-So you go visit Whiterun to tell the Jarl that the dragon attack is serious and he should help Riverwood.--which he never does but whatever.

-The Graybeards somehow magically divine that you have absorbed a dragon soul and summon you.

-You go visit them and bask in their kind tutelage and get sent off to learn more on your own.

-Delphine the snark somehow magically discovers that you are working with them.. -sorry but no she can't possibly be following you and no she doesn't have the resources to have someone else following you.

She also makes a statement "The Graybeards are nothing if not predicable." This statement makes no sense.. In the base game there is no other Dragonborn.. Ulfric is not a Dragonborn. He learned by studying for years. So how could she possibly know that 1. You are working with the Graybeards and 2. What quest they would send you on, since there are no other Dragonborn since Talos.

I'm curious if anyone has used the option in dialog with Delphine "We are done here" I think I will next game. -L-

Too much thinking.. One dear to me is coming tomorrow -s-

Ok back to topic. So this Esp enchanced Delphine who magically knows everything you are doing before you do it -lol-

I never help them.. Does her attitude get any better if you do? I went outside and the only person who actually does help you "Esbern" went outside and told a story about a dream he had. And for once Delphine kept her trap shut and listened.. He sat on the ground and I glanced around.. I had a sudden flashback of Cloud Ruler Temple and how Kind Martin and Jeoffree (sp) were to my characters..

It was beautiful and I could see the mountains and Imagine sitting there beside him until I had cobwebs all over me.. Just pondering life..

I'm considering helping them this time but I just hate Delphine the know it all snark so very very much!

As I recall if you go back to the Graybeards they also have lots of snark because "where did you hear that??!!"

And basically say they don't care if the world ends and they won't help you.

Everyone always wants something don't they?

So I was pondering all this and wondered if anyone else had any thoughts on it..

Thanks

He does help Riverwood. He tells Irileth to send guards. Irileth leaves and tells three guards near the gate to go to Riverwood. They immediately run to Riverwood. Once they get there, you will see a camp and three bedrolls in Riverwood for them to sleep on.

I did see that camp outside the gate you first enter? I did not know it was for guards.. Thanks for clearing that up -s-

You also see them patrolling the walls there, walk up to them and say hello.

I have made my point of view known on Delphine before and her manner leaves me cold. I like Esbern but he's stuck with having to support her madness. When they get to "The Ultimatum" it gets much stickier.

After having played through with them once I have decided to go Greybeards all the way from now on and having just started another character, my second that is how I will play it on 360.

The greybeards did not summon the Dragonborn it was the leader of the Greybeards Paarthurnax which is a dragon. There is a lot of things we do not know from dragons.

Probably everyone in Skyrim has heard the Greybeards summon SOMEONE.

-Balgruuf and his brother are discussing it when you come back after killing Mirmulnir.

-If you go to the College of Winterhold, gain entrance and talk to the librarian, he will say something along the line of "oh, so you're the one the Greybeards summoned" - obviously they have heard it up there.

-If you join the Stormcloaks before going to see the Greybeards, Ulfric will have dialogue options to discuss the Greybeards with you, and it's clear he has heard the summoning, too.

Delphine doesn't know that YOU are the Dragonborn, she only knows that SOMEONE is.

That said, I agree that there are a lot of other things in that questline that doesn't make sense!

I hate Delphine and have told her to piss off in dialogue to which she replies something along the lines of "you'll come back, you HAVE to"...she's the reason I avoided the MQ for so long and have never once worked on rebuilding the Blades, even though Max von Sydow is awesome.

-she doesn't magically know the Greybeards are working with you, she lives in Riverwood right below the mountain that the Greybeards shouted "DOVAHKIIN!" to summon you...her talking about their predictability is probably that she knows they're summoning you to try and put you on the path of the Way of the Voice.

-the Greybeards know you've absorbed a dragon soul because right afterwards you shout for the first time so they can probably hear/feel it given your location.