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>>2982529
Nah. The way Daggerfall works is that every enemy, even those without any associated language skill (animals, undead), have a very small chance based on your personality attribute to not be hostile. For human enemies, this chance is further increased by your etiquette skill, and for language-speaking monsters it's increased by that specific language skill. Having your weapon sheathed also increases the chance.

With the maximum skills and attributes each language-speaking enemy will have around a 60% chance to not initiate combat. It's not too shabby for Daedric since there's several high level enemies that speak it.

This all happens as soon as the enemy is loaded, before they even detect you. There's no interactivity on your part to use the skill, and enemies cannot be talked to or commanded. You can't try to talk down enemies that are attacking you or anything like that, but enemies that passed the language check will never attack you unless you hit them first.

As for enemies fighting each other, that's for spellcasting enemies which are just as likely to blow themsellves and others up as they are to blow you up. Daedra Lords and Lichs are especially good at friendly fire. With enough practice you'll learn how to best position yourself to encourage this behavior. There's also a certain Daedric artifact that can be used to make a clone of an enemy that fights for you.

Not the guy you're responding to by the way, but I've also played this style of charactsr a lot and it can be pretty fun.

>>2793648
Ah yes, that's a good one. Second time that happened I ended up killing it before it could teleport me. I thought I broke the quest because I wasn't able to turn it in afterwards, but after a few in-game days it finished as a "success".
Actual spoiler for another random quest: Beware anybody who asks if you're really <your name> the <your race>. That's the wildest ride of them all.