Skyrim fans hope that in The Elder Scrolls 6 you'll be able to find the grave of the last Dragonborn

Any Bethesda hero eventually turns into a line in a history book that the next nameless protagonist skims between two dungeon crawls. But sometimes you want something more grounded – like a stone gravestone, for instance.

One gamer imagined exactly that scene: the Dragonborn tomb, seen through the eyes of a The Elder Scrolls 6 character, complete with a list of titles and achievements belonging to the slayer of Alduin.

Among the carved epithets was one dedicated to "he who thwarted the ancient ambitions of the Traitor," and the community immediately jumped to Miraak, the first Dragonborn, who got stuck in Apocrypha against his will. Paarthurnax fits the bill too, though, given how the dragon once betrayed his own brother.

The best part is the iron helmet resting on the grave of Skyrim greatest hero. It's a joke anyone who's seen the game cover will get instantly: that starting junk gear somehow sticks around until the very end, eventually becoming part of the character's identity. Someone pointed out that this is what the Dragonborn looked like back when he was still a decent person, before he stole his first septim.

Fans know how to take an idea to its logical extreme. One player ran a "canon" roleplay campaign lasting 250 hours where the weapons and armor never changed at all, building an entire mod list around the concept:

• Signature Equipment, so the first steel sword and iron helmet found would scale in power alongside the character without any crafting hassle

• Ordinator, with the speech tree reworked around Shouts, so thu'ums stop being a one-use-per-fight gimmick

• Realistic Needs and Diseases plus a total ban on fast travel, relying only on carriages between major cities

• Take Notes for a handwritten journal and bestiary, manually filling in every new creature encountered

Bethesda actually has precedent for a posthumous monument. In Oblivion, the Hero of Kvatch gets a statue in Chorrol after closing the Great Gates, with the pose and gear copied directly from the character. In the original 2006 release, if you held a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, the stone hero ended up with something that looked like a flaming blade. The 2025 remaster kept this quirk intact along with all its signature jankiness.

A Dragonborn statue is trickier, and not for technical reasons. A monument or ghost at the tomb would instantly lock in the hero race and gender, something the studio has carefully avoided for three games running. The lore also hints that after absorbing dozens of souls and getting tangled up with Hermaeus Mora, the Dragonborn might not even get a normal death at all. The Nerevarine famously just "sailed off to Akavir," and a similarly vague fate for the slayer of Alduin seems like the most likely outcome.

You can kill a legend, bury it, and carve it into stone, but that iron helmet worth 30 septims will outlive all of them.