The morally wrong thing to do: marry anyone in vanilla Skyrim.

[TheRightDoorIsNotTheLeft]

In Skyrim (LE, SE, AE), most of the marriageable people are warriors or sorcerers. That is, people who have careers. You marry them and they stay in your home. So yeah, they stay in your home and their careers are stuck in the mud. That's a morally bad thing to do. Sure, there's a few civilians you can marry, but they're very rare. Once again, the Dragonborn is not really a good person. And yes, I'm talking about vanilla and not modded spouses.

[深淵の神]

Isn't that the right way to do it?

[cooldood555]

I always imagined it as the spouse being glad to no longer have to work their old job... after you marry them, they open a shop, which is still a career. Maybe they prefer it this way. After all, they're not being forced to marry the player, nor are they forced to stay.

[Ralof of Riverwood]

Today I learned it is morally wrong to ask someone to marry me.

[FauxFurry]

A career is something that one does to contribute to society until one can do so in an even more significant way through marriage, reproduction and child rearing. 

[ShivasBane]

Since the NPC in question has to agree to marry you the choice of whether to continue their old life or start a new one with your character is theirs to make freely. Therefore no morally bad choices are made. Forcing an NPC to marry you is morally wrong.

[Raven 54]

I guess it's "Morally Ok" to go around chopping off peoples heads but not their careers.  

Kill, Maim, Murder, Mage Craft, Thieving, Back Stabbing, etc. etc.

All falls under the Morality Banner.

What one does in a Game environment should not be tasked with the same rules and regulations of Real Life.

I know I would not do those things in Real Life.

Edited April 20, 2025 by Raven 54

[MorePrinniesDood]

Lydia already stays in Breezehome guarding my stuff all the time. Might as well appreciate her for it.

[Jyratx]

On 4/20/2025 at 9:09 AM, MorePrinniesDood said:

Lydia already stays in Breezehome guarding my stuff all the time. Might as well appreciate her for it.

Which is funny, seeing as how a LOT of people won't ever ask her to follow them, despite that always being an option. Its even funnier when Breezehome is inevitably ditched for another vanilla home of one of the hundreds of mod homes. So yeah, I respect Lydia for guarding that abysmal cabinet near Breezehome's front door that has all the useless junk I'm too lazy to sell.

[Jyratx]

You. Are. Here.

 

Why are we talking about 'morality' in a game, in such a place? Were I a marriable Skyrim NPC, I would much prefer to hang up my sword and armor and settle down to a life of domestic tranquility than to get gutted, beheaded, immolated, mauled, raped, enslaved, sacrificed, reanimated with necromancy and literally thousands of other things. 

[MrGrey]

Odd definition of morality since it leads to extinction of the human species.

[woodsman30]

I would agree Skyrim's marriage system has always been broke even with mods. Marry some one and even if they had a job, house, store or, life style they are now house plants doomed to roam a house you will never visit with kids you will never see.

[Gameplayer]

Three words OP

 

FUS Doh Rah.

 

[TheRightDoorIsNotTheLeft]

On 4/27/2025 at 4:59 AM, woodsman30 said:

I would agree Skyrim's marriage system has always been broke even with mods. Marry some one and even if they had a job, house, store or, life style they are now house plants doomed to roam a house you will never visit with kids you will never see.

That's my point.

[Count Chocula]

On 4/30/2025 at 5:21 PM, TheRightDoorIsNotTheLeft said:

That's my point.

You seem to have glossed over someone else's point that they do it all willingly. And for the sake of the discussion I assume we're pretending they are real people. Because if we don't, then the discussion makes zero sense.