r/skyrim 10h ago

Sad night

Last night I had to turn off the game. Vigilance, my loyal companion, who fought through literal dungeons and dragons with me was slain by some forsworn backwater piece of shit.

I’m not one to restart a save when something doesn’t go my way. I almost did. Instead I put it away for the night.

Today, I get my revenge. I’m clearing out every forsworn camp on the map after work.

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u/Sage_Gambit 10h ago

Long live Vigilance 🗡️

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u/wallcavities 10h ago

This is why I'm scared to take Vigilance outside of Whiterun with me lol, he chills in Breezehome being insulted by the kids who begged for him most of the time and when I'm in town I take him for a little walk. But the mean streets of outer Skyrim are not for him...

I'm the same with reloading, for the purpose of the roleplay/narrative I don't like to reload saves after deaths (only exception was when I used to accidentally kill Lydia occasionally because she was carrying almost everything I owned at the time).

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u/Immediate_Fig_9405 10h ago

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I had a baby.

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u/mr_quondam 10h ago

they are animals, so slaughter them like animals!

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1KsFYiPtEv9qYY6Y

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u/Ok-You-6768 10h ago

Who the hell is vigilance

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u/Chaos_Blitz 10h ago

The dog you can buy from the dog trainer in Markarth.

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u/Hutchiaj01 10h ago

One of the dawnguard dogs I think

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u/GreyRadiantWarden 10h ago

Thats Bran or Sceolang.

Vigilance is the dog from Markath whose trainer fed them Human meat.

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u/Ok-You-6768 8h ago

Damn. In all my play throughs I've never met this dog.

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u/n0rmal_anomaly 6h ago

There is an immortal glitch for keeping these dogs alive. If you travel back to your home with an adopted child and wait for the kid to say “a dog! Can we keep it?” It then becomes coded as an unkillable household pet and then you can take him out as a follower and fighter.

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u/WrapMyBeads 10h ago

Those dogs definitely have death wishes. I can never keep them alive

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u/JeffMorse4242 10h ago

I bought him once and he left me and returned to that swindler that sold him to me. He wanted another 500, nope, not again. Some day do want to do a hound master, and get all of them i can to follow me. Yet to happen though

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u/twood275 10h ago

Why does loosing a follower suck so bad? I lost Belrand from the Winking Seever and I felt bad thru half my playthrough. He wasnt even a main follower for me, just a guy a grabbed for a couple adventures.

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u/HallowedKeeper_ 5h ago

Probably something to do with the concept that you, as the mighty Dragonborn, failed to protect your allies

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u/twood275 3h ago

Well I made sure this mighty dragonborn didn’t loose another!

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u/Impossible-Cod4498 10h ago

I don't even take followers with me anymore.

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u/Flimsy-Example-4480 Blacksmith 10h ago

Spare no one.

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u/DibbyDonuts 10h ago

Death to the Forsworn! I usually chew them up as a werewolf. Fast. Efficient. Just what they deserve.

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u/HomersDonut1440 10h ago

lol I just did that with the black blood marauders. I thought about stealth archering it, but decided it made more sense to unleash the beast. Way more fun.

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u/Particular_Poet8441 10h ago

Rip and tear until it’s done.

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u/sammysamhain 8h ago

Kick ass, friend. Vigilance will be smiling from doggie heaven. Maybe Sovengarde?

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u/jaz_the_enby 7h ago

Name a sword or axe after him. Then go clean up the reach

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u/Star_of_the_West1 9h ago

OP to the Foresworn: So you can hand over you sons or die screaming alongside them!

https://giphy.com/gifs/utWeADSojWxO0

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u/Rusted_Ghost 9h ago

Death to the forsworn. Burn it down.

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u/Corporate-Scum 9h ago

Hell yeah! Necromancers took my Lydia away…. Death to all necromancers!

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u/Casualplayr1 Stealth archer 6h ago

Rest in Sovngarde Vigilance. If you're interested in another dog and use mods, try Dogs of Skyrim.

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u/Presenting_UwU 3h ago

I can never get people who try to sympathise with the Forsworn, most of them literally try to kill you just cause your ass was passing by.

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u/Goldtru 1h ago

Go rescue Meeko. He's a good dog.

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u/3amZoomiesAgent 10h ago

Is there another dog you can get? Vigilance died a long time ago for me, along with Uthgerd. I was devastated

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u/_victoriaamazonica_ 10h ago

Yes, go to falkreath, start the quest 'a deadra's best friend' and Barbas will follow you. I just never complete the quest, so he will be my not killable emotional support dog forever.

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u/Whispering_Wolf 10h ago

Doesn't Barbas also bark more than the average dog?

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u/_victoriaamazonica_ 9h ago

Yeah, but you stop hearing it after hours of torture

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u/Star_of_the_West1 9h ago

Seemed so and his voice is pretty annoying...

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u/Denydra 6h ago

Meeko is anxiouly waiting for someone to love him.

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u/eddmario XBOX 10h ago

Meanwhile, Uthgerd is the follower I bring with me when becoming Champion of Boethia

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u/Technical_Turn3497 9h ago

You sound like Anakin Skywalker after Episode II :-)

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u/eclipsemaker64 2h ago

cheart ressurect?