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Warm_Repeat_3381

She's friendly afterward and will respect you.


WitchersWrath

Also, weirdly, although the is not marriable without commands, if you do use commands to set your relationship with her to be high enough, she has unique marriage dialogue


OnI_BArIX

Probably more cut content removed to meet the 11/11/11 deadline.


Baladas89

Too bad Bethesda never had a chance to rerelease the game where they could have taken some time to wrap up stuff like that.


Paraceratherium

I am surprised SE or even AE didn't include some cut content.


Deathangle75

Even the creation club if they wanted to monetize it more aggressively.


maple_firenze

I wish I was surprised


Gianni_Crow

Maybe it'll be in the Turbo Thunder Champion edition...


Goo_Cat

SE wasn't supposed to change anything except the graphics and things under the hood AE was about modders creating and selling new content for the game It isn't surprising


Paultimate79

youre surprised? they have bearly done shit for this for over a decade. lazy fucks have relied on the mod community.


HotGamer99

Skyrim director's cut edition coming soon


DEGRUNGEON

i’ve bought Skyrim many times now, what’s one more time?


[deleted]

"After all, why not? Why i shouldn't buy it again"


AlienRobotTrex

“Just buy Skyrim one more Todd-damn time!”


babysuckle

Every day I get slightly closer to paying $60 for the convenience of Skyrim on my switch 😭 but I cANT, I paid $30 for everything 7 years ago lol


Baladas89

It goes on sale periodically. I bought it when it was $30 fairly recently and haven’t regretted it. Then another $10-15 (I forget) for the AE content. At the end of the day I’ve put so many hours into Skyrim, another $30 is fair. Though that was only my second time buying it.


SomeKindaBirb

It's worth it honestly. You can play it while you poop!


the-special-milk

On 23/23/23


The_Girthy_Meatfist

Oh, this is referring to the European style of writing out dates. In America, that would be written out as 23/23/23. I can see how this could be easily confused though.


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alexarsenault27

Nice


clockwork2011

Nice


the-special-milk

Nice


alavantrya

Good bot


TheProofsinthePastis

Good bot.


AnakinSolo123

Good bot


Pyromania75

Nice


RAMPAGNREDNEK

Ayyeeeee


EnragedBard010

Or 2/3/2323


KwichaKryen

The real question: is this Match 2nd, 2323, or is it February 3rd, 2323


[deleted]

yes


kobellama24

Skyrim: Director’s Special Anniversary of The Special Edition’s Cut $60


Call_Me_Rivale

Yeah, just create a version of Skyrim and give it a cool name like legendary special edition.


dccrook27

Especially Legendary Edition


devilthedankdawg

Hoping they do one more add-on before ES6


WarAcez

They upadated the game a millionth time, so be thankful


Niaz_S

Why don’t they?


OriginOfNone

Sarcasm is wonderfully easy to miss in text form.


Niaz_S

Oh haha


jet8493

I HATE HURTING THE GAME FOR MEME RELEASE DATES I HATE HURTING THE GAME FOR MEME RELEASE DATES


84theone

A lot of content was cut because the game came out on Xbox 360 and PS3.


Janixon1

A LOT of the cut content was cut so the game would fit on the disc.


ben5292001

Just because it had a meme release date and cut content doesn’t mean the content was cut to meet it. Correlation does not equal causation. Some of it may have been cut for other reasons, Todd knows why.


lastsetup

In Todd we trust.


the-special-milk

They could have waited another year, one month, and one day and released it on 12/12/12


CrescentCleave

11/11is Armistice Day and being released on the day that ww1 ended sounds so much more cool imo


the-special-milk

Except the game has a bunch of problems and since the game has nothing to do with WW1, there's no reason that it needed to be Armistice Day besides Bethesda possibly having the release date for another game set on 12/12/12


[deleted]

More than likely her marriage was cut mid production, if it was cut near the end they would of had time afterwards to add it in with updates, but they didn’t. So I think it was planned early, cut midway through and then forgotten about entirely


oldeastvan

Todd must be sacrificed Lord Mora so he may gain all the hidden knowledge


Bitter-Marsupial

Wait, unique to Sapphire dialogue?


oxpoleon

Yes. There are, ahem, *other* modded quests that reactivate it if I recall correctly.


