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* When bringing Serana to Castle Volkihar, the quest marker directs you to a small jetty with a boat near Northwatch Keep. That being said, the ''Dawnguard'' DLC also adds ferrymen to Windhelm, Dawnstar, or Solitude that normally take you between the three, and you can pay them to take you to the island instead. However, since they normally avoid the island due to the (fairly justified) belief that it's cursed, they will gouge the hell out of you.

* Sheogorath has an [[http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Sheogorath impressive amount of alternate dialogue]] if you visit his shrine (to complete his Daedric quest) at any point after you've installed the ''Shivering Isles'' DLC. Depending on when you visit him, his responses range from confusion that you're talking to him (when you've already visited his palace in said region) to near-anger that you've purposely stepped out of the Isles to handle a trivial matter back in Cyrodiil. If you hold off on doing the Shrine quest until after you've completed the DLC, you'll be greeted by [[spoiler:Haskill instead, who tells you that there's still a task left over that Sheogorath wanted his successor to finish]].

** Similarly, if you've killed [[spoiler: Grelod the orphanage owner]] ''before'' starting the Dark Brotherhood initiation quest, Aventus Aretino will be amazed at the guild's efficiency when you go to talk with him about his Black Sacrament. Muiri will also have changed dialogue if you cleared out Raldbthar before "Mourning Never Comes", expressing disappointment that she didn't get to cause Alain Dufont's death herself, as well as the fact that she didn't get the chance to take care of something else that she wanted to at the same time (that is, requesting that you also kill Nilsine Shatter-Shield while you're at it), but trusting that you already killed him.

* If an NPC is carrying firewood (as in doing the 'picking up chopped wood from a pile and carrying it in their arms' animation), and you kill them, firewood will drop as an item.

** Similarly, if you've killed [[spoiler: Grelod the orphanage owner]] ''before'' starting the Dark Brotherhood initiation quest, Aventus Aretino will be amazed at the guild's efficiency when you go to talk with him about his Black Sacrament. Muiri will also have changed dialogue if you cleared out Raldbthar before "Mourning Never Comes", expressing disappointment that she didn't get to cause Alain Dufont's death herself but trusting that you already killed him.

* If you somehow (via modding, colsole, or otherwise) manage to chase Alduin over the ridge of Bleak Falls Barrow after exiting Helgen at the very start of the game, you will find that he does not actually vanish, but flies over to the Throat of the World, heads two thirds of the way up the mountain, and then heads due east. If the player is skilled and determined enough, and has managed to disable invisible barriers, they can chase him all the way to the Velothi mountains, and see him circling in one particular region: [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Skuldafn]].

* If you somehow via Modding, colsole, or other manage to chase alduin over the ridge of Bleak Falsl Barrow after exiting Helgen, you will find that he does not actually vanish, but flies over to the throat of the world, heads two thirds of the way up the mountain, and then heads due east. IF the player is skilled and determined enough, and has managed to disable invisible barriers, they can chase him all the way to the Velothi mountains, and see him circling in one particular region. The exact location he circles? Skuldafn. This information brought to you by Play as A Dragon

* If you manage to have enough money to buy Breezehome at the moment the option becomes available right at completion of mainquest "Bleakfalls Barrow", and visit it prior to completing the next quest "Dragon Rising" (ingame dialog urges you to procede), you'll notice Lydia's bedroom doesn't spawn until she's assigned as your housecarl.

* When fleeing Helgen with Hadvar at the start, if playing without an alternate start mod, and if you didn't wander too much before proceding with the main quest, you normally reach Riverwood during daytime. Alvor will be working in his forge, and he will temporarily stop working to welcome Hadvar and the Dragonborn; the dialog ends with Alvor mentioning he'll go back to work. If for some reason you enter Riverwood at a different time, Alvor will conclude the dialog with a different line. If he was currently sleeping when you arrived, he'll say he's going to get some rest; if you meet him outside of his worktime but when he isn't sleeping, there's no specific ending to the discussion.
* The effect of the Speech skill on prices is capped at 100. It normally has no effect since skills are supposed to be capped at 100 anyway, but this limitation prevents players to break the economy if playing with mods or tweaks which change the skills' caps: if this feature weren't capped, a higher than 100 Speech would result in the player being able to sell items for more money than the merchant sell them (in other words, free unlimited money).

* Even though the Healing and Flames spells are available by default for all races, they still have spell tomes associated with them (which are normally just glorified junk), just in case you mod in a character that doesn't have those spells at the start.

* Even though the Healing and Flames spells are available by default for all races, they still have spell tomes associated with them (which are normally just glorified VendorTrash), just in case you mod in a character that doesn't have those spells at the start.

* Inigo is standout example of this in modding, because he responds to ''everything'' you could possibly do in the vanilla game and its DLC content. No matter where you go or what you do, he has a comment on it, and his commentary can get extremely specific is you ask him how he thinks you're doing, such as remarking on how long you've been wearing armor, what political affiliations you have, or even if you're carrying certain items like animal meats, human flesh, or VendorTrash. He even has an in-universe justification for repeating dialog, "Too much skooma back in the day."

