But where's the fun in doing that?
People don't level up either and Dragonbone looks awesome so there.
It would have made more sense being dragon skin, dragon scale, dragon hide or dragon leather armor. Dragons are supposed to have really tough skin/hide/scales/whatever and in most fantasy settings making armors or shields out of it makes a lightweight but durable armor/shield with usually some kind of protection (red dragons makes it resistant to fire, ice dragons to cold, etc). But in Skyrim it has to be dragon bone because the Dragonborn consumes the dragon's soul and for some reason that makes the dragon's body being consumed too, only bones remain.
It also breaks my suspension of disbelief when those Demigods die so easily while some humans can't be killed and just keep getting up after a short rest on their knees.
And then the Dragonborne just kills them.
It also breaks my suspension of disbelief when those Demigods die so easily while some humans can't be killed and just keep getting up after a short rest on their knees.
And then the Dragonborne just kills them.
Yeah, you can beat the main quest even after killing Vivec. It's balls-out hard, though. Since Vivec is supposed to give you Wraithguard during the main quest, you're without Wraithguard when you kill him. Instead, you loot a "unique dwemer artifact" from his body, which has the model of a left-handed daedric gauntlet. You have to talk to Yagrum Bagarn and get two books from 6th House bases so he can jury-rig a functional Wraithguard from that. Thing is that the jury-rigged Wraithguard deals you 200-250 damage when you first put it on, so you need to be prepared for that. Oh, and while that damage is supposed to be temporal, you actually lose that health permanently in most versions of Morrowind, so you're screwed really hard.I just think that in a game where they take pride of player freedom so much, having essential characters is just too restrictive. In Morrowind you could kill everyone, if they were relevant to the main quest a popup window would appear saying something like " With the death of this character the prophecy can't be completed. Load a save game before this character died to restore the threads of the prophecy." or something like that while the player could still play the game after that character was dead. And I think that even by killing those characters the player could still beat the main quest if he killed Vivec or something like that.
Morrowind might have been more restrictive (the way RPGs are) about what a particular main character can access or do in one playthrough but without a doubt gave more freedom about characters deaths than Skyrim ever did. There was none of this cheap and useless "Essential can't be killed" lazy gimmick.
EDIT: Found an image of the popup message:
