Tamriel's Interesting Creatures and Monsters - The Elder Scrolls Lore Collection
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- After many requests, here is the first experimental collection video! A big bestiary! I hope you enjoy it!
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:46 Animated Intro
00:01:06 Nymphs
00:08:54 Unicorns
00:15:13 Gryphons
00:25:37 Mudcrabs
00:32:25 Golden Saints
00:37:29 Dark Seducers
00:44:41 Chub Loon
00:51:34 Gehenoth
00:59:21 Sea Giants
01:07:05 Nereids
01:16:19 Hagraven
01:21:18 Dragon Frogs
01:25:53 Wispmother
01:30:29 Sload
01:39:22 Ice Wraith
#ElderScrolls #Bethesda #TESLore #ESO #Elderscrollsonline #Skyrim #skyrimlore #skyrim - Ігри
After many requests in comments to do this, I finally made a first experimental “lore collection”. Many related lore videos trimmed of their fluff (intro and outro), some slightly updated and bridged to each other with short narrations to make it feel like one big lore video and make it more watchable to watch after each other. In this case it’s a big Tamriellic bestiary. I hope you guys enjoy it! And if you do, let me know! And I may do more!
FYI: This week I didn’t have much time to record, but as a small teaser for upcoming new content: A Dark Brotherhood story, and a legendary love story (valentine’s day ahoy!) are coming up soon! And I am working on a bigger project in the background.
I am in complete support of you making completions of you videos
Thank you.
Great work as usual but i will still insist to have a lore vid abt the floating island to the one who didn't read the novel 😢
I'm about to do a FUCK TON of dishes rn
Same while drinking skooma and then sleeping tree sap when I'm done 😂
Same
Same
I just did this while watching 🤣
I'm glad that we all go to long UA-cam videos on elder scrolls lore to do dishes. Lol
The single mudcrab about to confront a passing by lvl 97 Dragonborn: Nah, I’d win
*level 97 Dragonborn gets destroyed*
domain expansion: cannot fast travel
That same mud crab years ago when it killed the nerevarine and caused a dragon break; stand tall n’wah, you s’wit
Ok boomer I forgor I have no enemies fidget spinner harambe frfr ong no cap fortnite skibidi rizz toilet nobody: absolutely nobody: among sus impostor based cringe trad pill slay core
@@mahmud7645tf is this gibberish
"Explaining away Bethesda's retcons is basically my day job at this point" ... LOL!
Okay not gonna lie this is a really good idea, while the standalone videos are good, having this one big collection without all the intros makes it so much better to watch as one big thing! Thanks!
HOUR LONG IMPERIAL KNOWLEDGE VIDEO LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
More like several videos edited together into one big binge collection.
@@ImperialKnowledge still perfect for me :)
@@ImperialKnowledge I'd honestly love to see more of these types of videos man, perhaps on each of the Daedric princes or their planes of Oblivion would be awesome.
Your content is some of the best Elder Scrolls content out there :)
This ^^ an hour of divines and daedra would be lit
Mortal shows up in your home plane of oblivion, ransacks your domical, learns your best friend's nymic and alters his nature beyond all recognizability, demands you give him your heart, refuses to elaborate. Another mortal shows up a week later, takes you prisoner, demands you reveal all your secrets, records them all, but doesn't otherwise harm you until he disappears, this one also refuses to elaborate. A week after that, another mortal, this one gets naked and fights everything within a 45 mile radius, taking out entire villages for years while they all have to reform, takes offense to just the notion that you might not understand his motives, kills you for wondering out loud a little too close to the killing field. You reform, are told it's all the same guy doing different "quests" and so far, has yet to elaborate on what that even means. Such is life as a lesser Daedra.
"My reasonings are behind your understanding." Little do they know these "visitors" are really just avatars for eldritch beings who are the original creators of the entire world of Elder Scrolls, and continuously expand and participate in its simulation for their own enjoyment. They live completely outside of time, as entire days, weeks and months pass in mere hours for them, or not at all. The past is the future and the future is the past. As Azura said, "matters that affect mortals for days, occupy the mind of gods for eternity."
