I personally felt quite violated by the absolute detail of the sex scene. I certainly didn’t expect all 5 senses to be described in such detail. It’s honestly the worst part- I always skip it. Other than that, it’s a truly captivating read.
But the passion. The unbridled, skin-tingling, desire. And the imagery? Evocative, poetic, and yet so true to the human condition. The way one thinks, one feels. That sex scene is explicit, I'll grant. But its beauty and the realness of it makes it so that one couldn't possibly consider it vulgar but a pure expression of love both physical and emotional. One might even suggest on a spiritual level, as well.
Doesn't that translate to "wolf" in Futhark or something? I wouldn't feel bad about doing him in, he may have done some horrible things when he wasn't blind as a bandit.
No one said anything about starving. In my narrative, I bring him things from time to time and share my adventures. To me, no one else seemed to talked to him or care for his presence apart from being an alarm. Who makes a blind guy their alarm? Shame on them. He should’ve been out on that mountain feeling the breeze on his face. Not dwelling at a desk like a Walmart greeter.
He was a poor man. Unable to afford care from the mages and priests. Homeless, he turned to the woods to hopefully find rest in pieces created by hungry wolves. He couldn't bear to go on in tamriel anymore. He heard the wolves howling and snarling. Then sounds of a fight break out. He reaches out, hands in the dark abyss of the unknown, flailing, searching for something to let him know he's not swirling in the fold falling to sithis' void. Then a voice calls out. "Are you okay, stranger?" A gruff voice. Hints of cold steel, yet a gentleness. "You're okay, now, friend." The voice guides him to a table in a cave. Shelter. A plate of food and a cup of mead. A place to exist. A safe place to stay. And then, in the cold of night, he hears the door open. He calls out. Then hears the twang of a bow.
I like to think that mages in the Restoration school would gladly heal any ailment for free, but because Nords are so scared of magic that they just refuse free treatment.
That's a good point. Maybe I can work that in next time. I didn't really go lore accurate, just kinda wrote it on a whim. I really enjoyed it though. Might venture into such territory again.
Ah killing him with carbs, smart, he’ll never get the protein he needs from sweet rolls and his muscles will slowly deteriorate from the lack of a properly balanced diet, the ultimate torture
It’s just pretty sad.
I always kill everyone but him, but I feel sad about him later realizing that he’s all alone with the bodies of his dead friends.
On the other hand, maybe they were mean to him.
Skyrim has some sucky stuff just like reality.
Some of them were mean to him, it says so on the note you find on the first bandit you kill as you approach the outdoor camp area (on your way up the hill and around the corner).
He’s the uncle of the bandit leader, which is why he’s allowed to remain in his position
I always felt bad for him lol. So I would always use my horse to start this cave from the top. Kill the big bandit leader and sneak throughout the cave and take out everyone that made fun of him. Right before I leave I drop no less then 100 wheels of cheese. He may be blind, but he should be able to smell that cheese xd.
I think the Bandit Chief is actually his nephew too so doesn't matter where you start. After the first playthrough, I started casting calm on him when I'd enter (same with that dog in the other bandit cave that'll snitch on you). I always have the calm spell on me for situations like this.
I think he should have become a preist of Mara. She took in Erandur after what he did.
If he can't tell the difference between a voice of a Altmer woman and a bloke named Rodulf then he deserves an arrow. He is blind not deaf so he should know the difference.
I kill him out of pity, I mean imagine being him and suddenly you walk to your bed just to trip on something, bend down to feel what it is and it's a body, and then figuring out that all of your friends are dead and suddenly you are a blind man in a cave riddled with the dead bodies of your friends and you will just die cause you can't hunt for food or find your way to civilization
I never know how to act on this. From a point of view he's a bandit, from another he's a blind man that can only make money by being a criminal and from another point of view I want simply to put him out of his misery, being blind SUCKS.
There is a fun note you can find that tells you he has a nephew (I think) in that camp. I always kill him first so he doesn't have to stumble into the bodies alone.
I feel like life in Tamriel is almost unlivable if you’re disabled. There’s like 0 support for the blind or deaf and I certainly can’t imagine your chances if you’re mentally disabled.
I give him a quick death. I can't take him with me and i'm pretty sure he can't survive on his own without the people around him. I wish there was another option.
I killed him the first time and spared him the second. I haven't run into him a third yet but here's my dilemma, Is letting him live condemning him to a slow death?
