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For me, it was in the Forsworn Conspiracy when you find the guards killed Eltrys and are gonna arrest you for his death. I seriously decided to avenge his death both by killing them then submitting to the guards that come to help, then killing Madanach, and then killing Thonar after he pardons me. Or I would, if the stupid quest wasn't bugged.

Yeah, that was sad.

Same. And it made me loathe the Dwemer.

All of the ones I have read are increadably sad.

A couple of things I personally came across were

- A dragon attacking the Orc village near the huge ebony mine. 3 of the 4 orcs (that were not miners) died, and the one remaining just ran circles around the village as she grieved them.

- I once fast travelled to winterhold to find the drunkard dead, laying in a snowberry bush. I wondered what happened and a pair of gaurds walked past me and also noticed his body. One checked it, and too wondered what happened. Then a dragon roar was heard in the distance, and the guards ordered two other people walking the street to get inside the local inn, and me and the gaurd fought the dragon together. Unfortunatly, one of the gaurds was bitten to pieces and thrown ontop of a rock, and the other injured, but we saved the remaints of the small town

- No one has mentioned what happens near the end of the DB questline, I won't spoil it though. They were like a familly!

-Also no one has mentioned Karliah!

Any dog now makes me dismiss them ASAP before I have a chance in inadvertently killing them.

The first prisoner I tried to free from a Thalmor patrol , I ended up being the reason of his demise. But since then I've found others and offered them any spare weapon/armors I may have on me.

The liitle girls' ghost found in her casket at midnight explaining in a rush all that happened. I broke into that btches house and burned her , healed her and burned her until I wasn't angry anymore , then I had to enrage some more by granting her final release.

Felt bad about the orc bard , he may sing lousy for a non-orcs tastes , but hes got the spirit and attitude. But business is business. Thank god you can play again and destroy those people , it made up for it =P

I was in some mining town somewhere and saw this little girl ask her mom what dad was like. The mom answered and said something along the line that she reminded her of her late husband and how her eyes were all that remained of him. I thought about that for a while.

I've found this giant too, and was quite surprised to find him non-hostile. Quite sad.

One where there's a note about some guy waiting for a ship with his girl on it, between Dawnstar and Solitude. There's a lean-to right next to the note with a skeleton lying in the bed.

What happened to the Falmer mainly. Really does show how heartless the Dwemer were with such knowledge.

I just had another. Went into White River Watch to do a cleanup and found Ulfr the Blind was still there along with a couple bandits. The bandits were easily dispatched, but as Ulfr was running away my follower, Faendal, shot him with an arrow. Poor fellow didn't deserve to die.

Uh, when Lydia died.

Yes, it was sad about them, BUT,I felt great because I killed the nasty lady (being polite, here) and they were free.

Two quick little quests that made me cry. In one, you have to deliver a sword from the Orc mother to a daughter who has left the Orc stronghold and gone out into the world on her own. The sword turns out to be a message, "Don't come back."

In the other, you have to tell a mother that her daughter, who had joined the Imperial Legion, had died in battle. They just hit me so hard.

The assistant in the forge at Rifton who thinks Balimund is a god amung men for teaching and training him. He was rescued by Balimund from the Orphanage and taught that he had value. I married my character to Balimund and THEN found out he was a softy. Nice to know.

spoiler: don't ask him to move or Rifton loses it's blacksmith even if you have the Rifton house. Buy a house and come to visit him, he seems ok with this arrangement and gives you "half of today's earnings" (100g per day accumulating between visits) like a shopkeeper anyway.

This is so true. I hated killing the beggar as well....it made me abandon that questline altogether, I just don't think the rewards are worth assassinating innocents.

in one of the forts (I think it may have been Treva's Watch), I came across the skeleton of someone bound up into a hay bale. Next to the bale was a small crate; on top of it was a bottle of mead. One of the Skeleton's arms were free, and reaching for the mead... but it was just out of reach.

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There was a nice extra reward too. When you kill the big chaurus, loot him and take the remains. Take them to top of the lighthouse and you get an active power that boosts healing spells by 10%.

