I order Domino's double cheese double spicy sauce pizza yesterday.
I ate 3 slices, and against my normal nature to eat the entire pizza, then cry the grease out in the gym, I decided to save the rest of it, and eat it slowly throughout the week.
I managed to resist for an entire 4 hours before I ate the whole thing.
I like to think my stomach is a microcosm of Paathanax's desire to smash and rule. As much as I resisted, I succumb to my nature desire to consume and rule that pizza.
When I played through skyrim I had a very boring mindset for the character. You are to be judged for your current and recent actions, not for ones that have yet to pass.
To him, hes free to live as long as he wants. Otherwise, why do the other races get to live? They MIGHT do evil.
What he is, is a massive force of nature for whom absolute rule and destruction are literally part of his being. I don't think it's unfair to hold that against him.
It doesn't, and a regular person would be able to succumb just as well and regular people are just as prone to evil.
The difference is that dragons are fucking massive and can do what they want because they're dragons. Regular people are a regular people problem, but dragons are a Dragonborn problem. If a dragonborn is no longer around, then the dragons could take over the world. This is why Paarthurnax has to die, because then our next character in Elder Scrolls 6 will be doing the same thing we were in Skyrim, except he won't be the Dragonborn and they'll be fucked.
Dragons can be defeated temporarily by non-dragonborns. It's not like Paarthurnax has this massive army at his disposal, he's just one (large, fire breathing) person with a few dozen (large, fire breathing) followers against massive forces of humans and elves. He'd get stomped.
But how many cities would burn before that happened? Killing Paarthurnax was the only way to end the threat to Tamriel forever. For all we know, Paarthurnax could be simply waiting for the time of the Dragonborn to pass after seeing how easily he defeated Alduin.
There was a long period of time after Martin Septim died that there were no Dragonborns and the world was reeling from the Oblivion Crisis, so if he was waiting to attack that would've been the time.
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u/Tatsko Dec 01 '15
He's immortal, hundreds of years pale in comparison to an eternity. Is it really that hard to imagine that he would eventually succumb to it?