POLL: Do you "bury" your fallen companions? : V

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:57 pm

So yeh, simple topic, meant for us immersive RP'ers. I know you can't technically 'bury" them, but I started creating mini shrines to them whenever they fall in battle. Uthgard is propped up in a cave with her helmet beside her and Greatsword I gave her, surrounded by a bunch of dead Alik'r soldiers. Well, I couldn't do much for Lydia, she sort of died twice on me. She died, then was resurrected by a vampire, and then I turned her into an ash pile. Poor Lydia. So yeh, feel free to chime in!

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:22 am

Depends on were i am. I may burn, bury, or have them float off into the river in a nice funeral.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:15 am

Usually I lose my followers in the barrows, so I try to put them in the shelf areas the dragur sleep on or in the coffins.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:42 am

No. I loot their bodies and leave them for the skeevers. If there's any collateral damage in a dragon fight or something, and there's a river nearby, I give the corpses a decent send off. And when the entire populus of an inn in one of the smaller settlements decided to attack me, I put all their bodies on the fire in the middle of the room, making it look like a mass funeral pyre. That was pretty cool.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:22 am

I shoot a fireball at their body and watch it fly.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:05 am

I have only ever lost a follower once and it was on my first playthrough. Didn't do much about it, just shrugged it off and continued my journey onwards to the unknown, leaving poor lydias body in an ancient draugr tomb.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:43 pm

It depends on the character I play.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:23 pm

Interestingly yesterday my follower (who was uthgard) died and in whiterun a courier came up to me and gave me a letter that bequethed me 300 gold and condolences from the jarl, and when I went into the hall of the dead there was a coffin for her with her possesions in it. This was on my second playthrough and I've never seen it on my main

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:01 am

I put them in rivers to let nirn take whem wherever it wants if I am near one. Sice I can't actually bury them lol.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:59 am

I also 'burry' dead I find on the road. Such as earlier I came across an ambushed caravan, I slew the bandits and roughly disposed their bodies into the tree-line to be carrion.

The caravaniers however were laid next to their caravan... Caravaniers in death as in life, forever guarding that caravan perhaps? Or perhaps, forever protecting other caravans using that road.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:38 pm

I usually "burry" someone if they put up a good fight and are placed at an epic location. I found a bandit on top of a fallen tree over a river. "FUS RO DAH" and into the river with her...

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:17 pm

Faendal died in a Dwemer ruin. I gave him burial in a fountain. My morally ambiguous, sixually ambiguous orc named "Bonemuncher" will grow more powerful over time and his story arc will culminate when he becomes powerful enough to resurrect Faendal with the forgotten spell, "console"

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:02 pm

Add an option for:

"I don't svck, and neither do my companions. None of them have died."

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:58 pm

I slaughtered a group of arrogant Thalmor a**holes and piled their corpses up as a warning to any others invading this land...

but no Lydia has been sitting in my room for months.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:13 pm

I do my best to cross their arms and leave their weapon in their hands.

I take an item from a fallen comrade, and put it on display in my house so that I will remember them

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:41 pm

Lydia died in Blackreach, so my Imperial laid her on a table with her sword and shield beside her.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:15 pm

None of mine have died yet, but I will when they do.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:20 pm

Yea when my campanions are wounded and fall to the ground to recover, enemies target me so i dont understand how campanions can die

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:13 pm

Sven died, I looked at his sorry ass as the axe blades swished back and forth in the corridor, chuckled, and moved on.
Dragonborn does not care for idiots, death is a blessing to them.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:29 pm

I wish in master restoration there was a revive skill. It would be pretty epic training in it end game just to bring a companion back, but then the AI probably wouldn't realize what happened, would say something snappy. then you'd be like "-.- back to sovangarde you go"

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:27 am

I either loot them or open console and resurrect...

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:19 pm

I "buried" Lydia when she was killed by a Frost Troll on my way to visit the Greybeards. I dragged her all the way from where she died to the front of the Greybeard's castle so she could "see" it and propped her up next to the chest among all the other offerings people leave for the Greybeards. I felt it was fitting.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:54 pm

Yea when my campanions are wounded and fall to the ground to recover, enemies target me so i dont understand how campanions can die

Fireballs, traps, etc.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:22 am

i revive them with dead thrall and take them to the sea of ghost, and drop them in along with a very nice group of flowers and jewelry

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:36 pm

I "buried" Lydia when she was killed by a Frost Troll on my way to visit the Greybeards. I dragged her all the way from where she died to the front of the Greybeard's castle so she could "see" it and propped her up next to the chest among all the other offerings people leave for the Greybeards. I felt it was fitting.

Haha, that's dedication! That troll comes along at about the 5.547 step out of 7,000.