Can I secretly kill every guard in a town?
Is it possible to kill all of the guards in a town? Ideally, I'd like to do this secretly so the entire town doesn't see my deeds and put a bounty on my head.
Edit: I was questing in Markarth and was told by a guard to back off and stop being nosy. I didn't and when I went to the Shrine of Talos I was set upon by a bunch of guards. Now I have a huge bounty and I had to sneak/kill my way out of the city. Every time I killed a group of guards the bounty was reduced by $1000, but I still have a $30,000 bounty.
I haven't even been through 1/3 of the city yet and know there has to be a lot of quests, so what do I do? The only solution seems to kill every single guard (and inhabitant).
Best Answer
Yes, you can. Just sneak attack kill them in one hit with no one around to see or hear -- or reverse pickpocket poisons onto them with the "Poisoned" Pickpocketing perk.
However, the guards will respawn, so the "unguarded" condition of the town is only temporary.
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Answer 2
If you are more concerned with lowering your bounty you can use the console to do this. The console command is:
player.setcrimegold 0
Answer 3
Yes and no. You can kill all the guards, but they eventually respawn. Mine took about a month in game to respawn. You should reload a previous save, or try to talk and serve your jail time.
Answer 4
What I would do is get your Speech up to level 100, and then you can "persuade" the guards. It's hard to get them to talk, but I just took out my weapon and then sheathed it, and then they talked to me. I then persuaded them. It worked out well.
Also, killing every guard will not work.You still have to worry about the jarl (but this was only in Whiterun).
Answer 5
I killed all the guards in Whiterun. It's been about two weeks normal time and they haven't come back. I can get away with anything I want!
Answer 6
You can, but like everyone else said its temporary. I actually ran into a point in markarth where I can yield, and have no older save file to turn back to, so I kill every guard i find and then go about my business. Its surprising how no one cares after you kill all guards
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