44EllaBonbon44 this comment made me make the single grossest laugh I have ever done. I’m pretty sure i sounded like a donkey on crack. I’m sick and I laughed and coughed at the same time
I want a mod to add him into the game as an NPC book collector trying to get his hands on some of these books and you can take quests from him to give them to him. It'll help highlight these more interesting books.
I thought you were gonna say just make his quest to read those books as he said. It'll activate when you find one of them, and give you 300 gold (...pieces) if you flip through every page
The Lusty Argonian Maid is the Elder Scrolls equivalent to those erotic visual novel games where you start because you wanna see sexy times but then complete the games because your engrossed into the story of people in the game. The sexiest thing of all is being emotionally open and caring
Coming to this after Halo is somewhat disappointing. In most videos he has a dry, sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating, always funny theme running under the sated goal. In this one, he just seems to be doing exactly what he stated he was going to do.
My favourite book was the one where the guy has his men around the table for dinner, and knows one of them has betrayed him. He waits until they have all eaten before telling them all that he knows of the plot and has poisoned only the traitor's food - whilst the antidote is in either a wine vessel or dessert or some such. The guilty party immediately dives for the antidote and guzzles it down. Only then, does the man reveal that he wasn't _exactly_ sure which one betrayed him, and so he launched a trap. Turns out, the food was never poisoned, and the "antidote" was indeed the poison all along. In one fell swoop the man was able to not only identify his enemy, but deliver his punishment simultaneously. Absolute legend.
LastTheNoel Also there is a website devoted to the dragon language and you can translate words and phrases in to dragon tongue and vice versa! It’s incredible!!
I love that The Book of Fate (which is a blank page) is included in the list of good fiction. The Book of Fate shows the destined fate of the reader. The player's character is a hero, which in TES lore is someone who is unbounded by fate and free to forge their own destiny.
A bit of lore behind that, Our heroes in every game aren't born under any of the star signs on the standing stones, they are technically born under The Prisoner sign. The Warrior takes away the Prisoner's skills, the Thief takes away their possessions, and the Mage takes away their identity. When The Prisoner is freed (and the character customized) it is their symbolic act of becoming anything they desire and being unbound by the Fate of the Aurbis. There are a lot of pages that explain it better than me, but that's the basics.
You’re completely wrong. The best book in Skyrim is the one where a little girl has a meeting with some dragons and asks them “how do you speak when your jaws and lips are clearly not designed to create human speech?“ And the dragons respond “the same way our bat like wings carry us when we’re obviously too heavy to fly”
Brian, I have bad news for you. The people who want to read Skyrim histories are the same people who want to watch videos about Skyrim books. In this essay I will
For anyone on PC, just a heads up that there's an awesome audiobook mod that collected a bunch of voice actors to read almost all of these books. When you pick one up, you get the option to start the audio book. It's actually a really awesome way to experience them, whilst hunting deer or organizing cheese wheels or whatever people do in skyrim after 10 years of playing it
Brian, I've got some potentially sad news: Waughin Jarth is probably dead. He's a Breton author who was around during the late third era, which means it's unlikely he'd be alive by the time of Skyrim as he'd be well over 200 years old.
@@NotAFanNAF wait, you actually think a degree makes you an authority what is and isn't "good" fiction? It's all subjective. Brian's intelligence and experience means he can give a more nuanced and informed opinion, but it's still an opinion.
"I read everything, I am the keeper of the picture" This man needs his own NPC in the Arcanaeum with a bunch of lines from this video. Modders I'm looking at you
The Real Barenziah is like fanfiction, in that it starts out incredibly horny as the main character screws everyone in sight, and then gets way too real and horribly depressing as the author gets bogged down in lore and heavy storytelling.
@@jewelv1600 Oh yeah, apparently "all young dunmer are promiscuous" and she has lots of partners when she's young. And then she gets caught up in numerous political love affairs and becomes the mistress of Tiber Septim himself, most of the people she loves end up dying, she falls out of favor with Talos, and gets tricked into revealing the Staff of Chaos by Jagar Tharn. At least, that's what I remember from reading it several years ago
Ahmed He was a dumb bitch and the only information I retained from the book was that A) I hated reading it and B) No he wasn’t a dwemer they were ruins when he got there the dwemer were gone
Bethesda pulls this stuff all the time. When making Oblivion they gave Sir Patrick Stewart and ENTIRE BINDER about the character he voices. A character that lives for a solid 5 minutes.
But if I recall it, he still loved readin it and getting into the character, even though it was just 5 minutes. But I can't find any information about this binder even.
@Ben Affleck Is An Ok Actor The thing is, you really don't _need_ a binder's worth of details to educate someone on the importance of Uriel Septim. Going that far to ensure a VA has an accurate grasp on a character with, like, eight lines in the game he's in is very extra.
i love how when he says "what gives you the right to decide whats good writing" he says he read all the skyrim books and not HE HAS A CREATIVE WRITING DEGREE!
@@larslowther1495 Exactly. How many of the great modern authors had degrees in creative writing? You know, the ones who grew up/went to college when creative writing degrees were already popular? I can't think of one.
in case you need context for how big *316k words* is, the longest Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix) is 257k words. A Game Of Thrones (the 1st book in the series) is 298k. The entire 7 book series of the Chronicles of Narnia is 345k. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 481k. War and Peace is 561k. It is longer than any single book in the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Chronicles of Narnia series. it's a LOT avg adult reading speed (according to I Googled It Once And This Is What It Said) is 200-250 words per minute. Let's say Brian can read 250 wpm. 316,000 divided by 250 is 1,264 minutes, or *21 hours and 4 minutes* When he said "multiple 8-hour days" that means he read skyrim for *3 straight days* (3x8 is 24, let's say the excess ≈3 hours is lunch/bathroom breaks) I know this came out like 3 years ago but I am still in awe. I consider myself an avid reader but DUDE
This video is basically Hermaeus Mora having a mental breakdown while speaking to the dragonborn about all the knowledge he has except Hermaeus Mora is less sexy than David Brian Gilbert
Also "DRAGONBORN!" "Aw, crap, he's mad at me." "I just read every single book in tamriel!" "I'm regretting becoming your champion." "HAVE YOU HEARD OF WAUGIN JARTH?!"
