Does the dog die?
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Video Game • 2011 • Adventure
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Anonymous
Dogs can be killed, but it is not forced in game.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
35 supporters
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Solanum
There are several children in Skyrim that can be adopted because their parents are dead / gone
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Is an animal abandoned?
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meshurok
A dog is abandoned after its owner dies.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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wednesday
There is a man in Rorikstead who is abusive to his two daughters. He isn’t Essential though, so you can kill him and adopt his daughters.
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Is someone stalked?
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Anonymous
In the Thieves Guild questline you have to stalk Gulum Ei, an Argonian dockworker.
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MsWatermelon12
There is a child, Sissel, in Rorikstead that talks about how her father and sister both beat her
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hildahildahi
There is a quest where a child hires you to kill an orphanage he was staying in because the woman that runs the orphanage was abusive towards the children, though he never does anything to her himself. That's the closest I can think of
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Boopers
Daedra frequently lie to other characters in order to get what they want.
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starlyaj
In Riften, there is an orphanage in which there is an old lady seen abusing children verbally, and implied to abuse them physically too.
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Addiction
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starlyaj
Skooma is a common drug in Skyrim, and there are many quests involving skooma addicts. In the Redwater Den added by the Dawnguard DLC, there is a dead khajiit bandit who died from skooma overdose.
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Is there addiction?
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QuintusHazard
A few characters are addicted to alcohol, and a few are addicted to the drug Skooma - one optional side quest has you retrieving some Skooma for an addict who is experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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starlyaj
There are many drunk NPCs in Skyrim that spend their septims on ale and mead, and often ask the player for some money.
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
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starlyaj
Horses are common in Skyrim and are almost always killable. (You can kill Shadowmere but she respawns at her death place after a while) and in Helgen, a dragon is shown to kill a horse in the middle of the town.
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starlyaj
There are many other animals in Skyrim such as chickens, wolves, foxes, hawks, and etc. Some of them are programmed to be killed in certain events, and some NPCs will be seen hunting them.
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Are animals abused?
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imbalancedMortician
It depends on whether you consider wolf fighting rings to be abuse. The quests concerning these rings are entirely optional but are easy to stumble upon in normal gameplay.
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Lolaf
Some bandit/enemy camps double as dog fighting rings, usually using wolves instead of the ingame dog models. It's not always easy to tell until you are outside the camp.
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Is there a dead animal?
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CarolineHumes
Many dead animals, even if you don't kill them yourself. You will stumble across them in the wilderness. They include sabrecats, bears, foxes, goats, and deer.
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Is an animal sad?
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wednesday
Dogs can make crying sounds and such, and animal enemies will likely be sad if they die
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Are rabbits harmed?
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mrluigiman
You can kill rabbits, on purpose for their meat or on accident from how weak they are and how they might get close to you when fighting, but there isn't any point where you are forced to.
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Does a cat die?
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starlyaj
There are no cats in Skyrim that resemble housecats, but there are giant sabrecats that are often hunted by NPCs but they don't resemble cats very much other than their paws and body structure.
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Does a pet die?
171 supporters
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wednesday
You can get dog followers that can die. In one of the Daedric Quests, someone’s dog can die.
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Does a dragon die?
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starlyaj
In Skyrim, dragons are a common enemy, and you are forced to kill many of them such as Alduin, the main antagonist.
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Are there spiders?
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starlyaj
Frostbite Spiders are a common enemy which are just giant, venomous spiders.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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wednesday
No alligators or crocs in Skyrim, but they exist in the lore of the Elder Scrolls games. You won’t have to see them or fight them in this game. There are the more lizardlike race of Argonians, who may look a bit like them to you, but they are not gators or crocs
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Are there snakes?
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MichaelLutz
In many puzzle rooms, you will encounter carved stones in which a snake may be on one of them.
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Are there sharks?
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mrluigiman
THere aren't any sharks, but there are piranha-like creatures called slaughterfish that appear in the water. They can be pretty much be avoided entirely however as they only appear in water.
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Are there bugs?
