Destroy the Dark Brotherhood - Oblivion

As good as the Dark Brotherhood questline is, sometimes you want something a bit different. Maybe you want to roleplay a totally good character, so you either avoid murders, get a mod to ignore or increase the murder count, or just kill Lucien Lachance if he ever shows up. But what do you get? You don’t really get any reward and you lose out on some of the exclusive items the Brotherhood quests offer, like Cruelty’s Heart or the Deceiver’s Finery. To remedy this, and give the player something to do after killing Lucien, I made this mod.

Currently, this mod is very basic (and also a bit of a lie in name). With limited modding knowledge, I doubt I'll expand it to anything more complicated, but as it stands now, it is complete.

You don’t technically destroy the Brotherhood, but you do kill the whole Cheydinhal Sanctuary. You also get the exclusive bonuses that you couldn’t get otherwise from ignoring the guild.

What you do

After you kill Lucien, your Blade of Woe unlocks its true power, and you’re led to the sanctuary via a note on his person. Be careful though, because after killing him, you’ll have to fight the Wrath of Sithis (so you can get the unique dagger). Once you go to the sanctuary, you can kill everyone there and loot M’raaj-Dar’s unique items from a new chest in the training room. You’re then led to Fort Farragut to pick up the bonus items, and you can then talk to the count of Cheydinhal for a reward of 2000 gold and 20 fame. And that’s about it. It’s short and sweet, not too inspired, but hey, at least you get a reward for killing a chapter of the Dark Brotherhood.

It should be noted that if you progress in the Dark Brotherhood quest as normal with this mod installed, the only new addition is the chest of wares in the sanctuary, so you can steal them early, or get them after the Purification. There hopefully shouldn't be any weird conflicts.

What you don't do

You won’t end up killing any of the other brotherhood members you normally would in the questline, so there will still be some surviving members. Only the Cheydinhal chapter will be fully destroyed. However, Ungolim will be marked unessential, so you can kill him if you'd like, though in game you won't know he's the Listener. Alval Uvani is also still killable.

How it works

This mod uses its own custom quest and scripts to ensure maximum compatibility. However, it does edit the “fail” stage of A Knife in a Dark to give the true Blade of Woe and spawn a Wrath of Sithis. If any mod modifies A Knife in the Dark, you just won’t receive the weapon or fight the Wrath of Sithis.

It also adds items to Lucien as well as chests in the Sanctuary and Fort. I’m not experienced with changing areas, but it may be incompatible if another mod edits those specific areas.

The scripts shouldn't lead to any conflicts in theory, but if you run int