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I read somewhere that if you take a Goblin Totem then they will send out war-parties to try & reclaim it, although I also remember reading that this doesn't work as intended. Does it work or not? do you need a specific mod or have to do a specific quest to get it to work properly?. I grabbed the totem of the Goblin tribe near Skingrad yesterday and have left it inside the Skingrad Fighters guild, will anything interesting happen? (I was careful not to kill the tribe's shaman as I remember reading that you shouldn't kill him otherwise they wouldn't come after the totem)

I believe that nothing will happen since the cities are considered different cells and therefore not available for monsters to come inside the city gates. There is a mod however that will open the gates of the cities and to see this scenario play out after installing that mod would be delightful.

OK, I just captured 2 totems in the same bloody dungeon (dungeon directly North of Skingrad iirc) and sure enough a huge war party followed me out into the open and all the way to the city gates. I actually had to come out and defeat the last two who made it there because they wouldn't allow me to fast-travel or fix my weapons.

I have a follow-on question though. Does this continue indefinitely? i.e. do I have to get rid of the totems somehow to stop Goblins chasing me all over Cyrodiil?

the only thing i know is that its some village quest to retrieve a totem from them, there was a large warparty but that might be because i ran past all of them to retrieve the totem.