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Anonymous
Frostbite spiders, charus, charus hunters, are all enemies
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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minfordeeurd
At one side quest, you get poisoned
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Is there pedophilia?
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Travis
Babbette, a vampire permanently stuck in the form of a little girl, tells the story about leading a man who was attempting to lure her with candy to his death. That’s about all I can think.
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Is rape mentioned?
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wednesday
One character proudly calls himself “defiler of daughters” which could be seen as a mention of it (it’s unclear whether it’s consensual or not). Many mentions of rape in the Vampire lore. Molag Bal is a daedric prince of domination and rape. A few other mentions
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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keften
There is an early faction quest in which the main character will need to brawl with or otherwise intimidate/extort money from shopkeepers. There is also a child character who threatens to beat up other children, alongside verbally abusing them.
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Is someone restrained?
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Your hands are bound at the beginning of the game up until another character cuts you free. Multiple characters seen in the beginning of the game also have bound hands, and one is gagged. Several characters and/corpses can be found in cages. One character and many corpses are webbed up by spiders. During a Dark Brotherhood quest there are three characters whose hands have been bound and sacks are over their heads. When entering a specific city for the first time, a man with bound hands will be lead to be executed. There are many more examples...
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NellBGC
Sapphire in Riften mentions sexual abuse in her past
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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meshurok
A character has his mouth gagged in the beginning of the game.
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No but there is mention of rape offscreen
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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starlyaj
When opening Skyhaven Temple, the player cuts their hand with a dagger and uses the blood to open the door. This is all shown in an animation.
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Are any hands damaged?
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DoesDaDooDye
A person cuts their hand to open a door, and if you follow the Dark Brotherhood questline, you injure your hand to open doors by placing it on a pedestal, where it stabs up through your hand. You can also find bloodied and plain skeleton hands in various places like caves and dungeons, but it is unclear as to the fate of the owners.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Sibelos
Stealth kill animations involving daggers.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Marsyas767
Your character can drown underwater which is accompanied by breathing sound effects
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Is there decapitation?
41 supporters
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Sibelos
The intro shows someone getting decapitated, there is also a skill that allows you to decapitate enemies.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Tffr
Beyond vampires, there are straight up cannibals in Skyrim. One quest line involves the player eating someone, and you may play alongside Eola, a cannibal. There are also innumerable caves with body parts strewn about even on plates on tables, strongly implying cannibalism has taken place.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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MsWatermelon12
In the Dark Brotherhood quest line you are given the option to kill a woman via pushing a stone statue to fall on her, but it’s entirely avoidable
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Is someone choked?
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NathanStanley
There are multiple Spells in the game that imply choking, either by name, or by the effect they cause on enemies, such as "Hangman's Noose", "Choking Grasp", and "Vampiric Grip", additionally, during the Dawnguard DLC, Serana will lift Arch-Curate Vyrthur off the ground by his throat.
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Is someone burned alive?
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starlyaj
In some places, you can find burnt corpses. (Ex. In Helgen some burnt corpses are found, burnt to death by a dragon.)
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Is there body horror?
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Turning into a werewolf (mandatory for one optional questline) involves some limb stretching.
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Is there amputation?
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CaptainFrostyPaws
You can decapitate human enemies during specific kill screens.
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Does a head get squashed?
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t.learoyd
If you follow the Dark Brotherhood questline, there is a head-squashing.
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Is there a hanging?
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angeltoycole
there is no hanging in this game. there is, however, beheadings.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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NathanStanley
It is possible to drown by staying underwater for too long.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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NathanStanley
There are multiple points in the game during side quests that the player is rendered unconscious, such as the beginning of The Dark Brotherhood questline, where the Dragonborn is kidnapped while they sleep and taken to a shack in the middle of a swamp, the visual effect when waking up, blurred vision, implies you were knocked out to ensure your transportation.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Thomas Veil
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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MajesticAlpha
The ragdoll physics can convey such when they jitter. It's quite common for the Ragdoll physics to go crazy.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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ApathyAndroid
Sabre cat teeth are an alchemy ingredient that can be looted from enemy sabre cats, alchemists, or found in loot containers such as alchemist pouches. Mammoth tusks are a similar item, and although they are not an alchemy ingredient, they are requested by NPCs in a few minor quests as crafting materials. Horker tusks are also similar to mammoth tusks, but can be ignored entirely, as they can only be sold to general goods stores or used to craft optional mounted trophies if the player wishes to add that to a Hearthfire DLC home. There is no gore on the models, however, and looting an enemy's teeth or tusks does not affect its corpse in any way.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Mastermindhen
Giants' toes can be harvested for use in alchemy, although there is no animation or gore involved.
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Is someone tortured?
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starlyaj
The Thalmor can be found torturing Stormcloaks in their embassy, and in the Dark Brotherhood questline, you have the chance to torture some people until they give you money.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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5
It is possible for characters to fall down stairs when they are knocked backwards or killed.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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QuintusHazard
If the player jumps or falls from a high place, they can be killed by the fall damage. NPCs can also be "Fus-Ro-Dah"d from high places, which can kill them.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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QuintusHazard
Optional, but in the character creation screen, the player can choose to give their character scars over their eyes, which could imply mutilation depending on the player's personal lore for the character.
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Is someone stabbed?
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wednesday
Yes. You can fight with a variety of weapons, including swords and daggers and weapons of that kind of type, and they sometimes have like a stab motion attack animation. one of the killcam animations includes you stabbing the enemy (iirc)
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Is there excessive gore?
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DoesDaDooDye
Often in vampire hideouts, cannibal hideouts, Falmer caves, and in random caves. Blood, and bloodied skulls and hands. Various ingredients such as Human hearts, Dremora hearts, eye of sabrecat, spider eye, etc. include wet sound effects if you interact with them. If you follow a main questline with the Companions in Whiterun, killing the Glenmoril Witches in the Glenmoril Coven cave will allow you to acquire their heads. Once you loot them, you are stuck with their heads in your inventory until you fulfill the quest relating to them. Only then can you get rid of the extra heads. Looking at them in your inventory, flesh, bone, and spinal cord is visible.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
63 supporters
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Anonymous
As other comments show, there are storyline child deaths. In gameplay outside of quests however, children cannot be harmed outside of Player-made modifications to the game.
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Is a minor sexualized?
114 supporters
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NathanStanley
When first entering the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, the character Babette, a vampire who is hundreds of years old, but has the body of a child due to becoming one AS a child, tells a story about how she killed an old man who was very..."doting" on her, calling her beautiful and sweet, before she, as vampires do, fed on his blood.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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wednesday
You have to force a Follower to kinda sacrifice themselves in a Daedric Quest (Boethiah’s Calling).
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Does a major character die?
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wednesday
Yes. If you fight the Civil War, there are major, somewhat important characters that can die. A few major villains/antagonists die.. A few characters related to specific quest lines die as part of the story. Probably more that i’m forgetting (Counting the content added by the DLCs, as well as base game content)
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Does a non-human character die?
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meshurok
Several characters die that are fiction races.
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Does someone die?
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meshurok
Many characters die.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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wednesday
In a drug den added by Dawnguard DLC you can find a corpse surrounded by empty Skooma bottles (Skooma is a drug). Implied to have overdosed
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Family
Does a family member die?
21 supporters
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meshurok
Several characters mention family members that die.
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
At the first scene in Helgen you’ll see a boy and his father. Later in the game you can encounter said boy who will say that his father has died. You are also capable of killing the parents of some children
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Greenhart
Player character is kidnapped if they choose to kill grelod the kind.
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Does someone cheat?
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DoesDaDooDye
The player is capable of marrying more than one person in different cities as long as you own a house there... until the other finds out you are cheating on them. I haven't tested this, but have read about it.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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starlyaj
There are lots of ghosts found in Skyrim, as NPCs in quests are random encounters in dungeons. There's even children spirits in some quests.
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Are there jump scares?
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Marsyas767
Many of the dungeons are very dark and enemies can sometimes come out when you don't expect them too. This happened quite a lot to me however the game is usually pretty good about giving you audio cues for enemies.
