Skyrim actually did the whole open-world thing good, by designing the world in such a way that you get subconsciously funneled into certain locations. The bazillion Cloud Chasers didn’t do that.
The red line is the one I always took. It feels like it is much shorter, especially if you cut through behind the houses in an almost straight line. Taking paths is bourgeois decadence.
Also you don’t have to see the dump that the companions live in.
The Left Hand Path.
Gotta be able to buy and sell all my stuff
I’m neither. I’m a “punch a guard as soon as I get to the walls outside of whiterun and get thrown in the jail to avoid having to walk all the way there” liner
you can just drop it on the ground outside the walls and then pick it up again later