My six year old daughter asked me today why there are no handicap people or people in wheelchairs in Skyrim? Her school has started their Handicap Awareness Week or some such. I don't really know. Wife handles all that. I just pay the tuition bills.

My answer was Skyrim is a dangerous place, full of big cats, and bears!
Necromancers get the rest!

What's a necromancer, daddy?

Evil magician that uses skeletons and body parts to make zombies!

She apparently didn't like the answer as she ran out the room!

Me hollering "If you don't like the answer, don't ask the question!"

Apparently my wife didn't like the answer, either. As I was not invited to sit down with them for supper.

Why do you think there are no handicapped people in Skyrim?

because Historically in Norse culture (which is what the Nord are in part based on) such people were considered weak and left to die...

that, or the fact Its a video game...

Mara.

because healing spells and cure disease potion it cant possibly happen

a healing potion or curing a disease won't help you when you have an arm chopped off

you place the arm back on the stub and apply the potions to the wound maybe use a little bit of necromancy

Slow down there buddy. We only JUST got children.

This makes sense! I like!

then it would be more of a Salve then a potion...

Hmm. Just thought of something. What if you were in a big battle, with arms and legs flying everywhere, how would you get your correct arm or leg back??? Do you think you could recognize your own arm or leg in a pile? What if your unconscious, and they have to guess which one is yours? That would make for interesting results!

Wheelchairs? Pretty impractical in Skyrim, I'd think. Some people with missing limbs, limps and other visible disabilities would have been nice. Not really a necessity, but a nice touch for realism and the like.

The 9 work in mysterious ways....

An Orc arm, Dunmer arm, Bosmer leg and Altmer leg stuck to an Imperial's body with a Redguard head. Topped off with an Argonian tail. Frankenstein, eat your heart out...

What are you talking about? There is that adventurer that took an arrow to the knee. Now he is stuck on guard duty.

We have multiple one-eyed people, veterans with crippling injuries, crippled workers, wounded soldiers etc. No physical invalids, granted, but to say there are no handicapped people in Skyrim is simply not true.

Because their asses would die really quick.

Tell your daughter that there's a blind man in Skyrim. Make nicie-nice to your wife. And a little more discretion on what to say to your little girl wouldn't hurt, in the future.. Just a thought.

If there were handicapped people in Skyrim, they'd have one hell of a time getting to High Hrothgar. And since the Dwemer is gone there's no one around who's mechanically inclined enough to install a chair lift around the mountain.

Besides, there's no place to hang the handicap placard on a horse.

There are.. you just can't see it. Like Angrenor Once-Honored or something.

But Falmer Blood Elixir can grow back that missing limb!

Do the injured soldiers at the civil war camps count as handicapped?

There is also a blind man in a mine east of Whiterun, "Ulfr the Blind".

That kid in Morthal that seems to have a mental disorder. Forget his name.

They probably wouldn't survive very long.

All the guards are handicapped. Don't forget, they all used to be adventurers like us, then they took an arrow to the knee..