* In ''VideoGame/TheForgottenCity'' mod when you have to [[spoiler: kill Rykas for his unique armor]], using console commands to [[spoiler: kill him and then resurrect him after taking it]] will have him comment that your armor looks very familiar.

* When you start the main questline of ''Dragonborn'', Miraak will appear to steal the souls of Dragons that you've killed with an irritatingly high frequency. With one exception: when you get sent to Saering's Watch to learn the first word of Bend Will, you'll have to fight a Dragon there. If you had no other Dragon Souls to spare, Miraak will not appear, ensuring that you can at least learn one word of Bend Will and make some progress without having to laboriously hunt down more Dragons. Similarly, after exiting Nchardak after having learned the second word, Miraak will send a dragon to attack you, and won't appear after you kill said dragon.

* In the ''Knights of the Nine'' DLC, the Prophet who sends you on your first mission ("Pilgrimage") has a number of different responses for what the player has done up to that point. This includes all of the side mission chains, as well as whether you've already completed the main quest or not. He will even acknowledge whether you performed a FaceHeelTurn and joined the Mystic Dawn during the main quest to infiltrate their shrine. Amusingly, if you attempt to interact with the Wayshrines during the Pilgrimage while wearing [[spoiler:the Gray Fox's mask, the final reward from the Thieves' Guild questline]], the gods themselves will chide you for wearing a "false face" instead of your true identity.

** "Miracle" is the ultimate Enchanting perk, and allows to put ''three'' enchantments (instead of the normal maximum of two) on an item, and makes those enchantments stronger than they normally would. The perk's description states in explicit terms that it only works once, and, indeed, turning the Enchanting skill legendary in order to train it again to 100 will fail, since the game will refuse to let you get the Miracle perk again.[[note]]The game checks if the miracle has been used through a hidden perk. It's possible to use several miracles by using the console.[[/note]]

* When you convince Serana to [[spoiler:be cured from her vampiric condition]] after the end of ''Dawnguard'' and if you married her with mods or console commands prior sending her to do this task, once she has finished she will come back straight to the marital home instead of her Vanilla residence ([[spoiler:either Castle Volkihar or Fort Dawnguard]]).

* If the Dragonborn changes into werewolf form in Jorrvaskr, not only will the Companions not attack on sight like nearly every other NPC in the game, but they will use the same radiant dialogue they'd use if the Dragonborn was naked.

* If you progress far enough into the Companions' questline to become a werewolf, then join the Dark Brotherhood, Arnbjorn, who used to be in the Companions and is also a werewolf, will know you're one the first time you talk to him and hopes you have better luck with them than he did.
** Subverted however, in that if you use a mod to make yourself a werewolf without doing the Companion questline, he'll also make the same remarks, as in the vanilla game the Companions' questline is the only way of becoming a werewolf. Ergo, the trigger for Arnbjorn's dialogue is whether or not you're a werewolf rather than whether or not you're a Companion.

* When you first enter Markarth, a small scene will trigger where a visitor to the city will be murdered by an agent of the Forsworn. If you're fast enough, you can kill the agent before he gets to her. Talk to her, and she'll thank you for saving her life and reward you with a piece of jewelry. Later, during the quest "The Forsworn Conspiracy" (which is started after said scene), you're able to ask her directly for information, rather than having to search her room.

** Miracle is the ultimate Enchanting perk, and allows to put ''three'' enchantments (instead of the normal maximum of two) on an item, and makes those enchantments stronger than they normally would. The perk's description states in explicit terms that it only works once, and, indeed, turning the Enchanting skill legendary in order to train it again to 100 will fail, since the game will refuse to let you get the Miracle perk again.[[note]]The game checks if the miracle has been used through a hidden perk. It's possible to use several miracles by using the console.[[/note]]
** Aurification allows to insta-kill a paralyzed target by turning it into gold. Characters flagged essential are immune to this, to prevent it from breaking the game ([[LordBritishPostulate or to make sure smart players don't use this power on purpose to get rid of critical characters]]).

* In the Forgotten City mod when you have to [[spoiler: kill Rykas for his unique armor]], using console commands to [[spoiler: kill him and then resurrect him after taking it]] will have him comment that your armor looks very familiar.

* If you have Serana as a follower when you do the quest "The House of Horrors", she'll cower in fear when you speak to Molag Bal. [[RapeAsBackstory Given what he did to Serana]], it's hard to fault the poor woman.[[note]]This isn't actually Foresight; it's a quirk that arises from her sandboxing AI and the cowering animation tied to Molag Bal's altar.[[/note]]

* If you have Serana as a follower when you do the quest "The House of Horrors", she'll cower in fear when you speak to Molag Bal. [[RapeAsBackstory Given what he did to Serana]], it's hard to fault the poor woman.

* The ''Ordinator'' mod consists of a whole overhaul of the perk trees and includes a few examples as well: