I Killed Every NPC in Skyrim 

"I want you to kill the Emperor. He'll be in Skyrim." "You want me to kill the Emperor, and all of Skyrim. Got it." "Yes, that's-" ...Wait, what?"

"They say everytime a dovahkin is born, the gods flip a coin, one side its greatness, the other side is madness."

My sister did this at 12 years old on her main save. I asked her why and she said that she wanted to get legendary archery. Still scared of her to this day

Skyrim's population is both bigger than I thought and smaller than it should be

Imagine being a random citizen in a neighboring nation in Tamriel, like in raven rock, hearing scattered reports of a great dragonborn legend who helps everyone and became the leader of several guilds due to their greatness, and then a few months later, hearing reports that the very same dragonborn has gone mad and is murdering everyone, only for those reports to slowly become more and more infrequent before stopping completely. And then hoping and praying that he doesn't leave Skyrim.

Bro turned Solitude into a solitude

The ending was actually really depressing. After all that carnage, the dragonborn cant live with the guilt of murdering an entire nation and takes his own life. A very fitting ending

Imagine how horrifying it would be to live in a neighboring country to skyrim, and hearing about this massacre until reports just cease coming.

Genocide has never been this well narrated.

"Oh hey I forgot Skyrim existed let me play it for 50 hours in one week, then then not touch it until next year" ouch my guy I felt that

Never before have I seen someone not be psychotic with this kinda challenge and even feel bad about it, crazy

36:02 sadly for you, if you successfully calm the champion of boethia using emperors voice he has dialogue about how he decided to betray boethia because he was sickened by her and what she made him do and that he is actually a decent person now, its like as if you murdered a redeemed version of you in blind frustration, completely sealing your fate to moral degradation.

I can’t believe how easily you took out Whiterun. The security in Whiterun is terrible, shameful is what it is.

“i thought about bringing lydia but didnt want to get too attached” *marries her*

21:44 Derkeethus is certified friend shaped. Look at that smile

When you've had half your life be involving these characters, this story... I definitely understand it can take a toll to kill them all

This is like the set up for a creepypasta. "I found this old xbox 360 and booted up skyrim. I noticed there was a save already on it so I loaded it up. I found every named NPC was dead"

If no one has congratulated you on elegantly piling the corpses into an assortment of different shapes and sizes, then I'll do so. Congratulations good sir.

I love it how at the beginning he has so much eneggy, enthusiasm, and soul into the challenge, afterwards as if he had lost every aspect of himself just like his character, not realizing how much he loved each and every character within the game. He is the only youtuber ive seen to show mercy to npcs and it makes you reflect on things you've done in games and what you do in your games. I hope we get to see an actual fun challenge from him soon in Skyrim

Even though this was just a silly video made for fun, I feel like the fact that you felt empathy for simply the IDEA of a human being (and dog) sort of lends to the idea that humans are more inherently good than evil.

They thought Alduin would be the end of the world, but the world slayer was standing right next to them all along.

Imagine the scene... The empire hears about random massacres that are happening around the hold of Skyrim, along with the assassination of the emperor in said hold. alongside that, the aldmeri dominion receives the news that their embassador in Skyrim and all of their agents have been systematically murdered. They send a scouting legion to check out the region along with some thalmore legions... Only to be met with a dead providence, every hold, town, village, outpost, guild and political figure, dead... All murdered without a second though... They search the land... No one besides animals and the ocasional bandits that escaped the slaughter, telling tales of a dark knight, followed by a black miasma of death. The empire tries to repopulate Skyrim... But no one wants to be there anymore, seeing the place as a cursed land. The aldmeri dominion starts numerous missions to try and locate this "Dark knight" as to eliminate him, afraid that he might try and spread this massacre across the land of tamriel, or worst... To them! Throughout all of that... On top of the throat of the world stands the corpse of this so called dark night... His armor poisoning the land around him. In the end, the only creature capable of killing him... Was himself.

Rarely do I watch or read something that makes me need to stop, step back and take a moment to internalise my emotions. This was one of them. The ending has me laying in bed staring straight into my dark screen with unseeing eyes. It was horrible. It was beautiful. You did an amazing job with the tone of the video, the cinematics, the music choice... All I can say is wow, kudos man. Didnt think I'd be this profoundly affected by a Skyrim RU-vid video but you succeeded in doing so. You have a new fan!