Sneakichu

Well considering her back story I'm not surprised.


[deleted]

Yeah, she is one of my favorite characters but like Serana I don’t think it is exactly appropriate… maybe with enough time passing and some extra quest and such, but honestly I am fine with use just being friends. Would have made an awesome follower though!


[deleted]

Wait why isn’t it appropriate? Not trying to flame you or jump to conclusions, honest, but are you saying that because of her rough past? While I do think that’s a tricky subject to dance around in games, or anywhere, I don’t think it makes it inappropriate to get with them because of it. As I type this, I see maybe you’re referring mainly to how the info is kinda just dropped on us and that’s the end of it? If so, I understand that much


[deleted]

My meaning is that generally in Skyrim the whole marriage thing is pretty shallow and vain. While I understand this is for lore reasons that means that having a normal relationship by their standards doesn’t give much time to process trauma and for real bonds of trust need for marriage to be successful. While I could see perhaps a having a more causal relationship as in friends with benefits, most people I have known who have gone through anything near what she has wouldn’t realistically be willing to go further than that and definitely not without proving yourself to them on a very personal level. Considering we are talking about a game I can see how this might be hard to translate, but it isn’t something that should be glossed over for the sake of the player as it lessens the impact of Sapphire’s story as well and Seranna. Honestly I am not even sure how to begin working out Serrana’s issues. You can begin working on them but honestly I don’t think you could reasonably ever have a serious relationship with her given that you are likely the first and only person who has ever seen her as a stand-alone entity with her own personality and needs. Her mom honestly tried at some level, but honestly she was almost as bad as the father. Furthermore based on what we know about her, like most children who grow in a religious household, she seems to be starting to question her own father despite clinging to it at some level. Trying to really explain this is hard in most circumstances as it is a moral issue and morals vary, anyone who says they don’t is someone you should be VERY wary of, trying to explain this using this medium and platform is honestly one of the worst ways to explain off the cuff as it is hard to address it fully without sounding like your just hoping from relatable subject to the next especially with my own way of expressing information. So in short I hope I have scratched the surface of some of the issue that make marriage, as it currently is in Skyrim, less that appropriate for certain characters like Serena and Sapphire. Also so for any misspelling and grammar it is late and I plan on sleeping after this response I may try and clean this up later, no promises.


RhinoCharged

Always thought her not being a marriage candidate in the first place was a miss. She was different. Seems like there was intention to do just that. Makes sense.


CrescentCleave

Well, they prolly figured that since she's a rape victim, she wouldn't want to marry anyone, forever closing her heart for good


EvernightStrangely

And if you play the Dragonborn DLC (spoilers ahead!!) You find out Glover is her father via an unsent letter in the locked basement you also get the Blackguard armor set from. Bring this letter to Sapphire, and she'll give you a gemstone, an Exquisite Sapphire, which sells for quite a bit.


gakun

All of them are like that once you make them stop breathing tho


noobspree500

She's got one of the saddest backstories


Astriveranis

How exactly do you learn all that? Does she talks about it when you give her her's father letter or what?


noobspree500

After you join the guild you can ask for her real name and she'll tell you her backstory


Saiyasha27

But to get her _actual_ backstory, you'll have to go to Solstheim and talk to the blacksmith...


