User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E1: I can't kill these guys/@comment-25109952-20131025182427/@comment-1600847-20131025184945

What MoS said. If anyone could die, it would ruin the game. Think about it: what if an important quest character (i.e Delphine) gets killed in a vampire/dragon attack when you're halfway accross the map? You won't know about it, and when you actually come to do the quest, you find them lying on the ground, dead. Boom, Main Quest is now un-completable. Now on the PC this could easily be fixed, but what about the console users? We would have to re-start the whole game! But this way, important plot characters won't die in something the player has zero control over.