Skyrim: Top 5 BEST Quests We Loved in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Skyrim is a game that offers the Dragonborn an almost infinite supply of potential quests and adventures to go on. Indeed the Elder Scrolls 5 has literally hundreds of missions available across its many factions, story lines and side quests. While it may feel impossible to count all of the journeys that Skyrim sends us on, today feels like a great chance to focus in on some of the highlights. So in this video we’ll be taking a look at my top five quests in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
- Ігри
When the items started flying around in House of Horrors, I just thought it was regular Bethesda bug.
...are you saying it isn't?!?
I've never had it happen in any of my playthroughs
"Shit, did I shout at a table by accident?"
Like the idea that they just couldn't fix the items in this one house from bugging out, so they built an entire quest around it.
Lol maybe it was and they thought, “you know what? Maybe we can run with this”
The best quest is Companions' "Hired Muscle" when the target happens to be Nazeem. No other quest is nearly as satisfying.
For some reason the guards all really hate when I kill Nazeem, like dudes I was doing you a favor
The first time I did the Companion quest, I was sent off to kill some falmer in a nearby cave. It took a long time to get strong enough to do it, then continued the quest-line.
The second time I was allowed to beat Nazeem, and it was glorious.
YES
@@red1doesstuff725 I killed nazeem and then immediatly sheathed my weapon and they didnt even try to arrest me. They just said you have had enough without hitting me.
The best mission is the hostage rescue with nazeem so you can just leave him there
"The quests that failed the hardest at bringing us any sense of joy, and often left us feeling worse than when we started."
*ominously zooms in on a crimson nirnroot the entire time*
Literally on that one right now 🙃
I found that one fun since I was exploring blackreach.
You got Snapchat Kimberly?
@@JonahK31 shooters gon shoot
I started exploring Blackreach today in my playthrough and collected almost 40 of Crimson Nornroot during exploration. But Blackreach is annoying place in general. :V
I was a sneak archer when I did bound until death. I eliminated Victoria without anyone noticing, while looking her body the other brotherhood member showed up and said “ I guess we should have expected this reaction “ and started slaying everyone. They were all calm before
You can't beat a sneak archer. I just found it hard on the big dwarven mecs
@@japreet_kahSometimes, and more often than not as I build up the Archery skill tree, I'll kill one of those with one shot. Or I just run up with Unbound Storms going off like a crazy person. Lol
Im pretty sure we all enjoyed bring a mammoth tusk to ysolda
Giggity
There's one in the Bannered Mare in Whiterun that you can steal and give to her to make that quest easier.
Only with Amorous Adventures.
You'd do that?
So much fun should be illegal or at least have 18+ pegi recommendation...
*I heard you were at the wedding of the Emperor’s cousin... In Solitude? Gods, that must have been horrible*
Yes it was... A... gruesome, harrowing ordeal *hides incriminating evidence behind my back* But uh... What about you?! You look cold! Maybe you'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead? Maybe I should go get you some 😅
@@LaDyLuCk2900 wait a minute
are those dragonbone arrows , what i'd do to get one of those
@@coromo4978 I'll hook you up, I got a *guy*
"It was, oh what sort of monster murders someone at their wedding?" feigns innocence.
Hey Whiterun guard...is it boring patroling Whiterun.Here in Solitude is boring but job is a job
I love how you have included the daedra quests. I find it amusing to be their champion because when the Dragonborn dies, I can already see and feel the tension and confusion of the Daedric Gods. I mean who would get you when you're their champion lol
lorewise it is the first one who made a pact with you, but also, lorewise the dragonborn only made a pact with Hermaeus Mora.
@@angelobonanno1859 Lore Wise you can't own a Dragon Soul. It is why the Dragon in the Soul cairn says his soul would never be theirs, The Dragonborn has a soul that belongs to Akatosh.
Falion
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@@framelock6484 Falion doesn't know much about Dragonborn souls though he assumes you are just another guy turned Vampire.
I always think about that and the fact that if you’re a nightingale you’re meant to serve nocturnal and if you’re a companion you’re meant to join the eternal hunt. LIKE WHO GETS THE DRAGONBORN😭
"They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords."
This is my favorite thing I've heard in the game yet honestly 😅😂
"You're damned right."
"OWW! OWW! OWW!"
"Stop that!"
*Later in Elder Scrolls 6*
“Have you seen those warriors from Skyrim? They’ve got straight swords. Straight. Swords.”
@@Lolpy. They should have put that in the Elder Scrolls online when you come to the Alikir desert.
@@whenthemusicsover6028 BROOO pllllzzzz 😭🤣
My favorite quest begins with a simple line of dialogue.....”A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON”
Noooo
Screw that quest. I ignore the beacon every time I find it in a container.
To be fair, Dawnbreaker is probably my favourite weapon in the entire game.
One of the first unique ones I ever got, really cool model and the amazing visual effect of the explosion.
Only True Witch-King and tbh the boss in the quest is pretty unique and challenging
I bet people would love it if it got modded to "A new hand touches the bacon!" Come on, modders! Make a daedric prince bacon quest!! =)
Saadia isn't the only redguard woman in Whiterun. there is also Ahlam (nazeem's wife) and Saffir (Amren's wife),
Ahlam doesn't survive long in my saves
As soon as he said Saadia was the only Redguard woman in Whiterun, I laughed. I play most playthroughs as a Redguard, so I know all of my people in Skyrim.
Dont forget Nazeem himself
@@mindyauron9137 Wait? Nazeem is lying about being a man? O_o'
@@marhawkman303 well knowing the amount of complaining he does...
"A Night to Remember" is still, hands down, my favorite quest by far...
Agreed
A Night to Remember is and will always be my favourite quest in this game, discovering everything you did while being very very drunk is hilarious
20 game hours later after long forgetting Night to Remember an Argonan ran up to me on an open road and ransomed me, saying owed money for braking some precious family artifact that night.
