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STOP RIGHT At that place, TROPER! Take a await at these The Elderberry Scrolls memes and see if any are familiar to you.

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• The name of the video game or visitor.
  • The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ^Explanation Similar this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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Recurring:

• [remain silent] ^Explanation The Dark Brotherhood quests in Oblivion and Skyrim often give you the selection to not say annihilation in response to an NPC's dialogue. The NPC will react accordingly.
• "Khajiit has wares, if you take coin." ^Explanation Standard stock line of Khajiit salespeople. Usually paired with pictures of actual felines.
  • "Khajiit stole nothing... Khajiit is innocent of this criminal offense." ^Explanation Another stock line, typically paired with pictures of actual felines in cages or being dragged away.
• Fishy Sticks ^Explanation A forum in-joke that's referenced Once per Episode. Basically, information technology's tradition to give newcomers to the official forum a "fishy stick" in the form of this image ◊. Bethesda was tickled by information technology and has thrown in diverse in-game references.
• "C0DA makes information technology canon." ^Explanation C0DA, a comic written past Michael Kirkbride, was nearly, among other things, the nature of Elder Scrolls canon, in that it is deliberately contradictory and open to the interpretation of the community, particularly in the matter of fanfiction. The absurdity of the comic leads many to use this phrase as a response to shitposts and memes.
• It just works. ^Explanation Todd Howard used this phrase during the gameplay reveal of Fallout 4. Fans have begun to use this phrase to refer to how buggy the contempo Bethesda games have been.

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Daggerfall:

• HALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALTHALT! ^Caption City guards cry "Halt!" while chasing y'all. Committing a crime will outcome in a lot of city guards chasing you.

Morrowind:

• Game of the Year. All Years. ^Explanation The Game of the Year edition of the game was still being sold in stores some 10-12 years after it came out, so people ran with it. As of 2018, it has been fabricated a backwards compatible title on the diverse virtual stores, and then it volition always be available.
• You lot Northward'WAH! FILTHY Southward'WIT! DIE, FETCHER! ^Explanation Insults the native Dunmer utilize in battle. They stick out due to the frequency you'll hear them along with the fact that they're made upwardly curse words. Carried over into subsequently games.
• Nosotros're watching y'all, scum. ^Caption A classic "greeting" used by Ordinators.
• The Morrowind Strut. ^Caption The odd walking animation, which spawned several youtube videos. In that location is fifty-fifty a mod for "Shoes of Extravagant Swag" which will play 'Stayin' Alive' when the role player character walks in them.
• The Lusty Argonian Maid ^Explanation One of the in-game books is a So Bad, Information technology's Good excerpt from a cheesy pornographic play by resident Chivalrous Pervert Crassius Curio. It was so pop with fans that information technology's been included in every game since, then got sequels in Skyrim.
• "With this graphic symbol'due south death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed earth you have created." ^Explanation A message you go if you lot impale a character who's essential to the plot. Morrowind doesn't have "essential" NPC protection, so you lot tin very easily kill someone you weren't meant to and get this message a lot.
• "Why walk when y'all tin ride?" ^Explanation A common catchphrase from the NPCs that offering Silt Strider Transport.
• "Mournhold. City of Light. Urban center of Magic" ^Explanation A common catchphrase from the NPCs in Mournhold.
• The 36 Lessons of Vivec debuted in Morrowind and features the especially memorable line "Reach sky by violence" repeated in several of the sermons; later being popularized equally a reference as a recurring line in Impale Six Billion Demons, "Achieve sky through violence" has shown up in a lot of varied places since.

Oblivion:

• Stop! YOU VIOLATED THE Police force! Pay the courtroom a fine or serve your sentence! Your stolen goods are now forfeit!
  • Terminate Right THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! No one breaks the law on my picket! I'm confiscating your stolen goods, now pay your fine or information technology's off to jail! ^Explanation Both lines said by the Royal Guardsmen when they catch you afterwards you've committed a crime.
    • Terminate RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU'VE VIOLATED MY Mother! ^Explanation A rather (in)famous variation of the above line, coming from a Gamer Poop video, combining two different sentences.
    • THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD! ^Caption This is said if you resist arrest.
  • Goddamn telepathic guards. ^Explanation When you're caught commiting a criminal offence, somehow every baby-sit in the region immediately knows y'all're a criminal upon seeing you, even if y'all flee all the way across the map.
• Past THE NINE DIVINES! At that place'S BEEN A MURDER! ^Caption Often said directly after you lot kill someone and have about 2 steps away from the corpse.
  • By THE NINE DIVINES! ASSAULT! ASSAULT! ^Explanation Usually shouted if the actor attacks a friendly NPC.
  • "The body is nevertheless warm. In that location is a killer nearly." ^Explanation Another line that the guards say upon finding a dead body, which they will oft say merely later they kill someone themselves.
• By AZURA! BY AZURA! BY AZURA!! IT'S THE G CHAMPION! ^Explanation The line comes from a particularly annoying NPC called the Adoring Fan who follows you around sometimes and can't exist killed.
• I heard the Fighters' Gild is recruiting again. ^Explanation Basically a Welcome to Corneria. Players can expect to hear it a lot.
• I saw a mud crab the other day.
  • Loathsome things, I detest them.
  • Did you lot steer well clear of it?
  • Goodbye. ^Explanation The organisation that generates chatter for the NPCs is a bit eccentric, and often repeats itself and throws together odd conversations.
• "CHEESE! FOR Anybody!" ^Explanation One of Sheogorath'due south lines when you successfully complete a quest for him. He's a fairly Mad God ("Wait, scratch that! Cheese fer no one! That can be just every bit much every bit a celebration if you don't similar cheese, true?!").
• Powdered deer penis. ^Explanation Weebam-Na lists off the menu of a failed restaurant, ending the listing with "Rat ragu with powdered deer penis." Fans were quick to make the "penis" function of the line a meme.
• "Oblivion NPC dialogue in a nutshell" ^Explanation Comedic YouTube videos making fun of the aforementioned Bogus Atmospheric Deportment past setting awkward dialogue from movies, television set shows and other sources to Oblivion music.
• NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI ^Explanation In the Shivering Isles DLC y'all see a bizarre Argonian who shouts this while running around in circles.
• I don't know you and I don't intendance to know you! ^Explanation In Cheydinhal, you lot meet a corrupt baby-sit who will say this to y'all. Due to a Practiced Bad Issues, he will continue to say this phrase when he is in a conversation with an NPC.

Skyrim:

• "... so I took an arrow in the genu." ^Caption The guards of major settlements tend to say "I used to be an adventurer like you, and so I took an pointer in the knee joint." quite a lot. This has been exploited.
  • People are getting tired of it.
• FUS RO DAH! ^Explanation The words for the "Unrelenting Force" shout, which can be used to ship just about anything flying with ane's voice. Literally means "force residue push". Frequently used in videos that bear witness someone or something getting knocked over. For example, this video.
• KA... ME... HA... ME... HA!!! ^Explanation The master-level shock spell in the destruction tree, Lightning Storm, looks like an electrical variant on the (semi) trope-naming Kamehameha from Dragon Ball.
• Let me judge, someone stole your sweetroll. ^Explanation Another quote from the guards. This is actually a reference to previous Elder Scrolls games, where the multiple-choice character creation option would enquire you what you would do if someone stole your sweetroll. Information technology's nodded at in Fallout 3, another Bethesda game, in which at the start, a bully attempts to steal your sweetroll.
• Did you see those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords. ^Explanation Those guards are at it again. The ones in Whiterun will sometimes comment on the Alik'r warriors in the city who do indeed conduct curved swords, which the guards find fascinating for some reason. Inexplicably, yous tin also hear it from guards in the other cities where there aren't whatsoever Alik'r warriors at all.
  • Don't let yourself be fooled by a pretty face. You're better than that. ^Explanation A quote by Kematu, the leader of said Alik'r warriors, if yous side with him over Saadia. Lobbed at players that are accused of existence Distracted past the Sexy.
• "Something y'all need, you miserable wretch?" ^Explanation A common greeting from NPC'south that you lot've managed to royally piss off, usually by stealing something from them or killing a friend of theirs. Most famously used by the merchant Elrindir if you murder his brother Anoriath for the Dark Brotherhood.
• People don't want to be sword.
• "Practise you become to the Cloud District very oft? Oh, what am I proverb? Of course, you lot don't." ^Explanation A common quote from Nazeem. Considered particularly grating since the 'Deject District' is just the expanse around Dragonsreach, which you tin can not only get to very easily and have to go to several times in the main quest including the first time you visit Whiterun, but may be exactly where you're standing when he says this.

