome. They seem a lot more professional as well.

Edit for Infinity: The Camonna Tong would never accept an outlander, and given every hero has uncertain origins, they will never allow you to join them. They're pretty much the Thieves Guild without any of those annoying rules about killing people.

The Dark Brotherhood was the only interesting one because it was the only good one in a sea of cliche good vs evil plots. Not that it didn't make me hate having to stand by while the obvious villain killed everyone, even though I knew who it was and couldn't do a thing to stop it because the quests were so totally linear.

Well considering the Morag Tong was only sanctioned to operate in Morrowind, and now since Morrowind isn't in the best of shape, its safe to say that the Dunmer have more things to worry about then killing rival house members, and heck the Morag Tong probably doesn't even exist anymore. If anything in TESV the DB should return to the Daggerfall style, not the emo wanabe goth cry baby assassins of Oblivion.

What do you mean by "emo wanabe goth cry baby assassins"? I love Daggerfall and it does many things better than Oblivion, but since when is the DB in Oblivion made up of "emo wanabe goth cry baby assassins"?

Well, when they suddenly and unexpectedly started worshiping Sithis, essentially personifying a nonsentient force, and started laughably reveling in blackness and evilz for the sake of blackness and evilz...It came off kinda juvenile, IMO.

Nobody said they aren't crazy, but they are good at what they do, and the DB questline is interesting.