I remember my first playthrough! I didn't even knew how to play games lol. I haven't even been in Markath before that happened so imagine how surprised I was xD
@@forgetyourlife lol I have found that I got a spouse afterwards
@@aleksandran3978 I usually use that quest to get to markarth easily
Having gotten every drastic artifact that is one of the best ones
Personally, my favourite quest is Blood on the Ice. A murder happens in Windhelm, a woman murdered. Guards are too busy with other things to really solve the case, so you help in their place. You learn other women have been killed as well and that some suspect there's a serial killer. Upon getting access to the house of a previous victim, the scene where she was murdered, you head inside and find a hidden room with more corpses and evidence the murders are connected and not coincidence. You find an amulet that you think will lead to the culprit. Asking around, you are told the amulet belongs to the court wizard.
There, the quest splits. But most people don't know that. Most players go to the captain with this evidence. The court wizard gets arrested and most think the quest ends there, a lame reward of some gold and nothing more.
Then a new body appears, another woman is killed, despite the culprit in jail. Some think its a glitch and ignore it. Others confront the imprisoned killer, only to learn they made a mistake. They are told who the real killer is and given information to catch them in the act. Confronting the real killer, you kill him, allowing you to loot the body for the real reward and releasing the innocent court wizard.
Or, players that pay attention notice theirs flaws in the information given about the evidence and the quest tells you to confront the court wizard as an option, instead of telling the captain. This leads to the court wizard explaining things right away, and you can prevent the death the same way you can right your mistake if he was arrested, earning the reward sooner and with much less effort.
Its a quest that rewards the player for not mindlessly going through it, that wants you to pay attention. Its a quest with many ways to go through it, its a quest many don't get the true ending of. And its a murder mystery
The quest was cool but buggy as hell
i love when the whole thing just breaks itself. i do love that quest when it works, it’s up there in my favorites.
Loved that quest too. My personal favourites are also Laid to Rest A Night to Remember and The Mind of Madness (and basically everything connected with The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild)
Wiktoria Jędrzejewska the thieves guild quest line will always be my favorite and the emperor assassination quest is definitely up there too!
CSI: Windhelm
Honestly, I hated the mission where you assassinate the emperor. Why the hell does he have to be so damn nice?
Doesnt help when you know it's the same guy who voices sheogorath
One of possible theory is the emperor is the one who order dark brotherhood to assasinate himself
@Yui Shishido I felt the same way about the Civil War--both Ulfric and Tullius are good men. It doesn't make sense for them to be fighting to the death like that... especially when it's really the Thalmor and Aldmeri Dominion's fault.
If you want revenge for the emperor'death you can accepte the emperor's contract and kill Mottierre
Comes with the territory of working with a group of assassins.
I'm honestly surprised that the Miraak quest line wasn't included in this list. From the time that he shows up and you having to go to Solthsteim to figure out what's going on discovering the black books and then ultimately freeing all the stones and confronting him has to be the most unique experience in the whole game.
Dude when I finally killed him, it was so satisfying to get dragon souls again
The long crawls through apocrypha is so boring tho. At least for me.
its kinda short tho
It's annoying because once you step on solthsteim, you get teleported everytime you sleep forcing you to have to go back to where you wanted to be. If anything I avoid the dragon born dlc
Every time I try to do the Dragonborn dlc my game crashes constantly
I remember when I didn’t know about fast travel, and I would just walk across the whole map
I still walk across the map because it's nice and fun to get into random encounters.
During my ENTIRE first playthrough I had 0 clue about the carriages outside the major cities so by foot I went to ever corner. Tho as it was the first time, i was more than happy to do so.
@@SuperSaiyanJin11 that was my first
I could never, I hate walking from Whiterun to Iverstead nevermind across the whole map🥴
Complete madman
I'm pretty sure we all know that you faded to a different scene at 16:15 because you weren't able to save Malborn. It's ok though Nate, we won't tell
😱😥
I didn't even know it was possible to end that quest with him dead, I just blazed my through every single Thalmor and I never saw this mysterious scene with him in binds and needing help. He just sorta shows up while i'm getting the guy in chains and is like "ahHH my CoVER was BLOWN"
Alex Taylor it's possible, use slow time shout, shoot the thalmor with some arrows or magics, or another way, you can use the voice of empire or kyne's peace shout.. Get close, and kill those thalmor..
@@frozenice9634 I usually just use Thunderbolt (or lightning Storm if I'm that fucking powerfull by then...) and take advantage of the Impact perk effect, staggering the enemies when I dual cast shit. If you go from one target to the other, they will either die or forget malborn as they try to get down the stairs and come for you. Then you can just rip them up.
He died at the troll RIGzhT AT tHa EnD
Vitoria Vici: *dies*
Emperor Mede: well guess I better go to the same city she was assassinated in!
Kind of its explained cause the emperor expect us to kill him. But why we dont know
The Emperor:This is big brain time
But he didn't. He baited you with a fake emperor, but the Katriah just happened to be docked near Solitude.
I always HATED Bound Until Death, because I always felt bad for Vittoria Vici. She's just such a good person, and often when I killed the Dark Brotherhood, it was partly because of that quest.
Yeah... there's only a few targets in that questline that I _don't_ feel bad for.
If it makes you feel any better, though, she does have connections to the Thalmor. Business-related connections, but connections nevertheless.
Her, Narfi the beggar, and Nilsine were the ones I feel the worst about, and also why my too-sympathetic ass could never side with the Brotherhood. Like, Vittoria's just a good person being murdered on the happiest day of her life (or what is supposed to be), Narfi's just a beggar who just so happens to be insane, probably because he lost his sister (and still thinks about her and misses her dearly), and Nilsine because she's recently lost her twin, and if you kill her, her mother actually commits suicide. It's honestly sad, and I could never go through with it, so usually I either completely avoid the story altogether, or destroy the brotherhood, unless I'm rping as an evil character.
@@yami2957 Neither of those are really problematic for me. Nilsine is optional and for Narfi you get the vibe that someone just wants him mercy-killed, the dude is a husk. Of the Nazir contracts, the one that always made me feel kinda bad was Anoriath because I sold shit to them often; the brothers are quite nice and really care about each other.
