The Skyrim/Elder Scrolls thread

[The first Galactic Republic]

Not much there, but it was worth doing just to see what’s there.

There’s some loot in some barrels that doesn’t count as stealing, and you can find an enchanted weapon, a daedra heart, and a skill book if you’re willing to steal.

The place will also make you hate the vigilants, since they won’t shut up about their moral crusade for two seconds. I’m glad the vampires got them.

Also they sent hired thugs after me for taking the above items, and that wasn’t fun to deal with on an early stealth build.

I had someone sick a DB assassin on me early in my current run whilst i was in the Rift. Think it was someone i stole from which is a bit harsh like

I once weathered hired thugs sent after me by...

Get this...

A chicken. A chicken.

The wiki claims children, generics without names, and even ghosts can sometimes send hired thugs.

[San Lumen]

I had someone sick a DB assassin on me early in my current run whilst i was in the Rift. Think it was someone i stole from which is a bit harsh like

I once weathered hired thugs sent after me by...

Get this...

A chicken. A chicken.

The wiki claims children, generics without names, and even ghosts can sometimes send hired thugs.

That’s awesome. Chickens are the real mastermind behind everything anyway

[The Islands of Versilia]

On one hand she never seems to have issues with being a vampire and quite enjoys it. On the other Molag Bal

It was a lifestyle that was forced upon her and ever since the ritual her family has never been the same. It's because of her status that she was locked away for thousands of years.

She's only suffered from her "gift", I think her calling it that is more of a coping mechanism to deal with how much bullshit she was put through.

She does express positivity at being able to breath again and feel alive. Plus it means she won’t need to worry about blood and can enjoy life again. I didn’t think Harold Stormson would want her to endure her curse any more. For her sake.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I had someone sick a DB assassin on me early in my current run whilst i was in the Rift. Think it was someone i stole from which is a bit harsh like

I once weathered hired thugs sent after me by...

Get this...

A chicken. A chicken.

The wiki claims children, generics without names, and even ghosts can sometimes send hired thugs.

So can dogs, according to the wiki a deathhound called Gamr can send thugs after you.

A FUCKING DEATH DOG

[Valrifell]

I once weathered hired thugs sent after me by...

Get this...

A chicken. A chicken.

The wiki claims children, generics without names, and even ghosts can sometimes send hired thugs.

So can dogs, according to the wiki a deathhound called Gamr can send thugs after you.

A FUCKING DEATH DOG

Okay, this is the only bug that should be kept in Skyrim. In fact, it should be carried over to all future TES games/releases.

[San Lumen]

So can dogs, according to the wiki a deathhound called Gamr can send thugs after you.

A FUCKING DEATH DOG

Okay, this is the only bug that should've been kept in Skyrim. In fact, it should be carried over to all future TES games/releases.

It was fixed? I agree completely it should be kept

[Valrifell]

Okay, this is the only bug that should've been kept in Skyrim. In fact, it should be carried over to all future TES games/releases.

It was fixed? I agree completely it should be kept

Ah, no, I mistyped. I meant "should be".

[The Islands of Versilia]

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

[Ism]

Not much there, but it was worth doing just to see what’s there.

There’s some loot in some barrels that doesn’t count as stealing, and you can find an enchanted weapon, a daedra heart, and a skill book if you’re willing to steal.

The place will also make you hate the vigilants, since they won’t shut up about their moral crusade for two seconds. I’m glad the vampires got them.

Also they sent hired thugs after me for taking the above items, and that wasn’t fun to deal with on an early stealth build.

I had someone sick a DB assassin on me early in my current run whilst i was in the Rift. Think it was someone i stole from which is a bit harsh like

So, in my current playthrough I had done nothing, like, all I was doing was exploring. No quests, no stealing, nothing like that. Still got a DB assassin on me. And a group of Thalmor assassins. I looked into why this happened, and it turns out these two things are just random encounters, they don't trigger from anything special, just from being the right level. That's level 8 for the DB and 11 for the Thalmor, I believe.

Does work with my character's backstory at least, Aranwen got in trouble with the Thalmor back in Alinor and has been on the run ever since.

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

"It just works." -Todd Howard, a person who know what words mean

[The Huskar Social Union]

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

Damn it Todd!

*Slams Desk*

He did it again! Brilliant!