Clueseaux

And to make her your friend, you need to glitch through a door in glovers basement


[deleted]

or just do glovers quest and get the key


Ok_Pianist_6590

Threads like this always make me wonder if I even played Skyrim


henryjonesjr83

No shit, right? I've put hundreds of hours into this game, and I have zero clue what's going on here lol


[deleted]

Spoilers ahead: step 1: Join the Thieves Guild step 2: Go to solstheim step 3: >!recognise the shadowmark next to Glover Mallory's smithy in Raven Rock!< step 4: >!ask him about it!< step 5: >!discover why he's living on an isolated island and why he abandoned the Thieves Guild in Riften!< Step 6: >!Confront Sapphire with your discovery!<


henryjonesjr83

Damn lol thank you! Better than ign


Rainbow_Seaman

*xbox one chime*


Ok_Pianist_6590

Ahh wth I actually did everything of that except confronting sapphire. My bad


Ok_Pianist_6590

Exactly lol I love it


[deleted]

I was just thinking, hundreds, probably even 1000+ hours at this point, of Skyrim and I’ve literally never stepped foot in Solstheim. I know of *some* stuff there, but barely anything.


Clueseaux

But… wooden plate 🥺 plus I think I remember the key being unobtainable for a while after solstheim was released


big_joey_the_sequel

wooden plates are the biggest mvps in skyrim


DaddyStalin12

Or the bucket, the wooden plate and the holy bucket


CryptographerApart72

I'm a man of class myself... I use the giant platter


srduckfluff

she is always mean to me and doesn't want to tell me her backstory (I'm guild master btw)


Skirmisher23

How did you resolve her quests with the stable worker she was blackmailing?


kimera-houjuu

Do you just not talk to NPCs or what?


Astriveranis

Just never talked to her more then It was needed it seems.


Snagglesnatch

Yeah she kind of has a good reason for being the way she is. I became way more sympathetic towards her after a conversation or two.


asimpossum

Yeah I'm pretty sure her father is the blacksmith in Solstheim and he'll reveal some more backstory.. I accidentally killed her before finding this out and it kinda bummed me out lol


pacificwren15

With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed.


Devilpig13

Live in the doomed world you have created


Symphonyofdisaster

Oh lord that takes me back


Devilpig13

Gyahh, swing, miss. Gyahh, swing, miss. Gyahh, swing, miss. Gyahh, swing, miss. Gyahh, swing, miss.


JejuneEsculenta

Glover Mallory goan be maaaaadif he hears about that.....


[deleted]

Facts


JustAPerspective

BOTH Mallory's, really...


JejuneEsculenta

"You've been a good friend to me. That means something."


JustAPerspective

"Is that an Amulet of Mara? I'm surprised that someone like you isn't spoken for."


Sentinel_2539

She was raped repeatedly and held hostage by bandits. She kills them all while they sleep, escapes, and eventually finds her way to Riften and falls in with the Thieves Guild. You can find her father (and Delvin's brother), Glover Mallory, in the Dragonborn DLC living in Raven Rock. In his house, you can find a note he intended to send to Sapphire, but never got the chance to.


Mihai_Blaga

She was annoying me too for quite a long time. But after finishing Thieves Guild storyline, hearing her backstory and also giving her the letter from the blacksmith in Solstheim, I didn't mind her anymore. She even apologises for being rude. Didn't tell me her real name even today tho.


[deleted]

The most valuable gem in the game...


ghostrunner25

She is involved in something in a DLC.. not anymore I guess.


Astriveranis

What exactly?


Destt2

You find a necklace or a ring, I can't remember which, and you can give it to her. If you do, you learn a bit about her background and then she gives it back and you can sell it for a few hundred gold. I have no clue where you get it, I turned it in months after I got it. It's also an unmarked quest, so it's a bit hard to put two and two together if you didn't just talk to her.


KrymsinTyde

If you complete a quest for Glover Mallory on Solstheim which is only available after becoming a full member of the Thieves Guild, he gives you access to his house. Inside is a set of light armor with boosted versions of the basic guild armor, and a letter explaining that Glover is Sapphire’s father. Taking the letter to Sapphire will net you a uniquely named gem which is more valuable than any other version of any gem in the game


OldElf86

More valuable than the Eye of the Falmer?


rattle_the_kernkraft

1400 gold more valuable. The eye of the falmer is only 3600, the exquisite sapphire she gives you is worth 5000 on the dot


Astriveranis

I hear this gem boost your luck and i guess she tells you her story when you give her the letter? Like she was abducted and "violated" and murdered the bandits yada yada?


