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** After careful consideration, ''this'' troper went the extra mile and gave her life purpose by {{spoiler|inducting her into the Blades.}} Her reaction afterwards, a combination of wonder, joy, and excitement, was the true [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* {{spoiler|Tullius' death}} at the end of the Stormcloak questline. {{spoiler|After seeing his beloved Empire, Tamriel's last bastion of hope against the Thalmor Dominion, crumple around him, utterly powerless to stop it, he can only watch as you and Ulfric butcher his [[The Lancer|Lancer]] and men like animals before being captured and set to be executed himself. His final words, in a voice full of sorrow and pain, are to lay into Ulfric for essentially handing the Dominion their victory. Ulfric's response? Ignore him and casually order the executioner to get on with it. [[Sarcasm Mode|Way to go, Dragonborn]].}}
** {{spoiler|Ulfric's death}} isn't too shabby either. {{spoiler|He gets to watch as the rebellion he has devoted years to crumble all due to the actions of one person, who also happens to be a hero to all Nords, the same Nords he's been fighting for. Imperial forces close in on his lifelong home of Windhelm, and then, none other than the Dragonborn enters, flanked by Tullius. He's already lost the war, but ''damn'' [[Do Not Go Gentle|if he isn't going to make you fight for it]]. And then, after watching his friend and companion [[The Dragon|Galmar Stone-Fist]] butchered before his eyes, he is defeated and about to be executed. In a voice describable only as that of a broken man, his last request is, [[
** I won't lie. I felt absolutely awful after killing {{spoiler|Ulfric}}, and it compelled me to do something: instead of [[Kick the Dog|looting his corpse]] (standard operating procedure for dead enemies), I pulled him up so that he was sitting on his throne. Then I took out the sword I'd been using for over a hundred days, my best weapon, which had seen me through countless battles, and laid it gently across his lap before turning around and walking out the door. ''Krosis.''
* A note found on a bandit's corpse east of Whiterun can leave you feeling horribly guilty. The note is from the bandit's father, begging him to stop running with the wrong crowd and that he'll get in serious trouble one day if he keeps being a criminal. He had no idea how right he was....
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** It gets worse. Braig says if his daughter had lived, she'd be twenty-three. He's also been in the mine the longest, aside from Madanach. Borkul the Beast has been imprisoned for twelve years. That means Braig's daughter couldn't have been more than ''eleven years old'' when the Silver-Bloods and the Jarl had her executed.
** When I escaped the mine, I decided that the Forsworn had to be wiped out immediately after {{spoiler|Thonar Silver-Blood}} was killed. My primary target was Madanach, but I also had to make sure the rest of the escaping Forsworn were dealt with as well, lest they bring further harm to the innocent people of the Reach. They were shocked and caught entirely off-guard by the betrayal, but the only Forsworn who actually ''hurt'' me to harm was Braig. When I came upon him, fighting off two Markarth guards, I stopped my rampage and spared him, moving on to Madanach and dealing with him before making my escape.
* While wandering the roads one day, this troper came across a small campsite with a large saber cat standing in the middle. After killing the cat, I looked around the camp and found two dead bodies, a man and a woman, who had obviously been torn apart by the cat. Then I found the woman's journal which told their story. The man and the woman were [[Star
* In the Mind of Madness quest, you'll meet Sheogorath who is filled with as much mirth and hammyness as you can imagine, asking you to clear out the mind of Pelagius. It's a fun and clever quest...But when you stop and see just how fucked up Pelagius' mind was, it can be quite harsh. Especially when watching the manifestation of his self-esteem get beaten down.
** Doubles as a weird sort of [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Moment of Heartwarming]] for Sheogorath. He's the Prince of Madness, but enlists your help in making Pelagius (comparatively) sane.
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** This troper also accidentally killed Lydia, and didn't realize it until I'd already fast traveled a few places and overwritten the last autosave I had where she was still alive. The most recent save I had other than that was at Saarthal, probably about 12 hours before. Cruel as it was, I didn't want to go through all those hours of gameplay again. So I carried her body out to the river and let it drift off. It took some work to keep her from just washing up on random shores, but I eventually managed to let go of her in exactly the right spot. She floated off with the current, just as the sun was coming down in the distance.
** Another Lydia story. This One gave her allegiance to the Stormcloaks. When it was time to attack Whiterun, this One did not want Lydia to be harmed. This One ordered Lydia to follow her during the invasion. It was a success and Lydia survived, but when Jarl Balgruuf the Greater gave his dissapointment, saying "You? A Stormcloak? I thought you were better than this!" the ackward positions made it look like Balgruuf was speaking to Lydia, ei. the woman who he hired into his service! A few days later and during a dragon hunt, this One could not find Lydia anywhere. Returning to the Whiterun house, this one found Lydia sitting in her room and [[Drowning My Sorrows|drinking mead]]. (Yes, simple game mechanic, but given the context...) [[Mood Whiplash|This One felt like cheering up Lydia]] by [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|marrying her]].
* This troper once fought off a dragon just outside Windhelm, only to have the locals become hostile and charge after me. Confused, since I had no bounty and no desire to acquire one, I ran off and hid until the commotion died down. It was only the next day that I realized exactly why they were angry with me; next to the dragon's skeleton was the body of Nilsine Shatter-Shield, [[My God, What Have I Done?|apparently killed by one of my stray fireballs]]. Knowing what would happen once her mother heard of her death, [[Must Make Amends|I reloaded from an earlier save]]. I don't know which is worse; being killed by the Dark Brotherhood, or by sheer accident.
* During the Butcher Quest, if you did not correctly deduce who the killer was or if you were not quick enough to catch him before he killed again, another young girl dies. This time, however, she was an elf, not a nord. Given the racist mindset of Windhelm, the guards and people are more concerned with the killer still on the loose (if you accused the wizard) or just plain don't care about her at all (her corpse will not despawn, but no one will pay mind to it after the completion of the quest). This troper went through 3 tries to ensure that the killer was dead before he could commit the deed to avert this one.
* This troper was wandering the area around Riften when he came to a small cave. Looking around I found it to be pretty empty except for a journal that explained that the author had been on hard times and found work with a friend who had discovered a gold mine only for the mine to be dry, he goes away for a few days and returns to find that his friend has ran off and abandoned him. Just as I was about to leave I decided to checked the place again. Behind a waterfall there is a few gold veins and a skeleton crushed at the waist by some fallen rocks. A double tearjerker; The writer never finding his fortune and the friend dead and disgraced.
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