Contradiction Compendium

Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:42 pm

Please list all Contradictions and factual anomalies here(as well as other things that do not make sense). Here are two right of the top of my head.
  • In the very beginning of the game after you escape Helgen, Whoever you escape with will tell you it is best to split up, They will then give you a guided tour of the area.
  • The court wizard of Windhelm will tell you when acussed of Necromancy, that He is a member of the college of Winterhold in good standing, and that Necromancy has been banned for centuries. However the conjuration teacher there tells you the oppposite, that they never took on the Mages guild ban on necromancy, and never enforced any such restriction.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:47 pm

3. Khajiit are banned from entering the cities and this is made a considerable point of in the dialogue. Unless that Khajiit happens to be a player character, in which case they don't even bat an eyelid about your presence.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:10 pm

3. Khajiit are banned from entering the cities and this is made a considerable point of in the dialogue. Unless that Khajiit happens to be a player character, in which case they don't even bat an eyelid about your presence.

The caravans are banned.(They trade skooma/moon sugar) Not Khajiit specifically.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:52 pm

4. the alik'r are looking for a redguard woman. i am a redguard woman. they dont care. :blink:
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:11 pm

The dragon shouts are learned by gaining 'knowledge' from the dragon's soul......Yet those souls just sit there until you've seen a glowing word on a wall somewhere rather than just learning a shout the dragon knew upon absorbing it(As the greybeards say is supposed to happen)
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:12 am

5: Synderion's journal says he traded his ninroot knowledge to stay at that dark elf's place for a few months. However she tells you that she was a student of his back in Cyrodill, and that he stayed for decades, not months like the journal tells you. This one is massive.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:17 pm

6. The book "On Lycanthropy" states that werebears are the most abundant breed of lycanthrope found in Skyrim, but there's not a single one to be seen.

I believe M'aiq comments on this one. :cool:
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:07 am

Delphine when you meet her ,"YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT I SAY , WHEN I SAY , GOT IT??" Sometime later ,"The blades are sworn to serve and protect the dragonborn."Then it degrades even worse after that to the point of assuming something was seriously overlooked or just plain broken.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:08 pm

In the mine where you have to clear out the spiders (Shor's stone?) The mine owner says that the mine produced nothing but iron untill he found the quick silver ingot. However the mine has no iron or quick silver ore, nothing but ebony.
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Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:33 pm

Opening scene "It's up in the clouds" no it landed on the tower before you even began to say that you terrible marksman/scout.

dungeons open and inhabited by people, bandits, mercs, treasure hunters and aren't brand new yet being loaded with loot.

In terms of gameplay the game contradicts itself alot too, followers leveling but not gaining power, having a cap comparitively low to you, needing to be thane to own a house or needing a house to be thane it manages to do both in an awkard manor the fame was a better jugde of whether your wanted in a city or not. 8 fingers one ring, 10 giant toes yet one claimable, no mammoth hides, no craftable fur armor, powdered mammoth ingredients useless and weighty mammoth tusks, flithy rotten linen cloths more valuable and weighty then dinnerware, baskets etc. Can smelt dwarven table legs but not metal armor. Some quests taking longer more effort then others that provide you more gold. Everything respawning I know itd make for big saves but you can end up with it anyway cause it remembers til the reset what was and wasnt taken.

People saying thier broke and giving a decent chunk of gold thatd get alot of food/cloths and allowing you to take everything useful to them and not you but not the reverse like high value potions of weapon damage when they are not warriors they'll eat off the table the little food they have left in the rags you didnt take but not the potion of two handed power nooo.

Oh and different sized flower patches and mining sites, some death bells having 6 heads yet you always get the same amount from each harvest, always 3 ores and one flower for the bed even if it was 4 times larger then the last.
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