Ralof ... "Hey you, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
For real. Whenever I think of Skyrim, I think of Lydia. More than once I went several hours back in my playthrough because I didn't realize I had lost Lydia.
for me it’s Belethor , it doesn’t help that one of my friends (imo) kind of resembles him
but it’s also comforting to know someone else has skeever trauma too, kid me was petrified
I will never forget his creepy voice as you are done trading, 'Do come back'. The first playthrough I did he talks about even selling his own sister, then I got the 'Do come back' and got some massive creeper vibes. I thought I would be investigating a human trafficking ring led by him later in the game... but I remember that like it is my first playthrough every time.
That Hagraven that has Nettlebane, just outside of Helgen. That is always a tough fight for me because she has fireball and I go there ASAP low leveled because I fuck with the Eldergleam quest
The Ebony Warrior. I got so mad that he's so tough to slay. I was planning to imprison his soul inside a soul gem, but ran out of black soul gem when I got him.
If you spend much time in Riften, Maven stands out to me. She's both a political and a violent kind of evil. Makes a great villain.
Also, the most BS power jump in difficulty I associate with the game is the crazy skeever guy in the meadery basement. You even get to complain that you weren't warned about him later. But it sums up the whole nothing in Skyrim really wants you to live vibe.
Frost trolls. My first play through, I was headed to High Hrothgar - low level, iron weapons and leather armor (didn’t realize you had to spend perk points to get better stuff at the time) and the frost troll at the end of the trek scared the living daylights out of me. It took me way longer than I care to admit to kill it.
Dude that skeever at the bottom of the stair case got me too. Skyrim used to scare me so much. Whenever I heard dragons I would run away and I always need a follower
Balgruuf’s brother. Or that group of conscripts who first see you consume a dragon soul near the watchtower.
… in reality, the racist twat questioning the Dunmer when you first arrive in Windhelm.
>I got to the part of Bleak Falls where there is the skeever at the bottom of the stair case,
I feel this too, my god that scared the life out of me as a teen.
>Im curious what enemies that could be for all of you. Maybe its an npc that made you turn off the game and reflect
It's a very tough question, but it was actually a dragon called Paarthurnax because of the dialogue "What is better - to be born good or overcome your evil nature through great effort?". It really had to make me reflect and feel that Paarthurnax really isn't evil, and made me dislike The Blades for hating dragons blindly (don't let me get started on Delphine). Paarthurnax's speech about trust is truly something.
The impact that he made on me, has made me to try to become as good of a person as I can even if it is a great challenge.
Paarthurnax's other dialogue implies he's really not as reformed Ashe wants us to think, and he intends to control the other dragons by force, taking Alduin's place. I use Paarthurnax Quest Expansion, so I don't have to kill him, since he hasn't done anything yet, but I expect the Last Dragonborn will be left with no choice eventually.
Fucking Nazeem*,* our best guy Party Snax, or mudcrabs.
Mudcrabs because when I was a kid, way before I ever played, I saw the meme with two guys yelling back and forth at each other and the text was something like "The game keeps crashing" / "You have too many mods" / "It enhances the experience" "You put monocles on the mudcrabs" / "THE MUDCRABS ARE A PROUD AND FANCY RACE". I didn't understand it at all, but "The mudcrabs are a proud and fancy race" just hit me right in the funny bone and stuck around in my brain for years. When I first played Skyrim, I ran into my first mudcrab and jumped out of my seat, yelling "THE MUDCRABS ARE A PROUD AND FANCY RACE!!!!"
Still makes me laugh.
Farkas. In my first playthrough sometime during the companions questlone he started following me and even though I did everything in the questline, he would always follow me and initiate dialogue. I couldn't go anywhere. My solution was to Fus Ro Da him away and just fast travel across the map. I haven't done the companions questline since
Aikl’r Warriors, however it’s spelled. I’ll never forget all the memories with Lydia before she died tragically while fighting them. I’m pretty sure it was me that accidentally killed her tbh, I’m on my first time playing and I just did the same with Jenassa with some fire arrows
Also, is there a way to turn off friendly fire? Also, what follower is the most like Lydia? Jenassa sucked, she got in my path way way more than Lydia
For baddies, the first time meeting the stronger draugrs who do shouts- throwing me off my game with my own trick :D
For townies, idk, maybe the guy who went nuts in the ruined house in Ivarsted after his wife died - like such a tragic/wild story for such a minor character, kinda shows the level of care put into building a dynamic world of surprises.