*Video starts* *Immediately sees Far Cry 5 reference* Oh yeah, this one is gonna be a good one

Im going to be honest, after you killed Parthunax, and said there was one more character, I was fully expecting, "I've been looking for you"

If you used the Ebony Blade for the entire challenge, you would have learned what it does. The Ebony Blade grows in power every time you specifically kill an npc with a relation value of 3 (friend) or higher (so, lover). It actually grows to be the strongest weapon in the game in terms of base damage, and you even get dialogue from the daedric prince it belongs to every time it gets stronger

''After a while this stinky little man starts having schizophrenic episodes in which he talks to a rotten corpse and- Oh is this rotten corpse talkin' to me?!'' As somebody who has done the Dark brotherhood quests at least 3 times, I can confirm that this is the best explanation of all that happens possible XD

For joining the dark brotherhood, clairvoyance points to Vasha only because he’s at the top of the objective list in the quest, which is what clairvoyance will guide you to. So realistically speaking, Vasha isn’t necessarily the target. That said, in-universe, I don’t think the clairvoyance spell would mislead you.

Dumpy: "I have come home, master..." Paarthurnax: "This is no longer your home and I am no longer your master."

8:47 “I just slayed two dragons and saved your village from being burnt to a crisp” “You shouted at that man” “He was running towards the dragon and went in front of me” “It doesn’t matter. He’s dizzy because of you, so you deserve to go to jail” “…I should just kill everyone…”

Your approach is waaay more organized than mine was. I tried this same thing back in 2012. I would also loot all of the bodies so that they were ‘naked’ and drag them to a central location in whatever town/area I was in. This also resulted in me accumulating so much crap that my house in Whiterun became a hoarder house that was so cluttered, it would crash the game when I tried enter it. I ended up giving up the ghost after a couple months and had probably accomplished only about 2/3 of what you did, lol. Thanks for the motivation (and guidance!) for getting me interested in trying it out again.

” I have to kill all the kids in this orphanage.” 😂

You could argue that Alduins soul in this version of events was reborn as the Dragonborn. A poetic irony.

Imagine traveling to Skyrim and seeing nothing but rotten corpses.

ive only been playing for a few years (maybe 3) and i completely understand the connection you were talking about. Hard to spend so much time with these npcs and not get attached or feel like they were real people who affected your life. I think addressing that the challenge didn't make you feel good is honeslty the healhtiest way to address it. This video reminds me of the premise of DDLC which is definitley a more meme centered version since it starts as a spoof of the anime dating sim, but it also talks about the level to which npcs exist and the impact of in game actions on coded characters. It was really hard to play and was super dark, but its a solid game in terms of AI Philosophy. But again, you can acheive the same questions this way.

Ahh, that intro took me back. I remember when we used disks. When Blurays were just a thing you saw once at your grandparents' rich neighbors house, and downloads were exclusively for DLCs and XBox Indie/arcade titles, because memory sticks came in the megabytes ~~and also you didnt know emulation counted as piracy.~~ When birds were still real. God i miss pigeons. Most rizzed up lil' dinosaurs you ever did see.

Damn, imagine you're an imperial soldier who's just been stationed in Skyrim and when you arrive, you're just surrounded by the corpses of everyone.

This guy literally desecrated all of his memories, present and future, with Skyrim for science. I don't know If I could ever have made that sacrifice

I'm not normally a commenter on videos, but holy cow the way this video opened was awesome. The music choice, the cinematography, the way it started with no dialog. Great stuff!

You're story telling is excellent! So well put together. As sad as it was to watch many beloved NPC's meet their end.

Imagine coming to skyrim and all you find are skeletons...

This run just makes me think about Uncle Parthy's line “What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”

this really was a 10/10 video i felt connected throughout super good writing and editing

"I cull the herd, it's what i do"-Dumpykong

Dumpy, The Daedric Prince of Genocide. At least he was consistent and at the end he offed his vessel, finally clearing the province of Skyrim of all humanoid and intelligent lives. A cataclysmic event more destructive than Alduin, thankfully contained by the mountains of Skyrim. One message has stuck through time from Dumpy: "All my homies hate Mercer" and it was true

THE EBONY WARRIOR IS PART OF THE DRAGONBORN DLC, I DID NOT MISS HIM

This video introduced me to musical bands “the platters,and the capris” thank you dumpy Kong for rekindling my love for 50s music

Every time I re-watch this video, I get reminded of how well it is made. The music and cinematography are top-tier.

“Not just the men. But the women. And the children too.” -this guy. lol

i walked into this vid expecting a fun lighthearted time but as it got darker i remembered completing the civil war questline for the first time when i was like twelve years old. i had picked the stormcloaks, and as such got very very attatched to ralof. i didn't know he was an essential npc so i ended up frantically searching every major city and town after the final battle, thinking he had died. i seriously almost started crying. i eventually found him at the sleeping giant inn and up to that point i had never been so relieved over the events of a fictional story in my life. it's honestly wild that video games can tap into such a raw emotional force.

