“I had been playing Skyrim for a long time, and one day the idea just came to me,” YouTuber Sidek tells me. “‘What if I killed Nazeem every day until TES VI was released?’”
“I decided to start as a joke,” they continue, “but I was determined that no matter what, I would go all the way, even if no one was watching, I would finish the challenge.”
Today, Sidek’s killing streak of Whiterun’s most infamous resident – the Redguard nobleman who’s long held uber-meme status within the Elder Scrolls community thanks to his condescending demeanour and catchphrase of ‘do you get to the Cloud District very often?’ – reaches 1000 days, having begun all the way back on September 18, 2021. The Elder Scrolls 6, I probably don’t have to tell you, still isn’t here yet.