3:44 legit paragraph that says they were pals that hung out.its like when you need to make a 4 page essay and need a good grade but don't have a good source so you write a overly complicated run on sentences.
You know, I've been playing Skyrim recently, it's my first playthrough, I came across one of the books Brian recommended completely by chance, it was just sitting on the floor in a dungeon, now I make sure to mouse over each book I come across just to see if I recognize the name. Hell I even picked up The Chronicles of Nchulef just to see how bad it was (it's bad), this video really made me appreciate the flavor text when normally I would skip over it, I've made it my own little out of game in game quest to find all 58 books Brian recommended, so thank you Brian, I have not jettisoned your gift.
My favorite line from begger has to be "during pregnancy, the queen had been more than twice as wide as she was tall, and the act of delivery took three months and six days after it had begun"
_ Correct, as in they aren’t doing it purposefully to reference him as a joke, but they do it without thinking, genuinely it’s become a real reaction they have. I’ve had it happen with a few comedians, it’s weird but fun
Neph Drummond yeah, but the way that he used it was ironically, so if they just used it like he used it instead of as a reference to him using it it is still ironically.
_ He may have used it ironically but that doesn’t at all mean that OP uses it ironically. That’s not really how picking up other’s lingo works. You start to subconsciously use it, whether ironically or unironically, and then it just seeps into your natural dialogue.
I want Hermaeus Mora's quest in TES 6 to just be reading every single book, front to back, with a huge test afterwards, and the only reward to be the title of "Keeper of the Picture"
3:00 This is why Tolkien never intended for the Silmarilian to be published. The dude recognized that 99% of people do not care about real or fictional history.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. 99% of people don't care about real history? Dude, 99% of your family and friends don't care about you. History rules.
@@sloppyphart7879 | Yeah, sure, we all find PARTS of history interesting, but that's because most of us only know the interesting parts. The vast majority of history absolutely does not rule. Most of it resembles what BDG described.
To everyone who wants to read the 58 books that Polygon rated "good fiction." (In alphabetical order.) 16 Accords of Madness, v. VI-IX-XII A Dance in Fire, v1-v2-v3-v4-v5-v6-v7 A Game at Dinner Advances in Lockpicking Aevar Stone-Singer Ahzirr Traajijazeri Argonian Account, Book 1-2-3-4 Beggar Breathing Water Chance's Folly Feyfolken I-II-III Flight from the Thalmor Incident at Necrom King Kolb & the Dragon Love Poem Mannimarco, King of Worms Mystery of Talara v1-v2-v3-v4-v5 Ode to the Tundrastriders Palla, Volume 1-2 Purloined Shadows Response to Bero's Speech Sacred Witness Sithis Song of Hrormir The Armorer's Challenge The Black Arrow, v1-v2 The Book of Fate The Dowry The Exodus The Marksmanship Lesson The Red Book of Riddles The Refugees The Windhelm Letters Thief Wabbajack Warrior Words and Philosophy Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi
Thanks fpr this! I was looking some generous soul to have done this the first time I watched the video. Now Im glad I checked the comments again on a re-watch :)
Some very, *very* good ones he didn't put in his 'good fiction' category: The Rear Guard, The Wraith's Wedding Dowry, The Locked Room, and Withershins. Of his 'good fiction' category, several particularly good ones are The Armorer's Challenge, Chance's Folly, A Game at Dinner, and Breathing Water. Morrowind has even more, but I'm very glad that these at least made it all the way into Skyrim.
NOTE: Something that Brian didn't mention was that _The Argonian Account_ is actually the sequel series to _A Dance In Fire,_ both of which feature Decumus Scotti. If you decide to read TAA, you should consider reading ADIF first (although ADIF is 7 books while TAA is only 4, and according to Brian TAA is better, so I'm not gonna break down your door if you decide to just read TAA straight away).
@@hel2727 ua-cam.com/video/0dj7EVJ_mtA/v-deo.html i believe this song and its awkward presentation has, maybe ironically, become the "play wonderwall" of video game circles thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. **clap* *clap* *clap**
You know, I am really so glad that Polygon picked up Brian. Like, I never really watched Polygon, but now that they've made content with Brian, I've been convinced to have a watch of some of their other stuff, and it's pretty good. Plus, I really love Brian's infectious humour and smile, it always just makes my day. Especially this and the LoZ timeline, some of my favourite informative funny gaming-related stuff.
Brian David Gilbert is the Jon Bois of Polygon. He’s like, the best, most fun person on the channel, makes fun and informative long-form videos, and pulls people into seeing what the rest of the channel is like. He’s super great
I've realized afterwards I have seen two of bdg's own videos before without knowing his name. The ha ha what video and the iona street one. He's a comedic genius
My personal favorite book in Skyrim is Racial Phylogeny, because, "... it is by no means clear whether the Argonians should be classified with dreugh, men, mer, or (in this author's opinion), certain tree-dwelling lizards in Black Marsh." I'm not quite sure why, but that line gets me every time.
