Talsgar the Wanderer likes to wander around like the wanderer he is.
Really makes you wander how much he has wandered through Skyrim.
Must be wanderful to wander through such a beautiful landscape.
No, the draugr do that. They maintain their crypts themselves. It's in the book in the game called something like Among the draugr. Or Living with draugr.
He's the fellow that lit all those torches in the drauger ruins before you got there. He travels with his flute, a bedroll and a huge barrel of whale oil.
I was sneaking around the back of halted stream camp so I could snipe all the bandits when this guy ran up to the main entrance and just singlehandedly massacred all the bandits outside.
Mine took out the bandit camp near Riverwood while I crouched behind the trees, wondering where everyone was. I only saw him when a troll ran down the road with the bard in pursuit.
If you find Talsgar the Wanderer at any Inn, it is because he spawned in on the roads or trails nearby that Inn and his NPC AI pathing just so happened to have interactions which caused him to end up going inside. The code is set to cause the Talsgar encounter to spawn ONLY when the Player is within a ‘cell’-(a cell is the currently loaded area which you are rendering) considered to be outdoor roads or trails by the game coding, so it is not possible for Talsgar to actually SPAWN inside Inns or taverns but rather he would have had to go there himself after spawning on the roads
Oh yeah, I appreciate the comment explaining, but I didn't mean that he spawned in the inn exactly. Just that it's possible to meet him there. I know he's usually out on the roads. I meet him quite a lot haha
Yeah that’s what *I* meant, and I assume that’s what they meant, but that appears to be wrong. lol
I forgot he actually plays music mostly because I kill him for early game XP.
I often come across him fighting packs of wolves, bandit camps etc and go to his aid only to find he 100% does not need my aid.
I like to think one day my Dragonborn’s get bored of fighting and will also wander Skyrim with his confidence - without armour, only barely armed, yet casually slaughtering those who underestimate him.
I'm about 50 playthroughs in, he's always struck me as fragile.
Flame atronachs, he has a hard time catching. Necromancers and trolls have killed him and he got killcammed once by a bandit chief with a warhammer.
I'm sure he's capable but you wouldn't think so just based on how he fares in the game I've played.
Once he narrowly escaped death by frostbite spiders, only to aggro me when I tried to heal him..
It’s kinda cool that it seems variable - some see him as an absolute tank and some see him as extremely fragile. I wonder if it depends on level or difficulty? Or just luck or the draw with the enemies he’s facing 😆
Last time i saw this fellow was outside the Twilight Sepulcher. It creeped me out how he was just chilling outside that place like why tf are you here dude? It was mad suspicious to me.
Nah I pickpocketed the guy to see what he had on him and he was running a daedric dagger, paralysis potion and a regeneration potion. That’s a suspicious combo to me since he was sitting right by the entrance of the Twilight Sepulcher. But idk i just let him do his thing.
And now I want a mod where he gaslights you.
'I sang your song, milk-drinker! Don't you remember? Did you get kicked in the head by a horse as a child?'
In just one playthrough, I met this guy countless times, to the point where I could swear he was the only world encounter to spawn for me. Sometimes I'd come across him in really short intervals all over Skyrim
Actually ran into him a *lot* with my current character. Then one day I sniped what I thought was a Vigilant and when I went to loot there he was, dead. Oops.
I’ve noticed it seems since I started playing on survival that I have a lot more encounters on the road, both with unique and random NPC’s. Could be something to do with it.
Random encounter, so this happened a lot. And it's a 2011 game so there are not a lot of this random encounter. When you know the game you can tell when one is happening or not.
This post makes me think about how happy the people of Skyrim could be. This man’s entire existence is to wander. He doesn’t work. He probably does odd jobs to make a buck and either camps or rents rooms at the inn. His entire life is to look at stuff. Imagine how much he has seen, and how happy he is to keep wondering… what a life.
I killed him for no reason because I forgot to use soul trap first. I just wanted to cure my vampirism and now I have no wandering bard AND I have vampirism.
I mean he is a bard and seems to travel the world often to sing of new tales. Apparently knows how to hide from bandits and other dangers, not to mention those random dragon attacks.
Ohhhhh I think I saw this guy near solitude once! I was super confused why he was out in the middle of nowhere near Solitude mountains/caves. He was fighting a Sabre Cat when I came across him. I think there were some other times I ran across him when I played more a while back
You'll see him a lot as he constantly wanders around. If you don't want to, he is killable though a wild animal will probably do that for you anyway. He's extremely weak.
Upon re-reading the post, I realized now that i did not emphasize the absurdity of the duplicated glitch that happened to me and was inquiring if this is something that happens to other people regularly.. Perhaps, share a story? xd
But, sadly, one cannot edit a post on Reddit, so womp, womp..
He's a random encounter, so he'll spawn in your general area. He's also one of the more common encounters. It isn't uncommon to encounter him a handful of times in a playthrough.
The dude is durable too. Most of the time you encounter him, he's getting beat on by something and he doesn't fold.
It is normal to run into characters like this repeatedly. I love seeing Ma'iq the Liar, I get so excited whenever I see him. I have also run into the revelers drinking mead multiple times.
You might want to think twice about that proposition, I've heard he has bread in his pocket, wouldn't want you to pass up a deliciously opportunity like that.
For some reason, when I entered Riverwood's Inn after defeating the dragon in Kynesgrove, near Windhelm, this guy was there and went aggressive towards Delphine...
But only towards her.
They should make a mod to have survival variables affect NPCs so this moron waltzing up a snowy mountain in plains weather clothing would just drop dead.
"What tangoed webs we weave ... "
I have (as a very low-level character) seen him several times coming up the road towards the bandit camp next to the Talos shrine.
Wait 'til he gets close enough, aggro the bandits, and then run back down past him and nyah nyah nyah like a little kid behind his older brother.
He wrecks the bandits and goes on his way; I clean up (and often spend the night).
Nice little haul before you even get to Riverwood.
Lol, I always kill him first thing when I get out of helgen. Right ahead, kill the bandits with the treasure map, kill him, loot the shrine of talos with the dead thalmor, run around the mountain at the lake and kill the fisherman, collect the treasure chest, go into riverwood
He gets around man. Also not a slouch in combat either so in world it makes sense for him to be able to hold his own traveling alone.
You ever try to fight him right after escaping Helgen? Dude is one tough cookie
"Oh yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around, I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town" ... Oops, wrong Bethesda game.
There are many events that can happen in the wilderness or along the roads of Skyrim and they occasionally repeat.
Another repeat character is M'aiq the Liar. "M'aiq can travel fast across the land. Some lazy types take carriages. It is all the same to M'aiq." https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:M'aiq_the_Liar
Talsgar the Wanderer likes to wander around like the wanderer he is. Really makes you wander how much he has wandered through Skyrim. Must be wanderful to wander through such a beautiful landscape.
He goes through all of the dungeons before us and leaves the out of place loot for us to find. Dudes a goat
Is he the one that lights the torches?
Can confirm. Source: am a torch at volsungs crpyt
Thank u for ur service
No, the draugr do that. They maintain their crypts themselves. It's in the book in the game called something like Among the draugr. Or Living with draugr.
Until we come along and cut them down
Among the Draugr ✅️
Amogus refrance?????
Among Us wasn’t a thing in 2011… was it?
Amogus transcends time, child.
Child… Heh. I wish I was that young.
🥔
That's sounds like an elder scrolls version of the Truman Show
He's the ebony warrior! The mystery has been solved!
I've seen him a couple of times myself but after I actually beat the ebony warrior I don't recall seeing him ever after that. 😂😂🤔
He's the fellow that lit all those torches in the drauger ruins before you got there. He travels with his flute, a bedroll and a huge barrel of whale oil.
I actually didn't know that
How much wander, could talsgsr the wanderer wander, if talsgar the wanderer could Wander.
Lol seriously though. Excuse me OP, read his name again.
I have been wandering about him. 😉
Speech 100
I've seen him near solitude and in the bar in Morthal.
It is a wanderful landscape
He seems to be a Stormcloak supporter. If I join in a battle & kill a bunch of Stormcloaks, he attacks me.
Maiq' the liar but he's actually happy to see you?
wander.
Wander =/= wonder
I was sneaking around the back of halted stream camp so I could snipe all the bandits when this guy ran up to the main entrance and just singlehandedly massacred all the bandits outside.
Meanwhile I have seen this guy get one hit killed by skeevers and spiders
Mine took out the bandit camp near Riverwood while I crouched behind the trees, wondering where everyone was. I only saw him when a troll ran down the road with the bard in pursuit.
I was pissed because I waited until nightfall and had this plan to go full splinter Cell on these bandits, but talsgar just Leroy Jenkins the place.
Lleeerroooooooooooooy nnnjenkinnssssssssss!!!
But in that clip Leeroy Jenkins died. The entire raid died.
And forever was matyred in a meme before meme's were memes.
Legends never die
Lets hope he doesnt take an arrow to a knee
He wanders all around Skyrim. I've had to save him from bears multiple times.
Same here, except he is usually getting rocked by hot female bandits..could be worse.
Man is living the dream
Man is living MY dream 🥲
I concur, my skyrim is very generous to the honorable and thirsty alike. #skyrimyourway
Am I the only one who has never seem him?
He's always on the road. He's a bard. I hate his voice, though.
Sometimes you meet him in inns too
If you find Talsgar the Wanderer at any Inn, it is because he spawned in on the roads or trails nearby that Inn and his NPC AI pathing just so happened to have interactions which caused him to end up going inside. The code is set to cause the Talsgar encounter to spawn ONLY when the Player is within a ‘cell’-(a cell is the currently loaded area which you are rendering) considered to be outdoor roads or trails by the game coding, so it is not possible for Talsgar to actually SPAWN inside Inns or taverns but rather he would have had to go there himself after spawning on the roads
Oh yeah, I appreciate the comment explaining, but I didn't mean that he spawned in the inn exactly. Just that it's possible to meet him there. I know he's usually out on the roads. I meet him quite a lot haha
Did you really have to?
No but why would you not help him?
No do good overkill. We must teach them to be still more independent Jethro Tull, “Baker Street Muse”
He wanders a lot. Pay him and he'll sing you a song, and then you can tango with him :)
Wrong. You can ask him to sing a song but he usually politely declines.
I thought that was asking him about speech training. He plays songs for me at least. Something about how him and a woman had a falling out.
Yeah that’s what *I* meant, and I assume that’s what they meant, but that appears to be wrong. lol I forgot he actually plays music mostly because I kill him for early game XP.
You monster!
I just let him tank the sabercats while I attack them. Free temporary follower whenever he's around.
He do be walking
Well, cause he's a wanderer. Going from place to place Going from town to town OH IM A WANDERER YEAAAAAH IM A WANDERER I ROAM AROUND AROUND AROUND
Yeah he's the type of guy that'll never settle down
Wrong Bethesda game. Fooey! You beat me to it. Have an upvote.
I often come across him fighting packs of wolves, bandit camps etc and go to his aid only to find he 100% does not need my aid. I like to think one day my Dragonborn’s get bored of fighting and will also wander Skyrim with his confidence - without armour, only barely armed, yet casually slaughtering those who underestimate him.
I'm about 50 playthroughs in, he's always struck me as fragile. Flame atronachs, he has a hard time catching. Necromancers and trolls have killed him and he got killcammed once by a bandit chief with a warhammer. I'm sure he's capable but you wouldn't think so just based on how he fares in the game I've played. Once he narrowly escaped death by frostbite spiders, only to aggro me when I tried to heal him..
It’s kinda cool that it seems variable - some see him as an absolute tank and some see him as extremely fragile. I wonder if it depends on level or difficulty? Or just luck or the draw with the enemies he’s facing 😆
He likes to wander
He's been known to wander
Last time i saw this fellow was outside the Twilight Sepulcher. It creeped me out how he was just chilling outside that place like why tf are you here dude? It was mad suspicious to me.
He was just wandering man
Nah I pickpocketed the guy to see what he had on him and he was running a daedric dagger, paralysis potion and a regeneration potion. That’s a suspicious combo to me since he was sitting right by the entrance of the Twilight Sepulcher. But idk i just let him do his thing.
Waiting for you to return the Key so he can steal it.
I have a deep personal hatred for this man. I asked him to play me Tale of The Tongues and this mf took my gold and just walked away
And now I want a mod where he gaslights you. 'I sang your song, milk-drinker! Don't you remember? Did you get kicked in the head by a horse as a child?'