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Is there a shower scene?
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mrluigiman
Not really, but there is a hot springs where NPCs wear underwear.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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DoesDaDooDye
Ponds, lakes, ocean, streams, rivers, and the ocassional cave water hole and rare water tunnel.
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Are there clowns?
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breehcnicdoll
Kind of. There is a jester.
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Is someone possessed?
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starlyaj
In a special dungeon, there are thralls kept by a man whose will is trapped inside of soul gems. If the soul gem is removed from the pedestal, the thralls will turn on their master and attempt to kill him for imprisoning them.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
24 supporters
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wednesday
In the Dragonborn DLC, inside of Tel Mithryn has a ceiling with many holes close together.
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mrluigiman
There is a dagger called "Mehrunes' Razor" but it looks like a normal dagger
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Are there mannequins?
0 supporters
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sidhera
There are wooden mannequins you can use to put gear on in houses you buy. There's a glitch that can cause them to move around like NPCs which can be scary but is patched in the mod USSEP.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
112 supporters
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starlyaj
The afflicted are a group of mortals cursed/blessed by the Daedric Prince of disease, Peryite. They have the ability to projectile vomit poison on opponents.
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Is someone eaten?
36 supporters
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wednesday
You can become a cannibal by doing a certain Daedric quest. Bosmer usually eat people in their lore but this isn’t mentioned in Skyrim
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Does someone spit?
11 supporters
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wednesday
Spitting is mentioned by a few characters, but nobody actually spits, AFAIK
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Is there audio gore?
1 supporters
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DoesDaDooDye
When you kill people and creatures, when others get killed by others and traps, and when you interact with wet ingredients such as hearts and eyeballs.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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meshurok
Prisons are depicted throughout the game. Some characters are arrested and the player can be arrested.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
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mrluigiman
You can learn new enchantments by destroying enchanted items you already own, some of these being unique ones given as rewards for quests or looted from enemies and dungeons. Some Daedric Quests allow for artifacts to be destroyed, altered, or sealed away.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
20 supporters
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DoesDaDooDye
No, but there is a Destruction power type that has to do with electricity, as well as some enchanted weapons with those abilities. You and others are able to attack and kill with electricity attacks.
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Are needles/syringes used?
32 supporters
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imbalancedMortician
There is a quest called Discerning The Transmundane in which blood of an extinct elf species is needed to open a box. You can synthesize the blood you need using blood from all the other elf species still alive, and the device used looks like a box made of four tubes with needles sticking out.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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eyesinthehills
Some places of worship are populated with comatose sick people being tended to by priests, but the resemblance to a hospital ends there as they lack any modern technology.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
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mrluigiman
Sheogorath appears as the Daedric Prince of Madness. He and his servants act eccentric and his quest involves "curing" Pelagius the Mad, who is described as "insane."
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eyesinthehills
In order to open a door during a main questline as well as in Dawnguard and a few other scenes, the player character must slit/impale their own hand to draw blood. This is shown onscreen.
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RonBar
In the Dark Brotherhood questline you're given a choice to kill a woman in Windhelm for a bonus reward. If you do, a few in-game days later you will find her mother's body and suicide note in the family house (which you may be required to break into for another quest)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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meshurok
There are some areas such as Daedric realms where reality is unstable.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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DoesDaDooDye
Any Talos priest, especially the unavoidable one in Whiterun, shouts to the point of voice breaking a lot and sounding rough. It bothers an autistic person I know, but she deals with it by lowering the TV volume, muting, or running past him.
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Is there misophonia?
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UnicornMan
If you eat an item, it makes a quiet munching noise. It didn't bother me.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
23 supporters
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DoesDaDooDye
In the beginning cutscene, a guy panics, realizing they were being taken to be put to death. He further tries to flee once he's out of the wagon, where he is then shot by arrows.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysphoria?
14 supporters
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DoesDaDooDye
Some people who are secretly werewolves wish not to be werewolves anymore and ask you to cure them.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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starlyaj
In many dungeons, it's very crowded or small. And if you get arrested in Skyrim, many jail cells are very small. (Especially the one in Windhelm.)