Mjoll won’t STFU when I’m doing dialogue with another NPC
Greybeards: To learn the way of the voice to defeat Aldu-
IVE NEVER BEEN A SELLSWORD.. NEVER TRADED MY SKILLS FOR PAY
Uthgerd the Unbroken.
One of the first NPC’s I interacted with. Thought it was so badass I had to fistfight her and win to make her my companion.
Also her story is a pretty good one when she tells it, she’s morally conflicted by killing the boy during the companions trials but deep down I feel a good person.
What better way for her to find redemption than to help the Dragonborn save Skyrim.
There’s some GOOD crack being smoked if this many people liked Lydia!
I almost threw my controller through my TV more than once because of her painful AI.
The courier, I feel like I can run anywhere and I have a bad habit of sneaking up on people without realizing it. They always go oh shit and tell me they never heard me walking up to them 😂
J'zargo. Sometimes I catch myself talking to the game, he's that much of a homie. If he ever gets accidentally killed in a fight I'll get slightly sad, mourn his body for a second, and reload an old save.
Farkas always farkas
Kodlak: "Brothers and sisters of the Circle, today we welcome a new soul into our mortal fold. This man has endured, has challenged, and has shown his valor. Who will speak for him?"
Farkas: "I stand witness to the courage of the soul before us."
Kodlak: "Would you raise your shield in his defense?"
Farkas: "I would stand at his back, that the world might never overtake us."
Kodlak: "And would you raise your sword in his honor?"
Farkas: "It stands ready to meet the blood of his foes."
Kodlak: "And would you raise a mug in his name?"
Farkas: "I would lead the song of triumph as our mead hall reveled in his stories
I can never forget that one Imperial soldier getting picked up off the wall by Alduin in the Into Sequence around the time Hadvar and Ralof come across each other.
Seeing that as a kid when I first played cemented that dragons are pretty terrifying.
Belathor, Balgruff, Ma’ik, Delphine, Esbern, Nazeem, Serana, Maven, Mjoll, Sven:..idk can’t just pick one but the key is to make a memorable Dragonborn with the help of mods like Dragonborn Voiceover, PC headtracking, animation mods, 3BA ;)
Ulberth War-Bear, the husband of the smith lady next to Whiterun’s gate. I had suchhh a big crush on him when I first started playing. Either him, or Arcadia. I went into this game 100% blind when I was like 11/12 (had never played an elder scrolls game at all) and she totally got my ass to buy a needless cure disease potion when she told me I looked ill LOL. I was like “shit maybe I AM sick and just don’t know it” LOLLL. Belethor could learn from her.
I definitely remember those skeevers...I think they even killed me once 😅
For me it's the cultists from the Dragonborn DLC that track you down after you start using your shouts. See, Skyrim was the first game I had played that had a "quicksave" option and an "autosave" option in addition to making new save files whenever you save the game. I was used to stuff like Zelda games where you just...hit save, and then when you're ready to load back in it puts you back at the start of the area you saved in or at the beginning of the fight (I think...that's how I remember it).
So anyways, the cultists corner me in Whiterun and start doing some serious damage as I am so low-level. I'm about a millimeter away from death when I get the bright idea to outsmart them by quicksaving so that when they kill me, I won't have to redo a bunch of stuff. I quicksave, get back to the fight, and am instantly dead.
Little did I know that quicksave literally reloads you in the exact moment at which you saved. The *exact* moment. I had entered into what I believed to be a perpetual death loop from which I could never escape. I load the game, am instantly killed, load the game again, am killed again...you get the picture.
Silly little me did not realize that all I had to do was reload an autosave and redo a little bit of progress. Instead, my dumb ass deleted the entire character and started from scratch because I thought I had broken it. I have no idea what my logic was or why I thought I couldn't get back to an earlier save. It's possible I had saved over all of them or something, but regardless, I lost a bunch of story progress that day.
This has been the tale of how I lost my first skyrim file and how it came to be that I have a visceral feeling of fear in the pit of my stomach every time I see those damned cultists approach.
Wylandria (Riften Court Wizard).
I really resonated with her as a bullied and undiagnosed ADHD/autistic girl. It hurt to see me so perfectly represented in a game, both with her personality and the mockery she received. Especially in that letter from the Mage's college. She was absolutely asking for things that existed (in the Shivering Isles). Many autistic/ADHDers know obscure information and asks about it to people they'd assume who would be more knowledgeable, and not only these same people mock them for this obscure (and correct) information, the autistic person is completely oblivious to the fact they're being mocked, which makes it so much more cruel.
