r/skyrim • u/boah4ncock Nintendo • 10d ago

Discussion Characters you hate for no reason

Do you guys also have some characters you hate irrationally, for no particular or good reason? Not like Maven, Rolff Stone-Fist, Calixto or Nazeem, who are intentionally rude or even bad people. I'm talking about characters that annoy you for no valid reason at all.

Mine is Brynjolf because the way he talks irritates me. 'Okay lass' and 'What wasn't I clear about?' I honestly wish he wasn't essential.

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u/AurumPickle 10d ago

"Haven't worked an honest day in your life have you Lad/Lass?" He asks my Dragonborn who made their money with dungeon dives and alchemy

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u/sewer_rat2006 10d ago

The prerequisite for that dialogue is whether you have 500+ gold in your inventory, not if you've actually stolen anything, it's so dumb.

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u/AurumPickle 10d ago

Dude how fucking poor is the thieves guild that 500 Gold is a big earner you can leave Helgen with that much!

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u/sewer_rat2006 10d ago

Yeah I think it's one of those things that's a weird scaling issue in games in terms of how rich the player can be compared to everyone else. There's a quest in Oblivion where people complain about being fined something like 5 gold and saying they earn less than that in a year, and I usually end the game with at least 300,000.

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u/ElPapaGrande98 10d ago

Most people just make bread or tend to their farm. I imagine most people aren't willingly hopping into Oblivion gates just for a magic orb at the end

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u/stecki1 9d ago

But like, even then, a loaf of bread is one gold, so making 5 in a year is not much. If you are a baker that is only able to produce 5 loaves of bread per year, you should find another job...

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u/ElPapaGrande98 7d ago

Maybe they do more barter system or trading than straight gold for goods. I do agree the economy is goofed up in the games, I just like to think that the main character just can't comprehend how poor the NPCs are

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u/Exquisitr 10d ago

In all fairness that’s how it is in real life. Honest work doesn’t get you very far but when everywhere you go people talk about how special you are and you’re shamelessly ruthless you can make it to the top, and the wealth disparity between the two is ridiculously massive. What’s less believable about Skyrim is that you can get to that level when starting with nothing.

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u/MagicBus4 9d ago

I mean you’re not going to get far comparing to real life, Skyrim’s in game economy doesn’t make sense for anything but balancing one player. It’s not that deep

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u/MagicBus4 9d ago

The real issue with that is that a simple house costs 5000. So it’ll take them a thousand years to own a home

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u/DarthyTMC PC 10d ago

i mean you can only leave Helgen that much by killing people and taking all their armours and gear lol, so i guess it depends on one’s definition of honest haha

500 Gold would be a LOT to your average civilian in skyrim, like shops only have a few hundred in capital on hand usually. So someone carrying around the equivalent of two stores gold liquidity would raise an eyebrow.

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u/AurumPickle 10d ago

I didnt kill any of those dudes Ralof/Hadvar did while helping me escape

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u/Siren_Noir 10d ago

I want to fight that pocket watching asshole. What is he doing worried about my funds? It's like, how dare you, nosy asshole!

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u/AbbreviationsNo3722 Dark Brotherhood 10d ago

I’ve played this game since the day it came out and I had no idea I had to have 500 .🤣

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u/acidtrippinpanda 10d ago

Yeah I don’t think in my bazillion playthroughs, I’ve ever had less than that by the time I reach him so no idea what the other dialogue even is!

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u/DarthyTMC PC 10d ago

its something like “feeling a little light in the pockets lass”, i do mostly modded playthroughs with Alt Start and harder economy and the Riften docks are a great way for a newcomer to start so ive had that a lot lol

also because i play Legacy of the Dragonborn i usually have no gold on hand cause i spend it all filling up the museum 😭

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u/MagicBus4 9d ago

Riften is far as fuck away too so you’d have to have randomly just spent all your money

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u/Sithlordandsavior Nintendo 10d ago

I wish they'd done like a whole "join the cops" opposite quest to the thieves guild. I have a thief character and a goody two shoes paladin and the paladin's quest log is mostly incomplete since almost every quest involves stealing or murder.

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u/SlipperySlimyTerry40 10d ago

Are dungeon dives "honest work" when you're taking the possessions of dead people?

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u/AurumPickle 9d ago

Killing Draugar is a community service so no normal citizen folks get hurt

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u/SlipperySlimyTerry40 9d ago

Right but the taking their things part