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Anonymous
There is a woman in Windhelm who will commit suicide if her daughter is killed during a quest. NPCs in the city who knew the character can occasionally comment on this as you walk past them.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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RonBar
Brunwulf Free-Winter and Ulfric Stormcloak, both found in Windhelm, reference their experience in the Great War in a way that implies PTSD but doesn't outright state it, with quotes like "There's no glory in war. It's just something they tell soldiers so they'll risk their lives" and "I fight for we few who did come home, only to find our country full of strangers wearing familiar faces".
If you choose to play the Civil War questline, in the first quest after the Battle for Whiterun, your fellow soldier will ask you if you also have nightmares about the screams from the battle.
If you choose to play the Civil War questline, in the first quest after the Battle for Whiterun, your fellow soldier will ask you if you also have nightmares about the screams from the battle.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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stupidassfuckenusername
Yes. SPOILERS AHEAD. Most of them are optional sidequests given in Raven Rock, Ivarstead and for the Thieves Guild (during The Pursuit and The Dainty Sload); falmer caves often have lakes and rivers and underwater passages. There's only two you can't avoid IIRC. In the Dragonborn DLC during The Path of Knowledge you explore a submerged Dwemer ruin and at one point it's almost inevitable to swim underwater to progress the quest. In one of the main quests for the Thieves Guild the room you're in starts to fill with water and it's hard to find the exit before it fills completely, so it's almost impossible not to end up underwater.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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DoesDaDooDye
When you level up, there's a "Hoo, hoouh" and loud ring of swords clashing.
Daedric prince voices are louder than anything else, especially when you find Meridia's beacon and follow that quest. Also Hermaus Mora, the creepy, many-eyed octopus-like daedric prince of knowledge.
Daedric prince voices are louder than anything else, especially when you find Meridia's beacon and follow that quest. Also Hermaus Mora, the creepy, many-eyed octopus-like daedric prince of knowledge.
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Is there shakey cam?
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OneirosDream
Yes, in the opening scenes and sometimes when dragons are attacking.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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wednesday
Some swearing. It’s pretty rare but it happens. No slurs except fictional, made-up ones (N’wah is said by Dunmer characters in combat)
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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JCHall110
At various points in the game, different spells or effects cause bright flashes. There are also several cutscenes which feature bright flashes. I don't believe there are any repeated flashes.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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wednesday
There is stalking in the game, there was another question asked about stalking above so you can read there if this type of thing upsets you
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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wednesday
Not really present much in Skyrim other than like one quest but a lot of the lore of Elder Scrolls could seem similar to breaking the fourth wall (CHIM, Zero-summing) but it isn’t really
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Pregnancy
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Does a pregnant person die?
27 supporters
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chellethefish
Seren, the pregnant Dawnstar blacksmith can be killed.
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
41 supporters
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OneirosDream
In the Dark Brotherhood quest line, your first contract option is to kill a homeless man named Narfi who seems to have some developmental disability, based on the dialog options, voice-acting and other context (including a separate side quest involving Narfi not knowing his sister/ caregiver is unable to return to him because she died). Some might interpret murdering the disabled guy as ableist behavior. It's not clear who ordered the contract or why but seems implied someone in his community considers him a nuisance and wants him gone. He has no weapons or ability to defend himself.
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RonBar
Fantasy world, no Judaism (one can argue the Skaal are Jewish-adjacent as a monotheistic minority living in a separate village, but there's no prejudice against them)
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Sheogorath
The closest thing is that during one quest called The Mind of Madness, in Pelagius's Mind; there is an attractive-looking woman called "Sultry Maiden" who doesn't have any voice lines and doesn't have much relevance to the quest, but in early versions of the game she had a deep male voice, and that may have been some small attempt at a transphobic joke, but it was very hard to notice even when it was in the game
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Does an LGBT person die?
1 supporters
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56
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NellBGC
In the Dragonborn DLC you can find the dead bodies of two male lovers on the island of Solstheim.
