Fellow Dovakhin,
Could we start a list of who not to kill in the game to avoid being unable to finish any quest ?

This might be a big ask (and a long list) but I know that some people are immortal ( unkillable) for just such a reason. But some peolpe you can kill that could seriously screw up a later quest.

Any offers on this ? Over to you guys........ could you give the character name and the quest they are needed for ?

You were always on my mind, you were always on my mind.... The KING

seconded!!

Wujeeta in Riften - she's killable but if she dies before you start the Skooma eradication quests by giving her a potion, you can't get Honeyside / Thanehood from Laila Law-Giver, and if you have already completed the CW in favor of the 'Cloaks, you can't get it from Maven either. Hope that made sense because I don't think I'm explaining it well.

Avoid Killing Anyone on this list until you have done their quests

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:People

Or, a more simple answer, don't kill anyone unless they try to kill you or the game tells you to kill them. Then you don't have to worry about breaking quests with your homicidal tendencies.

Eh, I just check on an NPC first on UESP before I get rid of them in any way. If they are associated with a quest or something, I then decide if it's worth missing out based on the gains from the quest compared to the gains from the kill.

"Filthy she-hound Elisif got what she deserved. Let her serve as "High Queen" of Oblivion, for all I care." -A Random Guard

No one can escape from me. Even if they broke some quests, I'll still kill them if I don't like them.

I don't kill anyone unless a quest calls for it, and even then I wish I had options.

for some reason i am not so put off by broken quests. probably because there is always a broken quest.

when you make a choice like to join the DB....it breaks the destroy the DB questline.

to join the Empire....breaks the join the Stormcloaks questline. etc.

there are probably very few quests that you can really mess up by killing someone.

ROFLMAO

THIS ^^^^ A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

Why is this so hard for some people. I just will never understand.

Actually sometimes it's not you, but a random spider that just found its way in the middle of town...

Well I have had Dragons kill people that were side-quest related. Generally I would just write off the quests. I hate it, but that does happen.

I've killed people deliberately to break/fail quests I couldn't avoid getting and never wanted to do (or refuse do to according to the demands of whoever is trying to control me that way). Otherwise I try not to kill anyone who wouldn't be hostile anyway.

I've not done that, but I've considered it. It drives me nuts that if I just happen to talk to someone, turning down their request leaves me with a "Listen to X's proposal" in my journal. Not all of my characters have been interested in stealing that stupid horse, Mr. Louis LeClone.

Narfi!!!! Don't kill poor Narfi!!!




Umm... wait... actually, it might be the kindest thing....

This is one BIZARRE thread. I never kill anybody or any thing unless attacked or demanded to do so by a quest. What the heck kind of guys are you to just run around killing for no reason? Maybe we can get Bethesda to write a special game for you guys - Psycho Killer.

It's actually a fun play style.

I've had entire towns trying to kill me before.

I guess that's the role play for ya. I take pride in having a low body count. I know one guy here tried a no kill play through, but I don't know if he succeeded or how far he got.

Eh, I don't really role-play. I just play how my gut tells me to do as well as for maximum fun. >_>

I'm doing it so far in this game with the Daedric quests I don't want to comply with. WIth the Namira quest, I just selected the one dialogue option in the Hall of the Dead that caused Cannibal Girl to turn hostile and killed her then and there. I may get over to that dungeon on my own, who knows, maybe it's partly closed off because I "failed" that quest, but I've been through it twice already so who cares?

With Molag Bal, I went in the abandoned house to stop the Vigilant from constantly accosting me about whether or not I've noticed anything. I let him go nuts and attack, not like I wanted to kill him, but hey - I did it in self-defense and my PC meant no harm when she walked in there, she was just trying to help out. She told the Prince she wanted nothing to do with him, he sends her off to find some priest of Boethiah for him... well, the Boethiah cult is already on my list of things to eradicate from Skyrim, so I found the priest and then killed him. Quest "failed" and out of my journal with the bonus that I've offended two Princes I despise instead of just the one.

It will be trickier with some others, they just may have to sit as unfinished in my journal forever, but at least some of them are out of the way to my satisfaction.

I think I screwed up the Frost quest, though, I talked to Maven before I went to the Lodge and then the journal updated to say I had the papers so I thought somehow she'd given them to me. So I just went and got the horse and used the key SIbbi gave me to empty the strongbox, now it dawns on me that it was glitched and I was suppsed to get the papers at the lodge as well. I have been riding Frost off and on ever since, I use the Horse Branding mod so I just branded him as "mine" and AFAIK it did not register as a theft when I took him (if it was supposed to, I dunno, never did this one before).

Wondering though if I need to reset the quest back a stage or something to where I don't have the papers, and then go get them. I just want it out of my journal and I don't think it will be marked complete until I actually get the papers, but the journal says I already have them so... I've already got the thing in there from the quest with Roggvir's amulet that I can't get rid of, which: argh.

My third character just avoided it altogether, but my current character REALLY wanted that mace so I did it. After going through this a few times, I'm starting to understand how the Daedra think and operate. I won't do the Namira quest this time, though, because my character has no need for the ring, so I'll probably do the same thing you did with that one. I did Peryite's quest (LOVE the Spellbreaker). My current character has interesting motivations and as she progresses, she will get more ruthless in some ways.


You can't "back up" a quest to a given stage with the console commands, but I think you can start it over completely. I've never done it, but I know others here would know those commands.

PS - I married Ulfric right after Solitude last night. Literally followed him out of the city after the speech, put on the amulet, got engaged, went straight to Riften. But now that I've done it I'm going to load the previous save and then wait until later in the game. But at least I can verify that it works! My character got married in her Stormcloak Officer's minidress / armor. (Seriously, that armor does not look practical but it's cute on her.)

True, and I don't want to go through the whole stupid thing again... I've already got the horse. I suppose I could ride him around Riften and see if we run into Louis and that triggers something that would advance things... but I'm not sure there's any more advancement possible with the way I did it. Still going back to the lodge and getting the papers though.


YAY!!! *claps hands*

I am in the middle of my crazy bachelorette party... invited 14 followers to come with me to the Bannered Mare for a last hoorah before I get hitched. Then I finally agreed to have some drinks with Sam Guevenne.

We are currently standing on the side of the road outside Rorikstead in the middle of the night, arguing about who's gonna go find the goat.

Rockstar already beat you to that idea. It's called Grand Theft Auto. <.<

If you wish to side with the Stormcloaks, and do not purchase Breezehome before you take Whiterun, do not allow Vignar Gray-Mane's friend Brill to die.

Should you come across an attractive young Khajiit called Blossom, dont engage her. Shes wearing the Saviours Hide and Konahrik, and is not very friendly.

Also, I would recommend not killing Nilsini Shatter-Shield.