Thank you for your opinion. Hmm... I see, you got a point there. Skyrim is very dangerous. But IMHO that doesn't stop people from wandering everywhere... I travelled Skyrim for countless hours, and aside from the enemies, I've also met many kinds of people. some of them are the khajit nomads, some merry folks who offered me a bottle of meads, a travelling bard, some unique characters like Cicero, M'aiq the liar, and many more. I also noticed some newly wrecked, unprotected merchant carriages, who probably just got robbed. Hell, some of the robbers even attacked me. It is a part of the immersion. So I thought, if an unarmored bard just wander aimlessly on the roads and not afraid of anything, why should a bunch of armed merchants be afraid? The merchants will also add some sense in the economy systems, i.e. supply and demand between cities, or export import, access to better wares and so on. And yes I think it's profitable. Risky, but profitable.