[The Huskar Social Union]

I had someone sick a DB assassin on me early in my current run whilst i was in the Rift. Think it was someone i stole from which is a bit harsh like

So, in my current playthrough I had done nothing, like, all I was doing was exploring. No quests, no stealing, nothing like that. Still got a DB assassin on me. And a group of Thalmor assassins. I looked into why this happened, and it turns out these two things are just random encounters, they don't trigger from anything special, just from being the right level. That's level 8 for the DB and 11 for the Thalmor, I believe.

Does work with my character's backstory at least, Aranwen got in trouble with the Thalmor back in Alinor and has been on the run ever since.

Ahhh i see

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

"It just works." -Todd Howard, a person who know what words mean

Buy Skyrim for 16 times the detail

[Andsed]

I think you have to talk to her over the course of the storyline and just don’t offend her. I chose the “you could be your own person again” and “I’ll support you no matter what” options in the dialogue that lets you convince her to cure herself. She’ll leave your company for some days then reappear in Fort Dawnguard.

Todd Howard: "Man we really did a good job fleshing this relationship out and giving Serana and the player a truly unique dynamic... for a couple of besties!"

For real though. Like one of the few characters Skyrim I actually felt a real connection to is non marriageable. I get that taking Serana backstory into account it does make sense why she is not able to be married, but still. Ow.

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

Damn it Todd!

*Slams Desk*

He did it again! Brilliant!

The king of ¨PoLIsH.¨

[The Imperial Reach]

Thieves Guild questline revised:

• Remove everything involving Nocturnal and give her a proper Daedric Quest for the Skeleton Key.
• Keep the Mercer-betrayed-Gallus-and-framed-Karliah plot as there's nothing wrong with it but remove the Nightingale stuff.
• Instead of the Thieves Guild gimping for Maven Black-Briar have her be their primary antagonist whose operations are being disrupted by the Guild and restore the Guild's original, more noble Robin Hood-esque nature like in Oblivion.
• Guild has fallen on hard times not because of any curse by Nocturnal but because Mercer is in Maven's pocket and is deliberately sabotaging the Guild for his own, personal gain.
• Remove all the thuggish behavior and banditry so they're properly thieves again instead of glorified mob enforcers.
• Remove any connection to the Dark Brotherhood because that makes no sense at all.
• Re-implement the fines imposed by the Guild for killing people like Oblivion had (they're thieves, not murderers)
• Remove the obviousness of Maven's criminal activities (she literally confesses to your face in public if you ask! Wtf?) and make her appear more kindly and welcoming to throw off suspicion, making Laila's belief she's a law-abiding-citizen more believable.
• Re-locate the Thieves Guild HQ elsewhere in the Ratway so it's actually hidden instead of so well-known an army of Sellswords could easily march in and clear it out; the location should be a secret, not a well-known fact.
• Mjoll gives you an option to destroy the Guild rather than join it, but this directly helps Maven to Mjoll's ignorance as she now incorrectly believes they're working for Maven due to a misunderstanding; Maven rewards you for destroying the Guild.
• Mercer betraying you, Karliah clearing both your names and exposing Mercer's betrayal, and the final confrontation with Mercer can stay but the quest should end with exposing Maven for her many crimes of which there are so many that Laila/the Empire can't ignore it and has her and Hemming (who is already complicit in her illegal activities) arrested; Sibbi is already in jail so no biggie there, but in this case Maven has publicly "disowned" him (not really, he still gets to live comfortable in his cell because corruption).
• Civil War Imperial control over Riften dependent outcome for Maven's Jarldom: Thieves Guild complete before Imperials take Riften/Stormcloaks win Civil War, she and Hemming just go straight to jail and Saerlund becomes Jarl instead. Thieves Guild complete after Imperials take Riften, Maven is removed from power and all her Imperial contacts hang her out to dry - she and her sons then mysteriously "die" in prison while the guard watching them was "sleeping" (she knew too much, so her Imperial friends bumped her and her sons off but leave Ingun alone as she had nothing to do with it; Ingun now inherits the entire Black-Briar fortune and disavows her family members) and Saerlund becomes Jarl.
• Thieves Guild members are now ordinary citizens by day and thieves by night, like in Oblivion, rather than just sitting in a smelly sewer all day every day.
• Brynjolf isn't running an obvious scam out in the open in full view of everyone, nor is open about his criminal activities to your face IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. You have to talk to beggars to get in the Thieves Guild, just like in Oblivion. He also doesn't have you frame an innocent man because that's not what Thieves do.
• Nightingales are now part of Nocturnal's Daedric Quest and have nothing to do with the Guild.

For real though the Thieves Guild story is hard to take seriously.

