I'm a softie. I just adopted two little girls who had no other place to live. Put them in my home in Solitude, where my housecarl, Jordis the Sword-Maiden (she hates it when I just use her first name), will take care of them while I'm on the road. (I think she may have been a homeless orphan, too, but she never wants to talk about herself.) Anyway, when I told each that she could live in my big home, something got in my eye. Must have been dust or something. 🥲

Edit: For those who wish to adopt more than just the two allowed by the game, the mod Hearthfire multiple adoptions - Now with custom home support for kids and spouse at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community enables adopting more. Give it a check if you want to have more kids to spend your easily collected cash on. 😉 (There may be others, but I don't know them.)

176 points Individual-Love1525

Dude the adoption system in Skyrim hits different than it should. Those kids deserve better than living on the streets while we're out there hoarding cheese wheels and dragon bones lmao

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50 points proximusprimus57

It's really hard to choose which two of the dozen or so orphans to adopt. The kids in Solitude and Dawnstar who sleep outside in the cold? The war orphans who beg in Whiterun and Windhelm? The traumatized orphan who ordered a hit on his orphanage's headmistress? The other orphans who suffered under her? Or kill the abusive father in Rorikstead and adopt his children? So many choices.

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41 points tocahontas77

I adopted the girl who sells flowers. I think her name is Sophia? I felt bad and kept buying flowers from her, until I had enough resources to adopt her.

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35 points WillMartin58

Close. 🙂 She's Sofie, one of the two girls I adopted. She and Lucia are the two I adopted. 🙂

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4 points tocahontas77

She's always asking for money though 🙄😂

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9 points WillMartin58

Not if I'm not home. 😉

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4 points VishusVonBittertroll

It's fine with me, since I can't give her any other gifts. That girl deserves ALL the daggers 😭

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4 points Kurgon_Stellaris

There is a bug with Sofie. You have to buy all her flowers right before you adopt her. If you do that, then you will be able to give her gifts.

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2 points VishusVonBittertroll

Yeah, I read all about it after I adopted her 😭

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4 points Kurgon_Stellaris

You can always RP giving her gifts by just putting them in her chest. I buy, loot, and steal every doll I find for my girls...

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2 points VishusVonBittertroll

I absolutely do this! She has a chest full of knives and vampire dolls, plus 1k gold any time she wants.

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2 points beaniestOfBlaises

I gave runa that one guy's dead friend's lucky dagger

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1 points FigOutrageous9683

I have Lucia and Sissel 👏

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9 points Skroderider_800

Lydia hoards the dragon bones, I just make her do it

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8 points TheHoundJR

Your mom hoards my dragon bone teehee.

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141 points ominousstarfall

Cruelest thing Skyrim ever did was limit us to two adoptions.

I didn't learn mods for spells, or weapons from previous games, or to marry Serana. But I did learn mods to adopt more children.

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13 points Adventurous_Chip919

Which mod lets you adopt more than two kids?

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11 points nikkiUP

Hearthfire multiple adoptions - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3862

Thank me later lol

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7 points Habaree

I’ll forget later, so I’ll just say thanks now 😛 Cheers!

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2 points Adventurous_Chip919

thank you!!!!!

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5 points Habaree

I’d like to know, too!

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5 points Low_Investment_2692

Same!

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27 points The-Messanger42

There are Mods that let you Run the entire Orphanage, and adopt more than 2 children 🤩

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6 points Adventurous_Chip919

Which one is that? I wanna do that so bad!

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1 points The-Messanger42

https://preview.redd.it/yjr5t1boj5dg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=be8ae36215118311aa3f8917f845851e59945e62

Riften Honorhall Orphanage Expanded!

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1 points Adventurous_Chip919

Thank you!!!

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2 points aranvandil

i didn't know that. that's really sweet!

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3 points The-Messanger42

Some people have to live vicariously 🤔 It is Amazing that Skyrim has the ability to do soo much!!