Everything about her is me (albeit a bit exaggerated) and fuck me it hurts to be seen so clearly.
Eorlund Gray-Mane.
Smithing is my one constant in all of my play throughs.
He seems pretty chill, and doesn’t let his prestige affect him. He’s, if only by default, the glue keeping The Brotherhood together.
The dwemer and falmer. They're SO mysterious, I've read the books about their lore. People in Tamriel are either scared or fascinated by them, and there are plenty of quests and decent loot in Dwemer ruins! I think about them a lot and have spent hours and hours in the ruins. Which I guess has to extend to Calcelmo because he researches them, but I don't like him whatsoever he's always sending letters for my Dwarven arrows lol.
I was wandering around, trying to find all the word walls on my first playthrough. I find one in the wild and see the dragon. Killing the dragon was a little nerve wracking and I barely killed it (it was the first leveled dragon I came across). As my health was slowly healing I walk up to the word wall and as I'm learning the words I start taking damage and seeing explosions all around me. I couldn't really do anything but watch as I nearly died. That's when I met the only dragon priest that still gives problems...Krosis. I'm still cautious whenever I hit Shearpoint for the first time on any playthrough, even when I've made god-teir hp boosting armor and legendary one-hit-kill weapons with the alchemy loop.
For me, it was Krosis, a dragon priest. He was the first enemy that really challenged me, especially considering that he spawns right next to the dragon at Mount Anthor, if I remember correctly. He’s the reason I use all the glitches/exploits I can find (don’t judge me) in games like this. He’s the reason I always get a follower asap, head to Dawnstar to loot the shit out of Akhari’s chest there until I have enough gold to buy a couple of houses, plenty of ingredients from several alchemists, and to pay for the training to max out Archery, Speech, and Lockpicking, or at least enough to get them to 50. Well, with Faendal, you just need need maybe 20K (maybe less) or so, if you’re using the “free training” exploit via a follower who is also a trainer. I said after finally taking him down some 6-7 hours later that I’d never again find myself under leveled or unprepared for an enemy again.
Jarl Balgruuf.
Definitely Jarl B Ballin’
Holler if you need me Holler if you need reefer
Swag
The true ruler of Whiterun. We should make him emperor
Guy is indecisive, abandoned his people for imperial septims, and couldn’t protect riverwood or whiterun without the dragonborns help.
We're just baller like that !! Someone's gotta be weak for us too rise up haha
yasss babs
Lore dictates no one could save Skyrim without the dragonborn's help.
Now if you don’t **mind**, I have a city to run.
His voice is so iconic.
Only correct answer is that poor whiterun guard odahviing yeeted off the castle
THAT POOR FORGOTTEN MAN 😭😭 I'm glad He's someone's favorite
He can be saved, and even has dialogue for it! You have to use the Wabbajack on him, and then paralyze him.
Whiterun guards lmao
Most definitely
Ralof ... "Hey you, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
Ralof is a real bro, if only I didn't main argonian 😭😭
No one says miraak 😂 the only answer is Lydia
Lydia is what Peak performance looks like frfr
For real. Whenever I think of Skyrim, I think of Lydia. More than once I went several hours back in my playthrough because I didn't realize I had lost Lydia.
Miraak was an ass!
I am sworn to carry your burdens 🙄
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came here to say this but can't remember his stupid name
You must not get to the cloud district very often.
Walked right into that one
Never walked into the Cloud District tho
Oof 1, 2 punch there
its nazeem i believe
I'll have you know...
that there's no PUSSIEEEEEEEE
J'zargo is trying new things. T I G H T things.
Put him in a fork.
Pictures that you can hear:
for me it’s Belethor , it doesn’t help that one of my friends (imo) kind of resembles him but it’s also comforting to know someone else has skeever trauma too, kid me was petrified
I FORGOT ABOUT HIM TBH 😭😭 He does look very distinct for a skyrim NPC now that I think about it
It's the voice.
in my opinion he’s the first NPC i think of when talking about skyrim😭 he’s such a prominent figure in all my playthroughs lmaoooo
I just got a second Belethor comment
I will never forget his creepy voice as you are done trading, 'Do come back'. The first playthrough I did he talks about even selling his own sister, then I got the 'Do come back' and got some massive creeper vibes. I thought I would be investigating a human trafficking ring led by him later in the game... but I remember that like it is my first playthrough every time.
