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[Skyrim] Why is the Dragonborn allowed to be the highest ranking member of so many guilds after only joining for a few days?
gpt
Well in Skyrim nearly all these guilds are actually on their knees.

The Companions just had their leadership wiped out and were subject to a long lived curse that the Dragonborn happened to clear. Of the remaining circle members do any of them strike you as leadership material? The dude literally foreseen by their old harbinger who brought their revenge against both the Silver Hand and Glenmoril Coven and freed Kodlak from an eternity in Hircines hunting grounds is there though.

The College is also pretty much on its knees. They are tolerated about as well as the shrine to Mehrunes Dagon is tolerated, only because trying to march in and remove it would cause nasty consequences. The Dragonborn saves them from whatever it is happens at the college. Also again none of the high ranking mages have anything like leadership abilities there.

The Dark Brotherhood literally ends up as 3 people with you explicitly selected by the Night Mother.

The Thieves Guild has also lost most of its leadership. Karliah doesn't seem all that interested in going from exiled to leader. Brynjolf probably should have been leader though.