Skyrim is best known for its massive open world full of enemies, items, and quests, but it also has its fair share of gruesome or scary moments. Players likely won't forget the first time they walk in on Aventus Aretino performing the ritual to summon the Dark Brotherhood, and there are plenty of moments like this throughout the game. Even though the game has been out for almost ten years now, players are still discovering and rediscovering new tidbits of information, and Redditor KJ00R stumbled across something that's both gruesome and very interesting.
This discovery isn't necessarily new, but it does happen to be something that many players didn't know was possible in the game. With a picture on Reddit, KJ00R shares their newfound knowledge that players can eat the corpses of fallen enemies to restore health (and hunger in survival mode). What's more shocking, KJ00R had been playing Skyrim for eight whole years before discovering this.
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In order to take part in this gruesome act, players are going to have to complete a specific quest and obtain the Ring of Namira. The quest is called The Taste of Death, accessible once the player enters the Hall of the Dead in Markarth. Should players decide to go through with it, they will have lured an unsuspecting victim to the Altar of Namira by the end of it, providing a feast for Namira's worshippers. It just so happens that this includes the Dragonborn themself, and players get the Ring of Namira ater completing it that allows them to cannibalize fallen foes.
As insane as this discovery is for KJ00R and others that haven't heard of it is, the caption on the post really drives home what makes this so cool. As KJ00R says, there are likely plenty of secrets for players to discover in Skyrim still. Sure they may all be jotted down somewhere on the internet, but personal discoveries are just as valuable and fun to make as community-wide ones. For example, many newer Skyrim players recently discovered the vendor restock glitch, and this was a big moment for those players even though the glitch was well-known in the early days of the game.
For players wanting to roleplay this horrendous ability to its fullest, the Bosmer race of The Elder Scrolls is actually known for cannibalism. As part of the Green Pact, Bosmer were once required to eat only meat and to not let the flesh of their fallen foes rot or go to waste. Most Bosmer have moved on from this brutish tradition, but the Ring of Namira would let players relive it.
Skyrim is available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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