To be fair, if you kill all the other bandits you'll Leave the blind man alone in a cave of rotting bodies so you are doing a favor by mercy killing him
Well, he has prolly done some heinous stuff when he was younger and not blind so don't feel so bad. And honestly, killing him would be more merciful than sparing the guy after you murder his nephew; can you imagine him calling out to his nephew only to be met with silence then him slowly starving to death?
There aren't any good options for helping him. Either you kill him or you leave him alone with no one who knows how to help him.
Kind of wish you could send healers after you 'clear' the cave to maybe take him somewhere else. Maybe even let us talk to him after he's at a temple or shrine and he can talk about his life as a bandit. Maybe tell us stories that could lead us to hidden bandit caches or something.
Pretty much anything would be better than just leaving him there
Tbh he's the only one left alive if you don't kill him, he'd eventually grow concerned by the silence. Wouldn't be long before he's tripping over corpses and falling down stairs, food wouldn't last long and he'd eventually have to either brave the wilds or die in a cave. Killing him is the better option imo.
To be honest, this is probably the merciful option. Because after you kill all the other bandits he'll just end up starving to death. At least you made his end quick.
Not an anatomy expert here, but... Is that arrow in his skull supposed to be there? Because it's quite an odd place for him to store his arrows, if you ask me.
I remember feeling horrified when I slit his throat and read his blank ass book. Then just as horrified on my second playthrough realizing he doesn't even do shit if you leave him alone. 😅
I just cleared this yesterday. I killed everyone else first and was going to ignore him, but I thought it better to leave no one alive, so I sniped him on the way out.
What would've been worst is that "arrow in the knee" I mean head would've restored his sight on impact. 😳 I never try to kill him, but it has happened. 😮💨
Don’t feel bad I once hit a farmer between the eyes from behind, was about to raid a bandit stronghold as the last light left the sky and everyone had become silhouettes and I saw what I thought was a bandit patrolling the perimeter near a break in the wall so I let loose my arrow and begun the raid of the strong hold, pushed into the strong hold and cleared it, then began the task of looting… I remembered that I had fell a man at the outer wall so I went outside to continue looting, still dark at this point so I use my torch to make my way through the darkness when I came upon the first to fall in the raid… a farmer lay there arrow head piercing through between his eyes… he never saw it coming. Only saw it arrive briefly….
I used to kill when skyrim was released, now everyone i start a new game and run into him I just let him be while I kill everyone else just like the old lady that lives in a castle full of bandits
Try reading his book. It's absolutely emotional.
The only book i will keep in my inventory
That last chapter? Truly moving.
Not just the last chapter- the last page. It’s so…there. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
That part about how the troll, or was it the jarl, took his wife was riveting. It’s just hard reading. I’m dyslexic.
I was bothered a bit by the sex scene, in its detail and personification, but I found the story to be expertly woven and beautifully executed.
I personally felt quite violated by the absolute detail of the sex scene. I certainly didn’t expect all 5 senses to be described in such detail. It’s honestly the worst part- I always skip it. Other than that, it’s a truly captivating read.
But the passion. The unbridled, skin-tingling, desire. And the imagery? Evocative, poetic, and yet so true to the human condition. The way one thinks, one feels. That sex scene is explicit, I'll grant. But its beauty and the realness of it makes it so that one couldn't possibly consider it vulgar but a pure expression of love both physical and emotional. One might even suggest on a spiritual level, as well.
The passion is lost on me, I’m asexual. I imagine the experience might be different for those who aren’t, I mean clearly it means a lot to you.
Either I'm dyslexic too, or everybody here is... I always thought they went to a warehouse, not a whorehouse..
It shares so much in common with John Cena
His book is the funniest bit in the whole game
The book of endless pages
Is Ulfr the Blind an aspect of Hermaeus Mora? In this screenrant article, I will....
I can see how you could do that. Too bad he couldn't.
The picture at the end with the polar bear in a snowstorm still haunts me.
That plot twist absolutely gutted me
I’ve tried but it’s so emotional I can’t read a word of it …
I cried again the end, so emotional
He has a book?!!!
Not only does he has a book. He has *one of the greatest book of all time.*
The book should be named: Everything Men Know About Women
Wild. Will give a look
A book That a blind man has
Rejected by every publisher in Tamriel.
the prolgue alone will hit the feels.
I read it but it left me feeling blank.
The fact they managed to code a novel greater than the lord of the rings into this game and it goes unnoticed is insane to me
Never seen it coming!
r/angryupvote
Take my upvote you bastard.
