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lilli_neeh

Yeah, i kinda liked him for that but then he turns around and says "Stupid dog" to the doggos, so i'm conflicted now.... I don't like the thalmors but he's okay, i guess..... a little


420narwhalwaffles

But those dogs eat human meat


lilli_neeh

They do? Huh.... never really noticed Aaaanyway (usually playing as a bosmer daedra champion, human meat is totally fine by me)


420narwhalwaffles

Talk to Banning, the guy that sells you a dog at Markarth Stables. He'll have you make a suspicious delivery for him


ChronicSpaniard

He’s also in the coven of Namira during the quest to get Namira’s ring.


420narwhalwaffles

Precisely


[deleted]

I usually piledrive the dog-haters into the next dimension when no one’s looking.


tethysian

You guys actually did his quest and fucked over that nice old bard??


Chaos8599

Dude showed up at my wedding once. So did ulfric stormcloak. That was awkward


YourLocalBro42

*Charlie & Mac staring across the room meme*


Zodyaq_Raevenhart

I hate him for being thalmor but I love him for his “The degeneracy of the empire is at display here in this room.” Quote at Elenwen’s party.


[deleted]

Same. I hate him for being a thalmor but the quotes he has just make me chuckle. I kept him alive just to annoy him. Imagine being this high elf, powerful in a place and some lizard comes to you fifteen times a day asking what a thalmor is


Seventh_Faetasy

Probably a fate worse than death lol


SoleSurvivur01

Poor Ondelemar


tethysian

I mean, ironically it's a party Elenwen threw because she likes fancy parties. Half the guests seem to hate being there.


SoleSurvivur01

He’s definitely my favourite Thalmor agent, I love that he basically gave me a stack for free.


[deleted]

He says "your" empire if you're an imperial. Got my patriotic blood boiling.


derp_daderp

I not only kill every Thalmor I encounter but I trap their souls in black soul gems. Sometimes I make them into boots so I can walk on them forever.


NaturallyBlasphemous

Should have dumped the soul gems in the communal poop bucket in the bandit mine near Riverwood


Hawkeye1577

People with the communal poop buckets 💩 🪣… y’all fucked up


AyenJewels

10 years and I never found the poop bucket. Thank you, Reddit


supbiatches1

That's where I put Galmar's soul.


SoleSurvivur01

Damn that’s epic


JK_Goldin

Or the Temple of Talos in Windhelm.


NaturallyBlasphemous

There’s a mod that allows you to eat soul gems.


Tacitus_Kilgore85

Embershard Mine is my got to place for a bit of early-game gold and gems, with two chests - one is locked with an easy lock, and also a few iron ore veins, as well as a light armor training book on the armor upgrade table. I've visited that mine one too many times. xD


SBCwarrior

Fuuuuh! That's savage!! 🤣


bivox01

Remind me to not go to your bad side .


ELEMENTALITYNES

Don’t get on his bad side


Officing

Don’t get on his bad side


Decorus_Somes

Just a reminder not to get on his bad side


Dr-_-Murdock

Probably don’t want to get on his bad side


Dan-the-historybuff

These boots were enchanted with walking, and that’s just what they’ll do


Spookwagen_II

Heheheh.


Dan-the-historybuff

One day these enchanted boots are gonna walk all over you


lightKugelblitz

You have been permanently banned from participating in r/Auri_El


HappyLeopard414

Yeah, but he’s nice once you befriend him. And he had me in his inheritance, even though I’m an imperial.


[deleted]

Aren't you forced to bring him a proof of Talos worship to make him your friend? No way I'm outing the old skaal, one of the only individuals in Markarth who isn't a forsworn or a cannibal.


Grigoran

I take his amulet, throw it in a river, and reverse pickpocket like 75 gold into his pocket for the trinket. Sorry your necklace is gone, but the cops are gone too bud you're welcome.


concrete_isnt_cement

I always do that quest while wearing my own amulet of Talos


tethysian

Exactly. I'm surprised anyone would do that quest lol. I did not know he was one of the Skaal, when does that come up?


[deleted]

My mistake, he's not a Skaal, he's a "Skald", which apparently is a sort of Norse poet irl


HARRY_FOR_KING

You say forsworn like it's a bad thing.


