The way I tend to game, my characters have different exploring ratios. Some of them like to explore randomly, others tend to go places only if they're told to go there, or only if they've heard things about them.

It's been since Thor a'Zaene (my second character out of a dozen) that I've been to Markath, for instance. I remember that town fondly, but it's been about a year since I've actually been there! I think Thor only went there because he was drugged by that lying idiot in the black cloak, the one who shows up randomly in bars, and asks us to have a drink with him.

My current Crusader spends a lot of time in Falkreath and Whiterun with Riften and Dawnstar running second most-visited. Rorikstead a couple times. He's only been to Winterhold once, to update his spellbook. And (assuming no more quests send him that way) he will probably only go there once or twice more; again, because they have the best spells.

But Lord Haaf-Mersey has never been to Markath, Solitude, Windhelm, Karthwasten, Ivarstead, or Morthal. He plans on going to each of these (when things die perhaps with Dawnguard) because he's got a curiosity with religious places, but otherwise I kinda doubt he would ever visit even these villages & towns.

bla bla bla....what about you all?.

I usually Try to explore every unexplored place on the map until there's nothing left to explore. I never tire of it for some reason. It's been a whole year since skyrim was released? Geez, it feels like I bought that game yesterday.

My character was very cautious when she first came to Skyrim. There wasn't much random exploring. That's dangerous. Then she got tied up with the main quest, and then the Dawnguard so she didn't feel like she had the time to do any exploration on her own.

I just started her game over because of some issues I was having, and now that none of those questlines have been started, she's been using the freedom to do all the looking around that she didn't get to do before.

On this current game, she hasn't been to Winterhold or Markarth. She's traveled to, or at least through, the other cities. She hasn't been anywhere near Markarth yet. It's kind of out of the way.

She was in Falkreath a lot for a while (due to Hearthfire) but the general store keeper there isn't very nice to her (because she's Khajiit I assume) so she hasn't been back there lately. She buys supplies in Riverwood and Whiterun a lot, the people there are friendly to her it seems. She's been down to Riften quite a bit as well. It seems like there are quite a few side quests that have led her there.

Edit: Oops! Forgot about Rorikstead! She hasn't been there yet either.

For me it varies by character of course. Revansch has spent most of her time in the warm, southern half of Skyrim. Amaterasu spent a lot of time in the Rift, but got into eastern Falkreath Hold and Eastmarch a bit too. Hrafn spent most of her time around Dawnstar and Winterhold.

Solitude has the largest temple to the Nine Eight I believe. Or I should say, all Eight are represented in one building. That's some reason to go there, no?

Huh I didn't know that, Mr. Coin. I am sure LHM will reach Solitude, and be blown away by the entire town. Since there's a very prominent introduction to that town (execution) I wanna devote some quality time to this with my Crusader. All my characters so far have merely watched the execution, but have not gotten directly involved. I know LHM will get involved OTOH, I'm just not sure how, yet.



This might be so. The general store guy is always nice (within reason) towards my characters, but then I've only had humans and elves. The guy's brother is a prick, though. He's the one who says "I can't believe we let provencials like you wander Skyrim". WTF? Some of my characters have done nothing but good works in Falkreath, yet this guy still talks down to them. Loser.

Oh yes, he starts out nice enough, it's only after business has been concluded that he starts making threats.

His brother is always an ***.

Right. "You steal anything from my shop, and you'll regret it".

I know, its like the guards constantly saying "Hands to yourself, sneak thief!"

This depends. If it's a character who does a lot of thieving, I don't mind, but it gets on my nerves if the char. only has accidentally grabbed an item here and there, and now they're a "sneak thief".

That's actually one of the only times I reload a game: if I try to speak to somebody, but don't realize my character is about to activate (grab) something. I would never be so clumsy if I'm talking to somebody IRL, so I allow a reload if this happens in-game.

Ultimately it's my fault, though, I often stay in 3rd person when talking to NPCs, when I should switch to 1st.

I get it all the time, and my characters do not pick pockets (well, except for the one... ). I think it is tied to your Stealth skill. If it gets over 30, you hear that everywhere.

My Khajiit gets it all the time. It irritates her because she doesn't steal.

I've never been to Dawnstar, not with any of my characters, ever. Don't have the faintest clue why, but I haven't. I'm sure I must be missing something by not going.

Ha ha not really much there. There was a quest that I enjoyed with my Crusader a few weeks ago. And the usual town politics/bickering. The Mythic Guard Museum is also there (that's not what it's called though).

There's one good quest there. Other than that... you haven't missed out.

Where have they not been? That’s an interesting question. I had no idea off the top of my head, so I checked my characters who have more than 50 hours.

Duralekh gro-Bulsakh (presently on an extended fishing trip with Erik the Slayer) has no guild affiliations and is not Dragonborn, though he lives in a world with dragons. Most of his questing involves keeping the Rift safe for his lovely wife Sylgja. He has never been to Falkreath or Dawnstar. I was surprised to see that he had been to Winterhold, though the College was not discovered on his map. That must have been during his wandering days before he met Sylgja. Back then he would often accept favor quests in the hope of getting laid.

Denelle has never been to Falkreath or Morthal. She does work for the CoW, so she has been into some places that would otherwise not tempt her. Most of her contract work comes from the Jarl in her home city of Markarth, so the Reach is pretty well covered in her game.

Jerric has never been to Falkreath. He and Darnand (Marcurio) are on vacation, so they go wherever they feel like going. Jerric likes big sky country. It does not surprise me that he stays out of the forest.

My big surprise was Rowan Varrus, my first character. She has never been to Falkreath in 193 hours of play. (Frankly I’m also surprised that she has survived all of the updates, since she lives on the PS3.)

My Imperial characters have all visited Solitude if only to see the center of Imperial culture in Skyrim. Rowan made her home there, and DovahKen would have retired there if he had not been taken out by an update.


That was a big moment for my Nord barbarian Jensa. She remembered how it felt to have her neck on the block and the scene she made trying to kick her way free. She walked to the front so that Roggvir would have someone to look at in the crowd who wasn’t weeping or yelling at him.

I don't think J'Zirlo has been to Rorikstead yet...He never seems to get there, even when he's tried to... ...Otherwise, it's just that corner around by Ivarstead, opposite Riften, it seems awfully bare on the map...

Must find stuff!!...

Off the top of my head the only place I know for certain that Jessika hasn't yet visited is Markarth.
She spends the majority of her time doing book-fetch quests for Urag in the College, and she has yet been told to fetch anything in the markarth area. Hopefully one day, though!

Castle Volkihar. The Soul Cairn. Solshteim. My four characters haven't been around there.

Fellow PS3 owner here.

It's been awhile since I've had a character who does book fetches. I used to enjoy those. What is it with Bethesda making orcs in charge of books or bookstores? lol.

It's been bugging me, Andrea...and now I finally figured it out. WALKING DEAD. That's who Andrea is! All this time it's been in the back of my head ... Andrea Andrea... S*gh finally figured it out.. I'm still mad at Andrea for cozying up with the Guv'ner. Can't believe she did that, and also slept with him. Yuck.

So many! There still alot of places my charas haven't been on in Oblivion. Don't get me started on Skyrim

I'm pretty sure there are secret hidden places that I have not yet discovered in Dragonborn. If only I could find them......

I'm guessing there are places in dawnguard that I haven't been to either, even though I got it when it first came out.

Yea there are LOTS of locations my OB characters have never been, and let's keep in mind i've been at OB since 10/24/08. I have a character right now (Lady Saga the wood elf Ranger) who specifically does nothing but explore.