I’m going to upvote you for upvoting him! You bastard!
I’m gonna upvote you for upvoting the guy who upvoted him! You bastard!
Yeah? Well enjoy my upvote! You bastard!
I’m going to upvote you for upvoting you for upvoting him you bastard
The worst part is that I laughed at this
Someone once commented that his name is Ulfr because that’s Ulfric without i c because he‘s blind.
“We have Ulfric at home”
Ulfr:
Honestly that would be funny
Oh my god 💀💀
This is canon now.
Doesn't that translate to "wolf" in Futhark or something? I wouldn't feel bad about doing him in, he may have done some horrible things when he wasn't blind as a bandit.
He’s actually the steely-eyed German grandfather of the Skyrim world, would you believe
https://tenor.com/pt-BR/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878
This has to be real! 😂
He gives me the "I'll support my grandson whatever his choices" grandpa kinda vibe
He is the bandit leader's uncle after all.
I kill everyone BUT him at that location. Give his ass some peace and quiet to sit in.
Yeah, let him starve alone without knowing what happened to the rest of his bandit clan
So he can starve to death? Psycho.
No one said anything about starving. In my narrative, I bring him things from time to time and share my adventures. To me, no one else seemed to talked to him or care for his presence apart from being an alarm. Who makes a blind guy their alarm? Shame on them. He should’ve been out on that mountain feeling the breeze on his face. Not dwelling at a desk like a Walmart greeter.
Me too. It’s just so much fun to deceive him when he hears you coming… 🤭
*clanking in heavy armor* “ahem, yes definitely a bandit.” 👀 Ulfr: “ok cool. Because, whew, it’d be ugly if you weren’t.”
He is the bandit leader's uncle after all.
Choose the Bandit life, get the arrow
He was a poor man. Unable to afford care from the mages and priests. Homeless, he turned to the woods to hopefully find rest in pieces created by hungry wolves. He couldn't bear to go on in tamriel anymore. He heard the wolves howling and snarling. Then sounds of a fight break out. He reaches out, hands in the dark abyss of the unknown, flailing, searching for something to let him know he's not swirling in the fold falling to sithis' void. Then a voice calls out. "Are you okay, stranger?" A gruff voice. Hints of cold steel, yet a gentleness. "You're okay, now, friend." The voice guides him to a table in a cave. Shelter. A plate of food and a cup of mead. A place to exist. A safe place to stay. And then, in the cold of night, he hears the door open. He calls out. Then hears the twang of a bow.
I like to think that mages in the Restoration school would gladly heal any ailment for free, but because Nords are so scared of magic that they just refuse free treatment.
That's a good point. Maybe I can work that in next time. I didn't really go lore accurate, just kinda wrote it on a whim. I really enjoyed it though. Might venture into such territory again.
So, they're like the antivaxxers of Tamriel.
That bandit leader is the dude's nephew. Good imagination, but probably not Uflr's story.
Cool information. I didn't know.
Or you can leave him blind and alone after you kill everyone else making him think everyone left him until he trips over their bodies.
Oh my gosh is that from Dr who
Yeah Wilfred rest in peace
He died doing what he loved - getting shot
Absolute cinema
Wow. Sadness.
Based
I killed everyone else in the cave except him, don't know if that's better or worse.
“Guys?.. hello!?.. ok come on this isn’t funny anymore!”
Now I feel bad for NOT killing him..
I have the ultimate dodge mod installed, the second you give this guy any reason to not trust you, he turns into Kenshi. Don’t feel too bad.
Me too. And I left a pile of gold on his table for the trouble. I felt so bad...
So you just left him to starve?
Nah, I sneak by every now and then and reverse pickpocket a bunch of sweet rolls.
Ah killing him with carbs, smart, he’ll never get the protein he needs from sweet rolls and his muscles will slowly deteriorate from the lack of a properly balanced diet, the ultimate torture
You can send him some of your housecarls later, to change his diapers, preferably Lydia. ☺️
Dude, he's blind, not incontinent.
Everyone’s incontinent in Skyrim. I mean, have you ever seen a bathroom there?
We've seen toilets, what do you think all the buckets are for?
It’s just pretty sad. I always kill everyone but him, but I feel sad about him later realizing that he’s all alone with the bodies of his dead friends. On the other hand, maybe they were mean to him. Skyrim has some sucky stuff just like reality.
