Originally Posted by GameRant
Despite being nearly a decade old at this point, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is still entertaining millions of fans who are forever looking for new ways to keep the game fresh. With Elder Scrolls 6 still in development and speculations doing the rounds about which villain the game should include, gamers are keeping themselves occupied while they wait for further developments on the next game. No more is this true than with one fan who decided to take action against Skyrim's entire NPC population.
Posting to Reddit earlier this week, user u/jaeinskyrim uploaded numerous screenshots from their copy of Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim which depicted their character in various poses as the corpses of many lay strewn about their feet. In the post, it seems the user had decided to essentially go on a murderous rampage and off thousands of non-player characters in the game. At their estimation, they claimed the kill count was more than 2,200 for people, and more than 2,400 for "various creatures." They then declared that, finally, it was finished before adding "I am alone in Skyrim" in the post's title.
However, there were some questions in the comments about how they'd achieved this feat of slaughter. When asked whether the guards respawned, the original poster admitted that they did, in fact, come back to life after several in-game days. Someone also asked how they were able to kill plot characters, NPCs essential to the game's story who can't be killed. The original poster said they'd used a combination of mods, such as Kill Em All and Death Awaits Us All to overcome this. Skyrim's mods, as many fans are already aware, are an integral part of the Elder Scrolls 5 experience, adding a slew of custom content that keeps the game going for much longer.
What this Reddit user has done is impossible in the vanilla game, particularly as players are not allowed to murder Skyrim's child population. While the user doesn't specifically mention it, it can be assumed that of the 2,200+ human NPCs they killed, this would include children. Naturally, the game officially doesn't allow this, but once again it would appear that the modding community would have this type of bloodlust covered.
It can't be said whether u/jaeinskyrim will attempt a similar feat for Elder Scrolls 6. With no word yet as and when the next Elder Scrolls installment will be released, fans of the series will no doubt be keeping themselves occupied with the other games in the franchise. There's no telling what other potentially dangerous exploits await the game.
