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* The general gameplay seems to encourage this. Most of your enemies will be undead or vampires, so they’re weak to fire, necromage makes the damage further efficient, and aspect of Terror has a glitch that adds extra fire damage in most case (making flames actually viable later in the game).

* StatusEffects: There are too many possible effects to list them all, but when you access the Magic section of your inventory, a category called 'Active Effects' lists every last one that is currently in place on your character. Ones with a timer attached (such as spells and alchemical buffs) will wear off eventually, while ones without (e.g. armor enchantments, racial bonuses, even diseases) remain in effect indefinitely, unless you remove the enchanted gear or cure the ailment with a potion or shrine. They're also ColorCodedForYourConvenience: white for a StatusBuff and red for a StatusAilment.

* ScalingTheSummit: This is done as part of the main storyline when the Dragonborn has to scale ''The Throat of the World'' in order to speak to the the Greybeards and later their leader [[spoiler: a Dragon named Parthunaax]] who lives on the peak.

* ScalingTheSummit: This is done as part of the main storyline when the Dragonborn has to scale ''The Throat of the World'' in order to speak to the botg the Greybeards and later their leader [[spoiler: a Dragon named Parthunaax]] who lives on the peak.

* ScalingTheSummit: This is done as part of the main storyline when the Dragonborn has to scale ''The Throat of the World'' in order to speak to the the leader of the Greybeards who lives on the peak [[spoiler: a Dragon named Parthunaax]].

** While some of the armors are unrealistically fantastic, most of the higher quality armors tend to have either gambesons(padded jackets) or chainmail under the plates, which is what real medieval armor usually had.

* TheNecromancer:

* RedOniBlueOni: Ulfric is brash, prideful, and aggressive, while Tullius is calm, caring, and defensive; this is ironic, since the Empire wears red and the Stormcloaks blue. Even then, the game makes strides proving they're NotSoDifferent.

** The trailer on characters seems to depict General Tullius as an ObstructiveBureaucrat who doesn't pay any heed to his subordinate's advice. In reality, he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and WellIntentionedExtremist [[NotSoDifferent just like Ulfric Stormcloak]].

* NotSoDifferent:
** General Tullius and Ulfric Stormcloak are on opposite sides of the Civil War, but both hate the Thalmor and the White-Gold Concordat, which bans the worship of Talos and is one of the main reasons Ulfric rebelled.
** This is also exemplified by the bard songs "Age of Aggression" and "Age of Oppression", sung by bards in pro-Imperial or pro-Stormcloak holds, respectively. The song tunes are identical and both songs have parts where the lyrics are the same.
** Try saving before the peace treaty and take different dialogue options to favor the Empire or Stormcloaks, and make note of how often the two sound just like the other between dialogue trees.
** If you finish the Civil War before the final battle, [[spoiler:you'll meet Rikke if you sided with the Stormcloaks, or Ulfric and Galmar if you sided with the Empire, in Sovngarde. It seems as far as the gods, or at least Shor, is concerned, they're all honorable heroes worthy of the afterlife. Tullius is only excluded because he's not a Nord, and so couldn't enter Sovngarde.]]
** Paarthurnax points this out to the Dragonborn, as s/he has the soul of a dragon and therefore is driven by the same urges as all dragons: to hurt, kill, dominate, and destroy. Takes on an extra-vicious edge if you've been indulging in VideoGameCrueltyPotential by that point.
*** A more lighthearted example of the Dragonborn being like other dragons is the hoarding. Most players have a tendency to hoard ''something'' during the course of the game, whether it's precious gems or gold or alchemy ingredients or cheese wheels. Dragons in most fantasy stories have a tendency to amass large hoards of valuables; the Dragonborn is clearly no different in that respect.

* TakingOverTheTown: A group of Vampires plan to take over Morthal and turn it's people into [[MindControl Thralls]]. Naturally, [[PlayerCharacter The Dragonborn]] stops them.

* StatusEffect: There are too many possible effects to list them all, but when you access the Magic section of your inventory, a category called 'Active Effects' lists every last one that is currently in place on your character. Ones with a timer attached (such as spells and alchemical buffs) will wear off eventually, while ones without (e.g. armor enchantments, racial bonuses, even diseases) remain in effect indefinitely, unless you remove the enchanted gear or cure the ailment with a potion or shrine. They're also ColorCodedForYourConvenience: white for a StatusBuff and red for a StatusAilment.

