I was walking through the wilds of Skyrim, admiring the beautiful trees and mountains, watching the grass blades wave gently in the breeze as butterflies of gold and blue danced about in the bushes. The stony road crunched beneath my feet as I strode onwards to Whiterun.

As I proceeded, a curious scene caught my eye. At the side of the road I noticed an Orismer, standing over the carcasses of two apparently freshly slain sabre-tooths. I had encountered these beasts myself before, and knew that it was no easy feat in slaying them. I hailed the orc, glad to see a fellow traveller on the road.

We talked for a while, and he recounted to me his story of how he had become too old to take wives or chieftainship of his tribe, and had left the safety of his stronghold to fall honourably in battle rather than pass into nothingness, crippled by old age. Touched by his tale, I offered to battle him in an attempt to give him the death he sought. He told me I had not to do so, and asked me if I was sure. I replied with a solemn nod.

He drew his blade and stepped forward. With one motion I pulled out my own sword and knocked his head off, then watched it roll down the mountain into a river.

Not very honourable... whoops.

LOL I encountered him with my new character, at level 12 and OMG he whooped my butt good. So I told him, we will postpone his death...

This. That dude handed me my ass on several occasions.

i almost won, but then 2 ice wolves attacked me during our fight and i lost

Sure, blame the wolves! =p hahahahahaha

I fought him one time at level 48 and he lasted longer than most opponents against me. I think he is fixed level, but pretty high.

His headless corpse is still on the road. I'm not sure he would have really wanted this.

But is he as tough as that annoying Bosmer guy in Mournhold in Morrowind? If you played Tribunal, you know who I'm talking about. The one who hits you up for some coin, then keeps upping the ante, and if you refuse he shows up in a full suit of ebony armor and kicks the crap out of you, and your little dog too? That one.

That guy from Morrowind still scares the poop out of me!

That guy... I really hated him. With a passion. I was the godamn Nerevarine, killer of Dagoth Ur, Grandmaster of the Imperial Legion, but every time I went into the Temple District I had to avoid going near the gate into the palace because I was too scared of that elf.

I know, right? And even if you gave him every piece of gold you had, he still came back to beat the hell out of you. I spent so much time going arooooooound him, hoping he wouldnt see me.

I did finally kill him.... I had so much (4 suits of daedric) and had made a branch of the "Mudcrab's Famous Shop" in Downtown Balmora so I wouldn't have to trek all over the place for that full value trade. I had enough money and grand soul gems I made some enchantments that boosted my luck up to 90% and had armor with "Reflect Damage" and did not use an enchanted weapon on him. I basically let him beat himself to death. It was satisfying. See the devs had coded reflect damage in him so my cool vampiric daedric blade was giving him health.

Had I known what he was going to do, I would have killed him outright and paid the fine, but then like always, I was trying to be good.

However, the worst were the Rieklings in Bloodmoon. Remember you couldn't go like 30 seconds without encountering a pack of them? They would tear a set of daedric armor to shreds in seconds. That forced me to enchant an invisibility ring for outdoor travel.

I just called upon the Gods for strength and killed him in one strike.

I met this guy too. I sort of didn't want to kill him because he was one of my kinsmen, but he wanted it, so...I did what I had to do. I don't remember if I had Lydia helping me or not, but I'm pretty sure I got this guy on my first time with little health left. I mean that I was about one swing away from dying.

I met him at a pretty low level, on the mountains SW of Whiterun. I hadn't even been made Thane yet. I don't remember a particularly difficult battle.

Edit: I happened to pass that way yesterday from Riverwood to Whiterun. His body is still there, along with the 2 sabre cats. Perma corpse?

You did give him what he wanted. Death in being bested by a more worthy adversary. Now me, I killed him then dead thralled his corpse. As far as I'm concerned, that's a good death. At least for me....

Honorable death?
Roast him alive with flames skill, then eat his flesh using namira's ring, and reanimate thrall i love skyrim

I did the same thing with the Orc except with a warhammer. Stood there and let him hit me first, then crunch and his head rolled.

He's a pretty tough old bird, though. Not only had he killed those sabrecats but in my game he had soloed a dragon while I ran over to its landing spot.

I wish you could make him a follower with a line like "Death follows me like a shadow, if you walked in my shadow perhaps it would find you"

i fought this orc a while ago, was an epic battle. my orc was only level 22 decked out in heavy armor and mace/shield. used a lot of defender potions and such... i killed him 1st try and because i thought it was so fun i loaded up my game right before i fought him and tried to do it again. was a bad idea because he kicked my ass about 10 itmes in a row after that.

Hmmm...I didn't have much trouble with him, shield bashed him and he was on his knees after two power attacks and dead with one last whack around the head. I then dropped his body in the river and let it go over a waterfall, fitting end for an old warrior.

I killed him once. Then he didn't have the common decency to stay dead as I met him a second time. I killed him again. Then I met him a third time and I ignored him.

"Look buddy. If you don't stay dead then I'm just wasting my time. Go find someone else to kill you. I've got better things to do. Like rob that old lady over there."

I am playing a bad khajiit character, and was in a very grumpy mood the evening when I met this Orc fellow. I pvssyd to him for a while, got his story and made sure he really wanted to die. Then I walked away leaving him alive.