Joy! A new place!

[Slow Rider]

I'm level 69 and have logged a ridiculous number of hours on Skyrim. Gave up fast travel a long time ago and have crisscrossed the map countless times in search of new quests. I gave up looking for new locations weeks ago. But I was walking around last night, one-shotting bears and whatnot, and cast a casual glance at the compass. To my surprise, there was a black undiscovered logo of a house there! How did I miss this? I felt like a kid in a candy store. There is no better feeling than finding a new place.

Ran to see what it was, and I am embarrassed to say it was Anise's Cabin, right next to Helgen where I started. Amazing. How the hell did I miss this? (slaps forehead) Almost missed her moss-covered cellar too, although there was not much in there.

(There are still 3 Stones of Barenziah I can't find, so I guess my exploring is not over... but I can't imagine I'll find a new place like I did yesterday)

Anyway, that's my story of personal triumph. I'm sure you are all uplifted and inspired by it.

 

[Necromis]

yeah I didn't know it was there for the longest time. Though when you are heading up to riverwood it does show up on the compass. I actually use it for the home base of two of my characters.

 

[sahqonsah]

Are there any quests relating to that cabin because that old lady is creepy, something about her irks me

 

[Necromis]

no quests that I am aware of but she is evil and you won't earn any bounties by killing her. Actually if you break into her cellar you will find a letter that makes it clear why she should be killed.

 

[sahqonsah]

Why what did she do? I was never in her cellar

 

[Necromis]

she is a witch trying to start a coven.

 

[Slow Rider]

Yeah, real life was calling, so I saved it as I was still in her cellar. Googled her this morning and I see she is going to attempt to put the smackdown on me when I exit the cellar. Poor old lady, I have a feeling she should probably have gotten to me before I got to level 69. Gonna have to give her the pimp hand with my battleaxe when I play tonight and leave the cellar.

 

[Streets]

After you kill her I believe her sister sends the 3 standard "hired thugs" after you as well.

I am uplifted and inspired, Slow Rider. I have probably put around 300 hours into the game, and restarted countless characters (roughly 20), and I doubt I've come close to exploring every location on the map. I should re-up my longest running character and go on a google streetviews Skyrim adventure!

Have you found all the unmarked locations with just random or silly things? Like the frozen mammoth, the mourning giant, the sabrecat skeleton attacking a human skeleton in a craggy pass, etc. I don't know of a complete list of all the "unmarked" locations though.

 

[Necromis]

I don't remember getting the thugs from it to be honest

 

[Rakmon]

Have you found all the unmarked locations with just random or silly things? Like the frozen mammoth, the mourning giant, the sabrecat skeleton attacking a human skeleton in a craggy pass, etc. I don't know of a complete list of all the "unmarked" locations though.

Oh God, that mourning Giant in Eastmarch. Forgot about him. He was the first thing I found in Skyrim that surprised me genuinely. I was also a bit depressed, watching him just stare at his dead Mammoth like that...
I love Eastmarches' Geyser pit. Favorite area of the overworld.
I also like the Chill quite a bit. It's so fun fighting about a dozen Frost Atronachs at the same time, with nobody but a Dremora Valknyaz, a bound battleaxe, and your trusty Incinerate spell.

 

[DdraigGwyn]

My favorite is the three goats and a dead troll under the bridge south of Markarth

 

[Slow Rider]

After you kill her I believe her sister sends the 3 standard "hired thugs" after you as well.

I am uplifted and inspired, Slow Rider. I have probably put around 300 hours into the game, and restarted countless characters (roughly 20), and I doubt I've come close to exploring every location on the map. I should re-up my longest running character and go on a google streetviews Skyrim adventure!

Have you found all the unmarked locations with just random or silly things? Like the frozen mammoth, the mourning giant, the sabrecat skeleton attacking a human skeleton in a craggy pass, etc. I don't know of a complete list of all the "unmarked" locations though.

Ironically, I just ran across the frozen mammoth a few days ago also. At this point, I am basically travelling in all the void spaces in my map to try to find something new. I have run across (and killed him for his toes) the mourning giant a few times. But I have definitely not seen two skeletons having at each other. Interesting... thanks! Now I have more to look forward to. If I could just find those last Stones of Barenziah... I know there's a list, but I don't want to cheat, plus I doubt I could remember where I picked up all of the ones I do have.

 

[Ironclad]

Just wait until you find The Cave of Bunnies.

 

[Slow Rider]

Just wait until you find The Cave of Bunnies.

I assumed you were joking about that in your other post. There really is a Cave of Bunnies? I see no references to it anywhere. Although that is probably just a name you assigned it. Was there really a cave with bunnies and did it have a map marker associated with it?

 

[Necromis]

It is a sprigin cave, but sprigins thrall animals to attack even though bunnies and foxes can't actually attack you.

 

[Ironclad]

I assumed you were joking about that in your other post. There really is a Cave of Bunnies? I see no references to it anywhere. Although that is probably just a name you assigned it. Was there really a cave with bunnies and did it have a map marker associated with it?

100% actual real fact.
Anyone who mentions spriggans rule the Cave of Bunnies doesn't understand.. the bunnies rule over them. They are Skyrims silent overlords. Which is also a fact. Maybe.

 

[Necromis]

Yeah but if you let Dagmar hear you are attacking bunnies she will come down on you like no other wrath. She is the protector of bunnies.

 

[Ironclad]

Skyrim:Shadowgreen Cavern - UESPWiki

Enter at ye peril!

Dagmar, she prolly lives there.

 

[DdraigGwyn]

100% actual real fact. . They are Skyrims silent overlords. Which is also a fact. Maybe.

As Hitchiker's Guide makes clear: white mice rule the galaxy. Since they are not in appearance in Skyrim, the bunnies must be acting as their proxies.

 

[Neriad13]

I just found the Talos shrine overlooking Windhelm for the very first time today. It's an area I thought I knew well, but somehow I'd never noticed it before. I was walking by, looked up on a spur of the moment and went "The heck...there's a statue up there? Oh, that thing has got to be climbable."

I then reached the top of the cliff, admired the view, left an offering at the shrine and then happily threw myself over the cliff's edge several times before moving on.