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I gave in to the hype and bought Skyrim over the weekend.  I’m now thinking I might do a play-through where I try to abide by the 10 commandments.

As 21st century readers, I’d suggest we’re not always great at picturing/understanding how these sorts of biblical scenes would play out or what it would be like to receive those commandments in their original, ancient context.  Now, I’m not saying the world of Skyrim is anything like the world of Moses and the Israelites in Exodus, but it’d just be interesting to try and explore them in a different world than 21st century Britain and see how they play out.  Mind you, Skyrim – like Exodus – does seem to have plenty of stone tablets, idols and so on!

Has anyone done a 10 commandments setup already?  If you play the game, what ‘code’ does your character live by?  Who do you make the ‘authority’ in how you behave in-game?

UPDATE: I realised that one commandment in particular could cause serious difficulty in the game: ‘do not kill’. However, here’s one guy running a character with exactly that motto – he’s made it to level 9 without killing a single thing.