• "Nosotros are but maggots, WRITHING in the filth of OUR Own Abuse!" and "Praise Talos!" ^Explanation One Nord priest named Heimskr has a very loud way of appreciation of the god Talos. This makes him, along with Nazeem, ane of the most favoured characters to kill for being annoying.
  • And "LET ME SHOOOOOOOOOW YOU THE POWER OF TALOS STORMCROWN!"
• "These Skyrim mods are getting out of hand." ^Explanation On image-sharing sites similar Imgur, this is a typical comment on Scenery Porn photos.
• Horses not giving a crap about physics ◊ due to the wonky behavior of mountains.
• Skyrim at present on EVERYTHING! ^Explanation Skyrim's repeated appearances at E3 2017 (six years after information technology came out) caused a chip of a reaction, with comparisons to Resident Evil iv. Notably, this was acknowledged past Bethesda at E3 2018, with them jokingly announcing Skyrim Very Special Edition for the Amazon Alexa, Etch-a-Sketch, Motorola pager, and Samsung smart refrigerator.
• Y'all are carrying too much to be able to run. ^Explanation You will see this bulletin a lot in the early role of the game, particularly while trudging toward the nearest town with a general shop.
• I'll but create a new character with a fresh playstyle... And I'm a Stealth Archer again. ^Explanation Skyrim overhauled the Stealth organization which has been in place since the series' inception, taking information technology from near Useless Useful Stealth levels and buffing it to damn well-nigh Game-Breaker levels. At high skill levels and with the right perks, it becomes difficult for NPCs to detect you at all, which added to the stealth combat enhancements the game brings, makes it a devastating Critical Hit Class. As such, players attempting to create new characters with different playstyles oft detect themselves drawn back into beingness Stealth Archers. Meme examples: hither ◊ and here ◊.
• You lot cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby. ^Explanation A neat source of bedevilment for players attempting to travel to another location, especially equally, more often than not, it's caused by a Slaughterfish in a nearby beck that the actor can't fifty-fifty see to kill. That, or they've randomly encountered a dragon, once more.
• "And so I stripped the corpse naked and threw it in the river." ^Explanation The standard ending to whatever story involving bandits, Thalmor agents, or anyone else a player fights. In some cases, it'south actually get custom for dealing with expressionless NPC characters who don't disappear afterwards being murdered, as for many, it essentially becomes a funeral.
• "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON" ^Explanation Picking up Meridia's Beacon automatically triggers both her quest and a loud, sudden voiceover from her, ordering you to go to her temple. The buoy is spawned in a randomly chosen dominate chest, making it nearly inevitable that you'll unwittingly pick it upwardly in the middle of a different, far more important quest. This has made information technology a popular Interrupting Meme.
• Skyrim Intro Copypasta/"Hey, you. Yous're finally awake. You were trying to cantankerous the edge, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." ^Caption A serial of infamous ◊ series ◊ of greentext referencing the opening of the game, ordinarily starts off as the affiche is heading somewhere on a carrier or only closing their eyes, resulting the aforementioned opening one time the poster wakes up/opened his/her eyes. Naturally, it spawns parodies and variations ◊.
  • Goddamit Todd, you did information technology again. ^Caption Todd Howard, executive producer on Oblivion, Skyrim, and several Fallout games, is stereotyped equally an endearing-simply-odd boss along the lines of a Michael Scott who badly wants you to buy multiple copies of Skyrim / Fallout four / Fallout 76 / whatsoever else at any toll, up to and including threatening you at gunpoint, putting you lot within the game, or disguising a Bethesda game equally another game.
• The Frost Troll. ^Caption The path to Loftier Hrothgar has a Beef Gate Frost Troll on it which can very easily kill a low-level character. You have to get to High Hrothgar to advance the main quest, and are told to go there very early on in the principal questline, so this can lead to a Cycle of Hurting where the Troll kills you over and over, causing it to become a flake of a Memetic Badass amongst the fandom.
• [Insert Skill] 100. ^Explanation Information technology's pop to make screenshots of real life news stories accompanied by the appropriate in-game skill, insinuating that the people involved leveled those skills to the max. For case, "Human being talks unabridged lesbian bar into orgy: Speech 100."
