I have a lot of characters that end up taking a Break before Diplomatic Immunity, and also Season Unending.

On a character that is the new Archmagister/Harbinger, My character should have already recieved an Invitation on Thier own. Testing the Waters on a New Guild Leader in the Thalmor Embassy in view of the "Movers and Shakers" in Skyrim Society would seem like a good idea for a Diplomat.

Having Tulius approach Our character and asking a few questions or warning Them would have been a nice touch.

Having a Justiciar or two fawning over Our character if Dawngaurd has been completed would have been a nice addition as well, Thalmor definitely hate Vampires and are very good at eradicating Random Spawnings in Game.

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That was cut from vanilla game. He's not supposed to be there. For reasons such as the one you just illustrated.

Make sure you have all of the important stuff that you want to carry, and also include lockpicks. Take the kind of stuff you would normally take when going to clean out a small dungeon. Leave room for plunder. You can keep your amulet and ring, (I believe) and basically all you are doing is using the elf for a storage until you step into the back room. When you gather your stuff back up, you will feel better. I know that when I did it, I did not feel right in giving my stuff to the elf, and was very glad to get it back.

When you give your stuff to the elf, you will get them back, and then it will be like going into a small dungeon. Just go slow and save often. Think of all the Thalmor you get to kill.

Good to read this. My first time through I despised the Thalmor at the embassy and wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth. I just didn't get around to trying it. I sure will this time.

Kinda stupid? Who here didn't do a serious eye-roll at Delphine's absurd suggestion that the Thalmor had something to do with the dragons? Beth really reached with this attempt to throw in a "cool infiltration quest", but it just failed on so many levels.

I did, indeed. It made me lose some respect for Delphine. Still, it was a good opportunity to learn more about the Thalmor. In my personal characters history, he's already a high priority target for the Thalmor, but time, a new beard, and some odd clothes, allowed me to slip in.

This only added to my dislike and lack of tolerance towards Delphine.

This quest yeah was very stupid.

OH MY GOD, WHY IS THE GAME HAS LOGICAL FLAW?

Shouldn't all NPC has advance AI of minimal like IBM Whatson but can still run on my grandma compie!

WHY the hell they only spawn a tiny amount soldier on CW. It SHOULD HAVE thousands sandboxed NPC with advance AI appear simultaneously with destructible environment without crashing and bug, and did I mention it should RUN SMOOTHLY on my grandma compie.

/rant end.

Stated goals do not necessarily mean those are the real reason she wanted you to infiltrate the embassy.

Her unspoken goal is likely to see if you can find out if they know who is still around in the blades, and if they know where they are. Self preservation utilizing a patsy trying to find clues about the end of the world...

That's one heck of a reach contradicted by in-game evidence: Delphine doesn't expect you to find actionable intelligence on surviving Blades (the Thalmor by her own admission run circles around the Blades), and sure is surprised to learn about Esbern. Furthermore, a patsy is by definition expendable - which supposedly the Dragonborn is not - highlighting Delphine's stupidity.

I hate to defend Delphine but I'm not entirely sure she believed the Thalmor had anything to do with the dragons, it's possible she only told us to do it so we would find intel on the thalmor or any living blades member.

That was clever.