What are the penalties for necrophilia in Skyrim?

Just asking :whistling:



Somehow, this sounds... familiar.

The way they said it, I think you don't witness your entire execution. I think that you fight your way out before they kill you. "Luckily, it seems like you are more than just a helpless convict."

Mass Effect 2, anyone?

Odds are your execution will be interupted by a dragon who then proceeds to lay waste to the town and then you use the carnage to cover your escape, that seems to be the most popular theory at the moment.

Well, in real life, many medieval germanic cultures (Danes, Noweigans, Swedes, etc.) [ie. Nords], had a law known as Wergild, where each individual was assigned a price, and, if killed, the killer would have to pay this price to the victim's family. Once the wergild was paid, the event was more or less forgiven.
Therefore I find it unlikely that in Skyrim, we'd be executed for murder, indeed the "pay 1000g for murder" from oblivion is actually quite realistic, and fairly accurately matches documents of germanic law. Even a king had a wergild.

potential spoiler warning! (my guesses have turned out to be right from time to time)

No I think it far more likely that you, and the member of the blades (who's name for some reason escapes me), have both being held by a group of individuals who are hunting down and killing the last of the Blades and Dragonborn (perhaps Alduin worshippers). You first meet the Blade (can anyone remember his name? the old guy from the teaser video) in prison, you either share a cell or have adjoining ones. From your cell you have a clear view of the execution block. It may or may not ever be revealed why exactly the Alduin worshippers abducted you (perhaps they suspected that you were a dragonborn, or maybe you just wandered by their camp at a bad time (call it fate)), certainly the Blade doesn't have any idea, he probably doesn't even admit that he's a member of the blades yet, he tells you of a plan to escape, but before you can put your plan into action, the guards come. You are hauled off to be executed first, as the axe is about to fall, you scream instinctively, and end up making your first Dragon shout (probably some sort of shockwave that either knocks the executioner back, or kills him). The Blade escapes in the commotion, you are stunned and/or wounded and he drags you to safety, revealing that he is a member of the blades, and that what you did was a dragon shout (I doubt if he knows that you're a dragonborn yet, just that you have the voice), and then the game begins.

No, it's from Fallout: New Vegas.

For being in the wrong crowd at the wrong time, I guess. Hey, civil wars tend to get a little hectic, you see?

Well, Mass Effect 2 DID have some variation on that.

Thanks for spoiling the beginning with THE TITLE.

Damnit.

They obviously found the Adoring Fan, whom i had manacled in the secret basemant of my haunted house in Anvil, where Cliff Racers eternally tore his liver out. Damn,

Did you see the executioner? Not happening this time. This is not a bullet that could get lodged in your the head, the dude http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4172/skyrimexecutioner.jpg.

It would have to be a double that gets his head chopped off, not the PC.

What if if we actually were executed? Not beheaded as that would be to unrealistic, but perhaps they shot the PC with some arrows or something and the power of the Dragonborn revived us after the event. Perhaps we wake up lying in a ditch somewhere not knowing what happened. Obviously this would be a one-time thing, otherwise the PC would be invincible and that wouldn't work. Probably not, just another thought. How powerful is the Dragonborn prophecy? It would be a way to actually witness our own execution without thr cheesy last-minute rescue/chaotic escape event that we are all expecting.

I stole a fork back in Cyrodiil, got caught by a guard. He yelled "Stop right there criminal scum!"....I didn't stop. I traveled northward to Skyrim. The Legion sent a message by way of a carrier pigeon to the Skyrim guards telling them of my heinous crime and criminally scummy ways. I got caught in a tavern getting fresh with that lady in the screen shot. :disguise:

Perhaps we do indeed die in the beginning... and stay dead until some whacky necromancer resurrect our body.

Or we just forsee the future in a vision.

The article says we witness our own execution I will stick to my theory of being reborn as Dragonborn. we know Deadra can spare lives even in impossible situations, such as Molag Bal's quest. (however he does give you a special weapon for the task, I don't think the weapon is what does it, since he says "As you are doing this for me, I'll save your miserable life. Probably.")

i killed all the men and made a giant gay pile in the market district

Skooma, Drink & ride. :foodndrink:

Well, i'm going with the backstory that my Skyrim character will be the child of my Oblivion character, who was a Dark Brotherhood assassin who was executed, and in revenge killed everyone who had something to do with the trial and execution. This assuming that khajiiti live ~200 years, which would make the character 50 to 100 years old by the time Skyrim starts. I think too much :blush:

It was the same "I was dead, but then I got better" deal.

... Prevent Alduin from eating the world again, thus condemning the world to crumble and rot. Well, in any case, the beginning execution would only be a flashforward, and you would understand only at the end the price for wanting to be a big shiny hero and messing with stuff you clearly don't understand. That'd be hilarious.

It's still related to prison so they aren't omitting tradition completely.

This would be the best way IMO:

You just start walking the "green mile", seeing the noose around your neck, YES THERE SHOULD BE VISIBLE BODIES IN FIRST PERSON and so on. Somehow you escape but you still don't know why you ere to be executed. Until you meet Esbern who tells you why, and this will be after you've already done a bunch of things so Esberns story will be based on what kind of morality your character has. If you've been nice to people, he'll tell you you were framed. If not, maybe that you committed a murder.

In any case, a "framed"-concept would always work.

I think it will be like oblivion where you get no answer.

You captured Adoring Fan the immortal vampire and used him as a prosttute for wealthy nord women.

An execution is a bit too much to just let go of. I'm pretty sure you'll have the option to get revenge somehow.

You were playing on computer while Chuck Norris was speaking.
It is punishable by DEATH.