Skyrim - Secrets of Trolls & the Udefrykte - Elder Scrolls Lore
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we explore Trolls.
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Let's be honest, that Frost Troll going to High Hrothgar fucked up all of us at one point or another.
That particular troll, stuff of nightmares I'm telling you
Honestly I just started this game a few weeks ago and went up the mountain side to get there so I didn't even no that there was a trool there till a few days ago....
@@benmi-db3ik lol that's the path I took after replaying the game multiple times. Always headed to the Stormcloak camp behind Helgen, stole a horse there and jumped my way to the top lmao
@@oliverdiop7530 yeah that the way I did it.
Stealth and RLF :)
I'd imagine some traveler with a sense of humor wrote that and placed it near the dead troll.
You mean the dead troll got trolled?
Lol didn’t think of that, what a funny traveler
My thought exactly
That's not funny.
@@KDB349 wow 3 year old comment but let's be fair, I didn't say it was a good sense of humor, just a sense of humor. If you're newly interested in skyrim and elder scrolls, welcome, by the way. If that joke was in poor taste do not play morrowind unmodded, it puts me to shame in regards to very inappropriate jokes.
Smartest troll killed himself because he couldn't be like other trolls...
That's... weirdly depressing.
Reminds me of The Tale of Maxley from Fable. A Hobbe to smart for his own kind who tried to impersonate a nobleman.
It's moral, better to keep quiet and be thought an idiot. Then to open one's mouth and prove it.
@@insaincaldo 😞
I revel in the fact that I'm not like other humans in many ways.
@@OfficerGexoh youre not like other girls huh. We gotta quirky one here.
Whoever is working on Skyblivion, make this into a quest to help make the troll scary lol
I always believed trolls came from the last Wild Hunt enacted by the wood elves. It is the source of many monsters on tamriel, and trolls look odd enough to be born from such an act. Three eyes, gorilla-like bodies, and pointed ears like an elf.
That'd be a cool ability for a Bosmer in Elder Scrolls 6; turn into a troll once a day. Of course, you'd have to level up or quest for the ability
@@AngryCanadianGoose95 Troll form for 60s/day isn't much crazier than Ancestor's Wrath of the Orc's blood lust ability.
Fun Fact!
In ESO when fighting a river troll, it may grab a lump of mud to throw at you. This has a small chance of spawning a mudcrab on impact, that will attack the troll with you for a few seconds, before scurrying off. ;)
I've had it happen to me, but I've always been a bit suspicious as to whether or not that's actually "mud" it's throwing at you.
@@goldenknight578 oh my
@@goldenknight578 truly monke mode
me halfway through the journal story: OHHHHHH this is just Beowulf
same
XD
I had the same thought too
I just watched a Doc on the legend a couple weeks ago, I also thought it sounded just like it
I played the bloodmoon expansion before I learned about beowulf.
Ahh trolls, one of UA-cam's---I mean the Elder Scrolls most fearsome creatures.
Trolls can be found on their natural habitat, the cave and wilderness of Tamriel or the comments section
Unlike those in the internet, the trolls of Skyrim are at least welcomed in some rare instances.
At least I feel bad about hunting TES trolls sometimes.
@@rogehmarbi Or in their mother's basement
Truly one of Camel's classics
trolls are like batteries for enchanted weapons.
😂
Yes, yes they are LOL
Then what are soul gems?
It seems trolls are just highly prone to mutation, probably as a result of their regeneration. This could also make them live very long periods of time, and despite their low intelligence (about that of an ape), they can learn from their experiences, such as writing. This could be supported by their ability to be tamed, and presumably be given commands, so they can learn words over time. Their mutability can also result in the different types of trolls shown, with one's that experience certain conditions and living from it also slowly adapting to it. So a long lived troll that has been injured by acid many times in its life could mutate and resist it to a degree. Or a family of frost resistant troll could pass on that mutation to their offspring, resulting in frost trolls. Although fire would act to cauterize wounds, so full regeneration would be very difficult if not impossible, no matter the type of troll. The Uderfykte could just be term used for trolls that have lived a long time and are more cunning, and possibly resistant to multiple types of damage. I suppose they could also be artificially created if they're captured and tortured for build up their resistances from a young age. That actually makes a good plot- A young troll captured by an intrigued wizard, wanting to learn the secret behind a trolls regeneration, torturing it for years with different spells and weapons, until one day it overpowers the wizards' confines, but the wizard can't stop it because it's mutated so much that his spells are no longer effective. And the traumatic experience with the wizard made the troll have a taste for the flesh of humans.
Sorry for the wall of text.
Love that little Uderfrykte “backstory”! Super creative, reminds me of Doomsday from DC
@@Patch2112 nah tools are hella more dumb than apes
Wall of text? You know, a synonym for that could be...barrier of terms
Or word wall. Whatever works
@@robinjay3141 I don't think anyone would ever describe a wall of text as a either of those seriously. xD
Wow, I would seriously love to see this quest of yours in the next Elder Scrolls game!
