This one NPC in Skyrim is guaranteed to get on your nerves.

As perfect as it might seem to be, every video game out there has its own fair share of characters that will sometimes just annoy the player to wit’s end. And as much as players hate the White Mask Varre in Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Elden Ring, it can’t be more annoying than this one NPC in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

White Mask Varre calls the player Maidenless as soon as the game starts | FromSoftware

Imagine going on about your day in your favorite RPG game when you suddenly start getting nagged about licking someone’s boot. Even worse, when you realize it’s an NPC that you simply cannot kill.

Skyrim and one of its most annoying NPCs

Nelkir is one of the most annoying Skyrim NPCs | u/Pickinanameainteasy on Reddit

Reach Dragonsreach in Skyrim, and you will find a child NPC called Nelkir that will go on and on about you wanting to lick his father’s boot. Something, which anybody can assume, must not be the player’s primary objective in the first place.

While it is annoying, it is also more interesting to see at the same time how a simple NPC can ruin the player’s day with a simple dialogue. Unfortunately, being a child character, Nelkir can’t be gotten rid of unless you are a PC player, at which point custom mods come into play.

The player can also shout him to death, a mechanic that many console players can’t thank Bethesda enough for. Many might believe White Mask Varre from Elden Ring, in all honesty, is a more annoying character, given the fact that he calls you maidenless as soon as you step onto The Lands Between. However, at least you can get rid of him as soon as the game starts and won’t have to rely on mods or a shouting mechanic.

Elden Ring and its tendency to add the most annoying characters ever

Elden Ring has a few of the most annoying characters | FromSoftware

Hidetaka Miyazaki is already known for throwing players into a fit of rage with punishing level designs, and annoying characters like the White Mask Varre are just the cherry on top.

Remember Patches? A known face from previous FromSoftware titles that has always betrayed you whenever given the chance to. Everyone hates patches, and he is just another addition to the list of NPCs in Elden Ring that really make you question why even boot up your PC or console in the first place.

Skyrim is undoubtedly a more vast game than Elden Ring, with thousands of dedicated mods enhancing the experience for longer than a decade. Both of these evergreen titles have their own fair share of annoying enemies that the player can’t stand for more than a minute, and it might be what Todd Howard and Mr. Miyazaki have in common after this pretty direct Dark Souls reference found in Fallout 4.