@@Silverwind87 Why is it a problem? Racism is a thing that would 100% exist in that setting, and it should be there for the player to either have the chance to combat it(such as when you can persuade the argonian dock workers employer to pay them the same wages a nord receives) or ignore it or enable it.
@@Silverwind87the other dude who replied has a point, the intent was clearly there to make it racist, but not because they are racist but to be faithful to how the world would realistically develop with vastly different races/species (very unclear sometimes)
The thing is that a lot of the literary analysis of historical, mythological, and even “eh” texts are important to the lore. “Alduin is Reel,” which was in your Eh section, shows the concept of mirrors, how different cultures *literally* shape gods, something confirmed by multiple other books like the Monomyth or even out of game lore like Shor, Son of Shor. Also the sermons of Vivec are a master class in metaphorical analysis.
SOME history is boring. Migration and war history is never boring. History of the common bowl and spoon would be boring. Things like Norse history, the Mongols, or the Great Plague isn't. I can spend hours just reading about or listening to knowledgeable people talk about ancient weapons and armor and their history.
Wayne Purcell some migration and war history is very boring. A lot of the wars that were started over the dumbest things and resulted in no gain whatsoever can get boring after the 100th time.
Michael Henry there’s a level just above that though. The point where something was really pointless or stupid but not pointless or stupid enough to be amusing. It’s like the movies that are so bad they’re funny, but there’s also just bad movies.
The final section has the exact same energy as guards telling you to avoid certain crypts and, much like with the guards, I now find myself on a quest to do exactly what I was warned not to.
not gonna lie, everytime I'm told by an NPC in any game ever to not go somewhere or avoid something, I do the exact opposite and run gleefully towards my promised demise, all to satisfying my undying curiosity, and I have never once regretted it
@@wooby4104 made that mistake with the quarry in fallout new Vegas, fresh into the game I decided to explore like I usually do with open world games and b-lined it for the quarry, some dude told me to watch for death claws, being my first fallout I had no idea what that meant, I was imagining some slow crab looking things, imagine my shock when a fucking demon out of hell was sprinting at me at lightspeed and oneshotting me.
Took a break from reading an academic book on history to watch this, spat my drink all over the desk when he said 'nobody has ever enjoyed writing or reading an academic paper'
he has his own youtube channel at brian david gilbert, and also two podcasts, one called let's make a music and also there's a polygon one called gill and gilbert (very, very good)
I will never forget the book about the thief girl who worked too slowly & her vampire-related revenge on her teacher. It was brilliant. I kind of forgot what I was doing in-game after the book ended honestly... The book about Sheogorath's background is pretty cool too
The rewatchableness of this video is so strong. I've lost count of how many times I've seen this and I always come back later and rewatch it and catch different jokes he slides in each time. Is freaking gold.
I actually really liked the instructional book on Shadowmarks. It adds a nice little bit of flavour to the world when you can crouch down by a building and see the Thieves' Guild symbol for a house that's got loot in it, or a fence who'll buy your stolen stuff. I felt like I'd discovered a secret when I read that book the first time, it was great.
Fun fact: those are based on the "hobo signs" that poor traveling workers might* have used to signal potential dangers and opportunities to other passing hobos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. while to anyone else, the signs would just be meaningless graffiti or etchings that weren't worth removing. The same idea is also used for the 'railsign' that The Railroad uses in Fallout 4. *theres a bit of a debate over whether a set of 'code' actually emerged, but hobos definitely used symbolic and pictographic graffiti to communicate messages
I enjoyed the accounts of Mzelfenkelt or whatever. Seriously. Both him and Bzaltenzalft. Okay that was my lame attempt at being funny, But I literally enjoyed every historical book I came across, especially the ones about Dwemer lore because their civilization fascinated me.
I've had to pause this video after he said that to come and make this comment. He has the songs of Pelinal in his "boring" category, and I just have to wonder what fucking life he lives that the stories of a racist time travelling robot are fucking boring.
I feel like making a mod where Brian David Gilbert appears as an Npc outside of the cave in Helgen and just tells you to get these books for "300 gold-points". Then add quest markers to the nearest copies of the top 5 choices.
Me: i don't have time to read five scientific articles everyday, my teacher's expectations are way too high Also me: ah yes time to re-read and chronologically organize my entire elder scrolls library
rewatching this video again and remembered that directly because of this video recomendation i read Beggar, Thief, Warrior, and King as my reading book in english last year. i copied the entire series into my phones notes app and really enjoyed reading it. i even took notes and wrote summaries during the last two minutes of our class reading time so that i could better remember and understand the story as i read it. it was such a different style from everything else i read that year and reminded me how much i enjoy reading and analyizing stories, aand encouraged me to actively find media that i enjoyed rather then just pick a random book from my shelf when i was told i need a reading book for my english class.
All the different angles make me feel like I’m multiple students attending his weird class
44EllaBonbon44 this comment made me make the single grossest laugh I have ever done. I’m pretty sure i sounded like a donkey on crack. I’m sick and I laughed and coughed at the same time
Ellery Oh my gosh lol. You’ve made my day with your crackhead donkey laugh.
I would LOVE Brian David as my college professor
ARandomFandomFan that sounds like a questionable porno
Where do I enroll?
I want a mod to add him into the game as an NPC book collector trying to get his hands on some of these books and you can take quests from him to give them to him. It'll help highlight these more interesting books.
And if you give him a particular one he takes a moment to read it then looks up at you completely dead-eyed and
*_R I V E T I N G_*
Thats... just flipping genius... modding community! You have a side quest!