Lurbuk is the one that makes me cry. I love that Orc. He is a fun person, a nice person, and I don't think he is half as bad as some of the "bards"... one of the female renditions of Ragnar the Red really hurts my ears.
@@CucumberSadness He really is a guy perusing his passion, even when people don't think it's for him. Though I found that whole contract to be a bit ridiculous. Dude's a bad singer, so people genuinely pay money to have him killed lol. Do they not realize that if they just gave him a fraction of the money to him, he'll shut up? He's singing for money, after all.
I like the Dawnstar lighthouse a lot. It conveys a pretty interesting story through its journals and scenery, setting up an horror mistery complete with a little puzzle in finding the basement key. The tale is pretty chilling and sad, capped with a wholesome moment at the end, but the reward is pretty tame, more of a reminder of the story than a game changing buff.
YESS SO UNDER RATED !
Obviously A Return to your Roots is among the best in the series
Ima Gonna Hurt You
Ah yes, the sound of those exotic plants were music to my ears. *Wink wink*
This is a good quest, just really really long.
@@joeferree6817 ima gonna hurt you too
That was my favourite quest!
Nate: Saadia the only Redguard woman in the city of Whiterun.
Ahlam and Saffir: Am I a joke to you?
no there are 2, Skyrim even gives you the option to ask the other woman about the alikr warriors
@@ayediti5757That's the joke....
There are three redguard women in Whiterun.
@@irprince yeah, you're the third.
Redguard lives matter
@@SinForTheSaint #angryupvote
my personal favorite quest is "Blood On The Ice" I love "murder mystery" so to me it is definitely one of the best in the game, if not that then the quest "A Night To Remember" is amazing and should have been on this list.
The problem with "Blood On The Ice" is how buggy it was.
I love the quest, I love its conclusion. But sometimes it was so hard to get there just because of the bugs.
@@CuteLittleHen underrated reply HUGHDYDGF
I love night to remember. It's literally the most popular quest in game
Blood on the Ice* always bugged out on me. I don't think I ever got it to work right one single time
@@ThommyofThenn what kind of bug did you experienced? Is the quest marker not turning off? Because I just finished the quest earlier, and I might be able to lend a hand.
My favorite is always The Book of Love. A simple quest where you don’t need any fighting, and a VERY useful and permanent magic resistance as a reward.
My favorite way to kill Vittoria: reverse pickpocket a Frenzy poison onto her new hubby
Dear god. Your Skyrim is probably fucked.
WildDragonFlying Games thats pretty clever and sounds like a hoot. Im going to have to try that soon.
@@ultrabigfella ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm a sneaky thief/archer conjuration/illusion specialist mage. My whole modus operandi is "don't let them see you do it"
@@imnotabirdman it is hysterical to watch! And imagining it from the other guests' perspective..... 👌
Especially when the guards then kill him and completely ignore you, as long as you don't get caught
Honestly, the fact that A Night to Remember isn't here is insulting lol
It is such a fun romp around skyrim that I make jokes about to my friends all the time. If you wait long enough for bandits to respawn and go back, you'll see Sanguine got tired of thier shit, and is kicking some ass himself. Made my day the first time I saw it.
If only you didn't have to go to Rorikstatt during it. That dang village is so far away from any of the major cities.
I hats this quest so much😅
It’s a Daedric quest that’s why.
Jeeaaaah i was thinking wait there was some better Quest and you got it
A night to remember best quest in Skyrim
Sheogorath, Sanguine, Clavicus Vile, Hircine
My favorite Quests
I'll never breed another top goat like Gledda...
My favorite person to get to cause a distraction in "Diplomatic Immunity" is the Jarl of Morthal; Idgrod Ravencrone.
She walks up to the guest at the fireplace and starts pretending to have a vision about them (she's some sort of Seer or Wyrd in the story), and some of the things she says are just hilarious. Not to mention it's probably the most neutral of all the options; there's no possible reprecussions on you or her (game wise or lore wise) for this act, since she and her lineage are already known to have such visions... and she seems to have a lot of fun doing it.
Most of them dislike the Thalmor, but like fancy party's.
This doesn't really matter but,
I would just like to point out my favorite quests from the game:
- Diplomatic immunity
- A night to remember
- Ill met by moonlight
- Waking nightmare
- Laid to rest
An honorable mention for me would be The break of dawn since it gave me my favorite sword in the game. I love the dawnbreaker.
Completely agree with you on The Break of Dawn. As much as "A new hand touches the beacon!" is an assault on the ears, Dawnbreaker is SUCH a cool weapon and very useful especially in the early game, as it has extra damage to the undead, and The Break Of Dawn nets you a good sum of coins if you loot all the corpses. The Mount Kilkreath temple is a bit of a slog in terms of a dungeon, but there are more benefits to TBOD than downsides.
I love how Molag Bal says "Take care of the house while I'm gone" and makes it sound so sinister lol
He sounds like the guy who does the deep voice in Michael Jackson's Thriller
@@stevenseelig945 That would be Vincent Price who did the voice over on Thriller.
In Diplomatic Immunity if you were a Argonian, and try to disguise yourself, if you get close or turn to the side, one of the Thalmor will say, “Is that a tail?” before going hostile.
Beast race may work in a distance... I heard about that fact in one video.
I've had it happen as a Khajiit, too.
As a High Elf, you essentially just wear a Thalmor get-up, and waltz around the embassy as you please. You just can't get too close to any soldiers, or they'll put two-and-two together.
its like an episode of Scooby-doo!
Mathew C. What two and two? High elf ass hat race chosen Check! Full elven armour? Check! Elven sword/bow? Check! Now you just need to be excessively racist to any race that isn’t an elf is all you need!
MrXemrox
Yeah beast races get detected quick
Humans a little bit less
Dark and wood elves are pretty safe
High elves can pretty much walk around as they wish
It’s one of the few situations in the game where your race matters
When i first encountered the Alik'r soldiers of the quest "in my time of need" they were somehow inside Whiterun being harassed by a guard.
