Talk:Rieltar Anchev/@comment-81.104.204.181-20180310202644/@comment-67.183.86.95-20190925071646

Yes, this seemed very weird to me. What the heck are you supposed to do when you find Rieltar, Brunos, Tuth, and Kestor in the Library? You've been hunting all over for him for the Iron Throne quest. "Koveras" (and I think someone else, too) suggest killing him right away. But the journal entry indicates that this might not be the right way to go. If you talk to them, you need to bother them 6 or 7 times before they turn hostile and attack. If you don't kill them, when you go upstairs (or outside) you're accused of murdering them. Don't know if (a) this is a bug, (b) someone else killed them and blamed you, or (c) they're still alive and someone's spreading rumors.

If you do bother them long enough to start a fight, they're pretty easy to take down, but it doesn't seem to update anything in the quests or journal entries. And then when you get accused of killing them, there's a third option that wasn't there before, to admit you did it, but try to justify it.

So it's entirely unclear whether you should fight and kill Rieltar and his group. If you do, is that the right way to handle the Iron Throne quest, or were you supposed to leave them for later? And will you be punished for doing it? If you don't kill them, have you screwed up the quest that way, and are you going to be blamed for something you didn't do?

It seems like the only way to handle this is to pull a "Sliding Doors": save right before the attack, play it both ways, and see which one works out better.