10 Amazing Video Game Characters That Were Killed Off Way Too Quickly
2. Mirabelle Ervine - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The College of Winterhold questline is considered one of the most boring and underwhelming faction side quests in Skyrim.
You don't actually spend any time at the college to study magic, and the jump between you being a fresh-off-the-presses apprentice and becoming the Archmage is so sudden that some people download mods specifically to make Tolfdir the new Archmage instead.
The rushed story of the college and its wasted potential is perhaps best illustrated by the death of its most underrated character—Mirabelle Ervine.
The right hand of Archmage, Mirabelle, is the one who actually runs the college instead of Savos. Mirabelle is the most competent person in the guild, and her matter-of-fact attitude makes the college feel like an actual institution instead of a ragtag collective of wacky mages.
Mirabelle dies halfway through the college questline (off-screen, to add insult in injury) and with her, the possibility of the college being more than a half-empty building.
If she were to remain the administrator, she would've been the perfect character to act as the college administrator and perhaps help you expand it like you can the Thieves Guild.
Instead, you get to be the archmage of a frozen ruin with three enrolled students.