wolfman-murphy:

hero-of-kvatch:

it’s pretty…… fucked up what the night mother did in oblivion. like she knew all of it was gonna happen. she let it happen because????? ungolim was “incompetent” and wanted to replace him???????

1st of all, why did she pick him if he was incompetent.. and how can someone be bad at just relaying information? that’s his whole job. it’s the easiest in the whole hierarchy

2nd….. why sacrifice the whole black hand and the hq sanctuary…. The Most Competent Groups in the dark brotherhood… is everyone dispensable to her lol????

3rd, this definitely lead to the near/downfall of the dark brotherhood in later years…. and she does it again to the only remaining sanctuary?? (tbh.. i blame Bad Writing on the skyrim db questline.. it’s just a weak rehash)

in conclusion:???????? aaaaaaaa (that’s me screaming)

5000 septims says it’s because the Night Mother is just Mephala figuratively jamming her hand up a corpse to use it like a sock puppet. All the way back to the Morag Tong schism. It was just Mephala pretending to argue with her sock puppet, to make people start taking sides against each other, plotting and feuding and conspiring and killing each other and having things blow up in their faces, while she just sits back and laughs and laughs until her sides are in orbit around Masser. Because what else do you expect, this is 1000% Her Thing and her M.O. I can only imagine how *utterly hilarious* she thinks it all is.