» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:15 pm
If you're looking for interesting finds, start walking. It sounds obvious, but it's one of the best 'words of wisdom' out there. It's fun to have people point nifty things out to you, but it's even more fun to stumble across them yourself. I remember meandering along once and coming across a burning wagon with the bodies of a man and a woman lying dead beside it. I looked through the woman's belongings and found a journal detailing her husband's insistence that they make haste with their goods towards Solitude. She feared being attacked by bandits and didn't think the road from Whiterun to Solitude was safe - and she was right. Another time I found a journal in what looked to be an abandoned campsite that spoke of a cave its author was investigating in a nearby mountain. I located the mountain and found the author dead, a second journal entry describing the circumstances of his demise. And none of these random finds were linked to quests, either. They're just out in the world, ripe for the picking.