Very cool idea.
I remember my first encounter with the frost troll on my way to high hrothgar. I was like level 6, going with Lydia, and the thing rekt us in 2 hits. So I decides to lure it with arrows aaaallll the way down the mountain to the village, and there, it took over 4 guards to kill it.
I remember being on a ledge where the frost troll couldnt get to me. I used arrows to kill it and it took a long time. Other playthroughs I used poison and spells i think
I ran like the wind lol
I like your style making NPCs do the dirty work lol
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I’m so glad you mentioned the bridge troll in Oblivion. That note has disturbed me since my childhood, but now I can let it go as a strange one time event.
One of the greatest moment of my Skyrim career was watching the first troll to go to outer space. Thanks to the Giant space program.
I liked to run past the High Hrothgar troll but run slowly enough that he'd keep up with me. Then when I entered the building, the Greybeards would shout it to death for me.
Alternative title: Secrets of the Uderfykte, or how fans overanalyze a beowulf easteregg
The Hell Is A Beoewulf?
That some kind of dog??
@@hypocriticalsatire3966 I Think....
@@ThankYouVeryLittle Ok, either I'm being wooshed, or you legit dk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
@@The_Yukki Second Option
"Wurst troll evurr" might've actually been a supergenius.
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You know the frost troll on the way up to HH is really overpowered, compared to every other troll in Skyrim, right? It was designed that way on purpose.
Thank you FudgeMuppet for keeping the Elderscrolls heart beating during this drought of gaming content.
Anyone who frequents UA-cam's comments section knows trolls regenerate extremely quickly.
Underrated comment XD
And completely immune to verbal abuse. It actually seems to embolden them.
many of them seem to live in another dimesion thats why they dont take damage in the first place^^
When I heard the Intro I thought It was going to be a podcast
Mead hall massacre...Grendel, is that you?
Trolls scared the shit out of me when I played Oblivion. They're so quick.
I've noticed that if you do the exploit where you beat the crap out of Ralof/Hadvar in the cave under Helgen, there will also be a frost troll blocking the path to Bleak Falls Barrow, as well as another inside the barrow about halfway through near the waterfall.
Not So Fun Fact: There’s a dead bandit that shares my name ‘Thomas’ that is located on a ledge above the hole where the frost troll is found. However Thomas is so high up you’ll have to use console commands to reach him and he’ll have a note that the story where he wanted to be the second in command of a bandit tribe. (Not sure which). In order to achieve this he needed to track down and slay the troll. Sadly as he descended into the hole just above the troll’s den, Thomas slipped and fell to his death.
I love the Billy Goats Gruff reference. I think you see it again in Skyrim if I'm not mistaken there is a dead troll under the bridge when you first approach a particular Bridge and three goats run across it as you approach. I believe it's a bridge somewhere in the reach.
I feel like the bridge troll was probably just an Easter egg but I've always seen trolls as more gorilla like so maybe it is possible to teach them communication like writing
I love y'all's videos. Please continue to deepen our understanding of these worlds we all love. Thank you guys
The first time I encountered the Udefrykte matron it was very disappointing.... I had hear about her beforehand and was very nervous about going after her, expecting a really nasty fight with a very scary monster. I had goldbrand equipped and was carefully sneaking around the mountains when I was hit by something invisible, I instinctively jumped, pulled my weapon and swung, and she instantly died...rolling down the mountainside.
shes meant as a low level boss and having goldbrand was big over kill still, I recommend killing her low level to get a good bow early game
Dude your videos have been such a huge factor in my gaming life. I'm now on my first true playthrough of Skyrim over a decade after it came out. I'm currently 49 and I've barely even started the main quest :p
Your lore videos have me enthralled with the universe (I've had to skip many videos I've felt would spoil things) & mod & build videos made me realize what I've been missing having only dipped my toe into the vanilla game at release.
So, thanks!
hey man how have you enjoyed the game!
I think it would be neat if Trolls in TESVI would accumilate bloody wounds and gashes during combat so that you could actually see them disappear as they began to heal themselves.
Maybe when they make a new game engine in 20 years or so.
They heal fast!
They regenerate like Wolverine!
So animation showing this would be nice!
Scott, I love your narration. You have a very calming voice.
Along with the falmer, I want to eliminate all trolls from Tamriel.
M'aiq knows much, and tells some. M'aiq knows many things others do not.
I love the Elder Scrolls take on trolls. Genuinely one of my favorite interpretations of that monster.
I had nearly forgotten about the troll in Cyrodill 😂🤣
Thanks for the reminder, as it is good for a laugh
Thank you for feeding my nerdy love of Elder Scrolls lore.
