M'aiq welcomes you. M'aiq wonders.. Who do you support?

M'aiq supports the Blades all the way. The Blades were once the protectors of the Emperor and Dragon Slayers. M"aiq thinks that they would make a rise again.

Greybeards, the Blades were made to follow the Dragonborn, not push him around like the ones in Skyrim.

Delphine is the grandmaster. She is probably going to push around the Dragonborn for awhile until the Dragonborn stands up for him/herself and tells Delphine what to do.

Greybeards. I absolutely loved the Blades until 11-11-11. Delphine butchered them for me... Like Berret said, their purpose was to follow and aid the Dragonborn, not to become shackles on his wrists.

The current blades can just about disappear for all I care. The Greybeards teach me how to use the Unrelenting Force shout and one word of the Whirlwind Sprint shout. Paarthurnax tells me about the Kel, the elder scroll, that I need to go back in time with. The blades? They push me around like I'm a toy and theirs to play with, questioning me and demanding that I prove myself to them. Then after I unlock MY temple, I am met with the ultimatum to kill the one dragon that's helped me a lot and is a generally cool dragon. They kick me out of MY temple! MINE.

Then again, I just installed Arthmoor's mod and played both sides....

Yeah the current blades are horrible. I wish there was a way you could take them both out.

The Blades are pretty much try hard wannabees. The grey beards are the ones who really make you strong dragon born. I think of it like this. The blades =Dragon Rend. Thats one shout. The greybeards=every other shout - minus the dragonborn dlc shouts. Parthuunax is the leader of the grey beards. Your learning how to kill dragons from a dragon.

The Blades are the ones who don't hide secrets from you. The Greybeards hide stuff from you.

The Blades are a big ball of svck. They failed to protect Uriel VII Septim 200 years ago.

The Blades neeevvver really did that great of a job.

M'aiq on the other hand.... smexy

Exactly.

"Do you know who I am? I'm the Dragonborn Fool! You best recognize!"

His head suits my breezehome bookshelf just fine.

I voted They're all milk drinkers even though Delphine isn't. She's got guts to try to tell the Dragonborn what to do.

The rest are milk drinkers.

I blame Jurgen milk-drinker for ruining the Thu'um with his silly "way of the voice." the fool betrayed Kyne just to go worship Kynareth the hippy god.

I love the Greybeards.

Wind guide you.

Greybeards. They were willing to help the dragonborn despite having reservations. They may be too passive for most people's liking, but they dont force it on you.

The blades treat the DB like a tool to be used. They dont realize the dragonborn doesnt need them nearly as much as they need the dragonborn.

The Greybeards seemed too inactive and distant and The Blades... Well. The Blades were just two fairly average people. Delphine's disguise always makes me laugh, wearing her usual regular armour but with a hood. Practically invisible.

I liked the Blades in Oblivion. In Skyrim I liked them until a certain point in the main quest. Plus old monks that Shout are cooler than ex-Imperial agents.

Inactive and distant? The Way of the Voice doesn't really allow for much, except when it comes to the LDB.

I support the Greybeard's. I also support the Blades. The old Blades. The ones who served the Dragonborn and didn't try to control him. The Blades are dead. Those two delusional fanatics at sky haven temple are not the Blades.

Greybeards they where actually helpful and didn't order me around like I was their servant nor did they waste my time spying on the Thalmor instead of dealing with the Dragons.

The Blades in Oblivion and Morrowind where pretty cool though. However if Delphine and Esbern are any indication as to what the rest of the Blades where like by the time of the Great War I'm glad the Thalmor did everyone a service and wiped them out.

For some reason when the promotions for Skyrim were coming out in 2011, I thought we were going to find the last remaining Blade in some sort of hermit's temple atop a mountain. I guess I had combined the Blades and the Greybeards in my mind. I still think that would have been cool - like the Blades were extinct, but had evolved into this new, mystical direction, making their almost-forgotten history into a barely recognizable religion.

Instead, we got a mouthy 50-year-old innkeeper.

Esbern was cool, though. But that was probably mostly Max von Sydow.

In my last playthrough, I sided with the Blades for the first time. Despite my personal irritation with Delphine, it wasn't so bad. The Greybeards kind of irritate me with their ... distance. How, exactly, would they want us to use the Voice? To set off wind chimes? At least the Blades were inclined to confront the problem with the dragons.

And they have a point in their ... request... too. Just because the Greybeards' boss is a cool dude now doesn't mean that should get him off the hook for his past crimes.

The Greybeards.

The Blades can rot in AL-DU-IN's unforgiving belly, praise be.

I like the Blades, but dislike what they've become in Skyrim. It's great that not everyone bows and scraqes before the Dragonborn, but the one faction you'd expect to be supportive and deferential to the Dragonborn is anything but. Once again, Beth fumbles the ball.

The Greybeards, on the other hand, are quite noble--including Paarthurnax. They definitely get my vote.