Skyrim Easter Eggs

[Kyle1527]

So I just went into when I saw a guy named Horik Halfhand, this must be a reference to the Qhorin Halfhand, Lord of the Shadow tower in A Song of Ice and Fire. Any one else find any other easter eggs?

 

[hittite]

Kind of ironic after the whole lawsuit thing.

 

[Thunder2221]

Howsabout half the towns being half the name of a place from George Martin? I mean the first two places (generally) that you go to add together to make Riverrun.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

One of the songs a lute-playing bard plays is the Daggerfall shop music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8EaL1Zm6w].

 

[TitanAtlas]

Kind of ironic after the whole lawsuit thing.

Notch vs Bethesda over the Scrools thinga-majig?

 

[Kyle1527]

Howsabout half the towns being half the name of a place from George Martin? I mean the first two places (generally) that you go to add together to make Riverrun.

Hahaha I never actually noticed that. There must be tons of Asoiaf Easter eggs. Apparently there are dire wolves in the game.

 

[Linc_101]

The area that the Companion trial takes you has a bunch of those undead zombie dudes, along with a crap ton of embalming tools. I forget the name verbatum, but I believe its Dustman something-or-other. I think that's a reference to the Dustman area in Planscape: Torment.

 

[marioruggerio]

the epic return of M'aiq the Liar! =)

 

[the spud]

I haven't played it yet, but I remember a chamber in a cave from morrowind being named "Kefka Burial" after FF6's antagonist.

 

[heavy-metal-ink]

Not sure if it counts, but I found an Orc warrior stood on the side of a mountain 'waiting for someone to end his life' - a nod back to Umbra from Morrowind maybe?

 

[odin792]

Not really a huge one, but brotherhood i like how you can summon the spirit of Lucien Lachance to fight for you

 

[New Frontiersman]

Some of the guards dialogue is "Let me guess... someone stole your sweet roll?", referencing your birthday party in Fallout 3.

This could also be referencing the character creation process in Arena, Daggerfall, and Morrowind where one of the class selection questions was:,

While in town the baker gives you a sweetroll. Delighted you take it into an alley to enjoy, only to be intercepted by a gang of three other kids your age. The leader demands the sweetroll, or else he and his friends will beat you and take it. Do you:

a) Drop the sweetroll and step on it, then get ready for the fight?
b) Give him the sweetroll now without argument, knowing that later this afternoon you will have all your friends with you and can come and take whatever he owes you?
c) Act like you're going to give him the sweetroll but at the last minute throw it in the air, hoping that they'll pay attention to it long enough for you to get a shot in on the leader?

Depending on what you answered, the class that the game recommended for you was different.

 

[darklor123]

There is a cave just southeast of Whiterun that when you enter you are greeted by an NPC with the surname "the blind" (I forget his full name). It turns out he actually is blind. If you look at the book he is reading, you will see that it is a bunch of blank pages with no actual words. Blind people: 0 Bethesda: 1

 

[Nedoras]

There's a small dungeon called Redoran's Retreat, which is a reference to how House Redoran retreated from Vvardenfell after the Daedra attack. There's also a book sitting on the Northern coast, near a skeleton holding a flag, titled "The Knights of the Nine".

 

[aceman67]

There is a cave just southeast of Whiterun that when you enter you are greeted by an NPC with the surname "the blind" (I forget his full name). It turns out he actually is blind. If you look at the book he is reading, you will see that it is a bunch of blank pages with no actual words. Blind people: 0 Bethesda: 1

Or it could be in Braille. Maybe the world of Mundus invented it thousands of years before our society did.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Howsabout half the towns being half the name of a place from George Martin? I mean the first two places (generally) that you go to add together to make Riverrun.

Hahaha I never actually noticed that. There must be tons of Asoiaf Easter eggs. Apparently there are dire wolves in the game.

Actually, the Dire Wolf was a real animal. They were basically just really big (like, 5 feet long and 110-170 pounds) cousins of the Gray Wolf, with some other small taxonomic differences. They went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Besides that, they've always been popular RPG monsters. Really, if you look back far enough you can find just about any animal you can think of has had the word "Dire" put in front of its name as an excuse to make it bigger.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

There was someone who told me, "It's a secret to everybody." I think it was Farkas of the Companions.

 

[bobmus]

My favourite is that if you stand near the guards in Markarth they might warn you

'No lollygagging'

Go to jail and ask one of the guys what he's in for:

'Murder, theft, arson, murder... and lollygagging.'

I laughed.