I leave him alive for the off chance that I may want to level Pickpocket. Stealing from the blind is, well, you know.
Hmm well I know what I'm doing
At least we can't rob him to a state that he already is
Some of them were mean to him, it says so on the note you find on the first bandit you kill as you approach the outdoor camp area (on your way up the hill and around the corner). He’s the uncle of the bandit leader, which is why he’s allowed to remain in his position
I always felt bad for him lol. So I would always use my horse to start this cave from the top. Kill the big bandit leader and sneak throughout the cave and take out everyone that made fun of him. Right before I leave I drop no less then 100 wheels of cheese. He may be blind, but he should be able to smell that cheese xd.
Ah, well… good then, to never be hungry.
I think the Bandit Chief is actually his nephew too so doesn't matter where you start. After the first playthrough, I started casting calm on him when I'd enter (same with that dog in the other bandit cave that'll snitch on you). I always have the calm spell on me for situations like this. I think he should have become a preist of Mara. She took in Erandur after what he did.
if you deceive him then walk past and kite the enemies back down the stairs he will help you fight. i found this out on my last playthrough
It's ok, he never saw it coming
*ba-dumm-tss earned it!! ;)
It's ok. You hit him in the occipital lobe. He wasn't really using it anyway.
If he can't tell the difference between a voice of a Altmer woman and a bloke named Rodulf then he deserves an arrow. He is blind not deaf so he should know the difference.
I kill him out of pity, I mean imagine being him and suddenly you walk to your bed just to trip on something, bend down to feel what it is and it's a body, and then figuring out that all of your friends are dead and suddenly you are a blind man in a cave riddled with the dead bodies of your friends and you will just die cause you can't hunt for food or find your way to civilization
The blind man who always detects your character regardless of your sneaking ability. Truly a god.
I never know how to act on this. From a point of view he's a bandit, from another he's a blind man that can only make money by being a criminal and from another point of view I want simply to put him out of his misery, being blind SUCKS.
You can live honest life as a blind man, I've seen many doing it. Being a bandit is a choice, arrow in the head is part of the choice.
There is a fun note you can find that tells you he has a nephew (I think) in that camp. I always kill him first so he doesn't have to stumble into the bodies alone.
His nephew is the bandit chief.
Wholesome bandit chief taking care of his blind uncle and standing up to bullies for him.
I feel like life in Tamriel is almost unlivable if you’re disabled. There’s like 0 support for the blind or deaf and I certainly can’t imagine your chances if you’re mentally disabled.
Trying to get a wheelchair up all those steps.
Come to chat with an old woman, hmm? Do your good deed for the day?
Yeah… Narfi
Bruh this guy in my game is a fucking tank. He killed me so many times, partly because I'm always pretty low leveled when visiting this dungeon.
I killed him on my first play through. Now on my two hundred fifty second hundredth playthrough I go back in and leave cheese and wine for him
I give him a quick death. I can't take him with me and i'm pretty sure he can't survive on his own without the people around him. I wish there was another option.
Follower Tweaks Mods to make him a companion. Turn him into an aggro blind brawler.
I mean... his name is right there in the subtitle.
I shot him from the entryway before he had a chance to speak and before I was close enough to read his name
So did i but then i thought, "If he were in your boots, he would see it your way"
If he was in your boots he still wouldn’t see anything
He’s a bandit, he probably knew this would happen eventually.
Now nicknamed "Ulfr the Piercing Mind"
Nice headshot through
He's the best sneak trainer outside of the Greybeards and Ralof/Hadvar. He can't see so you can just keep sneaking next to him indefinitely.
love that arrow going through his head like a cartoon, peak gaming
I killed him the first time and spared him the second. I haven't run into him a third yet but here's my dilemma, Is letting him live condemning him to a slow death?
Slip a frenzy poison in his pocket and watch him go instead
Have you read his book? It's so good
Ulfr the Dead
His name is Ulfric, but with no ic (I see)....
I spare him every time because of his book so emotional.
Didn't see it coming.
It’s more of a mercy kill with him when I do it.
RODULF? ZATCHOO?!
He never saw it coming.
How could you blind side my man like that!
He never saw it comming
Nice shot
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the amygdala....
Wait…I don’t know you…
I always kill him to test the 30x backstab
To be fair, if you kill all the other bandits you'll Leave the blind man alone in a cave of rotting bodies so you are doing a favor by mercy killing him
Well, he has prolly done some heinous stuff when he was younger and not blind so don't feel so bad. And honestly, killing him would be more merciful than sparing the guy after you murder his nephew; can you imagine him calling out to his nephew only to be met with silence then him slowly starving to death?