One mad theory I've heard :
Bosmers are the ancestors of modern-day trolls
Now that is a dumb theory.
Or that Hircine actually made them while Playing monster's with Sheogorath.
@Burning bronze not really, considering all the monsters in the Elderscroll games (excluding Dragons and Vampires) are suppose to have been Bosmer from a Wild Hunt. I’d be more surprised if this wasn’t the case
@@sireregor6633 not much of an evolution there.
@@glprime2814 Trolls, and their Grahl cousins are closer to Giants, and Frost Giants than any sort of Mer, or Man that lives in Nirn.
Just wanted to mention that Udefrykte can be translated from Scandinavian languages to "Fears of The Outdoors" or "Outside Fears".
I remember reading somewhere that the elder scrolls trolls were actually related to horses because of how their toes are structured but im not sure evolution like that exists in the world. I also remember seeing a size chart where the largest creature in Nirn was actually a giant turtle or something.
Last time I was this early dwemer were still around
Poor bridge troll. Perhaps the developers were just trolling us? Lol sorry I'll get my coat....
You are the reason i went through a tuff time in my life. I want to thank you for that. I love you guys content never stop doing what you do.
Long live the stormclocks
Now I want to see a spellcaster seek immortality with the insane plan of transplanting his soul into a troll...
imo the troll 'suicide' is actually the natives of the countryside trolling: some villagers found a drowned troll and put the note in it's "inventory" as a gag.
I haven't play any elder scrolls game since 2017 yet here I am everytime fudgemuppet made an upload. I may not play the games anymore, but I love these lores✨💙
Even in the digital age, the creatures have adapted to the internet....
The suicide troll is the best troll in the entire serie
Trolls are so adaptable they've even taken over the painted world
In Elder Scrolls 6, I kind of want a reference to a troll of the steps to High Hrothgar that slew pilgrims and possibly even learned the Unrelenting Force shout
The Troll will evolve beyond Men and Mer~
Planet of the Trolls?
Kiting the three frost trolls outside of Dawnstar into the town and watching them slaughter everyone was strangely satisfying..
i love the Elder scrolls lore videos and i hope many more come out
Yeah that frost troll on the path to high hrothgar got me on my first play through. I went back, levelled up and improved my mage build then returned and it gave me no trouble.
And it hasn't since. Nor any other troll.
Praise mighty TALOS, for a new video. TALOOSSS!!
Honestly only reason I subscribed is because of lore videos. It is so fun watching these kind of videos.
if possible, could you do a video about enchanting?
To quote the great bard Yahzick: "my cone of cold is freezing them fire trolls whole."
Such a great video as usual, thoroughly enjoyable!
A poison made from Human Heart, Canis Root, and Jarrin Root, will drop any troll almost instantly. At around 15 alchemy skill, this poison, among other effects deals nearly 3000 health damage.
Of course now I’m gonna make a troll-hunter build...
Personal opinion, the Matriarch we find and kill in Oblivion probably isnt the only Matriarch there is in existence or isnt the original Uderfrykte, I hope to see more in future Bethesda games and maybe a little bit more lore about them
I listen to your videos as I sleep every night and it’s the only thing that helps with the my insomnia. Thanks for the great content.
As always I love the content I wish you guys did more builds though
I think it would be cool if there was an elite group of warriors that tamed trolls like the Dawnguard, but used them as training dummies. So they gain exceptional skill and strength by taking advantage of the fact that trolls couldn't die as long as they didn't hurt it too bad.
I kinda feel sorry for that Drowned Bridge Troll would've been neat if they had a sidequest where you befriend them so they don't trouble you but still survives and gets helped by you so as to succeed at scaring people into paying toll but not attacking them. Even cooler would be in Skyrim they had a similar thing and you can recruit them as a follower of some kind maybe like an armored troll similar to Dawnguard has but more intelligent and able to give them armor and weapons yourself.
When I played Arena I found it cool that, despite most lore being non existent, Trolls did regenerate!
Fire works on trolls, as was discussed in the video. Also, I found that coating your weapons in poison can temporarily neutralize their regenerative abilities. Of course, that also means that you need to have enough poison potions to keep doing damage to the troll, until it finally dies. ☠
From a visual standpoint, there's a connection between the Trolls and the Frost Giants. I wonder what that is.
The champion and his wife spent years researching and tracking down the Udefrykte matron... armed only with a potato
Was there ever a rpg without some dumb creature standing at a bridge and try to press toll out of you? xD
I loved fighting a troll early on, swapping my shield for a torch to deal fire damage and keep them from regenerating.
Its a shame the strategy became useless fairly quickly but it felt so clever and rewarding the first time I tried it.
After having seen the video, I am left with one BURNING question: how tf do you train a troll?
Very, very, VERY, carefully.
I imagine feeding it well is part of the process.
