I really wish there were more choices... i did NOT want to kill the skaal shaman. I did not want to help hermeus. My only other option is to not play the dlc and let mirrak have his way with the people on the island.

Yea, I wish we had a NO [censored] YOU MORA option but sadly we don't.

Why can't we just choke Miraak's influence on the island until he shows up, battling him to death when he does?

I think that was the point of the quest. No matter how much good you do and no matter what you do to avoid it, He STILL wins. No matter what you do, he comes out on top.

This

I think this could be said about most daedric princes tbh. They mostly always win in the end.

Because you can't [censored] with a Daedric Prince.

Did you honestly believe that you could elude the Prince of Fate?

You do realize you're sounding like Miraak right? "I am master of my own fate!"... except you're not, well... maybe not for the character but...

Hermaeus Mora is an ancient being as well as being a master manipulator.

Sort of a Daedric Politician.

I consider being able to walk away from him with my soul as my own a victory.

More than can be said of the bargaining struck by the masters of the Thieves Guild with Nocturnal.

To this day I wonder if he was behind the "Corpus" disease in Morrowind, considering how many of those villains look to be straight out of Apocrypha.

You ask a Daedric Prince to help you in your quest to defeat Miraak . . .

And then you complain about being forced to be said Daedric Prince's lackey

You do realize that Daedric Princes will screw you over even when they are helping you right? It is basically in their nature to screw you over big time.

That said Daedra are technically not evil, neither are they good.

Good and Evil are really just terms made by mortals and how they see things.

In fact the Aedra (the divines everyone worships) are probably neither good or evil as well since once again good and evil are technically mortal concepts.

My biggest issue with the Dragonborn DLC. And I won't complete its MQ unless it suits the RP I am playing. Which it has only once...

Your character ought to come to terms with the fact that no matter what (s)he does, (s)he will always be in his pocket.