When roaming the wilderness or delving in a dungeon, you never encounter people sneaking up behind you with a dagger, or crouched up on a perch beside the road with a bow. It'd be a small -- but nice -- little addition to have sneaky thief-types roaming the wilderness and towns of Skyrim, looking to steal from and silently kill unsuspecting travelers.

I can imagine frantically searching for the source of a volley of arrows, or peeing my pants as I'm startled by the sting of some assassins enchanted dagger. It seems like mages and warriors are represented fairly (and often) in ES games. Why not theives and assassins?

Anyone with me?

This would be an awesome addition to the game. It would probably make many players paranoid though. Think how frustrating it would be to walk into a shop to sell that Flawless Diamond only to check your inventory and see that you have been pickpocketed. You could come home from a daring adventure only to find that someone has stolen your prized sword from it's wall mount.

There's plenty of thieves and assassins! They're always charging me by the roadside. Haha, but yeah, svcks that none are sneaky.

It just seems so rare to find yourself in an unexpected battle. I find that I almost always see the enemy before they see me.

"Hello, I am a thief, I will now proceed to not be sneaky and demand you five me gold."
"Look at me, I'm an assassain, you can cleary see my black/red uniform against the snowy background."

Lol those thieves and assassins in the game are pathetic. What kind of assassin charges you from the front? All of the thieves in the cities are running from the guards. I want some EPIC thieves and assassins roaming around.