Skyrim’s Solitude has a hidden area we’re only just realising exists

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still dropping new information on us 13 years after it first launched, now with a hidden area in Solitude of all places.

When playing Skyrim you might do the brunt of your exploration out in the fields or in the mountains, but it’s well-worth checking out the towns and cities for secrets and other goodies.

God only knows what The Elder Scrolls VI will be like in terms of exploration, but we need to actually see the game first to hazard any guesses

We don’t just mean quests either, there are secret areas stashed with item stockpiles if you know where to look.

Take Solitude for example, which one player wrote about in a recent Reddit thread after finding a secret none of us knew existed until now.

The post read: “13-year-old game and it is still taking me to school. I had no idea there was a health potion and two Elven arrows on top of the Bard's College.”

While it’s not as exciting as a new sword or some fancy armour pieces, it’s remarkable how much time the developers put into minor details like this, not only considering if players would make it on top of the Bard’s College but also rewarding them for doing so.

There are plenty of other locations like this as well in other Skyrim locations, and some of them are out in the open-world too in the most random of spots. Next to trees, behind rocks and on the peaks of mountains are just a few examples.

I think we’ve all played Skyrim enough to know exactly where to go and when to go there that we often don’t take the time anymore to actually explore and see what’s around us, meaning we miss cool details like this.

Hopefully The Elder Scrolls VI is just as detailed, but given how long Bethesda has been working on it that seems like an inevitably at this point.