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It's a unique opportunity to find lore about characters who might otherwise be looked over. In that regard, Bethesda made it more worthwhile to seek out the hundreds of books, notes, and journals scattered throughout the world. Others may seem like reasonably standard adversaries until players manage to find and read their journals, which serve to provide additional backstory and explanation for motives that otherwise may not seem to make much sense.

Many of Skyrim's strangest NPCs can be tied back to the Elder Scrolls series' Daedric Princes, whose morality doesn't often align with that of mortals. Here are some of the weirdest NPCs in the game, as well as where to look for them. While bizarre characters such as Cicero and Sheogorath are well known by fans of the Elder Scrolls series by this point, many other unique personalities may be more difficult to run into in a standard playthrough, or their secret oddities may be more well-hidden than many Skyrim players would expect. There are thousands 0f NPCs to encounter in Skyrim, some of which are more memorable than others in one way or another.
