LogFAQs > #972360183

Doe posted...

Isn't the problem moreso that the player doesn't have functional choice? The quest is called "Kill Paarthurnax!" and there's no way to resolve it except by doing just that. There's no release or even conversation for the player if they don't want to do it, it just sits in the quest log like an unfinished chore. Meanwhile the faction that's supposed to be reverent to you as the Dragonborn shuts down unless you complete the quest with no alternative.

That is another bungling on the design of it, yes. Thankfully the quest disappears from the log after the MQ is completed if you've chose to ignore it, at which point you can have dialogue with both Parthy and Arngeir that unofficially wraps things up.