Same
I think that's where literally everyone has encountered them
Sided with Saadia,then after that quest , I found 2 Alik'r soldiers staying in front of the gate,doing nothing. I don't know if it is a glitch,but every time i'm visiting Whiterun,those 2 soldiers are still there
Same
So i know its unpopular, but I personally adore breaking dawn where you get dawnbreaker. The reaction you describe to molag bal is pretty much mine the first time i got shot into the sky and given the task to cleanse her temple, plus it has unique enemies, a genuinely hard boss, and rewards you with a unique deadric artifact weapon, i mean really forget the memes its a good quest
At the beginning of the quest, "In my time of need," I'm surprised they didn't start interrogating me since my character was a Redguard women.
I think the redgaurds are telling the truth since those nasty high elves have way better assassins than crappy redguard troops that they would have used to kill her.
@@scottking4980 I mean, there's also the fact that Hammerfell, after the Great War, was supposed to be handed over to the Aldmeri Dominion by the Empire, but the Redguards didn't like that, so they fought for independence and won. So saying that those Alik'r warriors are working for the dominion is... Well, kind of a stretch
The same thing happened with me lmao
@@ranockpliskin except that the city she "betrayed" was under seige by, and fell to, the elves over 20 years prior to the events of Skyrim. She doesn't look/sound old enough to have been able to betray a whole city 20 years ago, when the treaty of Stros M'Kai was signed, and the thalmor pulled out of Hammerfell.
My first playthrough was a Redguard woman and I was like “are you looking for me?” 😂
let's not forget that Molag Bal's VA freaking nailed his performance. Definitely one of my favourite VA in the game
one of mine was Esbern, who is voiced by Sir Walter Locksley of Peper Harow (from Robin Hood)
IF you liked Molag Bal's VA for house of horrors, I suggest the mod VIGILANT and its english voice patch. Molag Bal's voice acting is PHENOMENAL in that one. Despite being a completely different VA, he nails the same domineering, creepy authoritarian voice and cadence.
Also, there's a non-voiced guy (I think it's Olando the Knowledgeable) that's supposed to be a tie-in to the mod author's newest quest mod, Glenmoril, who basically asks you to do a thing and it just transports you right to the climax of the mod. Ignore him and follow Altano and get the full experience. You won't regret it.
also if you're a huge lore nerd, Act 4 is absolutely overflowing with lore about the first era and the Alessian order.
"YOU BOW TO ME?"
*goosebumps*
Hermaus Mora’s voice is good too
Absolutely I would honestly go as far as to say it's the best besides Paarthurnax
*“But enough of that mushy stuff. Victoria’s gotta die.”* I choked-
Imagine you're a Skyrim NPC and your entire purpose is to die
I always liked the Vanilla Stormcloak/Empire battles over holds. Gave me very nice feels riding into a group of enemies on my trusty Mare, with no fear and shining armor
If they hadn't executed their gate guard, then maybe the assassins wouldn't have gotten away.
Damnnnn Rogvir ftw
@Square Zack congratulations!!! Your reward is....Sovengarde! But not before experiencing a completely mind-numbingly painful death at the hands of pissed off Falmer... sssoooorry about that 😣
Imagine executing an honor-bound gate guard, only to have no one to seal off the gate when assassins take out the Emperor's cousin.
Uh, I mean, _don't hail Sithis._
Congratulations, Empire, you played yourself.
Fire the dude for being terrible at his job but come on, execution is unwarranted.
"Have Saadia fetch your favourite mead"... uhm, what if I gave her to those pesky Redguards?
Give her to the redguards get the coin then kill them thus saving her, once saved use a calm spell and she will pay you, double money
Don't feel bad. I did too.
She is guilty, of course handing her over is the right move.
Well then u are EVIL lol
Well I mean she is guilty but damn
Lol fetch her gove her to the red gaurd wait until they pay you and then if you openly kill her their is no bounty placed on your head and the alikrs actually make a comment saying quote: all that trouble of catching her and giving her to us and we pay you and you just killed her? For what? How are we to have justice brought to our people now?
18:47 but there are three Redguard women in Whiterun Saadia, Saffir, and Ahlam you made a big oopsie Nate 😅
I enjoyed one of the early Thief Guilds quest where you sneak into the honeybrew thingy (if you actually try to do it stealth at least) and considering I always end up playing stealth archer no matter how I start, I just love this quest^^
I've saved Malborn countless times and never knew he had a follow up quest
Nicho same
The game never lets me do that quest
Red1 does stuff it’s the thalmor party quest and i think depending on which side you take you may or may not be able to do it.
Or that Malborn becomes a new recruit if you're part of the Thieves' Guild.
I believe that this was added in there one special edition came out.
There were all kinds of tweaks that Bethesda put into special edition that we're not in Old rim.
The house of horror's intimidation factor went down when I saw molag take possession of a cabbage
I like how after mentioning the House of Horrors quest, he starts using the Mace of Molag Baal. Very nice! 😊
For the quest “in my time of need” I kill both saadia and Kematu, knowing I killed at least one thalmor
If you agree to betray her and fast travel to the stables as soon as you leave the bannered mare you find kematu alone and sadia stays in the bannered mare. You can then kill him and get new dialogue from sadia. And if you want to kill her, feel free lol.
Tbh when Molag Bal flings stuff across the room, it didn’t scare me, because my game has a habit of making items fling across the room anyway. 🤔
How do you know Molag Bal also isn't doing that himself?
@@alexandernickaboine4798 It's Sheogorath who makes the skeletons fly, as that's not intended to kill you, just to get in your head.
I think I got thw most stable skyrim ever cause I aint ever got anything like any of the glitches that I have heard described
Or having cows fall from the sky after fast traveling
@@tiagomendesvisscher9030 or mammoths
Unfortunately they don't let us guards go to those Thalmor parties...
For the love of Talos, No one, I repeat NO ONE took my sweetrolls.
@@omaedaachillies3209 Well, I don't see any sweetrolls on you, you sure no one stole them?
I TOOK THE SWEETROLLS!!!!
If you can't keep your sweetrolls or knees safe how do you expect to get invited?
