#No essential npcs skyrim mods
#No essential npcs skyrim series

If all this really bothers you, there ARE mods out there that remove the essential status, though I don't know if any of them have been ported to SE. Though oddly enough, not all quest givers are essential, and some are forever essential even though there's no apparent need for it. They can't die before you do their quest, but after that they can.

I know this is pretty common with quest givers. I think most essential npcs work like this, as long as they don't serve any kind of function after their quest is done (this is why all the Jarls are eternally essential). Also, in Skyrim there's quite a few essential npcs whose flag is completely removed once you've done the quest they're required for. That's why no quest npcs are protected, only followers that aren't individually important in any quests. So yes, even protected NPCs can be accidentally killed off due to no fault of the player. However, they CAN still be hit by another npc if they happen to get in the way of something like an arrow or an aoe spell. Being protected doesn't render an npc immune to fatal damage from another npc, it just stops their AI from deliberating targetting them. Skyrim is actually somewhat liberal about this than Oblivion though because it has 'protected' npcs that are treated as essential unless the player kills them (all the housecarls are protected, for example). That's why Oblivion and Skyrim just make it so they can't die ever. In fact, I hear in some quests it was difficult to keep an npc alive. The reason they did this was because it was possible in Morrowind for 'essential' npcs to get killed due to no fault of the player. This won't affect an npc that's already spawned into the game, so its not much of a solution. But as Sedanta said, youll end up with a ton of broken questlines and I am sure that will add to your frustrations. Originally posted by juristruedge:with the console commands you can make any essential npc non-essential.

#No essential npcs skyrim series

Not go into a cheap immortal state of invisibilty to all enemies.Дon't get me wrong, I love this game, my most favorite game and game series ever, this part has just been my pet peeve of the game since it was implemented in TES IV: Oblivion If I feel like playing a character and killing essential NPC's, why can't I do that? And I bring a permanent follower or my spouse into a firefight with a couple of Dragons, they should die if they are killed. I found that system perfectly acceptable and sufficient. I think we should have the freedom to kill who we want, such as in Morrowind, you could kill anyone you want, but if its an essential character it shows a message telling you that you have doomed the world and advising you to reload your game or 'continue living in this doomed world you have created.' It is completely unrealistic and downright annoying that its impossible to kill an essential npc, and that enemies can't kill your portected NPC's. Is it just me, or does anyone else find protected and Essential NPC's immersion, lore, and gameplay breaking?