The Elder Scrolls games take place within the land of Tamriel, which is broken up into a handful of provinces. Skyrim is the northernmost province, and it itself is broken into nine regions, or “holds.” If a player is caught pocketing a sweet roll in any hold, even by accident, they can get slapped with a small bounty for their arrest, and maybe even an overzealous guard on their trail trying to lob their head off. The bounties increase along with additional crimes committed. Murdering some Skyrim townsfolk in cold blood in plain sight is akin to racking up five stars in the Grand Theft Auto game – all of Skyrim’s law enforcement officers will come crashing down upon you like an angry Daedric God.

Reddit user almightycurator’s 121,000 septims of bounties range from a relatively paltry 5,215 in Hjaalmarch in the provinces’ Midwest to an astounding 25,480 in the Northwest regions of Haarfingar. That Haarfingar number represents the highest bounty almightycurator has ever racked up in the world of Skyrim, according to the image they shared from the “Crime” subheading of the “General Stats” tab of the in-game menu.

According to the Skyrim wiki, murder, (unless in self-defense, and unless the attacker is a guard) can result in a bounty of 1,000 septims. Similarly, shape-shifting into a werewolf or vampire also results in a 1,000 septim bounty. For efficiency’s sake, most of that total must have been the result of a coast-to-coast murder spree that hardly left a soul alive in the entire province. According to almightycurator in a reply to a fellow Redditor, that’s exactly what happened. Almightycurator lived out the kind of dream many Skyrim players have had but are too lazy to accomplish: they claim to have killed every nonessential NPC in every hold capital.

Players often don’t just go on a Skyrim killing spree this epic for no reason. Almightycurator was trying to unlock an achievement in Skyrim that they misunderstood. The “Master Criminal” achievement requires players to rack up a 1,000 septim bounty in all Skyrim holds. Almightycurator got confused and thought it was 10,000 each.

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