Since spriggans are mentioned here, it's worth pointing out that they more or less have a full explanation. Spriggans, through various small and subtle hints, are suggested to be direct servants of Kynareth, which has a level of legitimacy and might be true, but is still one of the could-be-totally-right-but-is-unconfirmed ideas.
What is made very clear and is often demonstrated is that spriggans are strongly linked to nature in general, especially trees, and that they don't do much beyond guarding it. A perfect example is the Eldergleam's cave, where spriggans stay idle and watch mortal visitors unless you hurt the tree, but then they react by attacking everything in sight because they serve as guards.
Since they have a firmly established purpose, the spriggans have two very likely origins. One is that part of Kynareth's investment into making Nirn was the creation of the spriggan as a sort of protective measure to ensure nature stays relatively intact. The other likely origin goes back to the concept of earth-bones with some early spirits becoming parts of the world more directly. While it doesn't indicate anything specific on where they originally started, I did come up with a very believable explanation as to where new spriggans come from. They're tendency to stay around or even directly attached to trees, along with them being all-female, has led me to believe spriggans are in fact not so much born but actually grown from Nirn's trees. Plants in general are known to have a measure of magic, which is how alchemy works in many cases, so trees as a whole probably share this trait. It's also important to consider the name of the creature, spriggan. This most likely comes from the English "sprig" referring to a small twig or cutting from a plant, usually trees. My best guess is that earlier depictions of spriggans looked more womanlike due more to the people modelling them just liking the look and thinking of them as fairy type entities. This is supported by their continuing appearance being very strongly wooden, and their increased association with trees. It's not outright confirmed yet, but I'd be very surprised if spriggans weren't just formed magically from trees in some way, and no matter the exact origin, I'm all but certain that they're as old as Nirn, being one of the earliest things made in it.
This is awesome. This shows a respect for your audiences attention span that is rare online. Thanks for all your hard work.
About the Hagraven, I want to point out two side quests in Skyrim.
In the first you talk to an imprisoned hag inside of a forsworn base, she asks for your help to defeat another hag that took over her layer. She will reward you with her personal staff.
The second quest is about a witch that want you to destroy 5he coven she and her mother are part of. During the mission you kill multiple Hagravens point at the assumption that the ritual you are about to stop would turn the mother into a Hagraven.
Illia directly says that's about to happen.
I can't help but to think there are some Elder Scrolls developers and writers watching this and being like "Erm! Yeah that's what we meant! Totally what we were going for! Yep! Totally!" and then taking notes themselves for the future.
A two hour long Elder Scrolls lore video? Hell yeah I'm popping a Chub Loon rn
A great video to watch on my 50 minute drive to and from work, will be back in about 2 hours to watch but I like to comment early lol
Yeah #### watching the roads while driving
Yeah FUCK listening to you while driving @@Kakarot64.
@@Kakarot64. he is probably just listening to it big dog
slept to this and had the craziest dreams about breeding mudcrabs
Sea Giants might be from Atmora, the ancestral home of Ysgramor, since books about Atmora say it's an extremely hostile place. It is speculation that the original inhabitants, which were titans, became smaller due to the sudden dragon appearance.
Alright I'm ready for this. I got me a plate full of sweet rolls and a jug of Skooma.
I could imagine Sheogorath making the Golden Saint and Dark Seducer societies matriarchal in such an extreme way purely for the joy of driving certain kinds of people mad... But the thing about the highest ranking males still being outranked by the lowest ranked females is a real thing seen for example in hyena packs!
Played something to fall asleep to but instead I have gained extensive knowledge on frog dragons
This video earned a sub. Good job!
Love the time and effort put into this . Good job!
Holy shit, this video got me connected to my Google speaker, and doing a shit load of house chores.
I love lore collection videos bc I can put them on the background while doing something else or to sleep too. Keep up with the great work man!
Thank for this. I like to go to sleep to your videos but a lot of then are not very long form.
More of these compilations please
Welcome to my Playlist fore lore partner! Another movie like history! Been stuck on the same people and same videos on repeat because not alot of people make this style of content. Happy to sub to a new lore movie channel even if its just 1 so far. Im here now❤ been on too much Fallout, TES, SWTOR and a cupple more eithir its lore or Cutscenes movies from games.