@Whiterun Guard Don't worry--unless some of the guests in attendance cause some drama to liven things up a bit, you aren't missing much. Just the usual snore-inducing high society competitive blather...
I side with the “they’re both lying” faction of the Redguard quest
I always found Kematu paralyzing her suspicious, mainly because he used magic and I thought redguards didn't like magic
After all these years I never knew you could sneak around the embassy in Thalmor gear. Very cool
I tried doing that and it didn't work. And my character was an atmer *shrugs*
i think that's a mod, master of disguise
The best one is easily 'A Return To Your Roots' Who doesn't love some good ol' horticulture?
Hey. Go fuck yourself.
Little Shmuplet I prefer doing a blind play through of a No Stone Unturned
I get that you're being sarcastic here, but the quest really isn't so bad if you actually go out of your way to thoroughly explore Blackreach for the fun of it.
It’s worth it for the perk
Another sadomasochistic
I personally love "A Night to Remember" that one is so much fun. And I love the Sanguine Rose staff too.
I really enjoyed elder knowledge. It was fun trudging through the snow to find the buried dwarven kingdom, fighting the creations they left behind, finding yourself in Blackreach (I really wish there was more to do there that wasn’t finding nirnroots), and finally getting to the tower of mzark. I always thought it was really neat that, after fighting frost trolls, dwarven automata, and all of the abominations in blackreach, the tower is dead silent. I expected to find some kind of powerful creature or dwarven guard there, nope it’s just an elder scroll, and the only thing stopping you from taking it is that button puzzle. And then you just walk out like nothing happened. Its one if the longer ones in the campaign but it’s super memorable for me.
The best part of "Rise in the East" is finding Japhet's long dead body and his journal in the bowels of the castle. It is by far the most unnerving thing in the game.
spejic1 very true. No one ever talks about it either. Very strange.
@@OneWhoDreamsAwake Wait... you can find this body?! Now i need to go back and redo that quest again XD.
@@MLPDethDealr32 You need to be pretty good at lockpicking, the door is either expert or master level. I can't recall if there is a key or not, since I am always looking for any opportunity to pick locks, I mostly ignore or stash away keys when I find them except when it comes to keys for unpickable locks, which that one wasn't.
Best quest...probably the one where you get to kill Delphine...make it happen Bethesda
Hmoobgai I think you can after the main quest line is over, not a 100% sure though
Omg I hate Delphine as well
@@msk70kr Honestly the worst thing about skyrim was the inability to kill frustrating characters and factions. I wish you could fully eliminate the Dark Brotherhood for being the murderous edgelords they are, kill the Blackbriars, defeat the Thalmor, and kill the blades. It feels like Bethesda went out of their way to make certain prominent characters and factions extremely hateable, teased you with a potential, alternate path to get rid of them, but never actually give you the option to do so.
Piriph I personally like the Dark Brotherhood, but to each his own I guess
Piriph you actually can eliminate the Dark Brotherhood. If you kill Astrid in the cabin you’ll open a new quest where you report it to the Penitus Oculatus and you get to raid the sanctuary
I remember my first playthrough I chose to bring Saadia to the Alik'r warriors and instantly regretted it. I felt so bad lying to her and tricking her to come to the stables. Then, while Kematu was doing his little speech, I thought, "Hey... maybe it's not too late to change my mind." Then I point-blank shot Kematu in the head with an arrow and he went down. I was rewarded with being able to get Kematu's as well as Saadia's reward. (I was also able to get Kematu's sword/armor/etc.)
(Edit: Also! If you decide to do the quest this way, you get a special few lines of dialogue from Saadia where she yells at you for lying to her, but is still thankful.)
Fun fact, if you give Sadia to the Redguards and finish the quest that way, they will stay outside whiterun for a bit. You can murder Saadia, and Kematu will get upset and attack, then you can murder him as well. Sometime after, a courier will bring an inheritance letter from Kematu! I found this completely by accident and thought it was hilarious.
this just proof that sadiaa is lying, its a no contest in the first place, the very moment she brandishing her dagger and threatening to kill you is the moment you need to show the dishwasher the real deal, eventho those alikr warrior have scary looking scimitar, they ASK YOU NICELY AND WONT ATTACK UNLESS PROVOKED
Fun fact, you can turn her in and then kill the red guard before he paralyzes her. She'll be upset you used her as bait and you don't have to fight a bunch of warriors.
I never knew 99% of the stuff surrounding the assassination quest. I always just shot her (with a bow I personally bring) and then left. Never encountered any of the rest of that content
My favourite way to kill vittoria vicci is to have the pickpocket perk that allows you to plant poisons into the inventories of NPC's to affect them.
Then sneak up behind her husband and plant a frenzy potion on him so he starts killing his own wife.
I suppose a frenzy spell could also work.
If you talk to your fellow assassins and ask about the current contract, they can tell you about ways to kill her. I think Gabriella tells you about the bow and arrow and Babette tells you about the statue thingy
Same. Opposite side of that red carpet, a quick arrow and done
I loved the wedding quest EXCEPT; it feels extremly sloppy that they just make all the guards hostile towards you, no matter what. It made it feel for me as they try to FORCE their idea of the quest upon us, since obviously they somehow knew it was us - no matter how well hidden we actually were.
Nah, you just suck at sneaking m8
Woah! I wasn't actually caught. Although my sneak skill was level 80+
Yeah, I hate how they always manage to know we killed her despite being hidden from sight.
See I used invisibility potions and wasn’t caught the other time I was a member of the thieves guild and didn’t get thrown in jail. 👌🏻
Hey Mr. Nate, just want to ssy thanks for doing these videos. I enjoy them very much and they're very informative. I'm kind of an older guy and don't play a ton of video games anymore, but I really enjoy playing the Elder Scrolls series and also Fallout. Other than that I don't have the time to play others much, but your videos help make the game more enjoyable, looking for things I never found in my 1rst few runthroughs and stuff like that. Once again, thanks.