@@dorianrobinette9712 I was thinking music was needed as well. Kind of like Hagrid's pet Fluffy from Harry Potter
@@becausebeth6389 music to take the savage beast, I like it. Although I find the image of the troll tamer dude (can't remember his name. Gunmar, or something like that?) Playing a lute for a group of trolls to be just kind of funny.
Lmao the buff Rieklings
Love that you opened this with the area ware that stupid annoying frost troll always kills me on the 1000 steps
I think trolls in general are, in fact, comparable in intelligence to dogs. The one under the bridge, since it's in-game and technically, thus canon, is likely just a genius by troll standards while most are not much smarter than any common animal. As far as seeing any more Udefrykte in the future, one would likely make an appearance in High Rock if a game was set there, but since the next one is surely Hammerfell, it's unlikely that we'd see one anytime soon. A game covering both regions, while possible with Bethesda's large studios, still seems unlikely t ome.
The bridge troll’s note might have been written by his slayer. The note is meant to mock him
I have a theory, that the Ehlnofey and giants both evolved from an ancient Troll like ancestor with five fingers and toes.
The moment I saw trolls, I thought they looked just like apes, and humans in our world are descendants of apes. And when we look at trolls, we see that they have many traits in common with orcs and giants: pointed ears, horns on the tops of their heads. And if they really are self regenerating and long lived, that would explain the long lives of the Elves and Ehlnofey.
I also suspect that Frost Giants are actually giant intelligent trolls. They have heads like trolls, and the three fingers and three toes of trolls. They are likely direct descendants or, cousins of modern trolls.
Troll is the first challenging enemy in the game up until that point, minus the dragon, so it either a mini boss or just *Trolling* the Dragon born.
I'm really excited to see how trolls' intelligence increases over future games, since they've developed some understanding of society and collection of objects.
(Also yeah, I know "games" plural is a huge stretch but, cmon, you know you want this series to prosper)
Another option for the troll under the bridge: someone was attacked by the troll and killed it, and then wrote that note as a joke.
I like how I checked elder scrolls legends art because I was wondering what the most accurate depiction of a troll was and then I found the thumbnail whilst looking
Woah I thought I made a comment lmao
I play trolls in wow and its hard to compare them to these trolls besides regeneration, its weird how many types of trolls exists overall.
Those Hulking Trolls in Zul'Gurub and Zul'Drak are more similar to TES ones.
My first play through the troll on the path to HH, killed my PC too many times to count. Finally had a stroke of genius, i had him chase me back down the path and got help from the pilgrims along the path. Later play throughs i just waited until i was stronger to go to HH.
Troll under bridge, a group of teens were "fishing" (see all the booze bottles) at the bridge, found the dead troll and decided to pull a prank on the next person to "fish" here.....and created the note. You know....troll the travelers.
9:30 Oh hey! That’s Beowulf! That’s so cool the writers translated it into the Elder Scrolls
There's not much to the deeper lore regarding trolls, but I like to think they also descend from Ehlnofey, like Men and Mer.
A bridge troll that drowned himself for doing a poor job lol
I've actually mastered the "troll dance" thing they do and do it on occasion at work or around young kids
Who didn't make a Beowulf class after watching this video? Steel Shield, Skyforged steel sword and Leather armor with steel nordic gauntlets and steel nordic boots and Wolf helmet and going Beowulf The Talon's in the Night on the trolls and dragons? But I might've gave you guys a good Mythical Legend Build
The suicide note, gives me a feeling that trolls are capable of at least a farmer like coexistence
*falmer
Baby troll raised by deaf khajit, can't say many words but NSL (Nirnish sign language) taught by adopted mother helps mom on farm eventually grows becomes construction worker and helps community grow
I used to play the original Warcraft games as a kid and one of the horde soldiers you could get was a troll axe thrower, the horde equivalent to an eleven archer. And seeing these guys, they really arent that different, they regenerate wounds, they aren't very smart but just smart enough, and those long arms would make for a killer axe throw, they could practically throw a 2 handed weapon at you
Flame troll. Unbeatable. Lol
Can the giants of skyrim be afflicted with lycanthropy or vampirism? Please do a video exploring this idea?
There is a cave where Froki's Bow can be found where Trolls have collected and displayed human skulls
i really know more about a fictional video game series more than i know about world history
We do need to expand on Trolls in TES games~
You said "utterly smoked," yet I still wasn't ready for you to be 1 tapped.
I had to fight 5 frost trolls at once one time. It would’ve ended pretty quickly without the legendary daedric armor I had.
Trolls are by far my favorite elder scrolls creature.
Painted Trolls are things of nightmares.
People having trouble with the troll up the path towards High Hrothgar just don't know how to use a bow. Even without levelling the archery skill, you can still climb up a few rocks and pelt the troll from above. It might take a while but the troll can't climb, so it'll never reach you.