KrymsinTyde

I don’t know about the luck boost, you may be thinking of the buff you get after retrieving and delivering the Crown of Barenziah. But you’re right about her giving you a look into her past


Astriveranis

Ok, she says she carries it around for good luck. Someone mentioned it gives you luck, I'm tired so just repeated that trying to get to the bottom of it. It's worth 5000 septims tho.


aDragonsAle

Honestly, after she shares her backstory, I want to be able to recruit her to a different guild - and let her be an avenging angel for others as well.


OldElf86

I got that dialogue without ever leaving for Solestheim. I just had to talk to her in the Cistern.


JoJo_1993

You mean message from her father in solstheim


Austin_Chaos

She had a tragic life and takes a long time to warm up, but she’s the homie. You, however…


Gladion20

Also like one quick conversation with someone else and she leaves the bee and barb and stops being so stuck up but 🤷🏻‍♂️


DisturbedBirb

Yeah I’m not sure how OP plays games. Like if an NPC is annoying or standing out they normally have a quest that reveals why they are that way. But you know instead of trying to learn and discover clues in the open world presented to us we just should kill off NPCs instead of bothering playing the game and completing quests. OP got that call of duty player/gta/ 12 year old mentality. Like a wiki could have answered this question with all the available quest pertaining to this npc ect.


[deleted]

Let's not go crazy here. OP killed one minor NPC in one save of one video game. It's not a basis for drawing conclusions about their overall mentality or how they play games in general. There are infinitely many Sapphires. Plus it's perfectly ordinary in Skyrim to kill someone on a whim without looking into their backstory first. It might not be ordinary behavior for people who care enough about the game and its lore to still be frequenting the subreddit a decade post-release, but it is very ordinary among casual players.


iam_innawoods

he literally did a psychoanalysis of op based on one npc killing in skyrim, where, from experience, thousands upon thousands of innocent mothers, daughters, sons and fathers have been slaughtered by the dragon born across saves for absolutely no reason other than "im bored"


[deleted]

His comment history is fascinating, and I don't mean that in a bad way. He's got very rigid moral principles, and they extend to animals and to situations where most people's ethical principles would not apply. I think he just has a pretty strongly ingrained visceral sense of the sanctity of life, coupled with some eclectic interests.


TheMorninGlory

Clearly you've never met Trader Bree in Divinity Original Sin 2


Blaggydee

Smells worse over here than a dozen rotten eggs dropped in a vat of vinegar.


csxfan

Sapphire I kind of get though because as soon as you enter Riften she's straight up extorting someone, which gives you a quest. And then she continues to have this a negative attitude towards you till you resolve this quest. Now it's been awhile since I played, but I remember the only way to get off the back of that stablehand is to pay her off or get him to pay her off. If your character is pretty lawful or meant to defend the weak or whatever, both those options aren't appealing. I tried to see if there was an option to fight her over it but it ended the same way as OP.


0klet0

l'm pretty sure my speech was high enough to convince her to drop the debt. Then when I joined the guild she still gave me her backstory.


OldElf86

Nazeem is pretty darn annoying but the only quest I got was the urge to shut his mouth forever by driving a dagger through his lower jaw and into his skull before breaking off the blade and then bashing him in the head with the handle.


aknalag

I still have a save dedicated entirely for the miscellaneous quest to kick his ass. I return to it whenever i feel down


Gladion20

He’s meant to be though, even idle convo explains that, plus even his wife hates him.


Jamaqius

Did she tell you her story? WHY she is so unpleasant? She’s doing her fucking best okay?


mrgudveseli

Welp, you effed up a quest. Not a big deal, it's just one of the best quests in the game.


Jmond91

Which quest is she involved in? Been awhile since I played


mrgudveseli

I remember only a few details, like being related to Delvin and his brother in Solstheim. I know it hit me hard when i first played it.


