User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-26289488-20120818052345/@comment-4237253-20120818100045

1. Thanks! The world is indeed interesting, it's so chuck full of interesting stories to uncover, I just wish they were more connected and polished.

2. I've heard good things about Serana. Erandur has a comment about nearly everything, but there's no way to alter the course of his dialogue. Everything he will ever say is set in stone from the moment you hire him, and all the dialogue can be found be simply going to all the different places. He doesn't react to the world, the events within it, or my actions. That last one is odd because he's usually taking part in said action!

3. Yeah... I have no idea why they did that. If I recollect correctly, they don't serve any purpose in the quests, and are merely there for dialogue and backdrop. It's bad enough they make an unreasonable amount of characters related to the quest one way or another essential, but these guys have nothing to do with anything! It's just weird and jarring. It's only purpose is to take me out of the game.

4. Sorry about your old friend there, mate. Maybe that cool mount from Dawnguard would make a suitable replacement? If not him, I think Shadowmere may respawn, but I don't know for sure. You may have to some research on that.