Ty for your contribution! And it shall not be wasted my friend. +1
Awesome! love ur vids, already watched these but now they are all together and friends so I must watch them again! 😁
Griffins - hexapod
Dragons - quadruped
Any lore to back this up?
In Skyrim we see dragons, I’m sure it was meant more in the way of 4 limbed as dragons have two legs but two wings. Griffin’s have 4 legs in real mythology, two eagle legs, two lion legs then a set of wings so 6 limbs total
Great idea👏👏👏👏👍
Finally something to fall asleep to! I’ve been waiting for you to do a long video like this forever. I fall asleep to elder scrolls and fallout lore
Those penguins weren’t in Skyrim “*I’m assuming* the reason is because maybe the Stormcloaks started using them as food source, especially having each soldier be tested at that standing stone with the Ice Wraith, all in the same area. Kind of a stretch, but food for thought 50:32
I love this new format!
For myself, I refuse to believe that the talking merchant mudrub is a gag. He IS lore. 😁
Can we get a video on the frogs of Tamriel, death hoppers included? My reason for this idea is the existence of glowing frogs in south Blackwood in ESO.
i have found my new favorite youtube channel
the great auk was the original bird given the name penguin. Our penguins now were named after the similarities to the now extinct great auk
Honestly I never played the Elderscrolls travel dawnstar but I knew about the gehenoth when I played Solstheim and I was at first stoked when I saw the lurkers, I thought they where the Gehenoth before I saw the name
I do believe old salty the talking mud crab probably is Canon and probably has something to do with the Daedric Prince of Madness. Because you can actually encounter him in Skyrim where he is by a old shipwreck but unfortunately he is hostile and doesn't talk and have to kill him but if you search his inventory he has a bunch of human objects on him. As he was a merchant in Morrowind
Baby wake up. Imperial knowledge just posted a lore supercut.
Great video thank you so much for making it!
This is amazing , “imperial knowledge” is now “imperial lore knowledge”. thank you
Really loved this video👌🏻Interesting and insightful📚
I really like the thumbnail on this one! I know the standard thumbnails are popular but they tend to blend together to me. Anyway, keep up the good work :)
Oooo, I better sit down and listen to this champion.
As someone who have audio listend to like all of your videos in about 2-3 weeks, this kind of a video is very helpful and you definitly should make more like this one
Thank You! I love compilations 😁
I know many people use this type of content for commutes and to get to sleep and such. This should get hella watchtime for you.
You could boil saltwater, or just grab some ice off a glacier or ice flow and let in melt into water
Nereid: "I hate humans and elves, they keep ruining the water"
Every fish, animal, and mudcrab that shits, vomits, and dies in the lake: 👀
Also some people may whine about AI but those are the kind of images that people would sell a whole book of, they're amazing and beautiful, and only make me want to be in a swamp with a swamp giant (I would die)
I found your Chanel thanks to this video, algorithm shines upon you. Great work mate.
Turning off my mind while studying so i can listen to this 🔥🔥🔥
Edit: the Gehenoth would be the deathclaw of skyrim lol, id love to see it in the next elder scrolls game.
Bro really has me thinking about how people could have sex with a Hagraven at 9 am...
That's hilarious that mudcrabs have an overblown sense of their combat abilities
I originally thought the Gehenoth was a big ass Mutant Dreugh
because it was a terrifying aquatic-looking upright beast that was found on it's own in Skyrim, while the Dreugh are found in more temperate coasts
but now looking into it
the Dreugh are big ass Crustaceans while the Gehenoth looks very Reptilian
so that's interesting
also now thinking about
talking about the Dreugh was a missed opportunity IMO
like they are badass big upright crustation ocean monsters with a Land and Water Variant which is really neat
I never heard of them outside of The Elder Scrolls so I have no idea if they were originally created in Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, by Wizards of the Coast or not
This is amazing and I would love to see more compilations like it
I really like these lore collections I hope you do more of them good job bro ❤❤❤❤
Wow, one whole hour of pure Elder Scrolls Lore, and still I think it's too short :D
Dragonfrog: *mind's it's own business*
Some random frog: Dragonfrog, huh? Was it your ma or pa that was the dragon?