The outrage of all the thieves when Mercer steals from them is pretty hypocritical. I mean, how’d they get the loot in the first place? They brag about ruining innocent people’s lives but have such a moral stance against Mercer’s actions? Come on.

To me it just seems like Mercer was a huge chad who outwitted a bunch of idiots. “Hurr durr we’ll keep our loot in a big room no one will ever touch it because muh honor among thieves. How could someone take it all?!”

Also fuck Brynjolf and his stupid you’ve never done an honest day’s work spiel. I worked in a damn sawmill to build my wife and kids a house, Brynjolf. I don’t want to hear that from you.

The other guild members are also incredibly annoying or just bland. I care more about the College Professors than them.

Yeah.

Vex and Tonilia are bitches, Glover's accent is obnoxious, and the rest are forgettable.

[San Lumen]

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

I was near karthwasten a few days ago and a goat floats across the road and river

[Andsed]

For real though the Thieves Guild story is hard to take seriously.

The outrage of all the thieves when Mercer steals from them is pretty hypocritical. I mean, how’d they get the loot in the first place? They brag about ruining innocent people’s lives but have such a moral stance against Mercer’s actions? Come on.

To me it just seems like Mercer was a huge chad who outwitted a bunch of idiots. “Hurr durr we’ll keep our loot in a big room no one will ever touch it because muh honor among thieves. How could someone take it all?!”

Also fuck Brynjolf and his stupid you’ve never done an honest day’s work spiel. I worked in a damn sawmill to build my wife and kids a house, Brynjolf. I don’t want to hear that from you.

The other guild members are also incredibly annoying or just bland. I care more about the College Professors than them.

Yeah.

Vex and Tonilia are bitches, Glover's accent is obnoxious, and the rest are forgettable.

They are so lucky Bethesda removed the option to destroy the guild otherwise I would have done so. Fucking thugs.

[The Imperial Reach]

Todd Howard: "Man we really did a good job fleshing this relationship out and giving Serana and the player a truly unique dynamic... for a couple of besties!"

For real though. Like one of the few characters Skyrim I actually felt a real connection to is non marriageable. I get that taking Serana backstory into account it does make sense why she is not able to be married, but still. Ow.

Damn it Todd!

*Slams Desk*

He did it again! Brilliant!

The king of ¨PoLIsH.¨

Todd Howard: *creates vampire waifu*
Also Todd Howard: *won't let you marry her*

Thanks, Todd. I love marrying pretty nobodies with less personality than a sheet of drywall but not my fleshed-out 10/10 vamp gf.

[The Huskar Social Union]

For real though. Like one of the few characters Skyrim I actually felt a real connection to is non marriageable. I get that taking Serana backstory into account it does make sense why she is not able to be married, but still. Ow.



The king of ¨PoLIsH.¨

Todd Howard: *creates vampire waifu*
Also Todd Howard: *won't let you marry her*

Thanks, Todd. I love marrying pretty nobodies with less personality than a sheet of drywall but not my fleshed-out 10/10 vamp gf.

You were not ready my child.

Yeah.

Vex and Tonilia are bitches, Glover's accent is obnoxious, and the rest are forgettable.

They are so lucky Bethesda removed the option to destroy the guild otherwise I would have done so. Fucking thugs.

Slaughtering the thieves guild with my waifu Mjoll fuck yeah

[The first Galactic Republic]

You know, I’m up to level 13 now and I haven’t seen Miraak’s assassins yet. I definitely remember seeing them earlier on other playthroughs.

I’ve yet to even report to Jarl Balgruuf about the attack on Helgen, so maybe that factors into it? I mean, how would they know to attack you if you haven’t been declared Dragonborn yet.

But it’s also possible this is a Switch version change. I know the Switch version removed the Dawnguard vampire attacks, for example.

[Andsed]

For real though. Like one of the few characters Skyrim I actually felt a real connection to is non marriageable. I get that taking Serana backstory into account it does make sense why she is not able to be married, but still. Ow.



The king of ¨PoLIsH.¨

Todd Howard: *creates vampire waifu*
Also Todd Howard: *won't let you marry her*

Thanks, Todd. I love marrying pretty nobodies with less personality than a sheet of drywall but not my fleshed-out 10/10 vamp gf.

It really is extremely weird that you can marry someone who you did a fucking errand for but not the person you went on an entire adventure with and forged a close personal bond.

Todd Howard: *creates vampire waifu*
Also Todd Howard: *won't let you marry her*

Thanks, Todd. I love marrying pretty nobodies with less personality than a sheet of drywall but not my fleshed-out 10/10 vamp gf.

