[SSE] Skipping Blades without breaking the Main Quest

[keithapple]

Any time after completing (more accurately, failing) The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, both Delphine and Esbern essential status are revoked, and you can provoke Delphine into attacking you and you fight back by killing her. Doing so will trigger an alternate Diplomatic Immunity through an added journal in Delphine's loot (where you directly go to the now unlocked Thalmor Embassy without the guise of a party) and allow you to kill Esbern after gaining his trust.

Killing Esbern and looting an added journal will immediately start The Throat of the World, skipping Alduin's Wall. You can still unlock Sky Haven Temple anytime at this point.

Note that without The Blades you have to win the civil war to progress to Odahviing.

This will skip A Blade in the Dark.

 

To note:
-Make the mod as lightweight as possible
-Repurpose vanilla dialogue if possible
-Make it so the player can still align with Blades until the Paarthurnax quest by doing things as vanilla should be.
-Note that the player can provoke the Blades into attacking them anytime.

An alternate light mode will also skip Diplomatic Immunity by making the journal carried by Delphine directly point to Esbern.
Another alternate light mode will also skip A Cornered Rat making it so that you can skip directly into The Throat of The World after killing Delphine after "failing" The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller and retrieving the horn, with quest messages justifying it if possible. With this, Esbern and Thalmor Embassy will be untouched, to prevent conflicts.

I have zero experience in doing Creation Kit and have nasty crashes with it (but not with SSEEdit) so the mod request above will suffice.

Edited February 6, 2023 by keithapple