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Are there fat jokes?
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schadd
there might be one somewhere in the billion lines of dialogue but it's not the sort of thing in the vast majority of the game
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
25 supporters
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meshurok
Fictional races (elves, lizard people, cat people) are depicted with stereotypes.
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Does the black guy die first?
1 supporters
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Travis
first guy to die is Lokir of rorkistead and hes white
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Is there hate speech?
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starlyaj
Bandits may often yell at you depending on your race. (Ex. 'You'll make a fine rug, cat! if you're a khajiit) (Ex. "Die, you Orc filth!" if you're an orc)
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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stupidassfuckenusername
Fictional religion, yeah. That's basically what the Civil War is about.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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DoesDaDooDye
To avoid triggers, don't download or install the Dawnguard and Solstheim add-ons. You have frequent encounters on the mainland with the equivalent of hellhounds, seen as black and grey with red, glowing eyes, described as colder than death. On the island continent of Solstheim, you encounter fire zombies with red, glowing eyes (using fire won't work on them) that look caked in ash and melted wax (reminiscent of corpse wax -- don't look it up, please just trust me on this).
Others are: Gargoyles, seekers, Hermaus Mora, daedric lords you can summon or fight, and following the vampire's questline going through a portal into the Soul Cairn.
Others are: Gargoyles, seekers, Hermaus Mora, daedric lords you can summon or fight, and following the vampire's questline going through a portal into the Soul Cairn.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
53 supporters
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DoesDaDooDye
If you choose to remove your clothes or loot a person of their armor and clothes, people are stripped down to undergarments.
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Is there bestiality?
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stupidassfuckenusername
There's an implied mention of beastiality in the radiant dialogue between Thrynn and Cynric Endell in the Ragged Flagon Cistern, but no actual beastiality. Unless marrying a werewolf counts.
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CaptainFrostyPaws
Astrid speaks about how her uncle would assault her, but nothing it shown. Only talked about.
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Is there sexual content?
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leylo
Never anything explicit, but it is talked about occasionally.
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Is there BDSM?
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DoesDaDooDye
Haelga's bunkhouse has a bed with manacles attached to the headboard. Leather straps are nearby, and she is known to have multiple lovers, implying BDSM happens there.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
19 supporters
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stupidassfuckenusername
Yes, Nurelion, the alchemist at the White Phial in Windhelm.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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DoesDaDooDye
There are some older folk who seem to not remember things at first, but that's all I can think of.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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5
There are homeless beggars and wanderers in most of the game's locales.
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Is existentialism debated?
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wednesday
In the Elder Scrolls lore, there’s quite a bit of stuff about the existence of the people of Nirn not being “real” and stuff like that - but it’s not really mentioned in Skyrim
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
6 supporters
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Calkesh
Santa (et al) are not mentioned in this game. However, there are some fan-made mods which introduce "Saturalia", an in-universe equivalent of Christmas, including Father Saturalia and his workshop.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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angeltoycole
you do not have to kill paarthurnax! you are given a choice whether or not to do it, and you can very much say no.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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DoesDaDooDye
If a horse honks, I'll let you know.
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Does a car crash?
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DoesDaDooDye
Only horse-drawn wagons, such as those found tipped on their side you encounter.
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Does a plane crash?
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DoesDaDooDye
No, but dragons can, sliding to a halt and leaving a deep scrape trail in the ground. There are no motorized planes in Skyrim.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Bengelix
The game has no cars, only horse-drawn carts.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
24 supporters
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starlyaj
Underneath Dragonsreach, there is the skeleton of an unknown person, floating in the water. The player can drown if they are underwater for a long period of time.
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Is there blood/gore?
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starlyaj
When fighting, there is alot of blood, and you can even decapitate your opponents, and in some quests, you can harvest human flesh and human hearts.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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CaptainFrostyPaws
Bomb type things go off in specific quests, but nothing nuclear. Only smaller explosions. Also, specific types of magic will explode.
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Is there gun violence?
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CaptainFrostyPaws
Guns are not in skyrim, unless you get a mod. Only bows.
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