bobfish09

No. :(

If you think those quests were rush/short then wait till you do the Mage College quests! :)

I couldn't answer this for sure, but using the Nightingale armor I never felt under-protected. I regularly ran around with a shield though and used it quite a lot to block attacks. I think magic resistance is more important than armor value tbh.

By the time you get to that point in the game you have the two useful shouts already, assuming you're not really weak and helpless in fighting the dragons up close n personal.

Not sure I'd want them to return to be honest, given what they did to the Snow Elves (now Falmer) and how their cities are full of horrific traps and mechanical warriors, I get the impression they are probably the most sadistic and evil race that is native to Tamriel. I could be wrong of course, but I'd rather have Snow Elves back than Dwarves, given the lore about them in the game.

I hate the Thalmor with a passion and was planning to side with the Stormcloaks, but after doing the first few quests I realised just how horrible a person Ulfric is and had to load up an old save and go Imperial instead. Going to try a second character as Stormcloak now that I know what to expect, but... I never thought I'd come across a game character I despised as much as Ulfric, even that damn Thalmor ambassador is easier to talk with.

Nothing evil about the Dark Brotherhood, everyone you kill deserves it :) Personally I think the DB story arc is by far the best in Skyrim with the Thieves' Guild following a close second. Nothing else comes close to them.

There isn't a brothel, but there are one or two... dubious... quests / activities that may have sparked the reference in the ratings.

The Embassy looks nice with its new red paint :)

Surely this is a really simple reason? In those 200 years everything has gone wrong for the Empire, now there may be a few here who would enjoy playing a game where you essentially lose it all at the end, but for the average gamer they want to be a hero, they want to win. There is no role the player could take on in those 200 years where they could be a hero, nothing good happened for the Empire, so they skipped it and put most of it in dialogue and books in the game as references/lore. It also sets itself up nicely for more heroic adventures in taking the fight to the Dominion, liberating lands and rebuilding the Empire.

I thought it was a stupid request to make by Delphine, though I really liked the Blades from Oblivion and wanted to rebuild their order. So I used the console to complete the quest without actually killing Paarthunaax, and pretending my character just lied to Delphine about it. So Paarthunaax is still there if I wish to talk to him and I have no guilt from killing someone who basically helped me save the world. Shame the Blades line of quests are so pathetic and short after that. Sorely tempted to try my hand at modding when the CK arrives to fix that issue, I really wanted to rebuild the order.