A finely dressed merchant looks down his nose at a traveller in Whiterun's market beneath Dragonsreach.

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Nazeem

Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying - of course you don't.

— The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim · 2011

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The question is only a delivery system for the insult. Nazeem assumes that status matters to everyone and that the listener has less of it than he does. The tiny pause before his correction makes his self-satisfaction almost more irritating than the snobbery.

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Nazeem can offer this unsolicited put-down as the player passes him in Whiterun in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011). He presents access to the Cloud District as evidence of social importance, then answers his own question on the stranger's behalf. It is recurring passing dialogue, not a conversation the player must seek out.

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