Skryrim: Random Facts,Questions, and Help.

[Anjel]

Another fact; a lot of guards in nearly all cities used to be adventurers like you. But they all got an arrow in the knee

Haha! Yes, I was thinking the bandits are extremely skilled with bows to be hitting all these guards in the knee. I keep trying for headshots and hitting the wall behind though

 

[Thyunda]

So, as it turns out, as soon as a character loses relevance to quests, they can die. I finished the Companion quests, and after losing Lydia, the housecarl, to bandits in Swindler's Den, I took Vilkas along for a stroll. Man, he took on a dragon while I fought its brother. I can hear him now... "Today is the day you die, dragon!"
He survived that encounter. Then I made the mistake of investigating the legend of Red Eagle. Turned out Red Eagle didn't want to be woken up, and while I cleared the room of skeletons, he took his hangover out on poor Vilkas.

I don't actually know how it works. Can they be knocked over a certain amount of times before it's fatal, or do certain enemies just attack them while they're down to kill them?

I actually don't want any more Companions to accompany me, in case they all die and can't give me quests anymore.

 

[Psycho78]

When you have a horse having a companion is awkward. They can't ride with you, and I don't think they can have a horse. So they get gradually left behind. They also get left behind when you drop down off rock and ledges and such.

However they always reappear behind me in a short time. I suspect they teleport behind your back. I wonder if you keep spinning in circles, maybe you can catch them appearing.

 

[Ickorus]

If you pickpocket and then kill a bandit he can send thugs to get you from beyond the grave.

 

[TheSaw]

Anybody know where i can find some invisible and paralysis spells?

Somewhat bumping this because I'd also like to know as well, invisibility was my favourite spell in Oblivion.

The spell system is tricky. You need to reach a certain skill to buy new spells. For invisibility you need a skill of 75 (then just buy it from the vendor at the college). To level up: cast courage on a random npc until you reach the skill ^^.

Edit: Neat profile pic Oo.

I did think of this because I knew to get Thrall Frost, flame and lightning atronachs you need to be a certain conjuration to buy them, but yeah, thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[Mojo]

Can anyone please give me a step by step guide on how to
buy the house in solitude?
Ive gogled it but never found a clear answer.

Another fact; a lot of guards in nearly all cities used to be adventurers like you. But they all got an arrow in the knee

Also: A guard might get nervous, a man approaches with his weapon drawn.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I recruited a Khajiit companion named Kharjo, he's one of Khajiits that wanders around the game's map. You get him after doing a quest for him and I have a question: Where does he show up after you dismiss him from your party? I found the group of Khajiits again, but he wasn't there.

 

[craftomega]

I recruited a Khajiit companion named Kharjo, he's one of Khajiits that wanders around the game's map. You get him after doing a quest for him and I have a question: Where does he show up after you dismiss him from your party? I found the group of Khajiits again, but he wasn't there.

If you own a home try there, some of the companions make it there home. THEY EAT YOUR FOOD!!!

 

[AlternatePFG]

I recruited a Khajiit companion named Kharjo, he's one of Khajiits that wanders around the game's map. You get him after doing a quest for him and I have a question: Where does he show up after you dismiss him from your party? I found the group of Khajiits again, but he wasn't there.

If you own a home try there, some of the companions make it there home. THEY EAT YOUR FOOD!!!

Nah, I checked there. It's not a big house either, I'm still using the one in Whiterun.

 

[Mekado]

Quick question, does skyrim have a large city?

None of them are big, compared to vivec in morrowind or the imperial city in oblivion ... the ones I have found are villages at most

No not really, they are all the sizes of small towns or smaller.... One of them looks like a wee little fishing village.

I had two left to explore but I wont waste my time now, I was hoping one would be huge so there would be like 10 traders all really close to each other.

Instead I have to instant transmission my ass all over skyrim looking for traders, who all seem to be really broke!

There's no huge cities no (imperial city/Vivec size) the biggest would probably be Windhelm or solitude which both have 4 or 5 traders...

Also, if you're like me and got very annoyed that the game dosen't keep your custom settings (seriously, who uses alt as sprint ??? shift is sprint!) you need to run Skyrim as admin, else windows dosen't keep the settings.

 

[craftomega]

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If you own a home try there, some of the companions make it there home. THEY EAT YOUR FOOD!!!

Nah, I checked there. It's not a big house either, I'm still using the one in Whiterun.

Then he is on the road sooooo..... your fucked. Sorry.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Is their a chapel of Akatosh( besides the one in Solitude) in one of the cities in Skyrim? Because seriously if anyone is going to settle the whole ALduin/Akatosh thing I think I would find it there.

 

[Jack Rascal]

Raldbthar is a horrid place. Horrid, I say!!