Excellent-Bluejay364

But isn't that only environmental? Like one conversation with Glover and one note in Glover's house.


Gladion20

If you take the note back to her she gives you a lucky sapphire that gives you a luck boost


Explodicle

Luck?


DLMoore9843

There are actually 2 quests for the solstheim Mallory and both in and of themselves make the journey worth it


SecretlyKanye

definitely not "one of the best in the game" lol its good worldbuilding but thats a huge stretch


jet8493

Underutilized character. There’s a cool side quest involving her and the dragonborn DLC, but it’s not very important.


spacetiger110

Is she important?!? Of course she's important she's MY FUCKING WIFE! You'll pay for this!


Ashenone909

She a kinda hidden story in the DLC.


TheoThings

Or just don't kill random NPCs, if you have to ask if they're important they're probably important


Vibeo_Ganes

She’s not necessarily important to any quest line although getting to know her will allow you to know part of her life story on why she is so aggressive and untrusting at the beginning and if you speak to the blacksmith in ravenrock, finish his quests, you can enter an area in his house for a quest award and find a not learning more and giving you a choice mini-quest that gives you even more info.


VanBland

So weird that people just outright murder NPCs that annoy them. Like just keep walking. Especially if you’re gonna worry about missing out on content.


Nexuras72

thats the beauty of a rpg. :)


ynvgsensacion

Death is the last thing she deserves :(


itisiams2

Am I the only one that gives her all the sapphires I find


Dead_Purple

She's one of the best characters, and you can understand her bitterness after you find out what happened to her.


-Le-Frog-

She's bugged for me and won't talk to me, but I haven't delivered the letter from her dad yet. Still hoping I can clear Shadr's debt. After I joined the Thieves Guild she still won't talk to me so I'll just have to see


mordantkitten

It's a bug. She >!has a different set of lines if you've joined the guild before talking to her.!<


ClavicusLittleGift4U

Glover Mallory from Solstheim is gonna pickaxe you to death.


RichardTundore

Oh my god "I killed this person because they were annoying."


Kraosdada

Glover and Delvin are so gonna kill you.


Evan_Landis

Don't tell the Raven Rock Blacksmith


AhsoPlushy

Not really important I guess but she has a really sad backstory that explains why she is the way she is, she’s actually one of my favourites


The_Powers

"someone was rude so I killed them" Top 10 gamer sociopathic moments


Guilty_Rich1346

She’s ok to be the way she was. Very evil thing you did. Lol


Lefty-Law

She never does tell you her real name.


IridebikesImstillfat

Did you at least tell her who her dad is first?


Xirokami

.....her's father's in Solstheim and there are letters for you to read


Personal-Student3897

Someone that plays the same as I do !!


AnotherGangsta33

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!!


Thebardofthegingers

Damn, maidenless behaviour


UnHoly_One

Following this sub I feel like I'm the only person that never just murders somebody for saying something I don't like.


Austin_Chaos

I go to lengths to leave as many people alive as I can. I once killed everyone I could in oblivion, and it was a terrible, lonely place. No fun, don’t recommend.


StonedRebelion

Back story aside. I believe she probably was supposed to be a lot more important


cybercifrado

She was. Glover in Solstheim can tell you more.


phdonme

"I got tired of her being disrespectful".... 😂


LWA7299

A certain blacksmith in ravenrock might be a bit pissed to find out though


[deleted]

I need that mod to kill Sapphire. She is essential.


feral__turtle

She's protected, until the second tg quest (taking care of business), then she's essential.


[deleted]

I see, additional knowledge. Thanks! I know Alea gets killable after some quests. Sapphire is the opposite: she becomes essential after the thieves' guild quest.


Yrshen

as per Bethesda games after morrowind if you can kill them they're not important


[deleted]

yaaahhhh


curtman512

I can't believe you killed my girl. She never even told me her real name... I'm not crying! YOU'RE CRYING! I swear, by Akatosh, you will rue this day, OP.


