Do they just sit there, looking angry, thinking "He'll come back! They always do!"

You dont wanna know....

Well, Delphine is in her 50's, and Esbern in his 70's............not getting any younger...................they're man and woman..............alone.............with each other...............all the time...................have worked together for decades....................seems to me they ought to be able to find SOMETHING to do............together.......................

He's 70 and Viagra isn't invented.

Play patty cake.

Talk about you behind your back.

Throw dance parties.

Sitcom-esque hijinks between bumbling, scholarly Esbern and hard-nosed Delphine.


No, but seriously, plan dragon-killing missions, train the recruits, and reminisce about the heyday of the Blades.

They level their Acrobatics

WHAT RECRUITS? Most people didn't kill Parthurnaax, so they have nothing to do except for feel bitter because you don't want to kill Parthy.

I'm not sure about Delphine but I'm rather sure Esberm would probobly be ready books or making a library since books is what his job use to entail.

You can recruit Blades and hunt dragons as soon as Delphine and Esbern first take up residence in the Temple.

I never recruited anyone. I doubt most people did, also.

Well, I did, and the fact that you didn't doesn't invalidate the possibility.