It has so much loot in it that you will be crying halfway through as your pockets are bursting. I had to dump so much stuff that I don't think I'll ever get over it. Sigh, and I'm too lazy to go back to my house and back again... And it doesn't help that I killed the dragon and Krosis before I entered

Or maybe I'm too obsessed on selling all the items I come across. Yeah, that could be it.

 

[Oliver Twist]

Does anyone know how to become the Thane of Morthal? The Jarl told me to complete 3 tasks but I can only seem to find two.

Also something I noticed. Use a shout in every town you find. Pretty often a courier will show up with a message from a "friend" from that town that gives you the location of a new word.

I haven't done them all, but there is the deliver the letter one, the burned house one and the dragon one. Also do you mean every town or every major town like the nine major cities?

Huh, I havent found one to deliver a letter. I suppose my search continues.

Well the couriers tend to find me in the Thanes but I think all my letters have been from the smaller towns like Ivarstead and such.

I also am having trouble here in Morthal. I need the three quests, but I don't know what they are. I'm done the Vampire one, which doesn't count, does it?; the letter from the Jarl's daughter to the Priestess; and ... I killed the dragon that showed up when I did in the town...

Any help is appreciated. I'm worried that a mudcrab or dragon killed Jorgun, of jorgun and lami, and he was supposed to give me the quest...

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Oww...

I have a question.

Is their anyway to worship a daedra god, like, atcually worship him or is there only the quests like in Oblivion?

I wanna worship Vile, what can I say, Barbas is awesome!

....I should restart that quest and keep Barbas....


Hehehehehehehehehehe.

 

[Aethren]

Not every dungeon can be completed as soon as you find it, do not assume the enemies inside will be low-level like dungeons in Oblivion were. Fighting a Dragon Priest at level 12 is not fun. This also applies to side-quests.

NPCs you escort places will pick up the weapons and armor of slain enemies if it is an upgrade for them. Took a pilgrim to the Eldergleam and he was outfitted in bandit chief armor by the end of it.

Followers, no matter how far away they are, will teleport to you any time you move into a new cell, as long as they're still alive.

 

[Agayek]

So, does anyone else's PC version of Skyrim (downloaded off Steam) tend to just close on you? Mine used to do it whenever I hit R to loot all but now it's doing it at random times. Downright annoying.

It's a Bethesda game, you have to expect random CTDs for the first month or so of the game's life. I've had something like a dozen of them in 20-30 hours of play, so I'm not too terribly fussed by it, but it does get annoying to randomly crash the game.

What really annoys me is that if I tab out, I can't get back into the game without some shenaniganery. 'tis rather aggravating.

 

[Agayek]

Oww...

I have a question.

Is their anyway to worship a daedra god, like, atcually worship him or is there only the quests like in Oblivion?

I wanna worship Vile, what can I say, Barbas is awesome!

....I should restart that quest and keep Barbas....


Hehehehehehehehehehe.

There's only quests. I've done a handful of them, though I refuse to do Boethiah's quest. It is way too abhorrent for me to even start the thing

 

[Agayek]

I don't actually know how it works. Can they be knocked over a certain amount of times before it's fatal, or do certain enemies just attack them while they're down to kill them?

I actually don't want any more Companions to accompany me, in case they all die and can't give me quests anymore.

From what I've been able to deduce, companion characters cannot be killed by NPCs, only incapacitated.

What can happen however is that your AOE attacks can hit them while they are incapacitated, and that's what actually kills them. If you just stand there and let your companion do their thing, eventually they will win. Guaranteed. The problem is you surviving that long.

What's really annoying is when I use Storm Call to try and hit a dragon to get the stupid thing to agro, all of the lightning hits my companion. For whatever silly reason, dragons are apparently immune to Storm Call and can't be hit by the randomly targeted bolts of lightning.

 

[Agayek]

1. How do you parry when your other hand is occupied? For instance, I have a sword in my right hand and a spell in my left. How do I parry with my sword? Likewise, how do I parry when I'm dual wielding? If the answer is "You don't!", that's just retarded...

2. Assuming that I can't parry unless I have a 2H weapon or a Shield, is there any benefit to using a single 1H weapon? Any at all? Also, is dual wielding worth it? I know I can attack with both weapons at once, but it seems a bit... gimmicky to me. Wouldn't I be better of with a 2H weapon which would let me block attacks as well?

1) You can't block or parry when dual wielding anything save shields.

2) The benefit to dual wielding is crazy fast attack speed. I use a pair of legendary quality Daedric swords and I can attack something like 4-5 times in a second. Double that with the Elemental Fury shout. It does a frankly ridiculous amount of damage. It's not as good as 2h weapons against high-armor targets (armor is flat damage reduction as best I can tell), but against everything else DW is superior.