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Today while on my way to Riften I passed by something I'd never seen before in the game. A wounded Stormcloak Soldier in mourning clothes, with bandages on his head, just laying there writhing in pain in the middle of the forest.
Is he part of a quest? When approached, he gives the typical Stormcloak speech ("If you know any true sons and daughters of Skyrim...") and then groans and coughs. I'm asking because if he's not part of any quest, I'll just kill him since he can't be helped in any way

Sorry if this has been brought up, there is no article for him on the wiki.

I'll just kill him since he can't be helped in any way

You should also visit their camps while you're at it.
There you will find a few soldiers that would benefit from your medical expertise Dr.House.

If you have the spell 'healing hands' use it. No true Nord deserves to go to Sovngarde before The nine command it.

Mefris Elmek wrote:

I'll just kill him since he can't be helped in any way

You should also visit their camps while your at it.
There you will find a few soldiers that would benefit from your medical expertise Dr.House.

I'm not sure what you mean with that, but I only said "he can't be helped in any way" because I tried to use Healing on him (and it did nothing) and he has no dialogue besides the one I mentioned. So if he's not part of a quest he can't be helped. Sorry.

Chances are you had a placement glitch and instead of the soldier spawning in a camp he spawned in the middle of the road.

Yomnom wrote:

Mefris Elmek wrote:

I'll just kill him since he can't be helped in any way

You should also visit their camps while your at it.
There you will find a few soldiers that would benefit from your medical expertise Dr.House.

I'm not sure what you mean with that, but I only said "he can't be helped in any way" because I tried to use Healing on him (and it did nothing) and he has no dialogue besides the one I mentioned. So if he's not part of a quest he can't be helped. Sorry.

And my point was that killing him will resolve what?You'll "end his suffering"?
He's either a bug or a radiant encounter,nothing special.

Belgarion98 wrote:If you have the spell 'healing hands' use it. No true Nord deserves to go to Sovngarde before The nine command it.

Healing Hands does not help wounded NPC(scripted ones at least).

Justice knight wrote:Chances are you had a placement glitch and instead of the soldier spawning in a camp he spawned in the middle of the road.

I see. Thank you.

Mefris Elmek wrote: And my point was that killing him will resolve what?You'll "end his suffering"?
He's either a bug or a radiant encounter,nothing special.

Belgarion98 wrote:If you have the spell 'healing hands' use it. No true Nord deserves to go to Sovngarde before The nine command it.

Healing Hands does not help wounded NPC(scripted ones at least).

Point taken. I realize it was a stupid and irrelevant thing to say but yes, that is what I meant since I'm roleplaying the sort of character that would do that.
I thought this soldier was a particular case due to his location.

Belgarion98 wrote:If you have the spell 'healing hands' use it. No true Nord deserves to go to Sovngarde before The nine command it.

Technically, none of the Nine want you to go to Sovngarde. Shor does, and he's not among the Nine.

Point taken. I realize it was a stupid and irrelevant thing to say but yes,that is what I meant since I'm roleplaying the sort of character that would do that.

Understandable,still in this case it's the game itself that is keeping you from healing him,not his wounds. For this reason,personally ,I would just let him be.Chances are he will be discovered by a SC patrol.

Pilaf The Defiler wrote:

Belgarion98 wrote:If you have the spell 'healing hands' use it. No true Nord deserves to go to Sovngarde before The nine command it.

Technically, none of the Nine want you to go to Sovngarde. Shor does, and he's not among the Nine.

Sorry sorry sorry...I knew it wasn't the nine.