User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim Titbits/@comment-3492791-20120819193859/@comment-3492791-20120820054620

2. I'm not saying it can't be done. I meant, since the area the home is placed in must be relatively flat and devoid of obstuctions, there are not a terrible amount of places they can be placed if you want a decent sized home and not just more shacks.

5. I don't mean they should have names, just because. Having a name gives you a form of mortality. The nameless city guards are technicly immortal because of their namelessness. Kill every guard in the city, come back the next day and everyone is back. We can get away with this because it is assumed these are "different people". Killing someone with a name is very final. Since you know their name, you know exactly who you killed. And when you go back to town the next day and see the guy you know for a fact died by your hand the day before, is very much alive, your immersionis broken.

The camp captains are given this sense of mortality by being named. Thus they must be protected because of it. If they were nameless "[blank] Captain", when kill them and all their nameless soldier friends, and come back a few days later and see the camp is fully manned once again, we can assume these are all "different people" and not a group of zombies.

Sure they have some unique "captain dialoge", but nothing that import that it warrent's the need to protect them. I don't think i've heard anything they say that singles them out as individuals. Every captain (of their respective allegiance) has the exact same dialoge. They are paraticly already all the same person anyway.