I hate characters dying unintentionally, it's something I go to great lengths to avoid. I once quit a level 24 mage because J'Zargo died, and I spent like an hour once trying to save Gerdur from a Master Vampire. In any case, I was recently playing my warrior when I got a letter of inheritance. Oh boy.

Turns out my friendly Redguard brother Amren had died. How? I don't know, but it really ticked me off. I hadn't been to Whiterun in days! And now I'm really annoyed. I hate having characters die, and the fact I didn't know how or when he died is also annoying me.

Are you guys the same? Do you hate these unintentional deaths? And do you hate getting that letter of inheritance and knowing what you're about to read?

EDIT: The 'c' in the title is unintentional too. -.-

My characters are inherently Evil. Letters of inheritance simply mean that the weak are being culled in my characters' mindsets.

I half saw Amren killed in mine, in the bit where the street vendors are at night he runs past there's a whoosh and a scream and next thing there is his body, do not know what or who killed him.

Amren likely died in a vampire attack you did not witness, which is very possible in Whiterun. Whenever I arrive at Whiterun at night, or even just exit a building at night (like the Bannered Mare), I make a point of checking out the front gate for vampire attacks.

On the other hand, Jon Battleborn once died on me in the middle of the day as a result of my decision to use the "wait" function. For some reason the game decided to reposition him twenty feet above the sidewalk and he promptly plunged to his death. I happened to be facing in his direction when this happened.


Hate them? No, I love those letters. If it weren't for those letters, it might take me days or weeks in-game to realize an NPC has died. But thanks to those letters, I know that someone has died quite recently and I can therefore reload from a point before they died without losing too much progress.

Those letters are the main reason I do favors for NPCs, actually. So I can keep tabs on their ability to breathe.

C'est la vie ...