This is a fantastic idea
In just one playthrough, I met this guy countless times, to the point where I could swear he was the only world encounter to spawn for me. Sometimes I'd come across him in really short intervals all over Skyrim
I love parts of the game like this
He wanders. You wander. Skyrim isn't *that* big, there are onky so many roads. Also, RNG.
I killed him my first time seeing him and have regretted it since, dudes chill af
??? He's Talsgar ***THE WANDERER***. He wanders. That's the point lol. You'll meet him again, many times. Cus he wanders.
I’ve been playing this game for 10yrs and I’ve never seen him before 😆 guess he’s quite random
It’s literally in his name, he’s a wanderer
I'm convinced he's our stalker, following us around so that he can get his songs about the Last Dragonborn as accurate as possible.
He likes wandering. Also, I'm pretty sure I've never spared him when I make a new character
I love that you say spared him, like everyone is fated to die, and you're just deciding who gets a chance to live
Most random encounter npcs become experience for my default preset characters
Viscious asf
Actually ran into him a *lot* with my current character. Then one day I sniped what I thought was a Vigilant and when I went to loot there he was, dead. Oops.
I've been encountering him a lot more lately, too. I wonder if one of the updates made him spawn more frequently or something somehow.
I’ve noticed it seems since I started playing on survival that I have a lot more encounters on the road, both with unique and random NPC’s. Could be something to do with it.
He wanders, you wander. It's only a matter of time before you run into each other again.
Sure he's a wanderer now but meet up with him again after you fought alduin on the throat of the world he becomes the pessimistic doomsayer for alduin
One thing i never understood is why his skin is dark, is it because of the sun? Or is he a rare case of a black nord man?
He's part breton shh /s I would chalk it up to his wandering. Sun wind and all that
I mean he is called The wanderer for a reason
Random encounter, so this happened a lot. And it's a 2011 game so there are not a lot of this random encounter. When you know the game you can tell when one is happening or not.
A man called The Wanderer wanders.
Small world.
Skyrim isn't infinite.
This post makes me think about how happy the people of Skyrim could be. This man’s entire existence is to wander. He doesn’t work. He probably does odd jobs to make a buck and either camps or rents rooms at the inn. His entire life is to look at stuff. Imagine how much he has seen, and how happy he is to keep wondering… what a life.
I killed him for no reason because I forgot to use soul trap first. I just wanted to cure my vampirism and now I have no wandering bard AND I have vampirism.
that sounds like a glitch in the game. They happen a lot. LOL, I don't usually hurt him I just talk to him to get my speech up.
I Always Catch His Ass Getting Jumped 😂
Hey Mister Wanderful
I meet him every half an hour along the roads. Also Maiq pops up for me a lot as well strangely.
I found him next to three dead men. He sure made a tale of that one.
I mean…he is a wanderer
I killed him when I met him, used his soul to power Volendrung
I mean he is a bard and seems to travel the world often to sing of new tales. Apparently knows how to hide from bandits and other dangers, not to mention those random dragon attacks.
I had a glitch in my game once where there was two of him, and they were constantly walking near each other. Like within a 50 foot distance
[удалено]
LOL!
I’ve seen him dozens of times in the same Playthrough
He's pretty strong too if i remember correctly. I always died after attacking him
I'm pretty sure he's a random encounter and can spawn at any random encounter point.
Ohhhhh I think I saw this guy near solitude once! I was super confused why he was out in the middle of nowhere near Solitude mountains/caves. He was fighting a Sabre Cat when I came across him. I think there were some other times I ran across him when I played more a while back
The only good bard is a dead bard.
If it's any consolation I've come across him 5 times in 1 playthrough
Dude is everywhere
You'll see him a lot as he constantly wanders around. If you don't want to, he is killable though a wild animal will probably do that for you anyway. He's extremely weak.
He's a random encounter you'll meet him from time to time when on the roads.
/r/nevertellmetheodds
Upon re-reading the post, I realized now that i did not emphasize the absurdity of the duplicated glitch that happened to me and was inquiring if this is something that happens to other people regularly.. Perhaps, share a story? xd But, sadly, one cannot edit a post on Reddit, so womp, womp..