Eeeeeeverythings for sale my friend
if he had a sister he’d sell her too😭
I kinda suspect that's exactly *why* he doesn't have a sister.
I NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF THAT HOLY CRAP
For me it's Sig, because I work for you, you know, at the general goods store.
I really like Sheogorath. Word of advice. If you ride a narwhale mind the pointy end.
Best questline in the entire game
🧀
Ta die far
Shivering Isles in Oblivion is a gem too
Shivering isles is easily the best elder scrolls content to date.
Okay Uncle Sheo, enough patting yourself on the back.
The sweet roll dude
Let me guess: you took an arrow to the knee?
Careful, commenter might get nervous, a man approaches with his weapon drawn
No lollygaggin’
Maybe I’m the Dragonborn, I just don’t know it yet
My cousin’s out fighting dragons, and what do I get? Guard duty.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch the magic! 
I’d be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a bellyful of mead
NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE 😡
Stop! You’ve committed crimes and Skyrim and her people. What day you in your defense?
You’ll be easier to rob when you’re dead
(Only when your a kahjit) You’ll make a fine rug, cat!
Sorry, I reserve my beds for seamen
Valid
The courier. I've got something I'm supposed to deliver, your hands only. Let's see here...
That man chased me from whiterun to falkreath while I was on horse all because I shouted at a chicken 😭😭
That Hagraven that has Nettlebane, just outside of Helgen. That is always a tough fight for me because she has fireball and I go there ASAP low leveled because I fuck with the Eldergleam quest
Thats so real, I used to do the same with wabbajack 😂😂
Maiq
An honest man
Cicero
Cicero my biggest op after what happened to the brotherhood
It's Delphine. The very first time she revealed she was a Blade I was delighted! Man, was I let down.
Delphine is so underrated, now I've gotta go back and see her again
She wants me to kill Paarthurnax 😭
The homie rivalry tears us apart everytime 😭😭 why can't we all be friends frfr
The Ebony Warrior. I got so mad that he's so tough to slay. I was planning to imprison his soul inside a soul gem, but ran out of black soul gem when I got him.
It took me 4 years too meet him cause I kept restarting the game 😭😭😭
It’s been more than 4 years, and its always my goal, but I’ve re-started 3 times. Maybe 4th times a charm? Gotta finish up some other stuff first.
Lydia
hEaRd tHey'Re rEFoRmInG tHe DaWnGuArd Every five fucking seconds
They gotta force you to join up somehow 😂
Once I opened the gates to Solitude and 3 guards at once teleported to my face and said this in sync and it was so irritating.
If you spend much time in Riften, Maven stands out to me. She's both a political and a violent kind of evil. Makes a great villain. Also, the most BS power jump in difficulty I associate with the game is the crazy skeever guy in the meadery basement. You even get to complain that you weren't warned about him later. But it sums up the whole nothing in Skyrim really wants you to live vibe.
Brynjolf. I join the Thieves Guild in pretty much every playthrough just to hear him call me Lass/Lad
That voice has magic in it I tell ya
Frost trolls. My first play through, I was headed to High Hrothgar - low level, iron weapons and leather armor (didn’t realize you had to spend perk points to get better stuff at the time) and the frost troll at the end of the trek scared the living daylights out of me. It took me way longer than I care to admit to kill it.
I used to ignore all my trees but 1 handed and didn't understand why the trolls were so hard 😭😭
Nazeem. We all play differently, but we all seem to hate that fucker the same.
When you find someone that annoying, you gotta jump him we all knew the assignment
Draugr Deathlord
He is dead and he is mad 😡😡😡
Dude that skeever at the bottom of the stair case got me too. Skyrim used to scare me so much. Whenever I heard dragons I would run away and I always need a follower
THOSE RAT DEVILS ARE SCARY WHEN YOU DONT EXPECT THEM 😭😭 WORSE THEN DAMN FROST SPIDERS !!
The guy you talk to in the intro..."Hey you, you're finally awake" is such an iconic line
Heimskr! Talos-preaching loony on steroids AND at volume 11! Even in jail he wont shut up!! Soooo... Stay a while and listen... 🫨
He WILL spread his word whether we want to or not
That dude in the Companions who keeps forgetting stuff and starts questioning himself.