• We Know. ^Explantion The Nighttime Brotherhood questline begins when you lot kill one of their targets and promptly get an bearding letter saying "We Know" along with a blackness handprint. Messages in other works of fiction are oft edited into the same bulletin.
• Quicksaving... ^Caption It's common practice for players to quicksave their game upon meeting annoying or rude NPCs so they tin kill them without getting a bounty or detailing a playthrough.
• Skyrim belongs to the Nords! ^Explanation A common battle cry among the Nordic NPCs. Since well-nigh characters in the game are Nords, expect to hear this a lot.
  • I'll mountain your head on my wall! ^Explanation Another memorable battle cry favoured by the native Nords.
• You'll make a fine rug, cat! ^Explanation A race-specific taunt that Khajiit will hear a lot.
• You've committed crimes against Skyrim and her people, what say y'all in your defence force? ^Explanation What the guards say when arresting you. Snowcloned for a diversity of scenarios, ordinarily to evidence disapproval of something.
  • Wait, I know you... ^Caption If you endeavor to speak to a guard if you have an active bounty at the hold, they volition recognize yous and say this earlier trying to arrest.
• The Sacred Chicken ^Explanation One of the many quirks of the game's AI is that, if yous kill any of the chickens or other livestock in villages, every unmarried citizen in the town volition plough hostile and attack you with intent to kill. The bounty you get for information technology is pretty minuscule, making their reactions even more inexplicable.
• Must've been my imagination... ^Explanation The Sneak skill was revamped in Skyrim to basically become "Artificial Stupidity: the Skill"; at high Sneak levels, information technology's exceedingly common for enemies to not detect yous fifty-fifty as you're peppering them with arrows, leading to bandits brushing off the arrows sticking out the back of their heads every bit a figment of their imagination.
• Never should have come here! ^Explanation Said by every bandit that attacks you lot ever. And most other NPCs in gainsay, for that matter.
• Cuckolding Faendal/Sven ^Caption One of the earliest quests you can do is resolving a Love Triangle betwixt Faendal, Sven, and Camilla in Riverwood. Whichever of the men you lot help becomes a recruitable companion. The issue? Camilla is a marriage option, meaning y'all can help Faendal or Sven go a chance at the woman they honey, just to swoop in and steal her from them, all while making them follow you around and serve yous.
• "I like your donkey"/"Yous're lying, Morgan." ^Explanation Popular parody YouTuber Mans1ay3r's outro starts with a section of his L.A Noire's parody video, which contains this memetic exchange. Since Mans1ay3r's Skyrim and Oblivion Gamer Poop series are extremely popular among the TES fandom, this meme quickly became associated with Skyrim. Make whatsoever joke that originates from Mans1ay3r and someone is guaranteed to quote this commutation in response.
• Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! ^Explanation As Colette Marence, the Restoration master at the Higher of Winterhold, will tell you every time you come within earshot. The question of Restoration's validity is frequently jokingly taken with a asymmetric amount of seriousness past fans every bit a result.
• What in Oblivion is THAT? ^Caption Full general Tullius'due south uncharacteristically hammy response to Alduin'south appearance in the game's intro is relatively popular as a way to express surprise.
• Kleptomaniac with a cheese addiction ^Explanation The best descriptor for the Dragonborn
• Pogodi! Pogodi! ^Explanation Farthermost case of Russian Memetic Mutation for the chief theme, turning it into hilarious, but strangerly coherent lyrics. ("Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin" - "Pogodi, pogodi, na chasy posmotry", which translates as "Look a bit, wait a scrap, look at your watch"). The rest of the vocal similary turned into quite insane, just pretty coherent Russian citizen sorry tale, lamenting most his dog beingness fat and flea-ridden, Moscow losing its caput (again), and peoples being tired of victories, just all the same prepare to brew a coffee, while enemies are advancing unnoticed without the ring.
• "By Talos, this can't be happening!" ^Caption Originating on tumblr ◊, the phrase is frequently used as a stock response to negative (simply usually harmless or only foreign) information. The actual phrase does not announced in the game, though several NPCs say "By the gods, this can't be happening"
• THE SKELETON APPEARS ^Caption A sort of "joint" meme with Kirby, where an otherwise unrelated scene is abruptly cut short by a Skull (an item from Skyrim) of a sudden appearing from a wall of flames, complete with the Skull Gang's theme song from Kirby Mass Attack diggings in the background.

The Elder Scrolls Online:

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