Skyim's Most Irritating Meme

Disturbing news. Skyrim has a phantom knee-hobbler. Yup, lurking in the vast wilderness is a twisted pervert with a hatred of knees. Many an innocent traveller has fallen foul of this mysterious lunatic. They can be found all over Skyrim, and they all share the same disturbing tale: they’ve all taken an arrow to the knee. That’s right, the phantom knee-hobbler only ever uses a bow-and-arrow to carry out his cowardly attacks. I agree, it’s a very specific mania, but hey, it takes all sorts, right?

Wrong.

No such weirdo exists. I made it up. But if you’ve played Skyrim for any amount of time you’d be forgiven for thinking such a character exists. It seems as though every guard you come across in Skyrim has been forced into his menial line of work because of an arrow to the knee. You’ll hear it time after time: “I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.”



This single innocuous sentence has become Skyrim’s most irritating meme. You simply can’t escape it. Browse the comment section of any Skyrim related topic and you’ll almost certainly come across some kind of arrow-in-knee reference. There’s simply no kneed for it.