Missing in Action as a Thalmor

Please note: This changes the quest, assumes you are a Thalmor agent, and replaces or bypasses all non-Thalmor options. You should disable this mod before starting a non-Thalmor save. Also. My video is a total spoiler and covers the whole quest.

Cruelly destroy the wanted criminal Avulstein Gray-Mane by luring him away from the safety of Whiterun with the promise of rescuing his imprisoned brother, and make sure there are no more questions on Thorald's whereabouts.

Biggest changes:

1. The entire quest is the other way around

By the end of my quest, the goodies are dead and the baddies (including you, hopefully) are still alive.

2. Missing in Action - Prologue

You have the option of collecting a lore-friendly reminder to do this quest in Solitude, where I recommend you go anyway, before beginning 'Missing in Action'. But you can also start the quest in the normal way, and the prologue quest will be ignored.

3. Agent Aldaron

There is now a new NPC who adds you to the Thalmor factions as often as you like (every six hours), if you're not sure if you're a member or not.

This should prevent any problems with hostility. Go and see Agent Aldaron in the Winking Skeever in Solitude. Your dialogue option 'Just reporting in' will get you added to the Thalmor Faction, World-Encounter Thalmor Faction

(I set it as "Just reporting in" so that you could be reporting in as normal between missions, or coming back from being missing yourself. Aldaron will help you clear everything up)

If you haven't started Missing in Action yet, Aldaron will give you an execution order for Avulstein Gray-Mane. Ask him "Anything I can do..."

If you get into trouble with the Thalmor at any time, even when the quest is not running, Agent Aldaron will always be in a good mood and will allow you to report in. The Thalmor have long memories and do not forgive, except when they're permanently stationed in a pub, in which case they forgive anything and have very bad memories, like anybody else.

4. Your friend, the Northwatch Guard

The Northwatch guard doesn't say "Halt" now. Introduce yourself, and he will recognise you and even give you a key. So you can use the front and back doors to the keep.

Quest Spoilers:

In the original quest:

After discovering, via blackmail or burglary, that Thorald Gray-Mane is held by the Thalmor, you have these options:

1. you rampage through Northwatch Keep, either with Thorald's brother Avulstein, or alone, slaughtering everything in your path. Not good for your career if you are a Thalmor agent.

2. if you have the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition patch, you can join the Imperial Legion, help General Tullius defeat Ulfric Stormcloak and end the civil war, and ask him