Many of the encounters mentioned here made me sad.
I would add: The quest in the Ansilvund Excavation (in my opinion, sad from both point of views, with a nice twist in the end) and Forelhost crypt -- this one made me really sad (and a bit sick at the same time) -- without saying too much, there is a common grave in one of the rooms, just look inside it

Anyone who has not done the DB-questline before, beware for heavy spoilers.

I guess I'm a bit of a Dark Brotherhood-sympathist - I've never really had trouble assassinating anyone, even innocents. Money is money, right? I did however feel pretty sad when the Falkreath Sanctuary got burned down - finding Arnbjorn fighting in his werewolf-form while he got struck down by imperials without giving me a chance to defend him, then Astrid's speech before you have to kill her, and then going outside to find Festus Krex pinned to a tree by ten or so arrows... They were of course murderers, but I did feel sympathy towards them, they deserved a better death than being burned by some imperial traitors. Nazir and Babette are cool people, but the Dawnstar Sanctuary will never be like the Falkreath Sanctuary.

The First Tyme You Meet Cicero & Mother, When Ol' Farmer Boy Want's You To Lie About Something Poor Cicero Did Not Do... Of Course I Did The Right Thing... The Music That Was Playing Had A Big Part In It, But Cicero Is My BESTEST FRIEND...

There Are More, but My Brain Just Went Durrr On Me......... To Be Continued'

I Remember Now... The Spider In The DB Sanctuary Near Falkreath... Sad I Cannot Confirm Whether He Or She Is Dead Or Alive... I Called Him Leg's.

Astrid Ask's You For Forgiveness And To Kill Her With The Blade Of Woe, I Was Sooo Ticked Off That She Would Do Such A Thing... Was Not Worthy To Die With The Blade Of Woe. I Took Out My Iron Dagger" Piece'O'[censored] " And Slaugtered Her With It... & Left Her & The Dagger There... What A [censored]

As someone said, Skyrim can be a depressing place. I have had so many sad discoveries, two of which were radiant encounters.
1. Finding Erandur's body on the road where I last saw him. He had attended my wedding and we all walked together till he left us at a fork in the road.
2. Watching the mother at Heartwood Mill get killed by a dragon. I talked to her son afterwards and he said "cant believe my mother's dead. what do I do now?" I wanted to adopt him but no option. Worse, he looked at me like "you are dragonborn, why didn't save her"
3. Discovering what really happened to Isabelle Rolaine and then telling Ranmir. Then coming to the Inn later and not finding Ranmir there anymore - did he stop drinking or worse did he decide to end it all after knowing the truth?
4. Like someone said, that Frostflow lighthouse. The whole place and experience creeped me out. I think Bethesda did an excellent job on that one. I didn't want to find out more but had to. Then I regretted finding out the truth. Let's just say that I earned a new title in there called "The Exterminator."

Nothing has come close to the WOW story of the mother trying to save her young children from Morbent Fel --- that still haunts me, but the young boy entering the covenant with the Dark Brotherhood to kill the school matron comes close. You get the impression he's praying over the corpse of his dead mother. Then there's the ghost girl playing hide-n-seek describing the night of the fire.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet but there was a particularly sad scene in Bthardamz doing the quest for Peryite. In the Upper District, you come across an Afflicted woman talking to her sleeping brother about how she regrets following Orchendor and how she misses things like the fresh air and how they're suffering for nothing. She especially regrets that she ever introduced her brother to Orchendor though she knows he would never leave since he believes in him so greatly.

Quite sad really, gave them both a quick death afterwards

Those sick bastards deserved it. Im glad I massacred all of them! And the Falmer Deserved there fate....Im Very Pro-Imperial so i dont mind elves, Except the falmer...Do you fools forget the night of a thousand tears?

I found a cave while exploring. Inside was three dead bandits and a journal. The journal described how they had broken off from a bandit group and hid out in this cave that was attached to some ruin. It then went on to depict some mysterious force driving the three to insanity, and the result of that insanity was splattered all over the ground in front of you.