I thought you were gonna say just make his quest to read those books as he said. It'll activate when you find one of them, and give you 300 gold (...pieces) if you flip through every page
So basically we should replace the vanilla NPC who asks you to hunt down books for the mage's guild.
You get extra payment if you take a quiz he gives you on the contents of some of the books
brian’s brain is the most organized chaos i’ve ever seen
I read that as Brain's Brian
"Imma do something weird and random. But by gods name, it will be done correctly"
@UCiWIfZSqwh5Q_2snvF1EU-Q ughhh this Boi is sexy affff
Organized and chaos? so Brian is Jyggalag and Sheogorath all in one
I wish to be taught this power
The Lusty Argonian Maid is the Elder Scrolls equivalent to those erotic visual novel games where you start because you wanna see sexy times but then complete the games because your engrossed into the story of people in the game.
The sexiest thing of all is being emotionally open and caring
echo? idk dont spoil it
That is a book that exists in skyrim lol?
It became a work of satire for me because all female Argonians have smokers lung, and reading the maids lines with that kind of voice makes me laugh.
That's Adastra for the furs out there.
@@marcuswestphal4955 yes
coming back to this after the halo video is like looking at firelord ozai's baby pictures
Amen to that
Coming to this after Halo is somewhat disappointing. In most videos he has a dry, sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating, always funny theme running under the sated goal. In this one, he just seems to be doing exactly what he stated he was going to do.
JiffyJames85 it’s impressive to see how much his content has evolved
i appreciate this comment 10/10 reference
I’m doing the same AND YOU ARE RIGHT
He's become the new librarian of the College of Winterhold
I hope he manages to tolerate tht irritating orc ............
New librarian or not, Urag's rules about books still stand
@@rahulverma8774 i like that guy :')
*A S S O R T E D B O O K S*
Neva loved Urag Gro-Shub
No joke, I'd pay real money to see those staged readings of Skyrim drama
Sammmeee
Same
Same
I’d pay money for someone to complete The Lusty Argonian Maid with the consistent erotic tension for the whole 7 Acts.
Same
My favourite book was the one where the guy has his men around the table for dinner, and knows one of them has betrayed him.
He waits until they have all eaten before telling them all that he knows of the plot and has poisoned only the traitor's food - whilst the antidote is in either a wine vessel or dessert or some such.
The guilty party immediately dives for the antidote and guzzles it down.
Only then, does the man reveal that he wasn't _exactly_ sure which one betrayed him, and so he launched a trap.
Turns out, the food was never poisoned, and the "antidote" was indeed the poison all along.
In one fell swoop the man was able to not only identify his enemy, but deliver his punishment simultaneously.
Absolute legend.
Damn, that's a very good one. Do you remember the name of the book?
A game at dinner@@luxiam9148
@luxiam9148 "a game at dinner." it's also a skillbook for alchemy since it teaches your character about poisoning people, lol
The alternate last supper.
A GAME AT DINNER IS GREAT
brian you _cannot_ and _will not_ stop me from reading all the books in skyrim
Twice
Ya done yet
@@magicmac6184 No, polar died a fifth of the way through. The fiction was so dry it dehydrated them to the point of death
YA DONE YET???
polarbethy YA DONE YET??
Fun tip for you Skyrim lore nerds: there is a website called The Imperial Library that has every single piece of written media from every single game.
Ty
Thanks, should make actually reading the chronological books easier then
Oh dear god...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! T H A N K Y O U!!
LastTheNoel Also there is a website devoted to the dragon language and you can translate words and phrases in to dragon tongue and vice versa! It’s incredible!!
Brian *reads all books in skyrim*
*Hermaeus Mora wants to know your location*
This guy have all the forbidden knowledge in skyrim
Lmao
*Hermaeus Mora already knows your location*
😂👏
Oh god. Not him
I love that The Book of Fate (which is a blank page) is included in the list of good fiction.
The Book of Fate shows the destined fate of the reader. The player's character is a hero, which in TES lore is someone who is unbounded by fate and free to forge their own destiny.
Thank you for this, kind strangers. I was trying to find "the book of fate" in a collection I own and was almost losing my mind
AND THERE IS ALSO A BOOK CALLED THE PIRATE
@@NigerianCrusaderis that the fith book of beggar, thief, warrior, king?
NOPE ITS STANDALONE@@lavabiscuits
A bit of lore behind that,
Our heroes in every game aren't born under any of the star signs on the standing stones, they are technically born under The Prisoner sign. The Warrior takes away the Prisoner's skills, the Thief takes away their possessions, and the Mage takes away their identity. When The Prisoner is freed (and the character customized) it is their symbolic act of becoming anything they desire and being unbound by the Fate of the Aurbis. There are a lot of pages that explain it better than me, but that's the basics.
You’re completely wrong. The best book in Skyrim is the one where a little girl has a meeting with some dragons and asks them “how do you speak when your jaws and lips are clearly not designed to create human speech?“ And the dragons respond “the same way our bat like wings carry us when we’re obviously too heavy to fly”
m a g i c k , b a b y
according to all known laws of aviation- [I AM SHOT]
Whats this book called?
@i want to commit literal genocide. sadly I don't remember, it's been nearly a decade since I read it and I couldn't find it by googling it
What about a hot lizard
Brian, I have bad news for you. The people who want to read Skyrim histories are the same people who want to watch videos about Skyrim books.
In this essay I will
thank you for coming to my ted talk
IS EVERYTHING OKAY AT HOME??
WHERE'S THE ESSAY. But really I would love to have an audio book set with all of these fully voice acted.
You will what?!
Where’s the essay OP?!
3:30 So, in summary: Four guys went to a place, had a conversation, and then went home.
rIVETING
And they became buddies :-))))
@GiantGoblin oh my god, they were roommates...