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1 points loggeitor

oh! I've been dropping dolls and sweets at the orfanage lol

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16 points TexanGamer_CET

We should’ve been able to adopt every kid and put two or three in each house😭😭😭❤️

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12 points Indotex

What about the little boy that sleeps on the hay with the horses in the Solitude stables?

On my current play through, I adopted him & Lucia from Windhelm. I wish I could adopt Sofia in Whiterun too.

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4 points GayUncleRC

Blaise from the stables was my first adoption in my current game. He's currently at Breezehome and unsupervised, other than all of the other townsfolk. I usually adopt Lucia as well.

I'd adopt other children, if I could, and they could stay in the other houses. They might as well, eh.

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2 points LittleMissFirebright

Shoot???

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2 points The-Messanger42

I'm hoping he meant "Save" but speech to text or auto correct... Failed them 👀

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2 points Indotex

I meant “adopt” but I guess I typed wrong & damn auto-correct.

I’ve edited it now.

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10 points Odd_Mix8978

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Alsean casually walking around Solitude with one of the deadliest artifacts on Mundus cuz that's the kind of Dad he has 😂

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5 points Acceptable-Ear3913

i adopted Lucia and Sofie❤️

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6 points StormeeusMaximus

Usually the same for me, but I always forget to buy all the flowers from Sofie before adopting her, so I'm never able to gift her anything 😭

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7 points TwoBeansShort

Is that what happened? It's pissing me off that I can't gift her stuff. I bought all her flipping flowers. She must have restocked before I adopted her. Growl

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4 points WillMartin58

I bought her flowers, sold her a 13,000 septim sword for 20 septims, then bought it back. She's flush with cash, I'm sure. 😀

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6 points Acceptable-Ear3913

oh i didn't even know she sold flowers lmaooo i found her sleeping on the ground and told her to live with me haha

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1 points WillMartin58

Me, too. 😉🙂

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1 points Ok-Faithlessness-624

Sofie I usually pass on, but only because she is not terribly off. She has a job, being mentored in being a merchant, has kids to play with. They let her stay at the Inn. In a way she has a town raising her.

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4 points loggeitor

Isn't she on her own? And she sleeps outside in the cold! And in that dark scary city. Nah, she's coming home with me. She likes Whiteruns tree!

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5 points Middle_Assist_78

I wish I could start an orphanage and adopt them all 😭

At least Lucía and Sofie now live in Soledad's mansion with their adoptive father and are happy 🥹

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5 points WillMartin58

With the mod I note in the updated posting, you basically can. 😉

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1 points Middle_Assist_78

I play it on PS4 🥲

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2 points WillMartin58

Ah, condolences. 😢

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2 points Middle_Assist_78

Nah, it's fine. I've been wanting to play it for like 10 years and I didn't have anywhere or any way to do it. Now that I finally got a console, I can. With that, I have everything I need 😊

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2 points GamesWithElderB_TTV

Now slay them and fill your chests with their possessions……..

What happened? I blacked out for a moment.

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2 points Wadsworth_McStumpy

The first kid I ever adopted was Sophie. The next time I got home, she told me that she'd found some things and put them in the chest in her room, and I should help myself.

She had the usual trinkets, but also some Emperor Parasol Moss. Girl lives in Falkreath Hold. How in the world does she get moss from Solstheim? Alchemy shops don't even carry that stuff. Something's going on with that girl.

Oh, and she also brought a Snow Fox home. Again, in Falkreath Hold.

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1 points WillMartin58

When she told me about what she put in the chest, my heart broke a little bit more. I put some coin in it in response, without her knowing.

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3 points Mr_Badger1138

I adopted a child once for the achievement. I immediately save scummed back to being a childless murder hobo.

Stupid auto correct changed that to murmur hobo on me for some reason. 😅

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3 points CaptHorney_Two

I am laughing so hard picturing a murmur hobo.