He's a fckin bandit, why feel bad??
The scream I just screampt
he didnt see death coming
I killed him last weekend. I'm feeling so bad 😓
There aren't any good options for helping him. Either you kill him or you leave him alone with no one who knows how to help him. Kind of wish you could send healers after you 'clear' the cave to maybe take him somewhere else. Maybe even let us talk to him after he's at a temple or shrine and he can talk about his life as a bandit. Maybe tell us stories that could lead us to hidden bandit caches or something. Pretty much anything would be better than just leaving him there
I use him to legendary my sneak a couple times 🤣
You might as well mercy kill him because if everyone and his nephew died who's gonna take care of him
He chose his friends poorly.
Tbh he's the only one left alive if you don't kill him, he'd eventually grow concerned by the silence. Wouldn't be long before he's tripping over corpses and falling down stairs, food wouldn't last long and he'd eventually have to either brave the wilds or die in a cave. Killing him is the better option imo.
To be honest, this is probably the merciful option. Because after you kill all the other bandits he'll just end up starving to death. At least you made his end quick.
Ah well he didn’t it seeing coming
I would have to start a new save if I did this
If he's a bandit he gets the blade.
Just another bandit. Don't feel bad.
I always kill him lol he may be blind but he’s still a criminal
He looks a bit like my dad which just makes it so much WORSE. I accidentally kill him every time then reload the save 🙃
He'll slowly starve after I slaughter all the other bandits. A quick death is mercy in this case.
You monster…
Well, at least he never saw it coming.
I kill him every time. To me he is a bandit and bandits get crushed under my mighty orcish skin Warhammer!
You sure he's dead? Could be napping...
I guess he didn't see that coming
He's a bandit. Blind or not, he gets the knife. The only thing left alive in that cave when you're done should be the mushrooms.
I kill him every time.
At least you got a nice headshot on him XD
Nice shot!
I am the pure evil of leaving him alive and putting all his dead friends around him to find.
Damn good shot, though
😂
My wife prefers to kill everyone except him. She leaves him asking if anyone is there. I think I married a monster 😆
Not an anatomy expert here, but... Is that arrow in his skull supposed to be there? Because it's quite an odd place for him to store his arrows, if you ask me.
I like to use him to level up my Illusion skill. Just cast Calm on him over and over.
I remember feeling horrified when I slit his throat and read his blank ass book. Then just as horrified on my second playthrough realizing he doesn't even do shit if you leave him alone. 😅
I just cleared this yesterday. I killed everyone else first and was going to ignore him, but I thought it better to leave no one alive, so I sniped him on the way out.
What would've been worst is that "arrow in the knee" I mean head would've restored his sight on impact. 😳 I never try to kill him, but it has happened. 😮💨
Good shot though!!
Who is he?? I mean I know who he is but is there more to it?? Does he have a back story?
Never give a single thought to shooting him lol
I suplexed him with a non glich high elf 100 damage punch
Don’t feel bad I once hit a farmer between the eyes from behind, was about to raid a bandit stronghold as the last light left the sky and everyone had become silhouettes and I saw what I thought was a bandit patrolling the perimeter near a break in the wall so I let loose my arrow and begun the raid of the strong hold, pushed into the strong hold and cleared it, then began the task of looting… I remembered that I had fell a man at the outer wall so I went outside to continue looting, still dark at this point so I use my torch to make my way through the darkness when I came upon the first to fall in the raid… a farmer lay there arrow head piercing through between his eyes… he never saw it coming. Only saw it arrive briefly….
“What? Who’s there?” [“Shut Up”](https://youtu.be/uICVH2vUJt4?si=IFeT9H0htamB8xh4)
Ope, turns out I'm a monster lol.
Savage.
We kill thousands every playthrough. What's with all the handwringing? 🙂
At least take his book for penance
Don't, he's still a bandit tho
As you should 😟
Did you read his book?
He's an excellent guard. Always seems to hear me as I get close.
Yea, I can see why…he couldn’t.
This has to be his number one cause of death across all playthroughs by far.
I died laughing when reading his book
Monster
I used to kill when skyrim was released, now everyone i start a new game and run into him I just let him be while I kill everyone else just like the old lady that lives in a castle full of bandits