Skyrim's been out for 13 years, but players are still being surprised by the fact that NPCs die if you steal their hearts
I heard they die if you chop their heads off, too
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Nearly 13 years later,Skyrimplayers are still somehow surprised to discover that if you pickpocket an NPC’s heart, they’ll probably die.
In a recent post on Reddit, one user asked the community if they were “slow” for only recently having discovered that “when you pickpocket a Briarheart’s heart they instantly die.” While in an RPG as sprawling as Skyrim there are plenty of things that players tend to discover at their own pace, this one does seem pretty obvious.
The Briar Hearts are placed in the Forsworn’s chest cavities, although they’re not particularly secure. To get around that obvious danger, the Forsworn Briarhearts are especially good at detecting approaching players, and can even detect them through spells like Invisibility and Muffle. That doesn’t mean it’s …
