Looks like no new post about Skyrim has been made here for several months. As a big Skyrim fan, I feel this is just wrong. So, I will post about Skyrim until I get an echo from the void…
I will kick off by being controversial. Many Skyrim fans mock Nazeem. I just feel sorry for the guy: he had a good life, full of purpose and satisfaction, as a Skyrim farmer. Then he sold his farm, retired to Whiterun, where he is wasting all his hard-earned money by trying to slime his way into high society, dressing like a knob, and talking down to people that are still living the kind of life he left behind. His wife now despises him, he has no friends, and the toffs he fawns on all laugh at him. He doesn’t even have a pet dog. He is a lost soul. He needs someone to tell him to buy himself another farm before he loses his last septim and get back to living a life that gives him dignity and happiness. His wife would probably back that 100%. Do Skyrim fans care? Nope, they are all down on the guy because in his misery he mocks them. It is just projection, I tell you. His projection, and the fans projecting back at him. People in this category all need to live better lives and find self-respect.
On the other hand, no one ever criticises Hod, the work-shy lumberjack in Riverwood, who encourages his son to sexually abuse farm animals. Nope, that is just a regular guy doing normal parenting /s. This scumbag gets no pushback from his nasty wife, who simply looks the other way while her son turns into a psychopath with dad’s help. Hod is even looked up to by his dog, Stump. How is that not making you nauseous, fans of Skyrim? Plus the poor cow he keeps in his garden for his son to abuse… are you just going to shrug and walk away? Me, I always kill Hod, and often adopt his son to give the boy a chance to grow up normal away from his evil parent. Moo-Moo and Stump live on in Riverwood, happy and safe. It is how it should be, fellow Dragonborns! Hating Hod is the only honourable and healthy way to be,
So, fellow Skyrim fans - who do you think worse? Nazeem or Hod? Or can you name someone worse than Hod? Convince, I think not.
Once Hod and Gerdur invited me to their house and he seemed like a very open and friendly guy. But when I entered their house he immediately told me “You need to leave” repeatedly. That felt kind of creepy and manipulative and I haven’t trusted him since.
‘When they show you who they are, believe them the first time.’ Trust your instincts!
Nazeem was supposed to have a house in the Cloud District but it got cut from the game. He still has the key to the deleted house in his inventory.
There is a mod to add it back in, at least on PC, Wintersand Manor. Playing with it currently!
And so he lives in a rented room in the Drunken Huntsman - one room with annoying flatmates (cummon, who d’you think hires the Dark Brotherhood to bump off Anoriath if not Nazeem or his missus? - she’s a healer, could poison both of the brothers if she wanted, so that leaves Nazeem as suspect numero uno) and a resentful spouse who is not shy about telling the world her opinion of him. The guy has to have giant shoulders to carry that burdon, no wonder he’s struggling.
I don’t think I have encountered Hod in any playthrough that I can remember. But I sure as hell remember the stuck-up asshole Nazeem. So Nazeem takes my vote.
Noooo! Wrong, wrong answer! He’s not ‘stuck-up’, he’s just lost. He needs a friend to guide him into being a good guy - you should be his pal. That’s the Dragonborn way :-)
I’ll guide hum into a dragons mouth.
And when he comes out the other end, put him in a jar, and send him to Maeven Blackbriar? ‘Try this vintage brew, Madam. Signed Friends of Christophe.’ Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy (or gal - but don’t let me go on about Maeven or I’ll be here all day, grr!)
i feel like i’ve missed a few of Hod’s lines, what the fuck?
Exactly! There are some dark, dark story lines in Skyrim. We all talk about the obvious nasties like orphanage matron Grelod the Kind with her child-size torture chamber in Riften or farmer Lemkil in Rorikstead who relentlessly mistreats his twin girls. But there are even worse NPCs out there. And Hod is a monster…
Maybe they should switch places