The true friends was the conversation we had along the way.
That's just a basic nightout
If only Brian had learned that Bethesda printed whole collections of the books so he didn't have to print them.
He loved to print. He just lived for printing.
@@polygon polygon why do you say this like he’s dead. Did pat use gnarly wrestling moves to huck him through a table or something.
@@wanamingo4961 brian left polygon
@@mischiefandmisadventurestu1878 no he died
@@polygon "He loved to print. He still does, but he also used to as well."
For anyone on PC, just a heads up that there's an awesome audiobook mod that collected a bunch of voice actors to read almost all of these books. When you pick one up, you get the option to start the audio book. It's actually a really awesome way to experience them, whilst hunting deer or organizing cheese wheels or whatever people do in skyrim after 10 years of playing it
When books become holotapes.
The Elder Scrolls: Borderlands
I thought it was ported to console?
@@newguy371 ...yes you can?
@@newguy371 Skyrim Special Edition LITERALLY has a built in modding system fully supported, included and endorsed by Bethesda
Can we have BDG and the rest of the Polygon staff perform the whole Lusty Argonian Maid play?
Chris Brinkley I need this to happen
PLEASE
May Bracy you doubt their theatrical strength?
@@voiceofsaph3225 It is my belief that they are the ultimate thespians.
Chris Brinkley the maid should be a random lizard they find somewhere
"They are valid.
And they're wrong.
And they always seem to find my comment sections."
I was scrolling through the comments while the video played. Somehow the second I got to this comment, this line played. I am a sorcerer.
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Been trying to get UA-cam's "end" URL parameter to work for like 10 minutes so I could send just that to a friend...
RegiRuler 5:23 AM you get your 1,400 like 10 months later you swine!
Brian, I've got some potentially sad news: Waughin Jarth is probably dead. He's a Breton author who was around during the late third era, which means it's unlikely he'd be alive by the time of Skyrim as he'd be well over 200 years old.
Time for a necromancer to get him back on the writing table
@@pedrojose660Let's hope he'll find a particular disk and not mistakes the names
or he could go the boring route and idk show up as a ghost or something
So he really is like the Tolkien of Skyrim
@@goranpersson7726 Yeah like being dead means nothing in the elder scrolls lol half the important characters we meet are dead
“what qualifies you to do this?” *ignores creative writing degree from Hopkins*
I think reading all 337 books was probably more effort than getting a degree tbh
@@genuineinterest Well, no.
@@allrad4911 I think he was being sarcastic, if he wasn't though that wouldn't matter because you are right
@@NotAFanNAF wait, you actually think a degree makes you an authority what is and isn't "good" fiction? It's all subjective. Brian's intelligence and experience means he can give a more nuanced and informed opinion, but it's still an opinion.
@@8Rincewind I don't even know man, someone here is right but it's probably not me
“beggar, thief, warrior, king” is my favorite song by the oh hellos
This!
I love you
There will come a beggar who asks you for some change,
He needs to get out of this place, oh ley oh lie oh lord.
I understood that reference
You win at life
"I read everything, I am the keeper of the picture" This man needs his own NPC in the Arcanaeum with a bunch of lines from this video. Modders I'm looking at you
I want Urag to just randomly shout "SKYYRIM BOOK REPOOOOORRT!"
OH, GOD. YES, PLEASE!
He could give you a quest where you have to bring him a copy of all of Jarth's books.
Low key want a small quest line where you can hear this entire rant.
Nah he'd probably be wandering through Apocrypha at this point
The Real Barenziah is like fanfiction, in that it starts out incredibly horny as the main character screws everyone in sight, and then gets way too real and horribly depressing as the author gets bogged down in lore and heavy storytelling.
IM SORRY W H A T
@@jewelv1600 Oh yeah, apparently "all young dunmer are promiscuous" and she has lots of partners when she's young.
And then she gets caught up in numerous political love affairs and becomes the mistress of Tiber Septim himself, most of the people she loves end up dying, she falls out of favor with Talos, and gets tricked into revealing the Staff of Chaos by Jagar Tharn.
At least, that's what I remember from reading it several years ago
@@jewelv1600 yep. Then you meet her granddaughter in Skyrim during the Thieve’s Guild quest line!
@@giggityguy That feels like a fantasy version of Roxana by Daniel Defoe 🤔
(Which is also terrible btw)
@@giggityguy also feels very fanfic-y where she pops out a few kids who are then barely mentioned again
He’s not exaggerating about The Chronicles of Nchuleft. I read the whole thing. It’s all like that.
You poor, poor soul. WHY
Can you tell me more about general Rkungthunch? Was he a dwemer by any chance?
@@Ahmed-vk8pv Just going by the name; I would think so.
I carry that book around as a grim reminder
Ahmed He was a dumb bitch and the only information I retained from the book was that A) I hated reading it and B) No he wasn’t a dwemer they were ruins when he got there the dwemer were gone
Bethesda pulls this stuff all the time. When making Oblivion they gave Sir Patrick Stewart and ENTIRE BINDER about the character he voices. A character that lives for a solid 5 minutes.
But if I recall it, he still loved readin it and getting into the character, even though it was just 5 minutes. But I can't find any information about this binder even.
@@Liggliluff Oblivion behind the scenes... There was a bonus disc that came with the Oblivion Special Edition.
I dream to be that extra one day
@Ben Affleck Is An Ok Actor The thing is, you really don't _need_ a binder's worth of details to educate someone on the importance of Uriel Septim. Going that far to ensure a VA has an accurate grasp on a character with, like, eight lines in the game he's in is very extra.
