By Avowed features an Easter egg that nods to Skyrim’s most famously memed NPC companion, Lydia.
Lydia is typically the initial follower you can enlist in Skyrim, and unfortunately, she has become quite notorious. Though poor Lydia doesn’t genuinely do anything detrimental in the game, and she proves to be a true ally, it’s clear that someone at Bethesda intended for her to utter a particular phrase just a bit too frequently.
“I am sworn to bear your burdens,” she proclaims in a manner that implies she truly doesn’t want to be lugging your items… especially when it’s crucial to swap belongings, which can happen frequently due to how easily players become over encumbered in Skyrim. This line became enough of an irritation that there’s a mod with nearly 1,000,000 downloads aimed at enhancing Lydia’s dialogue.
This dialogue snippet, along with Lydia’s endearing clumsiness during stealth missions and her uncanny ability to block every doorway, has solidified her meme status right alongside the character who greets you at the start.
Anyway, Avowed officially embraces the Skyrim Lydia meme, featuring a ring that evidently pays homage to the character. As pointed out by Reddit user ambition-unbound, and independently confirmed by yours truly, The Packmule’s Burden Extraordinary ring in Avowed shares the tale of a female knight and her squire, who is “sworn to carry the burdens” of his master.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who discovered this ring from r/avowed
“The squire, weary from being burdened by the commitment that he was “sworn to bear the burdens” of his knight, hoarded every coin he collected until he could afford to pay a wizard to enchant this ring for him.
The ring’s description continues with a melancholic twist for the squire, who found himself forced to carry even more items when Lydia discovered he had the ability to do so. “Such is the