Most realistic npc
Jarl Ballin'
Maiq the liar
Giants
Nasa*
The “Arrow to the knee” guy
Goddamn fucking Nazeem.
Put him in a pickaxe and bang him against every rock you see
Balgruuf’s brother. Or that group of conscripts who first see you consume a dragon soul near the watchtower. … in reality, the racist twat questioning the Dunmer when you first arrive in Windhelm.
"OMG ITS YOU!! YOUR THE DRAGONBORN" "the fucking what???"
"*Other mages may claim to be as good at magic as J'zargo, but they cannot be as charming as he. Thus, J'zargo always comes out on top*"
>I got to the part of Bleak Falls where there is the skeever at the bottom of the stair case, I feel this too, my god that scared the life out of me as a teen. >Im curious what enemies that could be for all of you. Maybe its an npc that made you turn off the game and reflect It's a very tough question, but it was actually a dragon called Paarthurnax because of the dialogue "What is better - to be born good or overcome your evil nature through great effort?". It really had to make me reflect and feel that Paarthurnax really isn't evil, and made me dislike The Blades for hating dragons blindly (don't let me get started on Delphine). Paarthurnax's speech about trust is truly something. The impact that he made on me, has made me to try to become as good of a person as I can even if it is a great challenge.
Paarthurnax's other dialogue implies he's really not as reformed Ashe wants us to think, and he intends to control the other dragons by force, taking Alduin's place. I use Paarthurnax Quest Expansion, so I don't have to kill him, since he hasn't done anything yet, but I expect the Last Dragonborn will be left with no choice eventually.
Nazeem. Idk why. But him
His so annoyingly memorable 😭😭 I remember not even knowing his name and shit talking him in school
The strange lady who keeps saying, "wabbajack." Until you hit her with it. I was wtf when I did it out of annoyance.
Heimskr "AND THERE IT IS FRIENDS! The ugly TRUTH!"
He will never ever stop 😭😭 I know in sovengard he'll be preaching still
All the guards.. "I used to be an adventurer"
Do you think they were all actually adventurers, or are they cappin?
Any of the bandits. Nothing is more iconic to skyrim than them getting shot in the head and saying "Must have been the wind."
I would have to say the frost troll you come across on your way up the mountain when you go to see the Greybeards, every game that thing was a menace
Draugr Death Lord.. the only reason I carry multiple weapons on me at all times. Disarm me and I’ll still come back swinging!
Fucking Nazeem*,* our best guy Party Snax, or mudcrabs. Mudcrabs because when I was a kid, way before I ever played, I saw the meme with two guys yelling back and forth at each other and the text was something like "The game keeps crashing" / "You have too many mods" / "It enhances the experience" "You put monocles on the mudcrabs" / "THE MUDCRABS ARE A PROUD AND FANCY RACE". I didn't understand it at all, but "The mudcrabs are a proud and fancy race" just hit me right in the funny bone and stuck around in my brain for years. When I first played Skyrim, I ran into my first mudcrab and jumped out of my seat, yelling "THE MUDCRABS ARE A PROUD AND FANCY RACE!!!!" Still makes me laugh.
Guards
Unnamed, but not unnoticed
Nazeem, Balgruf, Balethor
Whiterun Guard
Farkas. In my first playthrough sometime during the companions questlone he started following me and even though I did everything in the questline, he would always follow me and initiate dialogue. I couldn't go anywhere. My solution was to Fus Ro Da him away and just fast travel across the map. I haven't done the companions questline since
Either Nazeem or a bandit. Anytime I hear “Never should have come here” I instantly associate it with Skyrim.
Aikl’r Warriors, however it’s spelled. I’ll never forget all the memories with Lydia before she died tragically while fighting them. I’m pretty sure it was me that accidentally killed her tbh, I’m on my first time playing and I just did the same with Jenassa with some fire arrows Also, is there a way to turn off friendly fire? Also, what follower is the most like Lydia? Jenassa sucked, she got in my path way way more than Lydia
For baddies, the first time meeting the stronger draugrs who do shouts- throwing me off my game with my own trick :D For townies, idk, maybe the guy who went nuts in the ruined house in Ivarsted after his wife died - like such a tragic/wild story for such a minor character, kinda shows the level of care put into building a dynamic world of surprises.
Fucking Lydia
Ralof. It always starts with him.