Had no idea about Rise In The East, been playing Skyrim since it first came out, glad there are still quests I haven't done yet, can't wait to play it, thanks bro😊
Crashing a wedding? Best quest ever.
And no Vince Vaugn or Owen Wilson in sight
Crashing a honeymoon
Mindy Auron 😣 Damn.
I bet we all enjoyed stealing nord mead to our favourite drinking buddy
Argonian Ale!!!!
There's this bottle of argonian ale......
Argonian Ale*
Argooooonian Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale!
argonian ale:)
By far lost to the ages, fighting the forge master in the hot and fiery forge was epic and has a very cool story behind it
Man i am addicted to this channel and your voice is 10/10
Oh what, Tyranus attacks you after a while?
I recall being told "Kill him" and I was immediately like OK BOSS.
I guess I was the same because I don't remember him ever initiating combat! XD
Bruh I literally searched him up on google and looked at images. I did the Dark Brotherhood questline just a few weeks ago and I guess I killed him so quick that I dont even remember him
You please lord Molag Bal well mortal. That is why you got that wonderful mace
To trigger it just try to leave the house, Mr bol gets big mad.
The Forsworn Conspiracy is one of the best in my opinion
and the first part of No One Escapes Cidhna Mine
That quest is glitched for me, i save margret, kill Weylin, The Guard says there are no Forsworn, and then After hands me the note, IT ENDs, i cant get any further dialogue out of any of them and the Jarl doesnt appear in his throne.
The only quest i can complete is Taste of Death and thats it. I dont know if its a mod, or the Civil War questline.
You read the letter that man gave you ?
I tried to kill that damn orc guard like 20 times before I realized I was supposed to work with him. 🤦
Nate: sit back, have Saadia fetch your mead and relax
Me who mauled Sadia as a werewolf: 😅
I have to admit the Molag Bal quest literally scared me when I first played Skyrim. It is actually memorable to me too at least in the beginning anyway 😆
The most disappointing thing about Skyrim's quests is that there aren't any that involve M'aiq The Liar. He's my favourite character. :/
That would be cool if they did add one with him in it, almost seems too iconic not to.
Right
I have to wonder just who he is
He seems like the kind of character to have his own quest tbh, I also kinda wish they fleshed out that Talsgar the Wanderer guy.
Maiq is probably a Spy, along with Talsgar the Tell-Tale.
"Touching the Sky" near the end of the Dawnguard main questline is undoubtedly my favorite quest in Skyrim. No other quest is more deserving of the term "quest." You are literally recovering a bow wielded by a God capable of harnessing the sun. And you don't go alone, Serana, the daughter of a powerful Vampire Lord has your back.
You explore a seemingly benign cave. However it's not long into the quest you discover the remnants of a lost civilization: the Snow Elves. You meet a holy knight by the name Gelebor who claims his brother was enslaved by the Falmer, his mutant brethren. If you are to acquire the hallowed bow and save his brother you need to ascend the treacherous path to the Chantry of Auri-El, a place of worship and seclusion far removed from civilization. The only means of gaining entry has you treading the footsteps of Snow Elf pilgrims, gathering water from shrines scattered across a mystical valley: meditating on their wisdom. Leaving Gelebor behind, soon the cavern opens up to a beautiful valley teeming with unique fauna and wildlife.
After the awe of discovering this ethereal place untouched for centuries wears off you press forward. On your way you eradicate intricate Falmer camps, cross a frozen lake, get ambushed by a pair of aquatic dragons, acquire a Word of Power, find ancient Snow Elf lore, recover paragons that open a portal to forgotten treasures, ascend an arctic canyon, and finally arrive at a bridge leading to a breathtaking palace. You pour the water gathered from the shrines into the dais, and it flows into a pattern that once touched by sunlight opens the palace door.
Inside the Falmer stand frozen as statues, still in positions of worship. Looting the statues awakens them from their cold slumber. After investigating the ruins unlike anything else in Skyrim, you enter the main chamber where Gelebor's brother Verthur sits surrounded by statues. After a short speech, a large-scale battle against the statues commences, only ending after the throne room ceiling shatters. A balcony view of the entire Forgotten Vale you just explored greets you.
As it turns out, Verthur was not enslaved, but was in fact controlling the Falmer. He reveals he was infected by a vampire long ago, and resenting Auri-El for abandoning him swore revenge. He created the very prophecy foretold by the Elder Scrolls that led you there, in an attempt to lure a pure-blooded vampire. Only then could he weaponize her blood and use Auriel's Bow to extinguish the sun, cutting off Auri-El's influence.
Serana is not pleased being used in such a way, and going through so much with her at this point makes you give a damn what happens to her. Or at the very least you need to go through him to get the bow. After a skytop battle, Verthur falls. Gelebor thanks you for giving him some closure and presents the Divine bow to you with holy arrows.
Auriel's Bow is an extremely unique and fairly powerful bow that can either do bonus damage to undead and rain sunfire on your enemies, or temporarily darken sunlight allowing vampires to walk in daytime without weakness.
However the true reward is the incredible journey that you undertake acquiring it. Even after doing this quest a dozen times it's highly unlikely to find all the secrets hidden across the Forgotten Vale. It is a certainly long and arduous journey, albeit an unforgettable one. Anyone who hasn't played it is missing out.
I can see why you didn't include it on a top 5 list though, considering it would take up the whole video explaining all of the details. Not sure why I did, I guess I liked it a LOT. Definitely worth the price tag of Dawnguard by itself.
when you legit write the script for nates next vid for 4 likes.
I can only agree. Best game in Skyrim, period.
I hate this quest found it so annoying because it dragged on so long
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That Molag Bal quest shook me too! For me, it was when the chairs started stacking on the table like paranormal activity where I had to take a moment. I LOVE THIS QUEST
These are some of my favourite videos
I love to use Mayhem for Bound Until Death.
"Does anyone object?"
