this has always bothered me,

through the series, we encounter the Ghosts of Numerous individuals, some of which we have slain while others were slain by separate Individuals..


however, it seems most of the people killed do not leave behind ghosts..



is there any lore explanation as to what causes some people to leave ghosts behind but not others?

Man, why is there an apostrophe in that title?

It seems like ghosts only hang around if there is serious unfinished business in their lives or, in the case of Dunmer, they have been dikes in life and are atoning for it by guarding tombs.

My conjecture is that their selfish desire to see something through prevents their personalities from being erased by the dreamsleeve, so they get to putter around a bit past their expiration date until that desire is extinguished (in one way or another). Other people who might have the same type of reason for becoming ghosts, but who are less tenacious, would just get swept away and recycled.

my phones auto-correct does odd things at times

"Some spirits are bound to this world because of some terrible circumstances of their death, or because of some powerful emotional bond to a person, place, or thing. These are called hauntings."

-http://www.imperial-library.info/content/ancestors-and-dunmer-abridged