[quote=@Hank]
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The Blades are mostly inactive at this point. You [i]can[/i] be an associate, sure, but I'm not sure what it will add to your character when his contacts are holed up in Cloud Ruler Temple as they wait for the storm to blow over.
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Surely they still have ears and eyes in the field, at least in their home turf of Cryodiil.