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* I think I've figured out why some guards seem to follow {{spoiler|Sithis}} after you've completed {{spoiler|the Dark Brotherhood}}, yet still attack you when you attack them: They do not follow Sithis at all. They're only saying {{spoiler|"Hail Sithis"}} because they're likely thinking, "Okay, if we just tell him/her what he/she wants to hear, he/she won't try to kill us."

** Or they simply [[Fridge Brilliance|know that whatever they throw at you won't have a prayer of actually doing the job]]. If they're actually Dark Brotherhood confederates, they need to keep their covers, and that means treating the Dragonborn as any other guard would.

** It actually goes both ways - the leftmost of each branch is highly useful to the left one as well: smithing is great for mages who want to make their own equipment instead of buying it, same as enchantment; light armor is a perfectly legitimate substitute for heavy armor that warriors can wear; and illusion would be highly useful for sneaking.

* After playing this for a while, you may notice that you can't fast travel to any of the Hold capitals, even though you know where they are, but in Oblivion, you not only knew, but you could fast travel to the main cities. I wondered this for awhile, until I realized: You're coming across the border into Skyrim. Who knows how long you have been in Cyrodill for, perhaps never once going into Skyrim. That only accentuates the fact that this is an unknown land to the player. Kudos, Bethesda.

** Or Skyrim is just like that in the first place.

* According to a book in-game on the Elder Scrolls, there are four kinds of Elder Scroll readers: The first, completely uninitiated, who just see a weird chart with formations that resemble stellar constellations. The second, which knows just enough about reading the Scrolls to know what they mean but lack the training to receive it, are struck blind immediately, and might have received some fragment of past, present, or future insight from the Scroll. The third are the properly learned readers, usually Moth Priests, and have their eyesight decay over time while they take in a much more controlled form of the knowledge within the Scroll. The fourth are those who have had their Penultimate Reading, where they divine that their next reading will be their last and they'll be permanently blind. So... what category does the Dragonborn go in? At first, it seems that it'd be a combination of Category 1 and 3: the Dragonborn does not receive any special knowledge, but nonetheless temporarily loses his/her vision. Why this strange effect? Simple: the book only takes mortal readers into account. The Dragonborn is a mortal that has the soul of a creature that exists outside of time.

* The version of the Ebony Blade found in the game is a mess compared to the version found in ''Oblivion''. It is classified as a two-handed weapon and increases the Two-Handed skill, yet it is governed by the One-Handed skill and perks. Killing your friends is supposed to restore the Blade, yet the only thing that changes after hitting the requirement is that it the Drain Health enchantment is stronger. The weapon's overall damage for being made from Ebony is crap. Even after maxing One-Handed to 100 and taking the increased damage perks from said skill tree still makes it crap compared to some of your other equipment. You can't reinforce or sharpen it period, even with the Arcane Smithing perk. Some fans are either confused or in a minor uproar due to this. Mephala hirself tells you after enough kills that the blade has reached it's former glory, but not that it has reached it's full potential. The damning thing? Said Daedric Prince is the ''God of Lying and Deceit.'' The Ebony Blade is ''supposed'' to be this shitty and convoluted to the player in the meta. In the lore, its wielders are ultimately deceived into driving themselves insane by massacring their closest friends and relatives in a bogus attempt to make the weapon reach its "full potential".

* Many have called the Khajiiti [[Hypocrite|hypocrites]] for conforming to the exact negative stereotypes they're complaining about. But who's to say that the ambient atmosphere of racism and distrust didn't actually chase off all of the honest Khajiit to begin with?