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^ Radioactive gas clouds? The "Candlelight" spell makes the brightness of some areas go completely beserk.
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^ "I need some arrows that can take down a dragon." "Why of course. Will you also be needing the bow that shoots rainbows? Or a quiver that dispenses beer?" That's right buddy, just keep laughing when that totally-not-fictional dragon flies over Solitude and burns down your shop.
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^ Well that isn't ominous at all.
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^ "But this land is ours and we''ll see it wiped clean. Of the scourge that has sullied our hopes and our dreams." Says the dunmer bard, in Windhelm, where the local Nord population passionately hates the dunmer. Irony much?
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^ There is still no sand, but Khajiit is happy to be warm in front of fire.
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^ "You can't go a party at the Thalmor Embassy dressed like that." What are you, my mother? It's a political statement!
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^ The calm before the blizzard...
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^ "Now that we've got that out of the way, I'll take everything you have... or your life." Bandits have very VERY poor survival instincts.
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^ Lydia somehow manages to fight (and kill) draugr through a stone wall.
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^ "I've got a bad feeling about this." This place rates about a 9.0 on my Evil Boss-o-meter
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^ "Strange. According to history Solitude attacked Winterhold, but Aesgir seems to be saying Olaf reacted. What do we say happened?" If you ever wondered why so much of TES lore makes no sense and half of it contradicts the other half? This is the reason, right here. Find new information that contradicts what you already have? Make stuff up.