Dragonfrog: :(
Love the long form content, please do more.
I remember first running into a unicorn in es4 back in '07. It felt off.
Pointing out one thing in particular as off in that game is very Sheo of you
gotta be honest, i fall asleep to your content regularly. thank you for the long videos 😌
I'd love to see a lore video on Grahls, if it's not too sparse that is :)
Unicorns in Oblivion are Hercine's gift to Kyne but since Kyne has no interest in anything other than nature, so out of spite, unicorns became the greatest boon that Hercine had to have.
14:39 No it makes sense, the Psijiic Order, noted non-interventionists, really care.
Love this style!
Ma'iq lies very rarely if at all
Thank you for using The Elder Scrolls Legends art and music! A underrated gem of game.
Mudcrabs never fail to make me laugh they just have that Nord mentality.
First off, great job, and great idea.
While watching the part about the Chub Loon, I remembered my newest theory regarding the Atmorans.
Iirc, in lore, it is stated that todays nords and giants from Skyrim both descendet from the atmorans and at some point in time diverged into the bigger, but dumber giants and the smaller, but smarter nords, and that in the past, the nords were taller, possibly giants themselves by todays standard.
So my theory is: what if the atmorans were, in a way, physically more similar to khajiit, metaphorically speaking? As in, they had a far wider range/spectrum of physical divergence (morphology?) compared to the more "uniform" appearance of modern nords, or the other races of men and mer?
What if they were closer to the "giants" from norse Myths or the depiction of the Jotunnar people in God of War, in that they were _one_ people, but the individual height could range from just about 6-7 ft/1,80-2,10 m (I just assume that was the standard and seldom smaller, since the description of the dwemer as Dwarves apparently goes back to the atmorans/early nords towering over the dwemer, viewing them as small, as "Dwarves") to up to the size of a mountain? Similar to how the khajiit range from the ordinary housecat looking alfiq, over ones like the ohmes, to the huge senche-raht, which are apparently about the size of a mammoth, producing both bipedals and quadrupeds, plantigrades and digitigrades, going from beastial looking to easily passing for a bosmer (or human?), all within the same people.
If so, that could indead mean, that Atmora is still inhabited, just by the atmorans, that were more on the titanic side of the spectrum, since larger bodies help in cold environments, like with whales.
So interesting 😂😂
Gehemoth could have been the elders scroll’s deathclaws, so much potential
I wanted to throw this in, and I swear upon my life I am 100% accurate of my memory of this, I swam out, way out, in the waters around Skyrim, Im not sure where or the direction but I swam way out just to see if I could find something way way far out where the devs would likely think "most players wont be coming here anyway". So maybe just some cool mysterious sunken ship or something. But I was utterly horrified, as with my muddled vision under the water and the lack of light being around 10-20 feet below the waters surface (roughly 10-20 feet, hard to precisely guess with the circumstances) a gigantic mudcrab came out of the blue and black foggy depths of the water in front of my swimming toward the game's normal playable boundaries. And it was massive, roughly the same size perhaps ~10% smaller than skyrims CC Giant Mudcrab Ghost thing (I dont and never owned that content). And this was way before the AE was out. I mean this musta been atleast 4-5+ years ago. Not many people seem to have encountered this, and is never really mentioned in lore videos. Im not sure if its just something not alot of people know about, or if they just forgot to mention it or whatnot, but it is in the vanilla (SE, pre-SE?) game.
The thing I find MOST interesting about this encounter though, is that I think not only is a cheeky nudge at some cool Elder Scrolls lore hidden away in the dark depths of playable area borders in the water, I distinctly remember playing some game when I was a younger child (so like early 2000's, maybe GTA Vice City? Idk), I was playing some game I cant remember, and I was swimming out near the edge of the playable game area (like in Skyrim) and again, same circumstances, I was suddenly met with a large shark coming at me. I have a fear of the dark, and sharks give me a certain kind of the willies, so this experience was rather terrifying despite not seeming so. It scared me so bad I almost straight up turned the game off right then and there. And the same thing happened with Skyrim. I almost screamed out loud out of pure jump scare fear when that huge mudcrab just comes out the darkness like a couple or few dozen feet in front of me walking straight at me. I am not sure why this fun little common thing is in so many video games, I would assume it is some kind of reference that many devs just took a liking to, and I am too young or just never experienced the original reference. Perhaps to the OG Jaws movie, idk. But its really interesting and scares me half to death, and I assure you since I encountered that Giant Mudcrab guarding Skyrim's vanilla ocean playable area border somewhere, I have since never, ever, went back out into the deep oceans of Tamriel again. Because it really does jump scare me a ton. Its on the level of literal phobic. The more you know.