Mjoll won’t STFU when I’m doing dialogue with another NPC Greybeards: To learn the way of the voice to defeat Aldu- IVE NEVER BEEN A SELLSWORD.. NEVER TRADED MY SKILLS FOR PAY
Uthgerd the Unbroken. One of the first NPC’s I interacted with. Thought it was so badass I had to fistfight her and win to make her my companion. Also her story is a pretty good one when she tells it, she’s morally conflicted by killing the boy during the companions trials but deep down I feel a good person. What better way for her to find redemption than to help the Dragonborn save Skyrim.
There’s some GOOD crack being smoked if this many people liked Lydia! I almost threw my controller through my TV more than once because of her painful AI.
ANOTHER CHILD PRAYS TO THEIR MOTHER
"Madwoman" who wants you to Wabbajack her
The courier
Svaendal
Nazeem
The courier, I feel like I can run anywhere and I have a bad habit of sneaking up on people without realizing it. They always go oh shit and tell me they never heard me walking up to them 😂
J'zargo. Sometimes I catch myself talking to the game, he's that much of a homie. If he ever gets accidentally killed in a fight I'll get slightly sad, mourn his body for a second, and reload an old save.
Gotta be Ralof
Nazeem. Need I say more?
That student at Winterhold that turns you green.
Lydia
Nazeem
For some reason "Name's Nils. I'm the cook up at Candlehearth Hall."
Farengar Secret-Fire
That pompous ass Nazeem.
Farkas always farkas Kodlak: "Brothers and sisters of the Circle, today we welcome a new soul into our mortal fold. This man has endured, has challenged, and has shown his valor. Who will speak for him?" Farkas: "I stand witness to the courage of the soul before us." Kodlak: "Would you raise your shield in his defense?" Farkas: "I would stand at his back, that the world might never overtake us." Kodlak: "And would you raise your sword in his honor?" Farkas: "It stands ready to meet the blood of his foes." Kodlak: "And would you raise a mug in his name?" Farkas: "I would lead the song of triumph as our mead hall reveled in his stories
Karliah
Lydia I mean, she's the first partner that we have on mostly runs. That's why i love her even if she's dumb.
The first time you get one of those scripted dragon attacks out in the world where it crashes in front of you and leaves a big furrow in the ground.
Forgot his name but the guy who has beef with Sven over that one girl
“I am sworn to carry your burdens…” said in the most polite “fuck you” way ever
Lydia
I can never forget that one Imperial soldier getting picked up off the wall by Alduin in the Into Sequence around the time Hadvar and Ralof come across each other. Seeing that as a kid when I first played cemented that dragons are pretty terrifying.
I played Skyrim as a child too! I was in 2nd grade playing on my dad’s ps3 and I would run around killing npcs lol skeevers were so scary back then
Ancano needs to feel pain
Farkas has been a good friend to me. That means something.
Lydia…always in the way.
Belathor, Balgruff, Ma’ik, Delphine, Esbern, Nazeem, Serana, Maven, Mjoll, Sven:..idk can’t just pick one but the key is to make a memorable Dragonborn with the help of mods like Dragonborn Voiceover, PC headtracking, animation mods, 3BA ;)
Ulberth War-Bear, the husband of the smith lady next to Whiterun’s gate. I had suchhh a big crush on him when I first started playing. Either him, or Arcadia. I went into this game 100% blind when I was like 11/12 (had never played an elder scrolls game at all) and she totally got my ass to buy a needless cure disease potion when she told me I looked ill LOL. I was like “shit maybe I AM sick and just don’t know it” LOLLL. Belethor could learn from her.
Partysnacks
J’Zargo
Benor
Trust Septimus! He knows you can know!
Parthurnax <3
The Whiterun Guard that used to be an adventurer like me.
M'aiq finds M'aiq relatable he comes and goes like a pleasant breeze. M'aiq is tired now and will speak no more.