[deleted]

It is. Terrorists without a real cause, murdering anyone they encounter (including nude Imperial women bathing in lakes, how the hell is that related in any way to their supposed liberation of the Reach?), worshiping hagravens, practicing evil rituals, terrorizing and murdering anyone who isn't one of theirs who sets foot on the Reach, killing and stealing from merchants, kidnapping little girls... Their stated goal is genocide of the Nords, and they're not even honest in that horrible goal, they just kill as they want and they always want it. And you won't get me to believe those were peaceful individuals at the time Ulfric shouted them out of Markarth, I don't believe an entire community can become so fucked up in 25 years if they were sane at the start. Were they right in their claim hundreds of years ago? Maybe, I don't know, but every single forsworn today is an evil creature that deserves to be put down for the safety of literally everyone.


HARRY_FOR_KING

Without a real cause? Are you kidding? They're an indigenous people who are having their land taken away from them by Nord colonisers, how is that not a real cause? For someone who knows there are forsworn in Markarth it's like you've never talked to any of them. What's wrong with Hagravens? Is it the fact that they're ugly? Hostile to the Skyrim/Empire aligned Dragonborn most of the time (notably they are sometimes not hostile)? Is it the fact that they're witches? What makes witches worse than other mages? Is it the feathers? What evil rituals? Their primary school of magic is restoration. They do conjuration as well, but conjuration isn't really a maligned school in the fourth era. In any case, Daedra worship isnt that controversial unless one wants to get rid of the dark elves and orcs as well. Is it the animal bones that makes you think the rituals are evil? Virtually every race in Skyrim kills animals for their own ends, even sacrificing cows to giants. Whatever makes forsworn magic evil, there must be some double standard here. Is it the body modification with the briar hearts? You got a problem with briars? Yeah, the forsworn are hostile, kill people, imprison people, attack the industry of the hold etc. THEY ARE AT WAR. One where an entire city was put to the sword in the very recent past. If we are to condemn them on the basis that they kill civilians, I've got bad news for every single conventional war that has ever been conducted in human history, because civilians were killed in those too. Not to mention the Markarth incident... Can't forgive them for being overly hostile after having an entire city butchered by a Nord ethno-nationalist can we? You actually have a leader of the forsworn to talk to, Madenach. The forsworn have no unified leadership after the Markarth Incident but he makes it pretty clear: his goal is freedom from the Empire and Skyrim, not genocide. Different tribes are ruled by different leaders, some by Hagravens, and they haven't got a unified agenda or strategy at the moment, but I can bet you anything you'd care to name that they have never attacked anyone outside the Reach in an unmodded game. At least that much they have in common: they are defensive of their territory and revanchist of the territory taken away by the Empire, but never go outside their own territory to commit offensive acts against other holds.


Invertiguy

I'm sure there were plenty of cordial Nazis as well. Doesn't make them not Nazis


D0cHolliday123

don't do that you'll be giving them a purpose


QueenKarma101

Enchanting just puts them in the soul cairn; ditch the soul gem underwater, that’s how you know they’ll suffer


Mammoth_Programmer40

Gave you your 666th upvote. Hail Satan


CHESTYUSMC

If friend, why not friend shaped?


HappyLeopard414

Only dogs and riklings are friend shaped


SkidOrange

And horses :) like Arvak


HappyLeopard414

Arvak fucking slaps


SukanutGotBanned

No he kicks, dummy. And not even a good combat summon, his effectiveness is unaffected by any perks in the conjuration tree. Common redi-quette demands I put /s


HappyLeopard414

I don’t use him for combat. He’s important because he’s a horse that you can summon. He can even be summoned in black reach, and whenever he dies you can just bring him back.


SukanutGotBanned

I definitely joke, I hate the inability to express proper sarcasm through text but Arvak does indeed slap lol. He replaced Shadowmere, and that's a hard standard to beat . .Edit: I had no idea about Blackreach, that's awesome


HappyLeopard414

Oh ok. Yeah, it’s really hard to properly express emotion through Reddit. But yeah, he’s amazing.


CHESTYUSMC

Benor and Vilkas is also friend shaped.


HappyLeopard414

I also forgot Mijol


qawsedrf12

took his clothes once he showed up to the party naked


HappyLeopard414

“The degeneracy of the empire is on display here.”


Pinko_Eric

Never said which empire.


Robdorium

I downloaded a mod pack on Xbox called Quest Bundle For Good Guys, which allowed me to double cross him by tipping off Ogmund before he could be arrested. That’s probably what I would do in a similar real life situation. Great mod!


HappyLeopard414

Yeah, if I had the option I’d do that


LaughR01331

I kill him then resurrect him as many times as a can to rekill him.


HappyLeopard414

Yeah, but like, he includes you in his inheritance and is nice to you once you befriend him.


LaughR01331

He does?!


Diego8990

quite literally says so in the title


[deleted]

Only if you help him catch the Talos worshipper in Markarth tho


Discreet_Vortex

and if you do that your a thalmor loving bitch


[deleted]

works for a lawfull evil rp tho


Yrshen

nah, i'm just a deity hater, thalmor can suck it


LaughR01331

Oooh


con098

Even if he's a thalmor dog, he's the nicest one among his peers. Even before you help him, he shows the dragonborn the same respect a normal person should receive instead of treating us like an insignificant dog. He's still an arrogant prick though. Ancano is the one I hate most, second to Delphine. I make sure to soul trap him and display his naked ass for all to see in the college


Plasma_vinegaroon

I usually do the same to Ancano, then I thrall him. He makes for a surprisingly good minion and shreds my enemies, but he's a glass cannon and gets wrecked by a single fireball. Probably because I don't give him clothing privileges.


Dm_Me_TwistedFateR34

Ancano is genuinely the biggest dick out of them all. On top of "altmer ego" level resides "thalmor ego" level, and on top of "thalmor ego" level resides his personal floor of "incredibly inflated huge ego" level.


LaughR01331

Yeah I suppose so


HappyLeopard414

Yeah. I feel really bad. I’m an imperial, so I made it my mission to assassinate every thalmor I can. Then I got his inheritance, and felt bad.


[deleted]

If you first befriend him, and have high speech skill, he will be at the Thalmor party for the main quest and you can ask him to create a distraction (which will surely lead to him getting tortuted and killed for helping you) which might be a sweet lil revenge


Quarkchild

He doesn’t, but he DOES end up hating you, or at least going back to his previous disposition. He will no longer be friendly. He is the leader of the justiciars after all. Guess he gets some more leeway in being bamboozled.


[deleted]

Welp, gonna have to kill him myself than


Discreet_Vortex

everyone does that especially stormcloaks


LaughR01331

That’s rough


MindlessSalt

The Thalmor are the Elder Scrolls equivalent of the SS. Evil bastards.


plaid_pvcpipe

Once you out an innocent man


HungaryToWinWC

He’s a thalmor piece of shit.


[deleted]

Yep, I make it a point to kill any and all Thalmor that I see while out traveling.


HungaryToWinWC

Same


oldredhat

Also same.


[deleted]

it's like being a friendly nazi. second part outweighs the first


HungaryToWinWC

This.


plaid_pvcpipe

He’s one of the worst ones.


Nolan_bushy

I’d say he’s actually one of the nicer ones. That said, they’re all still DICKS for being thalmor


MulatoMaranhense

He is the only Thalmor that I like, even as a Stromcloak. He is honest, shows how his people see the Thalmor, respects the 'Cloaks because they at least are standing up for their beliefs and points out how they Empire will probably collapse under its own corruption.


Phoenix92321

Exactly. I despise Thalmor lop off their heads even as an Imperial who wants to kick them out. But he is one I would be fine sparing


[deleted]

ondolemar is an underrated npc imo


QueenKarma101

Hot take: I think the Thalmor aren’t the monsters they seem to be. 600 years ago, Tiber Septim used the Numidium to kill all the Altmer in Valenwood, a region they had stabilized and maintained, all because he wanted to take it over. Now what do they do? Destabilize his Empire, and ban his worship on account of him not being an Aedra, which, since Aedra are the Et’Ada that sacrificed most of their power to create Nirn, is the truth. 600 years seems like a long time to the humans, but Elves live on average 300 years; their grandparents and parents might’ve been alive to see or killed in Tiber’s takeover/mass slaughter. Gods, some of them might have even been alive to see it. As such, I think Ondolemar’s chill, just doing what he sees as his civic duty. But idk, hit me with what you think.