*Mass fighting*
LMAO, OMG Mayhem is the BEST.
step one: side w Stormlcoaks n win war
step two: go to Blue Palace
step three: go down stairs to refugees, cast Mayhem....
step four: Watch the jarls et al go after each other, killing the guards!!
for bonus fun have Harmony, Fury and Hysteria available as well. Cast Hysteria and "I cannot best you!" "I yield I yield" echos throughout as people flee..switch to Fury, target one NPC far away from you n by him/herself---cast it and watch him/her mow down the fleeing lot! if you can get Elisif its the BEST, she goes nuts! "NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE!!"
At your discretion, cast Harmony, every stops, resumes their normal lives...then repeat ad nauseum! I seriously had a few beers and ran this for 2+ hours.. we were crying from laughing so hard
Innocence Lost with fury and courage. Courage on Constance and she'll kill Grelod once fury is cast on her.
Did you wear the wedding dress of the killed bride or have your follower you ended up marrying wear it?
I had Mjoll wear the dress
How?? Console commands?
@@ultrabigfella
No, just loot the body before you leave and you can take her wedding dress for yourself.
@@Electifried I meant how would they get Mjoll to wear it.
@@ultrabigfella I just gave them to her once right before the ceremony. She didnt have any other armor but for some reason equipped them so i rolled with it. Tried again later and she wouldnt so no clue what happened
@@ultrabigfella
Oh, you would just talk to them and say you want to trade some things with them. You can give them the wedding dress that way. If they don't put it on straight away, then take away whatever it is they're currently wearing.
Blindsighted is pretty cool. Any other companions would give you away when sneaking past the falmer, but the three nightingales can sneak so close that you can hear the falmer breathing. And then, when you defeat Mercer, you still have to escape the flooding room.
16:40 If you're part of the Thieves' Guild, Malborn will become a new recruit. Thought I would mention this.
My favorite quest? Hm. A #randomfave and one I always embark on, will suffice.
It's the one where you return Meridia's Beacon. Like, there's so much loot and septims to grab, on top of *_Dawnbreaker,_* that for anyone looking to do well in Skyrim, this is a good quest to start with, though it's ah, not a quest to be undertaken without preparation. One needs resistances, stealth, and definitely magicka boosters. Carry weight boosting via any means, is also a really good idea, and I always recommend getting the *_Steed Stone_* ability, because it *_boosts carry weight and dispels the penalty for wearing armor,_* and if you can, *_Extra Pockets_* from the *_Pickpocket_* perk tree will help here as well, but that's something that cannot be acquired early.
As far as the House of Horrors is concerned, it may be horrifying to some, but, nah, it's pretty tame, though, I've perused much more horrifying content (imagine if elements from *_Yume Nikki_* were implemented as mods in Skyrim to name one example), and in fact, Dwemer automatons are far scarier than poltergeist nonsense, because, self-thinking/self-aware machines, come on; random crap being tossed about by some soul-starved soul reaver from the X-Dimension is nothing compared to being chased around by a truly killer robot.
Sadia claimed that she went into hiding because she "publicly spoke against the Thalmor", that was shady enough for me since Hammerfell is at war with the Dominion and rebelled against the Empire for that very reason, also when you give her to the Alikir sometime later a bunch of Justiciars attack you and have a letter that blames the player for causing harm to the Dominion.
1) The Second Treaty of Stros M’kai was signed 16 years ago, so no direct fighting between Hammerfell and the Dominion.
2) Taneth fell 21 years ago and according to an AMA on Reddit several years ago, Saadia is only 29 at the time of Skyrim.
3) Taneth like the other portions of Hammerfell is a kingdom. The treason order should be a royal decree not from some nobles.
4) Alik’r is a different kingdom from Taneth, and there aren’t any documentation to the Alik’r claims. They aren’t allowed into Whiterun? If they are on an official sanction they would approach the local authorities for assistance.
5) To me this is deadly infighting between nobles in Taneth, Saadia could have been assaulted and killed or maimed the other noble and received her scars. As the Redguards hate elves, saying each other is in league with elves would be standard fare.
6) Magic that effect the human mind or body are considered abhorrent to the Redguards. Kematu is using Paralysis!! A detested spell!
@@michaeltelson9798 what ama?
@@tk337h It was several years ago and I am trying to locate it. We can also play devil’s advocate and ask to what resource do you have to prove her age? Going by, “I know women who look younger than their age” is pure conjecture as well. The game lore has more comments about Alik’r mercenaries being hired by shady individuals and one here that uses what in their culture is forbidden magic.
@@michaeltelson9798 bro i just want to see the ama
after she you give her to the alkir warriors, there is an urn in whiterun catocombs called sadia's urn. that meant them redguards payed for the urn to be there and they also killed sadia before taking her to hammerfell which is why i side with sadia. the only reason they paralyse her is to make you think they are doing that but in reality they are doing the right thing when they are not.
The fact you didnt include the Sheogorath and Sanguine quests are heresy to the highest degree.
TheTrueTerrydactyl Sheogorath’s quest is probably my favorite, but it’s so hard to choose. Also, killing Grelod the kind.... she’s truly bad people so I had no trouble getting rid of her post hast.
He said he wasn't including deadric quests
Lauren E house of horrors is one
Sanguine makes me ashamed to ever drink again and I don't mean in game
Can I use my armor, sneaking, and weapons? or I could use... THE WABBAJACK!!!!!!
The best part of the assasination of Vitoria Vicci quest for me was when I: Stabbed her, watched as the families erupted into chaos, got chased up and down the streets of solitude, found veezara in the chaos, summoned a dremora, summoned karstaag and then summoned duhrneviir. My discreet attempt to assasinate a secondary bait target resulted in half of solitude ripping itself to peices. Got a few inheritance letters that day. Stonks.
I lost it at the “Stonks.” at the end there. 😆
Ill Met by Moonlight is my personal favorite. It has that classic story of the werewolf losing control one night, and then it leads to the quest with Hircine and the hunt which was a cool concept. Capped off with some unique armor and blade
I kind of want to see a video on quests you completed without even realizing you were doing them.
No.1 The one where you go into the cave and kill the guy
No.2 The one where you go into the the cave and kill the guy
No.3 The one where you go into the the cave and kill the guy
No. 4 the one where you go into the the camp and kill the guy
No.5 the one where you go into the the cave and kill the guy
@@Gayd1 are you saying you WOULDN'T watch that?