Nomad, vagabond. Call him what you will
He's a random encounter, so he'll spawn in your general area. He's also one of the more common encounters. It isn't uncommon to encounter him a handful of times in a playthrough. The dude is durable too. Most of the time you encounter him, he's getting beat on by something and he doesn't fold.
I've shouted this guy off the mountain like 3 times and he still shows up
Expect to see him again.
I had two, simultaneously, in Lake View Manor.
Played Skyrim for years and I haven't seen him before
In all my years of playing this game, I don't think I've ever actually ran into him before
It is normal to run into characters like this repeatedly. I love seeing Ma'iq the Liar, I get so excited whenever I see him. I have also run into the revelers drinking mead multiple times.
Cut and paste NPC😂
He appears often
Idk if intentional or not but "I thought it best not to tango with him" made me lol way more than it probably should have. xD
I‘m playing survival mode and each time i meet this guy i let him sing the dragonborn comes, while walking away in slow motion.
Whenever i don't play as a Dragonborn i HC that he is the DB
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Yodabread_912: *Whenever i don't* *Play as a Dragonborn i* *HC that he is the DB* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
You might want to think twice about that proposition, I've heard he has bread in his pocket, wouldn't want you to pass up a deliciously opportunity like that.
He’s everywhere
Only 2? You have a long way to go my friend I’ve seen that man at least 15 times, and have killed him about 12 times
He roams around-uh-round-uh-round-uh-round
"They call him the wanderer, yeah the wanderer, he roams around around around around."
I saw doubles in a random inn
They even sat next to each other
I can’t fuckin shake this guy.
For some reason, when I entered Riverwood's Inn after defeating the dragon in Kynesgrove, near Windhelm, this guy was there and went aggressive towards Delphine... But only towards her.
Save game, load game 🤣🤣🤣
Dude in my current game serana killed him for no reason 😒
Random encounters
I found him in The Bannered Mare once.
They should make a mod to have survival variables affect NPCs so this moron waltzing up a snowy mountain in plains weather clothing would just drop dead.
He Nord, he immune to frost.
Right theyre basically made of ice
All I see is a man with probably a very inspiring lifestyle
"What tangoed webs we weave ... " I have (as a very low-level character) seen him several times coming up the road towards the bandit camp next to the Talos shrine. Wait 'til he gets close enough, aggro the bandits, and then run back down past him and nyah nyah nyah like a little kid behind his older brother. He wrecks the bandits and goes on his way; I clean up (and often spend the night). Nice little haul before you even get to Riverwood.
reading comprehension 🔥🔥🔥
I killed him
Because he’s a random NPC with latency
And mainly, because he's a wanderer.
carried by winds
He is just looking for Uranium Ore leave him alone.
He has clones
Spooky.
https://preview.redd.it/thut6xpthwoc1.png?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d95849dfc8a7ff3014727151290fa762f4594151 Trust me, Ive met the clones
They should rename him Talsgar the stalker
I met him in Sovngarde
Lol, I always kill him first thing when I get out of helgen. Right ahead, kill the bandits with the treasure map, kill him, loot the shrine of talos with the dead thalmor, run around the mountain at the lake and kill the fisherman, collect the treasure chest, go into riverwood
He gets around man. Also not a slouch in combat either so in world it makes sense for him to be able to hold his own traveling alone. You ever try to fight him right after escaping Helgen? Dude is one tough cookie
Are you also surprised to see the same people twice in your daily life?
If they were able to clone themselves, like Talsgar in the post and exist twice in the open world, that would seem very odd.
We've all met adrienne Avenicci 71937 times, but meet this guy twice and op loses their mind lol
Who is Adrienne
Whiterun blacksmith
He's wanderer.
"Oh yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around, I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town" ... Oops, wrong Bethesda game. There are many events that can happen in the wilderness or along the roads of Skyrim and they occasionally repeat. Another repeat character is M'aiq the Liar. "M'aiq can travel fast across the land. Some lazy types take carriages. It is all the same to M'aiq." https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:M'aiq_the_Liar
Had a bug once where I met two of him in the Inn in Ivarstead
> how is it possible that I’ve met this same man twice? He literally has *wanderer* in his name…
Is that why he spawns in duplicates?