Skyrim: 5 More Hilarious Plot Holes that Make Absolutely No Sense in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

Skyrim is a vast game with an equally vast amount of narrative content for the Dragonborn to find themselves immersed in. The Elder Scrolls 5 is a game of many factions, characters and overarching story arcs, so many that Bethesda seems to have occasionally gotten a tad confused and accidently were led to write some unworkable plot points. Whenever Skyrim’s story conflicts with itself, it’s referred to as a “plot hole” and boy does the game have some hilarious ones. So today we’ll be diving right into five more interesting plot holes you may have missed in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

[MuffinYoBusiness]

The real mystery is how the hell did they get the Eye of Magnus through the door?

[cuffyachick]

Another plothole is how Delphine got Jurgen Windcaller horn without the whirlwind sprint shout

[maelavdrak]

Personally, i like the theory that *that* batch of Honningbrew mead tasted _so bad_ that the guard _thought_ he was being poisoned.

[callummiles]

I like to think the Brand-Shei plot hole isn't really a plot hole at all, rather it's a statement on the sheer carnage Morrowind endured in such a short amount of time, it's possible Brand-Shei's parents thought their great house was wiped out when they fled, which isn't a big leap when you look at what was going on at the time, it kinda adds to the tragedy that if his parents just stayed in Morrowind and rode out the storm, they wouldn't have been killed in a literal storm while fleeing to Skyrim.

[SnapplyPie]

M'aiq has many plot holes, none are easily seen by most.

[Xaa]

Solution to Brand-Shei: He isn't the last living member of Clan Telvanni, he's the last person in line to become the leader of the clan. Similarly to Clan Arthur of Scotland in the real world (the last chief died without an heir, leaving the clan leaderless for two centuries), the clan continues to exist. Lynden Telvanni's diary is, in short, the opinion of Lynden Telvanni (I.E. what HE thinks is going on), and the moment you permit the possibility that Lynden is only saying what he knows and believes, then doesn't necessarily contradict anything Neloth says.

[Zoper]

An easy explanation for Sybille Stentor's lack of ageing bothering anyone is a quote from Savos Aren, Arch Mage of The College of Winterhold.
"What you learn here will last you a lifetime – several, if you're talented."
―Savos Aren
This shows that magic can be used to extend one's life, giving Stentor an excuse for being so young.

[aubreyhuff]

It is possible that Brand Shei's father thought the Telvani were all dead.

[nellevator]

i always figured serana’s dwarven comment was more of a, “it’s weird to see such big, advanced cities be so empty” type comment— like she knew there were no more dwarves, but it didn’t strike her as “real” until seeing it with her own eyes, if that makes sense?

[jordynramc]

1:19
When the realistic skin mod isn't working

[sly]

“Ancano kills countless students and teacher.”

Ancano: **kills two people**

[NPazable]

Vampires don't age, and I always thought it was kind of an open secret that Sybille Stentor was a vampire, not really surprising that nobody is phased by it imo

[Foynes]

I found a weird plot-hole which is to do with the main quest, the dragonborn is supposed to defeat dragons and save skyrim, however is unable to do this because he has about 300 mods installed and crashes at the start of his quest

[astuteanansi]

"What you learn here will last you a lifetime. Several, if you're talented." -Savos Aren, Archmage of Winterhold

He's pretty much saying outright that powerful wizards have access to magic that slows down their aging dramatically. It would be really easy for Sybille to claim that's what she's using to appear younger than her true age.

Not to mention that Sybille's nature might be somewhat of an open secret in the Court itself at least, but she's tolerated anyways due to her long history with the rulers and her powerful magical skills, just as long as she can keep her thirst to those nobody will miss.

[holczy]

Theory: Serana didn't explore dwemer cities, and since she was isolated, she didnt have the chance to hear about the strange event

[rhysfinley]

Great House Telvanni is likely a different entity from the mainline Telvanni family. Seeing as Neloth isn’t assigned a last name, and Brelyna is a Maryon, what we can assume is that the political entity of Great House Telvanni; that being a collection of loosely related mage clans, continues. Meanwhile, Brand-Shei could be the last able to legitimately bear the last name Telvanni.

[andrewcarmichael]

1:20 headless naked floating guard, you have too many mods insulted (edit:installed) don’t you

[jacienthorne]

Plot hole fixed: the official quote says that serana went to sleep in the second era before the septim dynasty. is should be taken into account that she lived long before that and in isolation. this could explain the fact that she was surprised not to find the dwemer. So basically, she knew of the dwemer's existence but not the fact they had disappeared. I do not know the exact date but it could have been that the disappearance if the Dwemer was not revealed to the rest of the world until after she went to sleep.

[instantrice]

The Psijic order guy did say that other members thought him communicating with the dragonborn was an offense. It could have been internal affairs and Ancano forced them to act. That's the best explanation I can think of.

[lowdeko]

when i first did that Honningbrew thieves guild quest i had that same thought and when Mallus was like "great job bro you're awesome" or whatever i literally said out loud "dude that's not what i poisoned, Sabjorn's mead is just that shit."