Legends has it, he films this all on one camera multiple times
@@ellacsarno411 It's a joke you walnut
@@aggrave790 yaaa i shouldnt be writing comments overcoffeinated at 3am
@@aggrave790 love the use of the word walnut haha
@@sacex594 Thanks I definitely stole it from something but I don't remember what.
Just reading this comment hurts me.
“I read every book in Skyrim!”
Me: Wow, that’s impressive!
“I printed it out in 5.5 font.”
Me: Wow, this guy is mad!
💯
You must be new here.
There's a reason the series is called "Unraveled". :D
It's been over a year and I still think about "RIVETING" and "HOW DARE YOU JETTISON MY GIFT?!"
As a Brian, I concede that BDG is the best Brian.
Brian Cuellar that was legendary
And you'd be second best. :D
You're a close second in my book buddy :)
what about brian cranston
"It's time for the number one book"
Me: "it's the lusty a..."
"It's NOT the lusty argonian maid"
Got me
Timestamp...?
@@yt_krg ..no, you're a timestamp!
@@yt_krg 9:22
I was your 1k like 💪
I cried
i love how when he says "what gives you the right to decide whats good writing" he says he read all the skyrim books and not HE HAS A CREATIVE WRITING DEGREE!
With both he would have such a power to say what is good fiction
If you need a degree in creative writing...
@@larslowther1495 Exactly. How many of the great modern authors had degrees in creative writing? You know, the ones who grew up/went to college when creative writing degrees were already popular? I can't think of one.
qwerp poiuytre creative writing degrees don’t teach you how to decide what’s good.
@@finchhawthorne1302 Reading all 337 books does though, ya dingus.
He mentioned fast traveling by worm and I said out loud "Oh yeah that one!"
oh worm
Out of all the comments, mr. Polygon decided to give this comment the spotlight. Congrats!
SHAI HULUD
“Hey Todd???” The sign of a Polygon man in pain
Operatic Egg This Is The Nugg
Boy he is using those 3 cameras
Yes got a little too much at the end
Ya I had to look away because it just became too much...
The cameras be like : 🔼🔽⬅️➡️↙️↘️↪
Cant unsee
I don’t think it would have bothered me too much to begin with, but now this is really distracting lol
They’re following his eyes
No joke, I thought you were going to enter the Konami code.
Damn
in case you need context for how big *316k words* is, the longest Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix) is 257k words. A Game Of Thrones (the 1st book in the series) is 298k. The entire 7 book series of the Chronicles of Narnia is 345k. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 481k. War and Peace is 561k.
It is longer than any single book in the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Chronicles of Narnia series.
it's a LOT
avg adult reading speed (according to I Googled It Once And This Is What It Said) is 200-250 words per minute. Let's say Brian can read 250 wpm. 316,000 divided by 250 is 1,264 minutes, or *21 hours and 4 minutes* When he said "multiple 8-hour days" that means he read skyrim for *3 straight days* (3x8 is 24, let's say the excess ≈3 hours is lunch/bathroom breaks)
I know this came out like 3 years ago but I am still in awe. I consider myself an avid reader but DUDE
@E. Strnad yeah especially if you consider that this is well... kind of his job
I mean i finished reading order of the phoenix in like two days, and i woke at like 6 pm on one of those days cause i was sick.
You know lord of the rings is one book
@@joshwhite5730 yeah while it is technically all one book it's most well-known today as a trilogy, so i just wanted to be clear
Dude this is just my Tuesday I read 300k words like way to much
Polygon did such a great job hiring Brian
Hard agree. I just wish we still had Week in Review or some other musical outlet for this good good boy.
Have you seen his cover letter? How could they not!
3:29 at the end of all that the way he just says “R I V E T I N G” it kills me
I quote it all the time now.
same! it is so hilarious. i dunno why lmao
Same
3:58 for the “R I V E T I N G”
I literally decided to rewatch this video just for the "R I V E T I N G" lmao
This video is basically Hermaeus Mora having a mental breakdown while speaking to the dragonborn about all the knowledge he has
except Hermaeus Mora is less sexy than David Brian Gilbert
hmm... tentacles...
HAY! This comment section is kink shame free. If you wanna bang Hermaeus Mora (in tentacle form) go and follow your deams!
Not to me
He's actually secretly Hermaeus mora's new champion and got that title after doing this
Also
"DRAGONBORN!" "Aw, crap, he's mad at me." "I just read every single book in tamriel!" "I'm regretting becoming your champion." "HAVE YOU HEARD OF WAUGIN JARTH?!"
My favorite was this blind bandits book, and it having absolutely no text at all. Just a blank book. Made me actually laugh out loud
Ahh, I but didn't you notice the braile?
I dont care if I know the videos by heart, im going to watch the entire series again for the the 30th time.
Oh wow this got a heart
@@Fi___ a heart for a heart.
Haha exactky
@@cable7763 hol' up, *anymore* ?
i for sure thought i was the only one who did this
waughin jarth looks like what would happen if you tried to describe a human purely from memory to an alien sketch artist
My mind immediately went to the changelings in Star Trek DS9.
So does his name.
3:44 legit paragraph that says they were pals that hung out.its like when you need to make a 4 page essay and need a good grade but don't have a good source so you write a overly complicated run on sentences.
I feel attacked... But it's true, especially when I get paid for essays.
Mr. MAXXAM to quote K2SO: these are prisoners... I am here to imprison them... in prison
Remember when Unraveled started, and Brian was just like, neurotic, instead of channeling eldritch madness?