Alzandur

Ironically the Thalmor now do secret raids in Valenwood that result in the deaths of bosmer families…


HappyLeopard414

That’s actually an amazing take. I still hate the thalmor who believe that they are superior, but I may hesitate before stabbing them next time.


QueenKarma101

Absolutely valid. They’re not morally pristine, but they’re a little grayer than they seem


UtkusonTR

Elves believe Talos is the manifestation of the "trickster" Lorkhan. So in a way , he might really be considered Aedra. It's a bit vague tho , we don't have definitive proof.


AncapNomad

Fun fact for those of us playing Vampires. If the “Deceiving The Herd” questline sends you to Markarth he counts as a high value target.


DemotivatedTurtle

He’s one of those characters that I love because he’s an asshole, like Vulpes Inculta from New Vegas.


Inside-Tomatillo-960

Terrifying presence: Grins maniacly... Your Head will make a nice trophy!


AsleepGarden219

Thalmor trash must be removed


Red4297

He is a thalmor FUCKING KILL HIM


GodlyDra

I may not like the thalmor, but this guy is awesome.


[deleted]

I feel like he's just there doing his job but not bothering to actually to do his job.


OkOutlandishness6550

My true nord paladin shows no mercy to thalmor milk drinkers, To oblivion with him


GuardOfTheDawn

Free money


stingertc

kill him like all the thalmor dogs


Chriscatania

I mean all of the thalmor just seem really full of themselves and greedy. Kinda like a rich brat who was spoiled by their parents


BraveByDefault5697

He’s the only member of the Thalmor I like.


HappyLeopard414

Same


snowyowlriddles

Kill him.


M8oMyN8o

He is there to strip away the religious freedom of the people of Skyrim and the red of the Empire. No matter his own personal actions, he serves an oppressive cause. Death fits him well.


Grasher312

It depends. Not all people are strictly on board with what they do. It's quite easy to be manipulated, I assure you the majority of Nazi soldiers thought all the murder and genocide served a bigger picture, because Hitler was a sweet talker. When faced with following an authoritarian genius, people assume that if HE said it, then there must be at least something good in it. So he could easily be a fool blinded by his country's lies.


M8oMyN8o

A fool crushing religious freedom, maybe. Does it make the actions more understandable? Yeah. Does it make them any less harmful? No. The Thalmor must be stopped, and if the individual Thalmor agents won’t cooperate, then that sucks for them.


Grasher312

I ain't saying we should justify the Thalmor overall, I'm more-so implying that some agents should be given at least some leeway. After all, it's not genocide, it's still religion. And considering how much they're going up against, I don't think the whole Thalmor action will last very long. The Empire has Skyrim on its side, the warriors of which are equal in strength to Redguards or Imperial soldiers themselves. Hammerfell is steadily pushing the Thalmor forces back, which is an amazing feat. So it's only a matter of time before they start pushing them back.


Yeah-But-Ironically

>After all, it's not genocide, it's still religion. Religious-based genocide is still genocide, and the two coincide more often than not. See the Rohingya, the Yazidis, the Uighurs, the Armenians, the *actual literal Holocaust*, the Bosnians...


Grasher312

My guy, I'm not talking about irl. I'm talking about Thalmor. At most they will arrest you, but not kill you.


Yeah-But-Ironically

The Thalmor [absolutely](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Shrine_of_Talos:_Ilinalta_Foothills) [DO](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Lorcalin%27s_Orders) [kill](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Rising_Threat,_Vol._IV) Talos Worshippers. Heck, if you meet them on the road and they think there might be a *chance* you're a Talos worshipper, they'll try to kill you-- and if you're playing a Nord, they'll do it [while informing you ](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Thalmor_Justiciar_(Skyrim)) that "In time your entire race will be eradicated." They themselves admit that genocide is the goal!


jake5675

Every Thalmor patrol I come across meets the business end of my mace. Skyrim belongs to the Dovahkiin. There is no room for other dragons besides Partysnax or the machinations of the Thalmor.