Thanks for this video btw Imperial Scholar. Cool to have a single comprehensive package of creature lore to watch, even though Ive seen them all individually already. Respect.
What if the gehenoth is a sea monster they remind me of some of the things the sload summons in the Summerset isle dlc of eso. Would explain the proximity to dawnstar and the fact we haven't seen them since as the underwater wasn't really expanded much in skyrim.
My life starts to get a bit heavy, but then I notice that you upload a video and I think to myself, "Yea, let's see what's going-on in Tamriel!"
This video deserves WAY more views
I like the monty python reference it is but a scratch😂
1:18:39 aren’t they created by Hircine since their ties to the formation of the werewolves of the circle of the companions?
Fun fact, I wouldve played this without the deceptive thumbnail.
Honey wake up. Imperial knowledge dropped an hour long lore video!
Me:ok time to sleep
Tamriel's interesting creatures and monsters:
I think wispmothers being a kind of lich sounds most plausible.
Mudcrabs on Legendary will mog you just out of existence
Could you do a video on the Chimera, if there is any lore.
So the thumbnail, from left to right, is:
Sload, nereid, gehenoth, and unicorn?
Why do you put a red line on the bottom of your thumbnail? Makes it look like we've already watched it and may keep people from watching
YES!!! I literally said this the other day
The gehenoth would have been so cool in Skyrim, hopefully it’ll be in elder scrolls 6
What is your take on the masqued unicorn mount in ESO?
Lets not mention ESO mounts
IRCC you could also use the Unicorn in Oblivion as a mount, giving you another reason to not give it to Hercine.
It wanders away and can kick your teeth in, though
Watching the dark seducers and the nimiks (or nimix idk) it's just the code of that npc
Ive never met anyone irl who likes elderscrolls as much as i do..
P E R F E C T I O N
I love my monster mods. I always forget the frost elemental that mihail added on the road outside dawnstar and it always gets me with its frost breath.
But imagine walking down that road past all the trees and broken carts. You notice the bandits by the broken carts are no longer there and you think “huh, thats odd”
You continue on your way not thinking much of it when all of a sudden a gehenoth comes rushing out the woods straight at you. Would scare the shit out of me.
Awwwww YEAH!
Lets freakin gooooo
I want to see a gehenoth vs a grahl
Who win between molag bal and his army or the lord of oblivion and his army
In the midst of the dragon frogs do some of them excrete hallusagenic toxin After all.
It is a frog.
But also a lizard or dragon
sorry to nitpick here, but the great auk is based on the great auk, its a real life animal
I meant the Chub Loon (tes one) is based on the Great Auk (the real life one). Maybe I misspoke, sorry!
@@ImperialKnowledge ah gotcha overall very good video, really enjoying it, good man
We making out from Atmora with this
Id marry a Siren.
Best ladies.
that gehemot looks like gremlin (from Gremlins movies) on some heavy steroids
They definetly didn't retcon Nymphs. Nymphs are mentioned in the book that came with ESO.
Wait which one? I never noticed, I have all the physical books
@ImperialKnowledge Emperors guide. When it talks about Nereids it compares them to Nymphs but claims they are "unrelated to the spirits of high rock". It also mentions a song about a Nymph.
@@tarponpet oh cool! Need to re read
@ImperialKnowledge Yeah its neat! I actually wrote the article on Nymphs on UESP.
@ImperialKnowledge I think they are also mentioned in the game, in a book where some dudebro got ambushed by them but managed to escape by telling them about some game they can play if he bring some supplies into the forest