No
You know, I've been playing Skyrim recently, it's my first playthrough, I came across one of the books Brian recommended completely by chance, it was just sitting on the floor in a dungeon, now I make sure to mouse over each book I come across just to see if I recognize the name. Hell I even picked up The Chronicles of Nchulef just to see how bad it was (it's bad), this video really made me appreciate the flavor text when normally I would skip over it, I've made it my own little out of game in game quest to find all 58 books Brian recommended, so thank you Brian, I have not jettisoned your gift.
A true men of culture. Good Reading for you.
It seems the 🎶 Skyrim Book Report 🎶 has served you well
The first Skyrim book I legitimately decided to read was Alduin is Real. I was immediately captured by the horrible lack of grammar.
Oh man that one was so funny
Was it written that way on purpose
Jimbo yes because it is a uneducated nord who wrote it but he was correct 100% which is very ironic
And he ent Akatosh
You got to love that irony
My favorite line from begger has to be "during pregnancy, the queen had been more than twice as wide as she was tall, and the act of delivery took three months and six days after it had begun"
3:29 is probably my favorite part of the video, the way he says *R I V E T I N G* will always crack me up
It's so powerful I love BDG
Brian gives off a very specific "let's do the fork in the garbage disposal" energy
"I am going to throw myself into the sea"
"OH MY GOD GUYS KIKI'S DEAD!! SHE YESS-ED TO DEATH! WE GOTTA YES HARD ENOUGH TO REVIVE HER!"
I would give you a like but you're at 666 already
why is this??? accurate??
I hate how accurate that is
Brian is the fork and the books are the garbage disposal
My friends, The Lusty Argonian Maid is both academic AND instructional.
It taught me how to polish spears. But for sone reason I have yet to find spears on my travels.
serious li Use mods and you can download Spears and other “spears “.
Before you bake bread you must let it rise
I used to use the picture you used for the longest time. I called myself dady smuirf
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this man has now caused me to unironically say "rIVETING" in everyday conversation and i dont know whether to curse or thank him
Ellie Peltz unironically?
_ Correct, as in they aren’t doing it purposefully to reference him as a joke, but they do it without thinking, genuinely it’s become a real reaction they have. I’ve had it happen with a few comedians, it’s weird but fun
Neph Drummond yeah, but the way that he used it was ironically, so if they just used it like he used it instead of as a reference to him using it it is still ironically.
_ It may or may not technically correct, but that’s what they meant and how it’s used.
_ He may have used it ironically but that doesn’t at all mean that OP uses it ironically. That’s not really how picking up other’s lingo works. You start to subconsciously use it, whether ironically or unironically, and then it just seeps into your natural dialogue.
my favorite thing about the Lusty Argoinian maid is that it's basicly a neon sign that says "The owner of this book is DTF"
I demand the Lusty Argonian Maid dramatic reading.
Yes, yes, yes.
Plenty of time my sweet, plenty of time.
Lusty Argonian Maid or anarchy
Dexter Badger AJ why not both?
I would enjoy
Random Guy: "Oh, so you're a Skyrim fan? Name every book in it."
Brian David Gilbert: "I'll do you one better."
Ok so I have come to the conclusion that Brian is a simp for lizards since the lusty argonian maid is short and only has innuendos
Ah, perfect, 337 likes
@@jvpro2076 scalie
@@VincentGonzalezVeg if this word is gonna mean the reptile version of furries then I don't wanna be credited in its creation
@@jvpro2076 dont worry, it does mean that but, you werent the first its been like this since 2020
I want Hermaeus Mora's quest in TES 6 to just be reading every single book, front to back, with a huge test afterwards, and the only reward to be the title of "Keeper of the Picture"
First Name Last Name Nope! Thumbs down 👎 That actually sounds like Rectal nugget crumb-age
Imagine the Speed-runs for that quest
@@theleanbusinessman5431 someone failed 3rd grade English. 😂
@@MaskJackal100 Don't you get the joke?
Calm down Satan
3:00
This is why Tolkien never intended for the Silmarilian to be published. The dude recognized that 99% of people do not care about real or fictional history.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. 99% of people don't care about real history? Dude, 99% of your family and friends don't care about you. History rules.
@@sloppyphart7879 | Yeah, sure, we all find PARTS of history interesting, but that's because most of us only know the interesting parts. The vast majority of history absolutely does not rule. Most of it resembles what BDG described.
Ive tried to read that book like 5 times and i cant get too far without zoning out and getting confused and bored
?? Personally I care a lot about those elves and their bad decisions.
I like it because it's nice for people who do like it. Just like real life, you dont have to read them, unless you're in school
To everyone who wants to read the 58 books that
Polygon rated "good fiction." (In alphabetical order.)
16 Accords of Madness, v. VI-IX-XII
A Dance in Fire, v1-v2-v3-v4-v5-v6-v7
A Game at Dinner
Advances in Lockpicking
Aevar Stone-Singer
Ahzirr Traajijazeri
Argonian Account, Book 1-2-3-4
Beggar
Breathing Water
Chance's Folly
Feyfolken I-II-III
Flight from the Thalmor
Incident at Necrom
King
Kolb & the Dragon
Love Poem
Mannimarco, King of Worms
Mystery of Talara v1-v2-v3-v4-v5
Ode to the Tundrastriders
Palla, Volume 1-2
Purloined Shadows
Response to Bero's Speech
Sacred Witness
Sithis
Song of Hrormir
The Armorer's Challenge
The Black Arrow, v1-v2
The Book of Fate
The Dowry
The Exodus
The Marksmanship Lesson
The Red Book of Riddles
The Refugees
The Windhelm Letters
Thief
Wabbajack
Warrior
Words and Philosophy
Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi
I oof'ed a little when I couldn't find Hallgerd's Tale and Immortal Blood
Thank you, good sir.