@@Primordial_Radiance absolutely not, I would love to see top 50 video about that
@@ghostpepper9769 Oh, this old stone?
I like "touching the sky" . Exploring such a magical place with Serana is pretty nice .
I JUST WANNA MARRY HER
@@arkadydarell5526 Me too brother
@@arkadydarell5526 I do that in every playthrough through a mod
I have yet to complete this quest, so now i have her as a permanent partner. BEST. THING. EVER.
@@lucarudloff687 In the ending of the questline you can still get her as your follower , and she is pretty powerful , good at every possible distance . And whenever she talks I just want to hug her .
A Night to Remember was one of my favorites.
I was in second grade when I did house of horrors. I started crying
Cathrine Bingham you were playing Skyrim in 2nd grade. I started in 6th...but still, a tad early, don’t you think?
Jeebus Christ, how long has this game been out?
@@hillmannic Yea def too early. I didn't play the game right in anyway. I loaded it up again when I was 10 to play it again but seriously. I opened it up to find that everywhere I went, especially in the cities, tons of non essential NPCs were dead, and their bodies were stripped of clothes, and they were posed in weird positions. I never understood what was going on ever.
@@methamphetasaur I'm 14 now, so second grade isn't that far in the past. I just picked it up when I was young because my friend told me to
Yikes I was 15 when it came out
*kills kematu and saadia to get both rewards*
Me: S T O N K S
Yep. Have him pay you then kill him. Once Saadia gets up, use a calm spell and viola
Something I want to point out is that if you side with the Redguards, then you can later find Saadia's ashes in the Hall of the Dead in Whiterun. So, they WERE lying about taking her back to Hammerfell.
thats probably a bug. the ashes of every character that dies or in any way disappears show up there. Bethesda probably forgot to turn this of so when saadia is removed from the game she is treated as "dead" but that doesnt have to be lorefriendly. The Quest is supposed to be open and NOT have a clear answer
No they weren't. It's a known bug. In fact, if you kill her after they paralyze her, they get super pissed off at you. That interaction wouldn't make sense if they were planning on killing her.
She was a traitor to Hammerfell; more than likely she was treated to a swift public execution shortly after arriving back in her homeland to be made an example of. And since her last home was in Whiterun, they apparently sent her remains back there, as evidenced by their showing up in the Hall of the Dead there. It all works out just fine without them lying or any sort of bugs.
Diplomatic immunity was my favorite quest, everything about it was just right and I loved the part where you could call in favors from some old acquaintances for the distraction, it made me feel like I was part of society now, I had connections in high places.
If you like that, then you'll definitely like "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" from Dragon Age: Inquisition. It's basically the same type of court intrigue, but better.
@@hangeackerman8683 Cheers! I must get around to playing that game, I played the two first Dragon Age games.
@@vtkrey You should! The game could feel too fetch quest-y sometimes, but hey, we play Skyrim too and you know how it goes. The writing itself is excellent.
I can't hear the term "Diplomatic Immunity" without thinking about Blasto from Mass Effect...
Meanwhile Me. Remembers Family Guy
Meanwhile me remembering the lethal weapon franchise
"Commander Shepard, Welcome to the Spectre Club."
"I've been a member of the "club" for three years."
@@jaycee4900 "Just been revoked."
Lol, similar but it's not Blasto for me but "You Big Stupid Jelly Fish!" XD
Here's where things can get even more interesting with "in my time of need" there's actually a hidden third option which is what I always go with. I first choose to side with the alik'r and lead Saadia out of whiterun and to the stables. When kematu paralyzes her I turn on him and kill him, releasing saadia from the paralysis spell. At first she will be angry with you but wont turn hostile saying that she thanks you for taking her side in the end. After this is done she will give you the gold she promised, but you can also loot kematu's body for more gold, which he almost always has at least over a hundred.
i chose the fourth option which is pretty much the same, except i kill Kematu, freeing Saadia and getting a cool mod sword as well as receiving Saadia's coin and then killing her too
@@essexclass8168 now that's the way I like it
There’s another one where you kill saadia after she had been paralyzed. Kematu won’t be happy though
Mr Bal got a nose snort of laughter Nate, man I love you.
For "In My Time of Need" it's meant to be misleading. But if you want to know who is lying, you have to look at the lore and how Hammerfell is still an enemy of the Thalmor state during the events of Skyrim, which implies Saadia committed treason
No, it doesn't. Kematu stays in a cave with a bunch of bandits. He ignores legal and diplomatic routes, and instead goes for subterfuge. In general, the people of skyrim hates the Thalmors, so if she was actually guilty, he could easily get her legally. The Thalmors certainly aren't protecting her, since she is a refugee in hiding in Skyrim.
My dude Nate if Molag scared you when you were young I can't imagine your face when you learned Vivec chopped of his "Lance" before Morrowind
Bit it off actually
The heck? I never knew Malborn offered you an additional quest after escaping the Thalmor Assembly! Back to Skyrim it is!
I have to take notes to go on all these quests now
I like mehrunes dagon's quest a lot. Afterwards you get 4 daedra hearts every time the daedra respawn.
"Destroy The Dark BrotherHood!" Was fun. Especially watching Nazir's decapitated head roll down the stairs.
The dark brother hood’s plan is to get the emperor to go to solitude and press f to pay respects.
The best method to kill the emperor's cousin at the wedding I've seen to date is with a wheel of cheese and telekinesis.
"It was genuinely scarring"
I was cackling as I slaughtered Tyranus, then again as I murdered the priest. I liked The House of Horrors a bit too much.
Hello Nate today sadly I will not be talking about cheese but instead I wanted to ask you if you ever thought about doing a modded playthrough I and others would really enjoy it Have a nice day!!
That's a mad idea, Sheogorath.
Nate this is a must
Not even Fish sticks... 🥺
@@omaedaachillies3209 Cheese stuffed fish steak then?
If you do please add clockwork into your mod list