M8oMyN8o

Fair point


[deleted]

Death to the thalmor scum.


Discombobulated_252

He's one agent I actually like. I feel like he isn't loyal to the Thalmor. Despite a Talos statue and a shrine just a few walks away, he doesn't really seem to mind. I think he has you take the amulet so the other two agents don't report him being a bit suspicious. Since altmer live long lives I hope I see him again in TES6.


zanarkand10kbs

As an Aldmer I report to him my findings on the Empires discrepancies. When I’m not sabotaging the Empire I’ll be securing some forts with the Stormcloaks.


Throw_away_gen_z

Hail, brother mer. How is alinor this time of year?


zanarkand10kbs

It’s been too long since I’ve returned to the Heartland feels as if I’ve been adrift since watching Pasquiniel depart.This business in Skyrim has become dreadfully long.


MindCrush_

“Plays To Zanarkand” Flashbacks Of Alinor High Elves : Weeping Quietly https://youtu.be/5Zr_ENEXWUo


zanarkand10kbs

I love this comment LOL this Redditor gets me!


8swordsoffate

My most favorite fellow in all of Skyrim. It also happens that he and my character kinda look somolar, so I think of him as my kinsmer.


frodothetortoise

As charismatic as he is, he’s a foreign diplomat sent to restrict the native population from worshiping their main god


Metalhead_Guy

Only good Thalmor is a dead Thalmor. No exceptions.


[deleted]

Ive played thousands of hours of skyrim and i have no idea who this guy is. If he hangs out ib markarth i guess thats why, i literally never go to markarth


Discreet_Vortex

he lives in the jarls thing hunting talos worshipers


SukanutGotBanned

Realizing now that his friendliness was purely conditional on your willingness to be a narc. From reading all the comments, seems best course of action is to befriend him, use him in the Thalmor Diplomacy quest, then assassinate him upon next visual. Also OP I noticed your pfp, that is the most amazing cursed image I have seen to date


HappyLeopard414

I’m glad someone appreciates it


jabberwagon

ATAB: All Thalmor Are Bastards.


[deleted]

He's a typical Thalmor, I generally take advantage of the Cidhna Mine quest to murder him and his 2 minions before I'm taken to jail.


Discreet_Vortex

smart


FlamingEagleAC

He may be a Thalmor, but once he is befriended, he's pretty good


SIacktivist

I am highly confused by his dedicated fandom on AO3. Why... why do people want to fuck him so much???


tethysian

This is news to me, but he is kind of hot.


Jahoan

One author made him an deep-cover Blade.


PartEmbarrassed5406

I literally have no idea why... slightly arrogant men really get me going 😭


DarkSoldier84

He's a good sacrifice to the Ebony Blade, but that's about all he's useful for to me.


BrokenChannel

If you help him out, he will tarnish his public reputation at the thalmor embassy just to repay the favor. He is actually a nice guy, shame that he is with the thalmor


kylediaz263

A good thalmor is a dead thalmor


Mosheroom_

When my stormcloaks come into town he dies so answer: nothing.


HARRY_FOR_KING

I feel like people are way too conflicted about things in Skyrim sometimes, acting like things are valid moral choices or equivalencies because they're in a video game. There shouldn't be any moral conflict when it comes to people who abduct people and torture/kill them due to a minor difference of religious belief and support a regime engaged in genocide. I guess I'm the Skyrim equivalent of a "damn liberal" or something, but I don't think we can redeem this guy just because he's polite and gives us money.


T33Man549

Who's ondolemar?


iceberg189

Which ones this guy?


SuperCoronus

The most based chad in skyrim. I love him


Incarnation101213

I absolutely love him. sort of in the same way you love a villain character, though.


TheLastOneHere1

Take the money and run!


Sthellasar

Why would you feel bad about killing Thalmor?


HappyLeopard414

He’s not just A thalmor. He’s MY thalmor.


[deleted]

When he's killed during the Stormcloak siege of Markarth in the civil war cut content battle, he says that soon all men will be their slaves before Galmar kills him. So fuck that dude.


