Saadia or the Alik'r?

[Drachenwulf]

so I am just curious for the quest "In My Time of Need" who do you guys help?

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

Alik'r, just so there aren't two of them hanging out at the Whiterun gate for the rest of the game.

[CAP]

Nguyên văn bởi Styx9001:

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Side with Saadia and you get the same amount of money plus you can sell all the equipment you pillage off the Alik'r.

[la_nague]

the fact that they paralyze her heavily supports their story.

[Crosstown Traffic]

Alik'r. I don't think they would be so enthused about serving the Aldmeri dominion.

[Vardark]

The Alik'r!

[Zamio]

Saadia is the one in the wrong. There are certain scripts in Skyrim about this, hinting that Saadia was the traitor.

[h.arle]

Honestly, my gut feeling is that the Alik'r are in the right and Saadia is a traitorous wench. That said, Siegfried the Nord, Harbinger of the Companions and Warden of the North would be hard to convince that he should turn in the lone lady to the group of thirty or so Alik'r that have come to find her. He finds it a bit odd that they've hired Bandits to guard their place of repose and how they attack you on sight (do they OWN that cave? I. Think. Not.). It boils down to which injustice is greater (if I side incorrectly): turning an innocent person to a group of bandits or slaughtering a bunch of Redguards in self-defense.

Edit: and it would -really- not fit my character's personality to lie to a woman in order to lure him into a trap.

[Nephilim]

First time I sided with Alik'r but now I always help Saadia because she is good looking.

[Anelace]

Why would a Redguard noble on the run from the Thalmor flee to Skyrim, which is under Dominion juridiction, when Hammerfell is independent from the Thalmor? Would she not logically be safer in her home territory? And why would a Redguard mercenary band cooperate with the Thalmor in the first place?

The Alik'r story is better, I think. If Saadia had betrayed her own people to the Thalmor, it makes sense that she would seek asylum in a Thalmor-controlled territory and not in Hammerfell, where she would be hunted down by the other Redguards.

Honestly, on my first character, I just didn't do this quest. It seemed too morally ambiguous so I elected to just let them sort it out for themselves. Now, I side with the Alik'r.

[Bubba Fatt]

I helped Saadia to feed my werewolf and to have the two Alik'r mercs posted at the front gate of whiterun to help with vampires and hellhound attacks. Seeing the Alik'r accost other redguard women along the roadways of Skyrim after the death of Kematu leads me to believe I helped the wrong side and that protecting Saadia isn't worth the risk it places on others who are truly innoncent while the innoncence of Saadia is in question.

[Foxpass]

But the Alik'r have curved swords. CURVED SWORDS!

[StevoLookAtHimGo]

Kematu might be telling the truth

The first time you talk to Saadia, she pulls a knife on you. While this may seem like an act of desperate defiance, it may hint at a violent and unpredictable personality.
Saadia seems hesitant to explain the full situation, while Kematu elaborates on it fully. Is Saadia's reticence due to her guilt?
The man you can free from jail seems strangely honourable, saying he has shamed his companions and wants to begin anew.
If Kematu really was an assassin, why paralyse her at the end of the quest - why not just stab her and be done with it? He also mentions justice, and taking her into custody, and implies that Saadia will face a trial back in Hammerfell rather than swift execution. All this points to him and his warriors being enforcers rather than assassins.
Kematu's opening line - "We can avoid any more bloodshed." And his closing lines which infer that Saadia is known for her manipulation of people.
The in game book The Great War refers to Alik'r warriors harassing the Aldermi Dominion forces as they retreated. This would make the dominion hiring them most strange. It is then important to consider this: Is hiring Redgaurd assassins the style of the Dominion? They have a certain level of free reign within the Empire. Why would they need to hire human assassins to kill someone? They have the Justiciars doing that for the Thalmor.
Saadia specifically wants you go and kill Kematu. Why does she want that? The Alik'r are not allowed in the city, so for now she is perfectly safe.

[StevoLookAtHimGo]

So because of that I side with Kematu most the time

[Zefram Cochrane]

I side with the Alk'r, something about Saadia just doesn't add up.

[Muatra]

Nguyên văn bởi Fear2288:

This quest is in that sort of grey area.

According to Saadia she's on the run from the Alik'r for speaking out against the Aldmeri Dominion. The Alik'r are supposedly hired by the Thalmor to track her down and undoubtedly kill her.

Yet, if you speak with Kematu he tells you a very different story about how Saadia actually betrayed her people to the Thalmor and caused the city of Taneth to fall to the Dominion. The Alik'r are then dispatched to find her and bring her back to Hammerfell to stand trial for treason.

Unfortunately we never get to find out what the truth is so I guess it's entirely up to the player to decide which of the two stories they believe. However personally I'm inclined to actually believe Kematu since Hammerfell and the Redguard are no friends of the Thalmor having refused to surrender to them and then push them out of the province.

Truth is that there is absolutely no possible way the aldemeri have any type of influence in hammerfel considering that they have united against them and driven them out, which is the current lore in skyrim, that hammerfel is free, she talks of a city being taken over,which happened.. when they first arrived 10 years ago.
TL:DR Shes a liar, But people have no clue what they are talking about and have no basic knowledge of TES lore