Niels, a Nord fool, was part of a Falkreath-based hunting party led by Valdr. The group recently disappeared when they chased a bear sow into Moss Mother Cavern. You will find out what happened during the related quest.

Niels is dead. He got owned by some bears. That is what happened. You will not find out what happened during the related quest, because you already have.

You will find Niels halfway through the cave where he was ripped to shreds by bears, although the spriggans may have participated as well.

This is canon.

Niels wore randomly determined light armor; at all levels, there is a 50% chance it will be fur shoes and a set of fur armor, while the other 50% can differ; at level 1-5 it can be hide boots and/or hide armor or studded armor, at level 6-18 it can be leather boots and/or leather armor, and at level 19-28 it can be scaled boots and/or scaled armor or scaled horn armor. 

None of these choices in armor are particularly good at deflecting bear attacks.

Additionally, there is a 50% chance of him wearing a set of leveled gauntlets, again randomly determined; it can always be fur bracers but, at level 1-5 there is a 50% chance it can be hide bracers, at level 6-18 it can be leather bracers, and at level 19 it can be scaled bracers. 

Gloves will not save you from bears. This was Niels’ second mistake.

Lastly, there is a 20% chance of him carrying a leveled shield, up to elven quality at level 12. His weapon of choice is random and leveled as well (up to elven quality at level 22) and can be either a mace, a sword, or a war axe. He also carried a bit of random loot, food and drink, with a slim chance of a lockpick and/or some gold.

Niels’ sense of fashion is terrible. Being a corpse will often do that to you.

The only survivor of the group is Valdr, who will be sitting outside the cave, heavily wounded. He will tell you about the fate of the hunters: “We tracked a bear to this den. Good coin for those pelts. We had the big sow cornered when they showed up. Three of them, out of nowhere. It was more bears. Niels went down before we even knew to run. He was a fucker, but no one deserves to be ripped apart by four separate bears like that.” 

Once you have healed Valdr, he will ask you to help him avenge the deaths of his fallen comrade: “But now what? I can’t just walk away. Not with Niels’ body in there, rotting, making a wretched stink, maybe being torn apart by even more bears. Can you imagine? I sure can, and I hate it.” Once the cave is clear, he will do one last thing for Niels: “I’ll small my dick. Thanks, chum.” Niels’ body will then disappear from the game.

Good riddance, Niels.

If I have to hear one more time about that famous gourmet who wrote that recipe book, I’ll hack off my own ears with a blunt axe.

Sure, he can cook up some dishes fit for them stodgy Imperials and them poncy Bretons, but real Nords want real Nord food, and my chaurus pie is just that.

I guess I been complaining a lot about it, cause Susanna was yelling at me. Nils, she says, if your chaurus pie is so good, you should write down the recipe.

Well, I ain’t good with my letters and I got no talent for writing, but I thought why not give it a go? So this here’s my first ever recipe that I wrote down and I hope you like it.

First thing you’ll need is some chaurus meat and that ain’t easy to come by. Chauruses mostly live in caves, and as like as not they share them caves with other nasty things.

If you go hunting for chaurus meat to make some dinner with, make sure you don’t end up as dinner yourself. Haha.

Anyway, like I was saying, get yourself some good armor and a nice big sword, and if you’ve got some stout men who won’t run off at the first sign of trouble - in other words, not like one of them poncy Bretons - then go looking in caves and you’ll find a chaurus sooner or later.

They look like big bugs the size of really big dogs, and mind you watch out for that acid they spit. That’ll ruin your armor pretty quick.

Now once you got some chaurus meat, you got to put it on a spit. Make sure you get that white, thick meat from the midsection. Don’t use that yellow meat from the head or legs, because that’s got poisonous acid in it and if you eat it, you’ll probably die.

So you cook up your chaurus on the spit. And you want to baste it with sauce. To make that, grind up some tomatoes into pulp and then mix that with water, peppers, honey and salt. And then you have to boil it all together.

I wouldn’t use too many peppers, but you want a few spoons of salt. How much honey you use is up to you. Depends on how sweet you want it.

When the chaurus is done and you’ve basted it enough, then you want to bake it in a pie with some potatoes, carrots and apples. And put the rest of that sauce you made in there, too.

If you want turnips, sometimes those are good. Depends on what you’re in the mood for.

Then you cook that for awhile. Look for the top to be light brown, that’s when you know it’s done.

And that’s it. Easy as pie. Haha.

i have most definitely heard of it but i forgot about its existence until now :’)

thank you for reminding me about Wizard FPSes, and thank you for your message

yeah!!! i love speedruns like that!! that stuff’s cool as hell!! a lot of older games have bugs like this and it’s fascinating!! i love reading up on people explaining how and why these things happen, even if i still have a hard time following all of it completely, haha

programming is really cool

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thank you for your message. elfs aren’t real, but if elfs were real and they were in space then i think they would be the best too. second to this would be rock elfs and mountain elfs, in no particular order. i hope you have a lovely day today

1) a lot of my stream-watching is spent multitasking & doing other things to keep my hands busy so i’m frequently looking at other things, or focusing on multiple things at once

2) i used to play tf2 at a solid 10 FPS for long periods of time, i have lived through Bad Framerate Hell and it has made my tolerance for things like this much stronger than the average person i guess? idk i never really notice it, except for when i do

3) how else will i heed the swede