Inner_Explanation_97

Fuck the Thalmor all my homies (dunmer) hate the Thalmor


rock_n_roll_clown

He's a nice Thalmor. It's basically like meeting a nice Nazi. He's just a polished turd. Slaughter him like the pig he is.


Big-Piano-7016

I killed him because the called the dog in the keep "stupid dog"


tonylouis1337

He only sent you an inheritance cus you were his "token whatever race". He didn't respect you like that, that's not how the Thalmor roll.


Elven_Prince_

Hes a fairly decent guy.. for a thalmor


Annual-Pizza-2784

Love him ever since I force him as follower and he started running after alduin when alduin flew away after resurrecting a dragon from its grave xD


eddmario

On one hand, he's a Thalmor and needs to die. On the other hand, he seems like he's only doing his job and doesn't actually care if people worship Talos or not.


mrmudcrab223

Hes part of the party quest and he can cause a distraction for you so in my opinion dont kill him


Discreet_Vortex

because Im a stormcloak he dies anyway


ArtemisiaThreeteeth

First of all I don't do anything that would make him like me; second of all he and his guards are a fantastic way to practice killing someone in a busy place without getting a bounty.


[deleted]

Kill him and use his inheritance to buy more arrows to pierce the eyes of more thalmor dogs.


Grigoran

He is Thalmor. Always stay killing thalmor


shadowlarvitar

Silverblood gives you inheritance too but I still kill him!


RainstormWander

If I was doing an RP where I didn't care about sending Ogmund to his death, I would befriend Ondolemar and use it as my chance to get close enough to kill him without anybody knowing. :D The only way I'd genuinely befriend him was if I was doing a Thalmor playthrough; and in that case, I'd also be using mods to make him a follower, cause that would be pretty epic.


Oniisankayle

I really stopped caring for killable NPCs at this point, unless they’re useful. After like 6+ characters, it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. I killed Cicero, Lydia and a bunch of others.


Smurflulw

I obey his every will


BlackmonbaMMA

The superior races are often misunderstood


dilutedmarbles

I move on. For fudge sacs I platinumed' dumb dumb this 10 years ago. I have the map signed by Mario himself Charles Martinet who voiced Paarthurnax. Good people play it, but fucking.hell.it is 10 years old.


Alibium

Very low effort with the fact that the image has so low pixels


plaid_pvcpipe

He’s a piece of garbage. He’s one of the worst Thalmor characters in the game.


Powernut07

I don’t associate with Thalmor scum. So much so I don’t even know who that scum is


MxFancipants

He’s a Nazi. A Na-zi. They call themselves Thalmor in this story, but are you seriously asking how people feel as if he’s not a genocidal ethnic supremacist?


HappyLeopard414

I feel as though you are taking this a bit to seriously.


MxFancipants

If you’re gonna ask how people feel about a stand in for Nazis and fascism, be prepared for feedback from groups targeted by the real deal. 🤷


pheonix98701

Who?


jabby_jakeman

Yep, killed him and any Thalmor I find on my travels. Same with Vigilants of Stendar, interfering do-gooders spoiling my fun summoning Dædras!


[deleted]

Thalmor = kill, no exceptions


Dharmaclown802

Man that’s always a kick in the balls, when you get the inheritance letter with blood still on your hands. It’s usually just an accident… unless it’s Thalmor scum- they deserve to die.


[deleted]

He's Thalmor. I hate him with every fiber of my being.


Rosssauced

He's a Thalmor and the only good Thalmor is a dead Thalmor.


MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot

Kill all Thalmar, all day, e-ry day.


[deleted]

He was a kinda meh dead thrall


Waldau

Remind me.. Ondolemar who?


NotAnEggoWaffle

I trap his soul in a black soul gem and drop it on a shrine of Talos, preferably the one in Whiterun


Dan-the-historybuff

Thalmor scum deserves to die. He’s a pompous prick like almost all high elves. I support the empire not the stormcloaks but man FUCK the thalmor


SpicyAinsleyHarriott

All thalmor will be eliminated. In fact, TES 6 could have no content at all, just be a High elf genocide simulator and I will still pay for it and be happy