I spent over two thousand hours to figure out that the thief you meet on the road reacts differently depending on whether you are a member of the Thieves Guild or a Nightingale. If you meet the thief while wearing Nightingale armor, instead of attempting to rob you, he will say a special line. There is another dialogue if you are wearing Thieves Guild armor during the encounter. In this case, the thief will not try to rob you but will give you 5 lockpicks right away. However, for some unknown reason, I couldn’t get this dialogue in the game, so I extracted it from the game files.

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Now do guild master armor.
Better than triple AAA dialogue..lol..
Does he react differently if you wear assassin armour?
what if youre a nightingale and wearing thieves armor? or reverse
It’s crazy how a THIEF would believe anything a stranger says
I get your dialog at first play! I just started playing!
To get the dialogue you have to have no pick locks on you😅
You miss this just if you fast travel all the time or broke. There's no realistic way otherwise I see to miss this
Me in my full ebony plate enchanted legendary armor and carrying umbra 😂
Uh no you can't tell him you're a member of the thieves guild. 🙄
The option was there once and never came back the dozens of other times I've encountered the theif
I've never had any of that dialog until after I returned the Skeleton Key.
I can’t believe these are the same developers who made starfield
He tried to rob me while in nightingale armor must of been a bug didn't get any of this conversation
What about guild master?
I wonder if he has a unique reaction to you wearing dark brotherhood armor
Apparently in Skyrim there is honour among thieves
But what if you're wearing the Blackguard armor?
I was doing the quest to repair the stuff with the staff of magnus and was confused when I had a random khajit helping. After we took care of everything he started walking away, but I was curious so I ran up to talk and only then did he try to mug me. I felt bad after he helped me out, but didn’t wanna give in so I think I either persuaded or intimidated and he walked away. Was my first interaction with a thief so was interesting.
I found a thief that is not thieving yesterday i talk to him then he ran behind a rock
The youtube system is degrading… its getting worse and worse,,,, how am I seeing this video again after I have dislike it and added it in do not recommend…. the most shitty system ever the devs are brain damage monkeys