strange encounter

[MichaelEllis]

So, when I was exploring some rather unspectacular dungeon, a little ball of light jumped out of a jug and followed me. First I thought it'll be a lost soul, searching for its lost body to finally attack me. A more and more of these cute things appeared I became really uncomfortable. I tried to shoo them away, run really quickly, some fusrodahing and all of my weapon and magic. But no, they wanted to come along. Finally I got to the xit and leaving the thingies behind, I felt rather sad for doing so.

So, to make it short: What the friggin hell are those things?!

I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not, I found nothing containing a deeper story on this but, well, let everyone have their own strange encounter.

Someone took a video of this:

[acidzebra]

While the game never spells it out, the book Yngol and the Sea Ghosts kind of hints they may be the souls of his clansmen. Or not. Either way, it made for a nice bit of ambience. Edited January 23, 2013 by acidzebra

[BrettM]

I, too, assumed they were Yngol's clansmen/crew based on the book. Maybe they just wanted to see me put Yngol to rest so they could rest themselves, since they disappear after you defeat him. But I did keep expecting them to DO something other than just follow me around. I don't care what: attack me, show me something, or communicate with me somehow.

[MichaelEllis]

I installed the Asteria mod, and there's another of those balls when I fast travel to the teleporting statue. It rolls right into the sea and vanishes. Speaks for a sea ghost, so I assume this mystery is solved.

Yet I had another strange encounter:

On the road between Falkreath and the DBSanctuary, there's a friendly red wolf. First it came towards me and howled, but instead of attacking it just looked at me and stood beside me. I thought maybe some mod had messed up the mutt, Barbas, but I found him as well. Still the red wolf is there, and it isn't hostile.