I wanted to try and attempt this, so I started making a doc using the list over at Skyrim.Fandom, only to find out way too late it doesn't include everyone (ow). UESP seems a lot more reliable though I recommend it to anyone trying this, though you'll have to dig a lot to find certain uniques like Arvak or Farkas/Vilkas' wolf spirits. Anyways great video, it inspires me to beat people up

I love how dramatic the beginning is, it just lets you see the detail you've put into it.

Interesting that you had never seen Anise before as, for me, she was the one characters that opened my eyes to how much detail Skyrim had. I remember that, when I first started playing, I walked by her house, saw her and thought "she is probably a witch" (Typical old medieval witch living in the woods by herself cliché), but, as I noticed she wasn't hostile, I entered her house and noticed the door to her cellar. I sneaked in and read her letter to Moira talking about wanting to create a witch coven, confirming my suspicion. I didn't notice, however, that I was stealing the note, as all the books I had seen so far could just be taken. I kept doing my quests, went to Riverwood and one of the kids there asked me to play hide and seek. She counted to three and, no joke, as soon as the countdown ends, I hear "should've never come here!" as I'm being attacked by hired thugs. At first, I thought it was a programmed event where a kid would bait you into looking away as some dudes tried to kill you (Would be cool if it was), but, then, I found out by looting their bodies that she was the one that hired them. So I went back there and found her to be hostile (I left there sneaking the first time, so I could fast travel near her) and killed her. Later, when doing the Sanguine Rose questline, I immediately remembered that Moira was the name of her sister that she was sending letters to. With the simple act of getting in the house of this old witch, I learned about the NPC relations, the hired thug/bounty system, the hargravens and how much cool lore and details there was in this game. So, even though she's really irrelevant, she's a very important NPC to me.

In this universe it turns out that the dragonborn was actually the world eater.

The way you arranged the bodies are the beginning is nothing short of art.

I didn't think this video will affect me as much as it did. It was especially hard at the end with Paarthurnax and Greybeards

Man, this was quite depressing - testament to how attached we get to people and characters, fictional or not.

Plot twist - this was the only way to create huge army in Sovngarde to fight Alduin. The most moral thing a man could ever do.

Not explaining why Blood on the ice being a least favorite is a bold move lol. Great vid

Also just finished this video, you're a maniac bro I love it subbed for sure

THE EDITING GOES HARD NO WONDER IT TOOK SO LONG

Graybeards: We can show you the way, but not the destination. Dragonborn: *Kills everyone* Graybeards: You cuk

U deserve a like and a subscribtion for all the work u done behind the scenes, the effort and time. Good job.

I'm shook... like completely shook. I thought this would be hilarious, and although it started that way, I actually felt terrible. Except 29:15 because Braith is a dirty diaper ... but man when you killed lucia I actually had to log into my game and give her a present because she is and will always be my daughter every time I play. Thank the divines you didn't have hearthfire and go after Sofie because I would have actually cried. This was really well done. Also sad to see you kill Farkas, my go to husband. Damn.

It's comedic how fitting the ebony blade would be for this.

16:40 "All this murdering has made me tired, I think I'll take a break" *one month later* "Holy shit, where am I?" So relatable 🤣

truly one of the most cinematic skyrim videos I've ever seen

You could’ve ended the video be reloading a save from before you first started your slaughterfest, essentially bullshitting every NPC back to life and claiming it was all just a terrible dream. lol

As much of a meme this video was, Mia's reaction to seeing her mother killed in front of her felt too real. Whiterun really is such a well made city, too many great characters.

I remember when I first played the forsworn conspiracy on my 5th play through. Instead of surrendering to the guards I decided the best course of action was to wipe out the entirety of the markarth city guard. Took me a few playthroughs and hundreds of markarth guards to realize I was suppose to get arrested.

I kinda did this in Oblivion as a teen on my nth play through and had done most everything. My friend came over and wanted to play and travelled to the imperial city, by that time I'd forgotten I'd killed everyone and looted everything from them, and dragged them into piles like I was raking a lawn. As he walked the street he discovered my work, various piles of dead, naked npcs. We both died laughing.

The starting establishment shots with all the bodies would be such a good way to start a "Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe" Movie. Also thanks for giving me Jacob Seed PTSD

So this is basically what barbus's owner would've done had you wished for peace in skyrim. "With a snap of me fingers and every citizen in skyrim dead! No more war."

This really sounds like an actual killer's documentary on how he killed people and what he felt.

"I will command a great and terrible army and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished."