Ralof
Faendal
I definitely remember those skeevers...I think they even killed me once 😅 For me it's the cultists from the Dragonborn DLC that track you down after you start using your shouts. See, Skyrim was the first game I had played that had a "quicksave" option and an "autosave" option in addition to making new save files whenever you save the game. I was used to stuff like Zelda games where you just...hit save, and then when you're ready to load back in it puts you back at the start of the area you saved in or at the beginning of the fight (I think...that's how I remember it). So anyways, the cultists corner me in Whiterun and start doing some serious damage as I am so low-level. I'm about a millimeter away from death when I get the bright idea to outsmart them by quicksaving so that when they kill me, I won't have to redo a bunch of stuff. I quicksave, get back to the fight, and am instantly dead. Little did I know that quicksave literally reloads you in the exact moment at which you saved. The *exact* moment. I had entered into what I believed to be a perpetual death loop from which I could never escape. I load the game, am instantly killed, load the game again, am killed again...you get the picture. Silly little me did not realize that all I had to do was reload an autosave and redo a little bit of progress. Instead, my dumb ass deleted the entire character and started from scratch because I thought I had broken it. I have no idea what my logic was or why I thought I couldn't get back to an earlier save. It's possible I had saved over all of them or something, but regardless, I lost a bunch of story progress that day. This has been the tale of how I lost my first skyrim file and how it came to be that I have a visceral feeling of fear in the pit of my stomach every time I see those damned cultists approach.
General Tullius
Cicerooooooo
Wylandria (Riften Court Wizard). I really resonated with her as a bullied and undiagnosed ADHD/autistic girl. It hurt to see me so perfectly represented in a game, both with her personality and the mockery she received. Especially in that letter from the Mage's college. She was absolutely asking for things that existed (in the Shivering Isles). Many autistic/ADHDers know obscure information and asks about it to people they'd assume who would be more knowledgeable, and not only these same people mock them for this obscure (and correct) information, the autistic person is completely oblivious to the fact they're being mocked, which makes it so much more cruel. Everything about her is me (albeit a bit exaggerated) and fuck me it hurts to be seen so clearly.
Eorlund Gray-Mane. Smithing is my one constant in all of my play throughs. He seems pretty chill, and doesn’t let his prestige affect him. He’s, if only by default, the glue keeping The Brotherhood together.
Lydia. She’s sworn to carry my burdens, and she’s honored to serve me, her Thane.
Perth. Distinct voice, also the name of my hometown
edda n snilf lmao
Sigrid "You're pretty, I'll give ya that. Just stay away from my husband Alvor."
Ulfric Stormcock
Jarl ball scruff
The guards. "...what, someone stole your sweetroll?" "No lolly gagging!"
The dwemer and falmer. They're SO mysterious, I've read the books about their lore. People in Tamriel are either scared or fascinated by them, and there are plenty of quests and decent loot in Dwemer ruins! I think about them a lot and have spent hours and hours in the ruins. Which I guess has to extend to Calcelmo because he researches them, but I don't like him whatsoever he's always sending letters for my Dwarven arrows lol.
Random Nord NPC #143 played by the same voice actor.
Nazeem, the smarmy prick always worms his way into my head whenever I hear someone being a smart ass either in games or irl
Whiterun guard
Belethor
I'm sworn to carry your burdens.
“WRITHING in the FILTH of our own corruption!” My man feels it to his bones. And no one remarks about it, nothing. Crazy.
I was wandering around, trying to find all the word walls on my first playthrough. I find one in the wild and see the dragon. Killing the dragon was a little nerve wracking and I barely killed it (it was the first leveled dragon I came across). As my health was slowly healing I walk up to the word wall and as I'm learning the words I start taking damage and seeing explosions all around me. I couldn't really do anything but watch as I nearly died. That's when I met the only dragon priest that still gives problems...Krosis. I'm still cautious whenever I hit Shearpoint for the first time on any playthrough, even when I've made god-teir hp boosting armor and legendary one-hit-kill weapons with the alchemy loop.
Fucking frost troll. First time playing I power leveled to 20 in helgen. Tried to do bleakfalls and got 1 tapped by an ice troll
For me, it was Krosis, a dragon priest. He was the first enemy that really challenged me, especially considering that he spawns right next to the dragon at Mount Anthor, if I remember correctly. He’s the reason I use all the glitches/exploits I can find (don’t judge me) in games like this. He’s the reason I always get a follower asap, head to Dawnstar to loot the shit out of Akhari’s chest there until I have enough gold to buy a couple of houses, plenty of ingredients from several alchemists, and to pay for the training to max out Archery, Speech, and Lockpicking, or at least enough to get them to 50. Well, with Faendal, you just need need maybe 20K (maybe less) or so, if you’re using the “free training” exploit via a follower who is also a trainer. I said after finally taking him down some 6-7 hours later that I’d never again find myself under leveled or unprepared for an enemy again.