Sinding- Werewolf Form (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

First Appearance: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Plated By: Thor Edgill


"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"

Having escaped from the Falkreath Jail cell, Sinding escaped to the Bloated Man's Grotto.

When the Dragonborn confronts the Aspect of Hircine, he tells them that he wanted Sinding's hide as an offering to remove the curse from the ring. He tells them that they should hurry as there were more hunters in this than just them. When the Dragonborn declares that Sinding doesn't deserve to die, Hircine tells them that he does not seek "vengeance" and that all he wanted was "the blood course of a living hunt." The Aspect departs and leaves the Dragonborn to seek Sinding.

The Dragonborn finds J'Kier, the only surviving (but gravely injured) member of a pack of hunters who had already tried to kill Sinding. 

Venturing further into the cave, the Dragonborn locates Sinding and tells him that they were tasked by Hircine to kill him. Sinding replies that "Hircine is too powerful" and that if the Dragonborn wished to do so he couldn't stop them. However he proposes that he would be a great ally to them and that he will never return to civilisation as he can no longer "live among people."

The Dragonborn tells Sinding that he will spare his life, to which he thanks the gods and declares that they should kill the hunters to end the hunt. Both Sinding and the Dragonborn fight their way through several small groups of hunters, until there is none left. Sinding thanks the Dragonborn for their help and that he will make the Grotto his home so that he can hurt no one else. 

Sinding often journeyed from the Grotto, where he managed (in his beast form) not to draw attention from residents of towns and cities or attack anyone- keeping up his arrangement with the Dragonborn.


Alternate Reality:

Upon meeting the Aspect of Hircine, the Dragonborn accepts the arrangement with Hircine to kill Sinding and making an offering of the skinned hide in exchange for removing the curse from his ring. 

After locating Sinding in the Bloated Grotto, the Dragonborn declares that he will kill Sinding as they   "can not defy Hircine." Sinding sees reason in the decisiion and tries to flee for the cave exit, but is attacked by several hunters. However the hunters are easily torn apart by the werewolf. The Dragonborn kills Sinding and tears the hide from his body, which he gives to the Aspect of Hircine that appears before him in the form of the human Sinding. The Daedra uses his magic to form an armor from the hide.