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>essential NPC's
This is one of the most dismaying things about watching Bethesda over the years. In Morrowind, the essential flag was generally used sparingly, for the most part only on main quest NPCs, and it didn't make them invulnerable, it just gave you a message that you had fucked up if you killed them. The only one that most players were likely to encounter was Vivec, and the devs included an entire back route through the main quest to still finish the game even if you decide to slay him.

By Oblivion, it's widely applied to all sorts of characters, including trivial ones only involved in side quests, simply as a crutch to prevent quests from breaking due to muh radiant AI and random accidental deaths. Characters are inconsistently essential and then not essential, depending on the progress of quests, and rather than being a simple you done goofed message, they're invulnerable to prevent the player from deciding that someone should die. If you fuck up and Martin (the true player character of the game, you are merely his sidekick bro) dies, the game gives a short message and immediately takes you to the load screen, no option to keep playing.

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