What Happens When You Free a Prisoner ?

[vIAGRA'D UP Chri$$$BR00K]

Some guards started attacking me so I had to kill them all

Should I free him, yes, no , Free and share items?

[Shelt]

If you want to you can run up to a prisoner being taken somewhere and free him, give him some armor and a weapon and then he will immediately attack the guards who were escorting him. You will be targetted as an enemy by the guards. If he is alive after the fight, he will tell you to join the stormcloaks or something. It's mostly there for RP purposes. I always free him if the Thalmor are escorting him away because I hate the Thalmor nazis.

[Private Ramirez]

FOR THE TRUE KING OF SKYRIM!!

[Shady Motley]

Originally posted by Shelt:

If you want to you can run up to a prisoner being taken somewhere and free him, give him some armor and a weapon and then he will immediately attack the guards who were escorting him. You will be targetted as an enemy by the guards. If he is alive after the fight, he will tell you to join the stormcloaks or something. It's mostly there for RP purposes. I always free him if the Thalmor are escorting him away because I hate the Thalmor nazis.

I have a zero tolerance policy with Thalmor, kill them all.

[Zefram Cochrane]

Originally posted by уα вσι Cняι$$$:

Some guards started attacking me so I had to kill them all

Should I free him, yes, no , Free and share items?

If you mean the patrol on the roads it makes no different what you do, its generated randomly. Killing Thalmor though is likely to make them hostile to you on sight.

[Areawen]

I always kill prisoner and guards aswell. Fu*k Thalmor, Stormcloaks and the Empire xD

[UnknownSoldier]

In my experience, he always runs off...and without even saying thank you. So I just kill them all.

[Amarok]

I hardly ever bother with it. AS Shelt said: It is mostly for RP reasons I guess. Specially if I haven't join the SC or Emps.

[Renn]

I've never seen a prisoner use any of the items I gave him.

[Loaf of Bowling Balls]

I did that, the prisoner got kiled, but i killed some imperials so ya know.

[istvan_v]

Originally posted by 'Lyssa029:

I've never seen a prisoner use any of the items I gave him.

I found they use the weapon given, but not armor. In any case, they often do not get far alive (especially in areas that have a lot of large predators, like all those cave bears in the Rift) even if they survive the fight, and then the items given can be taken back.