I know Skyrim gets a lot of shit these days but I actually really love a lot of things about Whiterun, especially the market square this path brings you through.
Hard agree. The Bannered Mare is one of the best taverns in any game. Still enjoy visiting whenever i go back to Skyrim
Imagine trying to get to the cloud district very often.
yeah idk who the fuck uses the “no smiths no house no merchants” route
The red line path is only good for a handful of things:
- Gets you to the Temple of Kynareth marginally faster if you’re handing in a quest (e.g., the delivery for Idgrod the Younger in Morthal, or the one where you murder a hagraven outside of Helgen for her magic knife)
- If you are befriending Lars Battle-Born so you can ransack his house to find proof that the Thalmor are holding that one Grey-Mane dude captive
- If you need to go play Elder Scrolls: Mortician’s Assistant up in the Hall of the Dead
- If you have ADHD and get distracted by the shops and you need to hang on to every last septim until you’ve bought that motherfucking homestead and oh god there’s dragon’s tongue and soooo much tundra cotton over there but oh fuck my carry weight is at 299/300 because I refuse to level up and dump points in stamina just yet because my gear sucks and I can’t afford upgrades yet and no no no I will not pick the flowers right now I need safe storage somewhere first so I’d better run past the bougie fuck with the cow in the middle of the damn city; why is there a cow here? THEY DIDN’T THINK OF THE SMELL
That’s really about all I can come up with.
I haven’t played this game in like 9 years but I still know the implications of each path
for the record I went with the green line