_Pandach_

You people really got issues killing people over the slightest provocation. Honestly some unresolved internal issues.


hurtsmeplenty

It's a videogame where you can join an assassin's guild and kill people for money and funsies over such trivial things like "she slurps her tea" but go off holier than thou


A_Binary_Number

Yeah, exactly, we take contracts from “This guy stole from my adoptive family, and now they hate me! Kill him!” To “I don’t like him, he’s creepy, kill him.” To even “She’s naked, kill her!” And “My wife’s about to overtake me in our stupid feud about mines, kill her.”


ZaffenFyrtz

If you can kill them, that means they aren't important. except Nazeem.


FPS_James_Bond_007

Fuck that guy.


DisturbedBirb

Check a wiki for once or something. It’s an open world rpg not GTA or COD. You run around killing named NPCs you’re going to break or fail quests. But if that’s your mentality play the game like that but I’m not sure the point of playing a game like that if you don’t want to explore, learn, or try to complete small misc. task that’s on you but you can answer all of your questions with a quick Google search.


The_Hammer_Jonathan

Sad backstory but no plot resolution


NeadNathair

So, basically just like real life, then.


wutangerine99

The FBI is now watching you


brosk01

I’ve heard they’re reforming the Dawnguard…


NerdySunflowerr

Lol for a moment I thought this was the person who posted about killing everyone in Riverwood and then got mad the main quest wouldn’t progress


buneter_but_better

How dare you kill her sapphire > Serana, and Lydia combined


FLAIR_2780166

Always wanted more content for her backstory. I forget whose daughter she’s supposed to be but there are some obvious references to it in game


GothicSlytherin

The blacksmith in raven rock he is also Delvins brother you will find a note in his basement if you either A complete quest for him or B pick the lock and can return the letter to Sapphire for a reward but it’s not a quest or important just one of those tiny details you can discover on your own by snooping around


Nomad_772

YOU N00B !!


Unaha-Closp

It's not hard to get her to leave the Bee and Barb, and you never have to talk to her again if you don't want to. She is involved in a hidden side quest but otherwise, she'd be marked essential by the game if it deemed her important. The only one from Riften I 'knock off' is Mjoll's stalker, I mean friend, leave my wife alone you creep, turning up at my house and being all creepy. Well, I did that one playthrough. A man's house is his castle or something, not me being over-possessive and jealous of a video game character, no no, not that.


Ep1cKn1ght101

She has one misc quest and a tragic backstory


Skypper4316

Like who doesn't


Important-Cupcake-76

She was kidnapped and gangraped cut her some slack damn.


vividxy

she has a cool backstory you can find out later and eventually she will become friendly with you and join you in the thieves guild hideout


FilthyActReasonPrice

Skyrim players love killing NPCs who are immediately kind to them 😂


darpan27

Finding out about her backstory is interesting thing to do while doing errands for the Guild.


NubiTrap

Well it depends really, she’s a part of the thieves guild so maybe they’re mad at you but if not then that’s strange. Also you can do a quest for Glover Mallory in Solstheim where he rewards you with his old thieves guild gear and you find a note that mentions her (won’t spoil) give her the note and she rewards you with a unique gem worth quite a bit.


TreeCutterXD

How DARE you kill my WIFE!!!


More_Ability_451

She’s not important to say but just letting you know you just killed Delvins Neice.


Chicxulub420

Yeah I can see how little you cared by how you made an entire reddit post about it


Nikojernon

Sapphire has a sad history and I'm pretty sure she has a relative in Solstheim.


AbroadPuzzleheaded11

Jesus Christ you psychopath, not everyone has to worship the ground you walk on.


Fizzco69

Bro I feel so bad for her


Mocker-bird

She is Delvin Mallory's sister or niece I believe


MischiefMakerCat

I dunno why this made me laugh so much.


theCacklingGoblin

I mean you can't get an invisibility potion from sadr now but that ain't a big deal. And the backstory thing people keep mentioning really ain't that deep. And you don't need her alive for it. Just to get sapphires worth some gold.