I was walking in the rift around where the natural springs are and saw a giant standing over his mammoth who was in the water dead, I went to investigate and expected him to start swinging at me but he just stood there staring at his mammoth. I got right up to him and he wouldn't even pay any attention to me he was just staring at his mammoth completely non-hostile. He looked so sad and I felt so bad that I thought I should do something and left my favorite war hammer i'd had since I first started the game (I keep my first weapons usually as trophies) in front of the mammoth, I don't think the hammer would have meant much to either of them but it meant a lot to me so I felt it was appropriate.
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Anyone else ran across this giant and mammoth or experienced something even sadder?

Wow. That's pretty powerful. I haven't seen anything like that.

He made me sad. Until these two bears showed up out of nowhere, I ran towards the Giant and I let him take out his rage on them. Then he resumed being sad. :c

That was very cool that you left him a gift. I haven't seen that yet.

I really enjoyed reading that

I have heard rumors that not all giants will attack.

It's these things that make such a big difference. Can't wait to see what else is out there.

It's the most compassion I've felt for an NPC in a game in a really long time. I stopped killing giants after that. I'll wait for mods to create hostile factions of giants or something because the ones currently in the game just seem like territorial and nomadic teddy bears.

I saw this random stray dog somewhere outside of winterhold
it seemed really sad out there in the cold all alone
So I immediately ran after it in hopes of saving it when 2 ice wraiths appeared and killed it before I even got close
so sad

That's sad... Ever encountered Meeko the dog? That must be the saddest thing in a video game so far


Where is those hotsprings though? North of Riften?

I can't reveal mine due to spoilers but one of the guild missions was probably my saddest moment.

Most giants I've run into are being attacked by a dragon. I think it is some random encounter "dragon is attacking giant", but these spawn on the roads. So after I kill the dragon, a giant is now standing in the road, and won't let me pass.

I'm thinking this giant accidentally killed his mammoth, and his AI is stuck in an infinite loop.

Yes about in the middle of the rift, look on your map and it kind of looks like a desert area

I haven't seen that yet but I did find the three hunters soaking nvde in the hot springs (2 women and a man).

I felt sorry for them, so I took off all my clothing and joined them.

http://i40.tinypic.com/rmteuq.jpg

(Obviously this was a much more interesting when I had the nvde mod added)

A farmer was offering a cow to the giants as a sign of peace.

They then proceded to crush his skull...I have no pity for those....things.

Yeah I've seen him too

Very touching story. I have yet to come across that Wooly Mammoth and Giant in my chilly travels.

As for doing similar, myself i came across this memorial in a dungeon with a reef of roses and skulls. For some odd reason i was moved and thought of a Forum Modder who passed on awhile ago by the name of Grumpy. So i left a red ruby and a book. What was eerie is when i dropped the book on the ground the book opened and stayed opened as if ghostly eyes were reading it.

On sad stuff. Yea theres a ton of stuff which i wont mention since it could be considered spoilers. SKYRIM is definitely a mature work letting me know death can come to anyone at any time and quite brutally.

whenever enemies fall to their knees battered and broken, begging for surrender, only for me to be trigger happy and accidentally kill them... of course the one time i DID spare them they eventaully got up and attacked me again...wtf?

i actually felt sorry for a frost troll... it fought off a dragon AND giant that came into its territory... i helped with the dragon, but he took on the giant solo and WON! right after his victory, he took an arrow to the chest and was brought to his knees as happens when hit by a critical. right as i saw that [censored] of a guard aiming for him, she shot him again and he lurched back against a tree, dead. shot dead like a dog in his greatest moment of glory...

needless to say, i punched her to death :flame: .

Ha ha :foodndrink:

So much emotion in this thread. :cryvaultboy:

I think it's a scripted event, same think happened to me. :sadvaultboy:

Only giants at their camps will attack. If you come across the sad giant (witch I did.. made me very sad, I stood with him for like 30 minutes). Or a traveling giant and his mammoths they won't attack (From what I'v experienced).

If either of these is what you picked then I thought they were really sad too. If not then I have absolutly no idea what you're talking about and haven't expierenced it yet.

On another account, I found a group of Thalmor escorting a Talos Worshipper, who had his hand's tied, throught the wild. Being a Thalmor hater and beliver of Talos (well my character is, well I personaly hate the Thalmor) I walked straight up the the unrightful prisoner, untied him, gave an axe, snd procceeded to help him beat the mother _______ ____ out of those _______ Talos hating Altmer pieces of ____.

But after the fight I looked for my fellow Talos worshipper and I finally found at the bottom of the waterfall we were fighting next to. I tosssed the Thalmor Justicars down the waterfall and left the axe I gave him, to show that he died fighting for his religious freedom.

Good. :trophy:

The saddest thing I found has been an orc who wanted to die. In my gear and skills he never stood a chance. I brutalised him, which I don't think was the glorious death he was seeking. I felt pretty bad afterwards.