Dragonborn who's in the CoW but isn't the protagonist
Finding the Eye of Magnus? They're on the other side of the ruins translating Dovahzul inscriptions.
Books come alive in the Arcanaeum? They just finished a double all-nighter writing their Restoration midterm, slept right through the whole thing in one of the study chairs. Urag was PISSED.
Arniel Gane recreating the experiment that brought the Dwemer to extinction? They're busy heaving their guts out after helping Brelyna test a spell that literally turned them green (or, well, greener if they're an orc).
The Thalmor nearly blow up half of skyrim trying to take control of the Eye of Magnus? They're tackling an entirely different world-ending crisis on Solstheim.













