Another famous aspect of the Creation engine is how enemies rag-doll upon dying; this would lead to NPC’s flying off cartwheeling when hit with a powerful killing blow. Skyrim’s most famous shout ability, Unrelenting Force, was even designed to cause this rag-doll effect as it threw enemies away.
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The same pushing effect could also be achieved with certain spells if they were the killing blow on that enemy. This is seen clearly in a clip posted by Reddit user ZeldaJT in which they land an extremely unlikely shot that both kills a Draugr and throws its rag-dolling body into a human sized pot both up a staircase and across a gap.
These empty human-sized jars found scattered around Skyrim’s numerous creepy dungeons and crypts do make for inviting medieval basketball hoops, but the odds of firing an enemy into one from across the room is extremely low.
The shot is made all the more impressive by how finicky Skyrim’s physics can be at times, especially in regard to placing items into jars. It is no surprise that despite the game allowing players to freely move and throw many items that are affected by the game’s physics engine, not a lot of examples can be found of players throwing smaller items at targets, let alone throwing enemies using magic.
The shot is then made even more unbelievable by the fact that the Draugr that was killed was the last enemy in the area. This activates Skyrim’s cinematic final kill-cam to show the whole thing in slow motion. Then again, recently it has been seen that Skyrim enemies can sometimes survive the attacks that the game renders in cinematic slow-motion, so there is a chance the Draugr could have lived through its fiery ordeal, only to find itself trapped upside down in a pot.
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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