You were not ready my child.

They are so lucky Bethesda removed the option to destroy the guild otherwise I would have done so. Fucking thugs.

Slaughtering the thieves guild with my waifu Mjoll fuck yeah

You know what they say, the couple the destroys a cancerous criminal organization that steals from and extorts innocent together stays together.

[The Islands of Versilia]

So I just... exit Tundra Homestead and the first thing I see... is a mounted horse sling across the screen, shoot up into the air then sling back into the ground, which killed the horse and the rider just ran off.
...
What?

"It just works." -Todd Howard, a person who know what words mean

I’m going to canonise that by saying the Dovahkiin mixed too much mead in his potions.

Todd Howard: "Man we really did a good job fleshing this relationship out and giving Serana and the player a truly unique dynamic... for a couple of besties!"

For real though. Like one of the few characters Skyrim I actually felt a real connection to is non marriageable. I get that taking Serana backstory into account it does make sense why she is not able to be married, but still. Ow.

I’m currently gunning for Frea since she’s the most developed marriageable character from what I hear. Though I’m not sure whether to actually marry her and just have my guy longing for Serana.

Yeah.

Vex and Tonilia are bitches, Glover's accent is obnoxious, and the rest are forgettable.

They are so lucky Bethesda removed the option to destroy the guild otherwise I would have done so. Fucking thugs.

I wish I could cleanse Riften like one could cleanse Markarth. You can get rid of all the Silver-Bloods and cannibals but not the Blackbriars and Thieve’s Guild.

[The Islands of Versilia]

You know, I’m up to level 13 now and I haven’t seen Miraak’s assassins yet. I definitely remember seeing them earlier on other playthroughs.

I’ve yet to even report to Jarl Balgruuf about the attack on Helgen, so maybe that factors into it? I mean, how would they know to attack you if you haven’t been declared Dragonborn yet.

But it’s also possible this is a Switch version change. I know the Switch version removed the Dawnguard vampire attacks, for example.

They only appear after the Greybeards confirm you’re Dragonborn, when you first meet them.

[Ism]

"It just works." -Todd Howard, a person who know what words mean

Buy Skyrim for 16 times the detail

"Have you bought the new version of Skyrim yet?"
"No, Todd."
"Why not? It's a great game!"
"Don't do this Todd, don't do this to me."
"What's the harm in it?"
"I've already bought it so many times. I've spent more time being it than I have playing it. Including character creation. Including character creation Todd!"
"You haven't bought it for the Switch yet."
"I don't have a Switch!"
"You might get one eventually, best to have a copy just in case."
"No, I'm not doing it this time. I promised myself I'd stop"
"But it has 16 times the details!"
"No it doesn't. You're lying to me Todd."
"I just want you to experience Skyrim the way it was meant to be played."
"Fine, fucking fine, I'll buy it just leave me alone!"
":)"
"There, I've bought it, it's done. Can you at least tell me something about TES VI now?"
"Hey, woah, be patient buddy. We don't want to be just the TES and Fallout Guys."
"(-_-)"

[The Islands of Versilia]

Does killing all the cannibals in Markarth fail the quest?
I want to do it but I don’t want the quest stuck in my log forever like the Whispering Door.

[The first Galactic Republic]

Buy Skyrim for 16 times the detail

"Have you bought the new version of Skyrim yet?"
"No, Todd."
"Why not? It's a great game!"
"Don't do this Todd, don't do this to me."
"What's the harm in it?"
"I've already bought it so many times. I've spent more time being it than I have playing it. Including character creation. Including character creation Todd!"
"You haven't bought it for the Switch yet."
"I don't have a Switch!"
"You might get one eventually, best to have a copy just in case."
"No, I'm not doing it this time. I promised myself I'd stop"
"But it has 16 times the details!"
"No it doesn't. You're lying to me Todd."
"I just want you to experience Skyrim the way it was meant to be played."
"Fine, fucking fine, I'll buy it just leave me alone!"
":)"
"There, I've bought it, it's done. Can you at least tell me something about TES VI now?"
"Hey, woah, be patient buddy. We don't want to be just the TES and Fallout Guys."
"(-_-)"

Someday...

“We’re proud to announce all copies of Elder Scrolls VI will come bundled with Skyrim.”

“Can we get it without Skyrim?”

“No."

[San Lumen]

Does killing all the cannibals in Markarth fail the quest?
I want to do it but I don’t want the quest stuck in my log forever like the Whispering Door.

No it doesnt. As much as hate that quest I couldn't bring myself to murder everyone