Everyone lovesmemesright? There have to be a few thousand memes for everybody. One of the games that have the most memes about it from the past decade has to beThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This game was great and there’s a lot to love about it unironically, but there are also a few things that are just so weird that they’re great.
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There are even some about the game’s favorite skeletal nordic dungeon defenders the Draugr and oh boy do we have some to show to you.
10Tough Talk
The Draugr are some of the most plentiful enemies that you encounter in all ofSkyrim. The cool thing about them is that they also scale with the player’s level throughout the game, meaning that the higher the level, the more higher-level Draugr you are likely to encounter. This scaling happens for a while but eventually, the player will outpace the Draugr. Also, it’s weird to think that maybe there are some Draugr training for their encounter with the Dragonborn
9Surprising
When this happens to most players for the first time, they will generally put on the face and expression that Todd Howard has in this photo. Dragon shouts were a cool addition to both the gameplay mechanics and the story ofSkyrim.
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Dragon shouts are set up as this unique thing that very few people can do and take years and years of training to actually use well. Which is why it’s surprising that a Nord Skeleton in some dungeon will just blast one out at you.
Seriously though, it is easy to go through the hundreds of dungeons and locations that are filled with Draugr inSkyrimand Massacre them all willy nilly and that’s not a bad thing, its super fun. But have you ever considered that the Dragur have feelings as well? To be fair, they probably didn’t as to become the skeletal guardians of some dungeon, constantly murdering everyone that enters only to be cut down by the literal hero of the age without a second thought.
7Arrow In The Knee Is Overrated
WhenSkyrimcame out all the way back in 2011, the arrow in the knee meme took off immediately. For some reason, this random throwaway piece of dialogue that was probably just made to fill out a required number of lines for the various town guards became one of the game’s biggest takeaways.
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The weirder part is in the world of Skyrim an arrow in the knee isn’t anywhere near being the worst things that can happen to you, just look at this Draugr.
6Jack, I Want You To
A thing that has been a common in most Bethesda RPGs, mainly inThe Elder Scrollsseries and theFalloutfranchise, has been once an NPC dies, they tend to get instant rigor mortis, i.e. their bodies freeze up the minute that they have no more health in their health bar. This can lead to some hilarious poses that their bodies take, some of which are so embarrassing that it’s almost more shameful and scary than dying is.
5Spooky Scary
Yeah, this is what tends to happen whenever the player walks into any dungeon. After the Dragonborn is done dealing with maybe some spiders or bandits, they get welcomed to the tomb by an army of undead Draugr who for some reason are really intent on protecting that okish sword and a small lump sum of gold in the chest at the end of the dungeon. Seriously even if there is a word of power at the end of this dungeon why do they care, they can’t use it.
4Stremcloaks
This is just great for so many reasons. One, this guy is wearing the Jagged Crown, meaning that this crossed eyed Draugr has some claim to be the leader of Skyrim. Also, it seems like the imperials behind him have no intention of stopping them, maybe he just really doesn’t like the stormcloaks. Also, this Draugr is just casually on fire and it doesn’t even seem to bother him in the slightest, which to be fair is somewhat par for the course in most of Skyrim.
3They Have Feelings
Back to the feelings that the Draugr definitely have. We can’t just assume that the Draugr spend all their time sleeping in the dungeons waiting for some unassuming overly adventurous hero to come by and attack them. They have to be doing something, whether that be sharing their tools, resting traps, or getting played by some necromancer girl who is using them of experiments. Maybe this is the way that Draugrs are created, explaining why there are always more no matter how many you kill.
2The Problem With Sneak Builds
Despite how the game’s made by Bethesda always tend to push how you may play them any way that you want, its clear that the developers made the game with a certain playstyle in mind as the main way people were going to play. This is why stealth is always a little wonky in Bethesda titles andSkyrimis no exception. The classic sneak style of the game is to peak out and shoot a very powerful enemy once and then go back to hiding, where apparently everything is too stupid to notice.
1Time To Attackity.
Like we talked about earlier, walking into any dungeon, or tomb, or whatever inSkyrimis basically asking for a fight. You also have to imagine that the joints of the Draugr are popping a lot when they first wake up so they are going to be cracking while they are attacking you. Seriously this has to exist already but a mod for the Draugr that causes them to make the same noises that the Skeletons inMinecraftmake would just be amazing.
