Skyrim Players Discuss The Game's “Most Hated Character”

Skyrim Players Discuss The Game's “Most Hated Character”

From TheGamer (Written by Sam Woods) on | OpenCritic

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Skyrim still has one of the most diverse casts of characters in all of gaming. There are orcs, the Khajiit, vampires, and werewolves found throughout the lands within Tamriel.

I stop and speak to all my fellow citizens of Whiterun.

However, while plenty of these characters are kind and seek to aid you on your quest, there are more than a handful that are quite the opposite. This has led to a discussion on Reddit, which has seen people debate the game's "most hateful character".

The most hateful characters were comedically described as falling into two distinct categories:

Harkon, the Nord Vampire, definitely falls into category one.

The core reason for the hatred is the fact that "this pathetic excuse for a Nord sold his own family to Molag Bal out of all beings to prolong his disgusting existence for eternity." Not only this, but by selling his family out, he allowed them to be abused by Molag Bal.

However, this wasn't the only crime Harkon, a vampire who debuted in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, was guilty of. "His end game is basically a slow death for his cult," one player said of the character's end goal of destroying the sun....