Weird Skyrim Clip Shows Elk Falling Out of the Sky

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A large part of what makes The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim such a unique experience for so many players is the multifaceted nature of the open world. When roaming the many environments that Skyrim has to offer, certain events can occur that make the player feel a part of the world, not the center of it. However, some of these occurrences can be less realistic than others, as evidenced by a recent gameplay clip.

While Skyrim has managed to maintain its popularity over the last decade, the game does suffer from many technical hiccups. Thanks to various glitches and bugs, some truly ridiculous moments have occurred within Skyrim over the course of the last several years, including a glitch where a flying horse fought multiple dragons. Instead of a horse, one of the most recent glitches involves an elk dropping out of the sky.

Weird Skyrim Glitch Has NPC Spinning Around and Flying Into the Sky

Over on Reddit, a user named Jade5041 posted a clip of a conversation with Ri'saad, a roving Khajiit merchant and quest giver. Suddenly, a gigantic elk hits the ground in the background behind Ri'saad, having seemingly fallen out of the sky. While this is certainly a bizarre, if not hilarious, occurrence, it begs to question of how exactly an elk managed to randomly fall out of the sky.

It's possible that the character model for the elk just happened to spawn from an extreme height and then immediately got killed from falling. Though, given their propensity for launching things into the sky, it's also likely that a giant may have attacked the elk and launched it into the sky. This is a surprisingly common occurrence in Skyrim, to the point where a fan actually made a mod of a giant's club that sends enemies flying in a similar fashion.

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