A Letter From a Friend

[ALittleBird]

You often also get the message for shouting in town. At least I do

 

Really, All I ever got for shouting is towns was a small bounty :(

 

Hah, the guards only ask me a million times to stop.

[ModelV]

Sheogorath

[Mercbird]

Sheogorath

Seconded. Sounds like his kind of bush beating.

[faifh]

Talos.

 

It needs to be either a divine or at least a person with clairvoyant abilities. Not only does s/he know of every possible faction in the game, you shouted near them, s/he also knows when you have learned a new shout, which by no social interaction could ever be known, if you ran in a dungeon until the word wall or not. Or s/he must seriously stalk you. (which brings back to the theory its the messenger itself). However a divine or clairvoyant or serious stalking entity wanting to help you, for whatever reason, why would s/he wait until you shouted near people? Perhaps as excuse so you don't raise suspicion to much, that somebody knows everything about you, and thus waits for you to shout near people, and hope you don't give it too much thought.

 

While playing I did that and simply just assumed straight away, it would be the Greybeards. But seeing this topic, yes it makes no sense, how should they know if you shouted near people? They would never know, they have hardly to no social contacts. Currently I just suppose Bethesda wanted to keep players pushing to the right directions, without giving too much story thought about it. The mysterious helpful "friend" who write anonymous letters/messages is an almost too overused gaming cliché. This one at least limits him/herself to shouts.

Edited January 9, 2012 by faifh