Im just kind of curious to know if im missing out on any cool items. So if anyone has some sweet stuff they want to share it would be appreciated.

Headless Horseman!!!!

I just remembered the WIndhelm graveyard area: the bricks on the high walls have people's names. I recalled one of them being a name from Morrowind.
Right now I can't be specific, sorry. Check it out!

UESP- easter eggs. Check it out

I wouldn't know an easter egg in a game if it reached up and bit me in the butt. Not why I play games like this....

Oh damn! O_O I had never noticed the names!


Cicero adapting to the role of an adoring fan. Read his journals. This has been brought up many times here, though.

If I found an Easter Egg, I would see what effect it had when blended with Deathbell and River Betty.

Anyone come across a skeletal arm holding a sword popping up from a lake? I did. Reminded me of Excalibur.

In Ysgramors Tomb there is a broken sword and hilt.
Possibly influenced by LOTR.

Yeah I found that, near Whiterun.

theres also a chopped off skeleton hand in a chest with a broken sword hilt in angarvunde (i think, not sure if thats the one)

It depends much on the definition of an Easter Egg. People sometimes use it to say they have found a reference to another game, a movie, etc.. Or it can be just any unusual item that does not quite fit into the game or it is an item that stands out for other reasons. To me does it mean just something that stands out and does not necessarily have to be a reference to anything. I know of one or two games which had tons of Easter Eggs in them (i.e. Sacred, a very trashy RPG) where these were all outside references, so many, that it was too much and it began to svck hard.

In Skyrim I found things like the following:

- There are those butterflies in jars, which stand out.

- I also found several treasures that could not be reached by normal means, but one has to use jumping, climbing and/or Whirlwind shout to get to them. Like the tower outside Tovald's Cave (far east) holds a treasure chest on its roof.

- Inside Labyrinthian is a skeleton, buried under water by a pile of rocks with one hand reaching to a ring. I so far have not figured out how to pick up the ring and it appears to be impossible. You might end up dying/drowning while trying to pick up the ring, just much like its former owner... Feels like a terrible joke on the players!

- And there is a path leading to Morrowind and a special site with a book (or journal?) in memory of those who came from Morrowind.

Headless horseman is one. Minecraft easter egg on Throat of the World. There is a choose your own adventure book that I found entertaining (I died in that, btw), not sure if that counts as an easter egg though. The dialoug with that winterhold orc about the Elderscrolls referneced either galaxy quest or Star Trek, but a line from that dialoug I did recognize.

Also, there is a quest that is a spin off of the hangover

That could be a reference to one of the mage guild quests in Oblivion where the corrupt guildmaster gives you a ring of burden and tells you to look in the well (where you find the corpse of the last poor fellow he got killed). Maybe not, though.
Either way, if you can get the Volsung mask, which has waterbreathing, you'll be able to find out if the ring is any good.

References are not Easter Eggs to me. I know that many take them as such, but they are not more than references. I blame it on games such as Sacred who spammed the RPG genre with tons of references. An Easter Egg is just what it is - a thing that stands out, but needs to be found, just like a real Easter egg. This is what they were before games like Sacred came out.

Sacred was terrible and made it all worse. It had tons of bugs and even more Easter Eggs. Almost every tomb stone in the game had a reference to some other game written on it. One could sometimes find a video game box among the loot. And it had armor with attributes as terrible as "x% damage is taken from your gold instead of your health", too. It was the trashiest RPG ever. Since then do people seem to believe that an Easter Egg is a reference to something else.