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1 points Mr_Badger1138

Talos damn it, stupid autocorrect. 🤣

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3 points TycheSong

Same. Those kids go from grateful to demanding real fast. I already have real children to treat me like an atm and fuss about doing chores or taking care of their pets-- Skyrim is for me to be irresponsible, lawless, filthy stinking rich ho who don't need no Real Life.

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1 points Rischeliu

In addition to the mod OP mentioned, it had an add-on mod called Heathfire Multiple Adoptions Expanded that makes it possible to adopt 8 kids and have each of them live in separate houses. I haven't fully tested it myself but it will definitely hit my need to be a good Samaritan ~~who wants to train kids into successful adventurers~~ and fill up some unused houses.

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1 points Kurgon_Stellaris

Yeah, I pretty much always adopt Lucia and Sofie. Out of all of the children in Skyrim, those two seem most in need of a home. Lucia is begging on the streets and picking pockets in the Inn at night. Sofie makes coin selling flowers, but she fails to sell them often and goes hungry, not to mention she sleeps on the ground in the snow. The only other kid I have ever adopted is the boy from Dawnstar, but he has a job running food to the miner and get to sleep by the fire in the Inn most nights. I adopted him before meeting Sofie, and I already had Lucia. When I found Sofie out in the cold, I was devastated. I never adopted the poor boy in another playthrough.

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1 points WillMartin58

When I found out Sofie had no home and lived behind one of the houses on the east side of the entry (Niranye's house), it broke my heart. As soon as I got the home in Solitude, I adopted her (and I admit I wept a bit as she said she'd love to be my daughter). She and Lucia are being taken care of very well by Jordis the Sword-Maiden (as I said, she hates when I just use her first name) while I'm away. 🙂

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1 points loggeitor

This adopting dynamic is the soft spot of my warrior. I am building a small library for my girls . Books like Provinces of Skyrim, some fantasy books, some travel diaries that talk about interesting facts of the world. I also stock a cupboard with paper rolls and charcoal. These girls are gonna be some educated women. I even have this headcanon of one of the girls being an apprentice in the Sky Forge and the other one learning alchemy with Arcadia lol

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1 points WillMartin58

There's a mod that allows them to "grow up" while you play. I haven't seen any that allow a woman to give birth yet, but I'm sure someone's going to figure that out sometime. 😀

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1 points Tink_zz

I always adopt Sofie & Lucia. But I mod so I have 6 adopted kids, who I've housed in my larger house w extra room. N it's my home base, I go back constantly, so always grabbing em gifts n give them the 1000 anytime one asks lol. Also Dragons keep? Is the mod iirc. Basically able to send a bunch of orphans to, basically, Hogwarts LOL. But their house/castle/school is SO well done for a mod. There a whole interactive castle inside!! A pool, basically anything tbh could ever want! I always have a soft spot for the orphans. But I always bolt IMMEDIATELY to Sofie, lil flower girls who's "bed" is a patch of ice 😭

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1 points WillMartin58

When I saw where she slept, my heart broke. IRL, I had tears in my eyes. It's like Bethesda really had it in for some of these kids. 😢

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1 points Tink_zz

No because same. Like, my whole life has been "I don't like or want kids" No other game has hit in the feels. But I was so heartbroken, I bought ALL her stock till I got a house. Then she lives w me. Immediately. 🥹🥹🥹

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1 points WillMartin58

I always bought all her stuff, and a few times, I even sold her a very expensive piece of gear, only to buy it back immediately. So even before I adopted her, my Sofie is pretty well off for one so young. 🙂

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1 points slutty-cardboard

Is there a mod comparable for Xbox to adopt more kids? I want them all

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1 points WillMartin58

Don't know – I play on PC, and can't say what works on X-Box.

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1 points slutty-cardboard

No problem! Thanks tho!

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-2 points only_102kcal

Can you take them home and then kill them when you want to make room for more? I am on first play through and just level 12, no house yet. Sounds like a cool mechanic tho!

Maybe you have a soft side and want to help, but you also have a bad temper...

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1 points only_102kcal

Too dark huh

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