I found a guy in my house, the elf from river wood I walked in with Sven then realised that I'm marred to Camila (awkward…three men in a room with a woman they're in love with) I heard the elf guy say that he loved her so I drew my sword and killed him. His body has stayed on the table as a souvenir, will I be able to keep him?
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You can. You need to manually unlock new shouts so they can be saved.
Dragon encounters, AFAIK, are totally random - I've got a stockpiled soul and found a dragon.
Yes and no.
Yes, you can save him, but its not useful in any way or form. He is very weak, and will die in 1 hit. As soon as you start attacking the guards, he will try to run away, causing other imperial guards in the city to take him down with 1 arrow.
If you do manage to kill the 3 guards fast enough, then you can interact with him, but there's no dialog. All he says is "hmm", "huh", "what do you want (insert race)?" etc.
No, even if you killed the guards, the executioner, and the captain, and Roggvir survives, in a few seconds, he will die, even though no one attacked him.
Best Answer
Bodies are removed when the "cell" (in this case, the house's interior) resets. The trick, then, is to prevent it from resetting by visiting it at least once every ten in-game days (some reports on cell resets go as high as thirty days, but as you're trying to avoid a reset, you ought to play it safe).
If this house is your primary base of operations, that isn't likely to be an issue for you, but be careful when waiting for shop inventory resets and the like; you don't want to stay away for too long!