We all have a stealth archer built in Skyrim at some point – or several – but have you ever killed 999 people before pointing your sword at the Emperor to mark number 1,000? This player has.
Redditor Peterlerock shared a screenshot of their stats page, which showed that they had killed 999 people and nothing else. Not an animal, creature, Daedra, undead or automaton. Through Skyrim’s transparent menu, we can see that the Emperor stood just a few feet away from his dagger, ready to strike.
Peterlerock says they achieved these stats by playing as an illusion killer. “I have never entered any vampire/dwemr/draugr content and I tranquilize all animals,” they explain. “Think I’ve cleared every bandit/renounced/black mage site in the game at least once. I need to spare Hagravens and random vampires (like Hern for Dark Brotherhood).”
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They do not take the easy route and choose to play at expert level, but with a “heavily adapted” game. “To get an illusion killer up and running, spam Muffle until you can buy higher levels of Calm. Then it’s kind of like easymode,” they say. “In the beginning, avoid using other skills (speech, lockpicking, etc.) to keep the enemy’s level artificially low.”
I played a nightblade build myself and loved it. I haven’t done it as strictly as Peterlerock, but it would be fun to try it on my next trip to Tamriel. However, I have used the Muffle trick before as it is by far the easiest way to quickly improve your illusion skills. There are other ways to do that increase your skillsbut be careful as these can break your game.
If you want to try this yourself on Legendary difficulty, Peterlerock has a strategy for that too. “Legendary requires you to separate bandits and then sneak attack them with two daggers, followed by calm,” they explain. “It shouldn’t take more than two cycles per bandit. You can get sneak60 from the Embershard mine alone. With sneak 50+, muffle boots from dark brotherhood or muffle spell and sneak perks it’s really not that hard in dungeons anymore .On the outside In the world you need a source of invisibility. Potions of alchemy or the illusion spell Outside, enemies have much better detection skills.
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