Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.160.190.167-20130802230901/@comment-65.28.9.58-20140413013822

Death may bring a variety of exciting changes to our fine protagonist.

If the Dragonborn goes vampire, it could be possible that he/she never dies.

If a werewolf, Hircine would have the Dragonborn hunt with the other puppies. Considering werewolves typically hunt humans, one must wonder how the prey is sentenced to this afterlife.

(This thread mentioned other weirdos from Oblivion with claims on the Dragonborn’s soul, but I recall only Hircine having explicitly said so.)

The Dragonborn could go to Sovngard, an afterlife that, as Alduin ironically reveals, does not escape death. (And where would people killed in their afterlives even go?)

The Dragonborn may be killed and then reanimated for some time by a lonely someone likely needing a Chess partner.

The Dragonborn may find himself reliving a previous experience going as far back as his/her first trespass into Skyrim. (This is an allusion to the game’s saving mechanics. (The next Elder Scroll’s game will feature the historic crumbling of the Fourth Wall.))

If the Dragonborn dies, the entire world may cease to exist. (This fine reference to existentialism is humorously apt because the player never experiences the world without the Dragonborn, though we must avoid the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.)

The Dragonborn may find himself trapped in Azura’s Star, damned to ponder the lack of gravity affecting the aspects of the landscape. (As I recall, the area is floating, as are some crystal structures.)

And, to conclude with a religiously provocative statement worthy of such a facetious list, the Dragonborn’s death will be followed with nothing because there is no god nor afterlife, and religion is generally a crock. (This does not reflect the views of the author or his extensive crime syndicate.)

I do hope this list was fairly comprehensive. I acknowledge that it does not account for all of the ridiculous possibilities to which the Dragonborn is susceptible. I welcome additional suggestions.

~Your Pet Rock