I love how the meaning of only you went from a love song to something that represents psychosis

Went into the video giggling thinking it was hilarious, ended the video actually genuinely sad. Even if they are fictional characters as you said you form a bond with em

I like to believe, from a narrative stand point, that this is the result of actually consuming Alduins soul. He is too strong, even in ethereal form, and he corrupts the Dragonborns mind, body and soul, and slowly the Dragonborn deteriorates mentally until all that's left is to eat the world. So they start slaughtering anyone and everyone, not sleeping or eating, wearing dark armors that feel at home as Alduins scales once did, and at the very end kills themselves in a final bout of lucidity before Alduins spirit consumes them completely.

You forgot about your adopted child's mud crab that they find randomly as a pet

What an effort you put into this, nicely done man!

The most memorable line of this entire video “I didn’t wanna get too close to anyone, because I need to kill them all in the end”

Dang, that got darker and darker. In the beginning I was like thinking hey I kinda want to try this too. Now I am thinking that maybe it is better not to even try. Also the editing and the story itself is all well done. I love the choices of music and the way things are presented. Then to finally kill the last person in Skyrim (not spoiling) was both poetic and depressing. After everything was dead it made living itself empty. (I shared it with my discord 👌)

25:02 "Not only do I have to kill the npcs outside, at the blacksmith, at the local inn, but I need to kill all the kids in this orphanage..." I nearly laughed myself to death seeing the orphanage doors in Riften as he said that

It blows my mind you never found Anise! I pay her a visit just about every time I play. Finding the trapdoor to her witch lair for the first time was special

i’m actually kinda upset no one commented on how perfect the intro sequence was. i fucking loved that shit man. i legit replayed it 7 times. i can’t remember what movie or tv show it was inspired from but i know exactly what you did 😂

Imagine being in the position of those two kidnappees that were at the beginning of the dark brotherhood quest. You were feet, inches away from death, but were ultimately spared and found a way to go back to your normal life. You wanted it to be over, that nightmare is behind you. But that was only the start of it. Soon enough, you learn that you two were the only ones that were left after a man had gone around all of Skyrim, killed everybody, and then himself, leaving the world a desolate domain. Nothing but pure destruction, indiscriminate death. You’re all that’s left.

I love the edits with the music. Great edits and great vid

The music makes the video worth it in so many ways💪

It's a lot like Genocide mode in Undertale. Slaying all the characters that you bonded with in several playthroughs. Killing the last few characters really felt like droplets in an ocean. But I got to see what would happen

As Dump looks over Skyrim, he felt Paarthrunax’s soul enter his own, becoming just another of the countless dragons he had slain. As Whiterun, and all the other major cities in the land burned, creating orange dots on the map like world, Dump began to come to terms at what he had done. He had killed everyone, his friends, the closet thing he had ever had to family, and his wife, Lydia, sacrificed to Boethia. Then something dawned on Dump, as he removed the mask of Nakhiriin, for what felt like the first time in years, he looked out over the world and knew there was still one person left, him. Dump began to take steps toward the ledge, and closed his eyes as he felt the ground leave his feet. He awaited what fate would befall him. He felt a pain in his spine and neck, and then it all stopped. Dump opened his eyes, and got to his feet. He saw that he was now in Sovengarde. And ready to face his consequences, he raised Wuuthrad and made the trek to his judgement.

5:53 That actually fascinates me, because I came across her in my first playthrough, and ever since then, I make sure to kill her in every playthrough for a free bed to sleep in prior to buying a house. She always attacks me first, so it's not murder. Granted, she attacks me because I broke into her cellar, but the game says it's not murder, so it's fine. :)

this video give me the vibe of the shadow of the colossus, like in the shadow of colossus as each colossus u kill the protagonist start to get more consumed by the shadows of each colossus and his voice during the game get more empty as each phase pass

"Are we racist? Or are we a pussy?" 10/10 line

Nobody gonna talk about the wholesome story of how his older brother didn't bother getting his half for the game and paid it all himself Shout out to the big bros who spoil the young ones

Very wholesome intro with talking about you and your bro getting the game to play.

I am 4 minutes in and not only does this seem likes it going to be fun to watch, I hope I get to learn some information about Skyrims lesser used characters that I didnt know before.

Honestly, the end of this video shows that even the toughest, heartless players of this game aren’t completely heartless. This shows how attached we can get to these characters. It makes it better that Dumpy just felt bad rather than, “HAHA ALL THESE GUYS WERE TRASH SO EASY TO KILL LMAO”

Oddly enough Anise was the first real character I killed the day I got the game I was exploring around river wood because I wasn’t paying attention to the quest line telling me to go to Whiterun and I stumbled upon her shack to steal some things and she didn’t like it so I just started sword bashing her and it did the cool kill cam thing and I was blown away a knew from then on I was going to like this game That was 11 years ago and I remember it just like yesterday

You put an impressive amount of effort into this and it’s appreciated 👍

This video is so... Bethesda. The music picks, the cinematic shots, the real emotion and sorrow.. It's perfect.