* RealityEnsues:
** In the ''Dragonborn'' DLC, cultists approach [[PlayerCharacter the Dragonborn]] in a public (and possibly well-guarded) place, and proceed to taunt and attack them. [[CurbStompBattle We think you can figure out what happens next.]]
** Using Dragon Shouts in a city or town will result in a guard asking you to stop. Magic or not, those shouts are ''awfully'' loud, so of course they'd cause a noise complaint. Even setting aside the ability of Shouts to spew fire, ice, or pure force, or call down lightning storms from a clear blue sky, there's also the fact that Skyrim's High King was recently murdered (or defeated in a fair challenge) by someone who "Shouted him apart."
** If the Dragonborn already has a bounty on them in Whiterun when they try to enter the city for the first time, the Guard will try to arrest them, since a known criminal has just walked up to them. If you rack up a high enough bounty (likely by repeated murder) at any point with a Hold, the guards will decide you're too dangerous to try arresting and will just attack on sight.
** If the Dragonborn takes too long to make it to safety during the tutorial, then the Dragon that is destroying Helgan will begin to attack them too. [[spoiler:This is because Alduin is trying to kill them specifically and standing around gives him the time he needs to find who he is looking for.]]
** Come across any daedra-hunting Vigilants of Stendarr while carrying a daedric artifact or wearing full daedric armor and expect some trouble. Similarly, wearing an Amulet of Talos will ''not'' go over well with any Thalmor that weren't already attacking you, as they're trying to stamp out Talos worship.
** Realizing he's lost, [[spoiler:Alduin]] decides TheBattleDidntCount and retreats. While he plays it off as inconsequential, his followers, staunch believers in AsskickingEqualsAuthority, are not pleased that their leader ran from a fight his opponent rightfully won. It makes quite a few question his authority and right to lead.
** In the "Ancestral Worship" sidequest, a Nord NPC named Golldir asks the Dragonborn help to get rid of a necromancer who is working on the corpses of his deceased family members inside his family's funeral crypt. Golldir reacts angrily (then begrudgingly accepts, considering it would count as a reward for your help) if he spots you taking things inside the crypt, since you're stealing riches and funeral offerings from his family. Notably, even if all you do is look inside - possibly clicking on an urn purely out of habit - he still acts as though you took something.
** This is why Valerica is opposed to Harkon's plot to darken the sun in ''Dawnguard''. While vampires would technically be free to wander around day and night, she assumes (probably correctly) that mortals would ''not'' be happy about TheNightThatNeverEnds and would find and kill every single vampire on Nirn in both retribution and desperation to have the sun come back.
** [=NPCs=] will notice and react to the player dropping things in front of them. This can range from trying to return it, if friendly, to taking it for themselves. Guards in particular will notice and collect any weapons left lying around in plain view - possibly even giving you a fine for disturbing the peace, if you respond to their warning in the wrong way.
** In "Laid To Rest", the people of Morthal will gather their TorchesAndPitchforks and join the Dragonborn as they head off to deal with the Vampires outside town. However, they'll all chicken out once they reach the lair. While they certainly want to help, they're completely aware that they're a bunch of ordinary townsfolk and would almost certainly die trying to kill the vampires.
** When asked why the Dark Brotherhood didn't respond to Aventus's call, Astrid explains that it was because he had no money. While anyone can call them using a Black Sacrament, the client still needs to be able to ''pay'' for their services, and he is after all only an orphaned child.
** The Thalmor are so utterly despised by everybody else that the guards are willing to overlook crimes taken against them. Murdering a Thalmor agent in cold blood in Imperial-controlled territory will only net you a measly 40 gold bounty for assault (a slap on the wrist compared to the 1000 gold bounty for murder). Stormcloak guards don't even charge you ''at all''. To underline this further, you can butcher the immensely arrogant Thalmor ambassador and his two bodyguards right in the middle of the court of the Jarl of Markarth, and the Jarl will slip you enough money under the table that even if you choose to pay off the bounty you will come out 50 gold up. It's almost like he is ''thanking you'' for getting rid of the asshole.
** On a more subtle note, Fur Armor provides one of the weakest armor ratings in the entire game, which makes sense considering how most of it is clearly designed to either have a ChainmailBikini or cause a WalkingShirtlessScene, meaning that it doesn't actually provide a lot of protection in combat. This is averted for Forsworn Armor, though, but that can be {{Hand Wave}}d as a result of the Forsworn using special rituals to enchant their armor and make it tougher than it normally would.
** In "A Daedra's Best Friend", Barbas warns the Dragonborn that Clavicus Vile is a JerkassGenie and that they ''should not'' accept any of his offers. If they ignore this advice and kill Barbas to keep the Rueful Axe, they'll discover that it's actually quite terrible and isn't a daedric artifact like the item they passed up on to get it. What else would they expect from a god known for screwing people over?

*** You normally cannot achieve a full immunity to magic, since resistances cap at 85%... but the rarer and more powerful magic '''absorption''', on the other hand, has no cap. This means it is possible to become completely immune to all magic while simultaneously [[FeedItWithFire recovering magicka whenever you are hit with a spell]]. This always requires the Atronach Stone sign and the Atronach perk, which combined raise magic absorption to 80%. In order to take it further (without the usage of mods), you need to either A) be a [[GameBreaker vampire with the Necromage perk]] or B) wear Miraak's Robes and either his gloves or his boots. This not only protects you from hostile spells, but also from some environmental effects, so you can stand in the blizzard that blocks the way to Paarthurnax, walk around in the poison gas-flooded passage in Calcelmo's Laboratory, and even '''swim in lava''' with no ill effects, while normally any of these things would get you killed in seconds, regardless of resistance. However, the Drain Vitality shout used by high-level dragons can bypass magic absorption.

* ThemeTuneCameo: A variation. The lyrics for "Dragonborn" can be found in-game in the book ''[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Songs_of_Skyrim Songs of Skyrim]]'', along with a translation.
** Ironically, the tune that goes with the lyrics has been lost to time in-universe. You know, that tune you have probably heard a hundred times over. It has been suggested by some players that the correct tune is the one heard in [[spoiler:Sovngarde]], where the song is effectively on continuous repeat.

** "No One Escapes Cidhna Mine": Either escape with Madanach and kill Thonar for the Armor of the Old Gods, kill Madanach and escape using the key on his body and get the Silver-Blood Family Ring from Thonar...[[spoiler: or side with Madanach up until you get the armor, then kill him and escape]].