in riften how do i OPPOSE the thiefs guild?????????

[Professor Hashtag]

in riften how do i OPPOSE the thiefs guild?????????

[Ilja]

You don't. You can only ignore their questline, or find a mod that changes the setup.

[Professor Hashtag]

oh

[Professor Hashtag]

how do i "cleanse" the city?

[Ilja]

I am unsure what you are after. Thieves Guild is and remains a part of the city in vanilla game.

You can't really deal with all of their members in modded game either, because they are required for the main quest.

[Trigger]

Destroy the Thieves Guild...is an awesome mod found on the Nexus, not sure about Steam. Read what the mod-maker says. There's another mod about Disbanding the thieves guild- i've never used it myself.

[jreese46]

I don't use Brynjolf for the main quest. I just go down and find Esbern on my own, so I don't mind killing them.

When I first visit Riften, I use the setessential command, so I can kill Maul when I enter the city. Sapphire will usually come to his aid and get killed by the guards or my follower. She's already non-essential.

After that, whenever I'm ready, I set the rest to non-essential and pick them off when and where I can. Brynjolf is a special case, as he's also invulnerable, so I end up using the damageav health 1000 command on him. I pretend I poisoned him or something.

Here's the list of commands, what they do, and how to use them... Be careful and ALWAYS SAVE FIRST!

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console

[Trigger]

just exit any dialogue that Brynjolf will say to you

[Trigger]

This is the best way to avoid the thieve's questline...when you first arrive at Riften, call the guards bluff and answer with the first option the guards dialogue offer, he'll unlock the gate, go just inside until you see the words on your screen "Riften Discovered" turn around and exit Riften, Now walk between the stable and the house and go to the water, time for a swim over to the docks and enter Riften through the dock gates. Once inside Brynjolf will come to you, you run past the blacksmiths forge and run to the steps of the jarls keep=you now have fast-travel marker to travel too instead of the front gate. Once you get past the forge Brynjolf will not come after you, Head down to the Ratway, go find Ebern-if your on that quest.

[Ilja]

I use this, despite that I almost always play as a thief. It gives some credibility to get in to guild. If you do not want Bryn to even approach, then don't fill the pickpocket quota. :)

Thieves Guild Requirements - No Auto Quest Start Brynjolf by kryptopyr
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14157/?

[Sweet Meat]

NOBODY OPPOSES THE THEIVES GUILD BUT WE WILL FIND YOU AND WE WILL KILL YOU FOR YOUR THREAT OF OPPOSITION!!!

-Sincerely Dovakhin

[Duder]

NO NO NO! All answers WRONG, if you're talking about below....
If you mean not initiating the questline, the Argonian bartender will tell you where Esbern is, and Brynjolf will stop following you around, simple as that. It pisses me off too, because I never do thieves guild.

[Duder]

So no need for mods or fancy work arounds!

[Duder]

@Trigger, that's a pretty fancy workaround though. lol.

[Duder]

@jreese
A commendable workaround as well. The designers did give you an option as I stated above. It took me some research to discover the unapparent option, as Brynjolf starts following you as soon as you walk into Riften the first time.

[markdb92]

If you do join theives guild you get to have attractive goddess for your after life who acts like your mother.