
If someone wants to kill the thieves, he should be able to. So stupid that essentials even exist in a game like that. OBS: I think the developers should allow us to wipe the guild cause there are so many reasons and possibilities to get the Skeleton key from Mercer and finnish them off for good, one of them wich proboly most of us agree is Maven Black-Briar (just seeing her as Jarl of Riften when i pick the empire makes me sick). NOTE: Thats my opinion on this i can be wrong and correct me if i am but that was the only way i manage to enter that place cause i tried the back door where you leave the sanctum but remains unusuable till you get trought the quest.

There is a Shout wall there so that will interfere with the your shouting progress if u end up killing him because he has no key and its a quest action when he opens the sanctum gate. The guildmaster, Mercer Frey is the only NPC that can open the gate in Snow Veil Sanctum which the door will be only opened during the quest: Speaking With Silence. Butttt yeah, in the other hand killing innocent people can be fun too.

Thats mean you CANNOT kill them by any means (except by console commands if you THAT desperate)