Where is the doors of oblivion QwQ
@@rootintootinnewton You're welcome. :)
I initially made this list for my own use. But then i thought, others might be glad if I shared it.
Thanks fpr this! I was looking some generous soul to have done this the first time I watched the video. Now Im glad I checked the comments again on a re-watch :)
“History is so boring”: the guy who has spent hours overanalysing the history of the sonic the hedgehog production bible.
Writing history thats litterally made up is less boring than reading history
THE WHAT
Edit: when I read this I imagined a version of the bible where the people are replaced by sonic characters
Mr Random look up sonic bible Brian David Gilbert. It’s worth it. Trust me.
That wasn't history, that was GOSPEL!
Didn’t he also read the Geneva Convention
Hey please let BDG do another video(s) of staged readings of all the poetry in skyrim
I would pay real earth money for this
He should do a reading of those 4 books be suggested.
video game theater: the long awaited sequel
I WANT THIS SO BAD!!!
Why not all the books in Oblivion?
I would legitimately pay for a stage play version of The Lusty Argonian Maid with BDG as the lead actor.
💀
The video we never knew we needed
True
Facts
Oh I knew... And I waited, for I don't have the will to read them all
True
Then we did
UA-cam recommended coming in pretty clutch at 1am
I was going to like your comment, but then saw it was at 420 likes and withheld it
Exactly the same for me
rip aniki PepeHands
"No one has ever enjoyed writing or reading an academic paper" is a completely true sentence and I feel very strongly about it.
I have, but it's like 1 in 10 at best
The trick is cherrypickin so you only read academic papers you enjoy
I've actually enjoyed both writing and reading papers, but yeah, I had opportunities to choose topics that were interesting to me at the time
that quote comes from the guy who has spend a bit more than a year now with a series almost always reading way too much academic papers xd
literally busy procrastinating by having this video open while trying to write a journal article I really don't want to anymore
Some very, *very* good ones he didn't put in his 'good fiction' category: The Rear Guard, The Wraith's Wedding Dowry, The Locked Room, and Withershins. Of his 'good fiction' category, several particularly good ones are The Armorer's Challenge, Chance's Folly, A Game at Dinner, and Breathing Water. Morrowind has even more, but I'm very glad that these at least made it all the way into Skyrim.
Rear Guard was probably my favourite ngl
Wait he really didn't put Withershins in good fiction. I thought this guy's taste couldn't get worse lol
I'm reading them all. _Just to jettison your gift._
I like how Polygon just hearted "Physical Mainfestaion of Cancer"
Do IT!
...Cancer is generally a... physical thing.
What I like most about this comment is that I don't know if you're telling the truth or not
I will read because it will improve my english
Doesn’t include The Lusty Argonian Maid because it’s 7 acts.
The number one book is “four books actually”
True
bruh
I was waiting for someone to bring this up
If you have read the book, you should watch kobayashi dragon maid
You do not need 5 hours of smut acted in front of you, and reading it isn't as good either
"How _dare_ you jettison my gift!" is definitely my new favourite phrase.
LOL more like ILC...
I literally chortled
What does it mean? Or referencing?
I bore this burden! For you!
NOTE: Something that Brian didn't mention was that _The Argonian Account_ is actually the sequel series to _A Dance In Fire,_ both of which feature Decumus Scotti. If you decide to read TAA, you should consider reading ADIF first (although ADIF is 7 books while TAA is only 4, and according to Brian TAA is better, so I'm not gonna break down your door if you decide to just read TAA straight away).
I don't know who this strange well dressed nerd is, but I am in love with him.
I just came down here to the comments section to say, "so it's not just me, right? Everyone's in love with him?"
@@gamingbitchface6823 He's soooooo dreamy...
@Anthony White The tie.
if u think his dreamy then im angel from heaven ... :D :)) jk
@@shahin1339 wtf
I just read Palla because I wanted to know the twist and WHOO did it get me
Hi Michael.
I like to see you name a dragon type pokemon from skyrim, like paarthurnax or odahviig
Hi michael
wait u watch these vids?
Steel type castform
"316,000 words"
Fanfic readers: Oh, that's average
Gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
Same
Me, casually reading a 2 million word fic: IVE BEEN ATTACKED
Homestucks: You sweet summer child, you babe swaddled in the cashmere blanket of ignorance.
@@Silverwind87 I've only heard legends and they scared me.
Thief was like the first book i found and omg let me tell you i was enthralled by the story, and excited to find the other three
*walks into Starbucks with acoustic guitar* "Ooooooh there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red-"
this needs to happen
i wonder if, someday, i'll understand the joke here..
probably not :)
I believe in you Gallag.
IKRR
@@hel2727 ua-cam.com/video/0dj7EVJ_mtA/v-deo.html
i believe this song and its awkward presentation has, maybe ironically, become the "play wonderwall" of video game circles
thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
**clap* *clap* *clap**
You know, I am really so glad that Polygon picked up Brian. Like, I never really watched Polygon, but now that they've made content with Brian, I've been convinced to have a watch of some of their other stuff, and it's pretty good. Plus, I really love Brian's infectious humour and smile, it always just makes my day. Especially this and the LoZ timeline, some of my favourite informative funny gaming-related stuff.
Isaac Morris
His humor has a tad bit of the three beautiful brothers in it.
You should definitely get into the monster factory videos because they're made by three gods called the McElroy brothers.
Brian David Gilbert is the Jon Bois of Polygon. He’s like, the best, most fun person on the channel, makes fun and informative long-form videos, and pulls people into seeing what the rest of the channel is like. He’s super great
I've realized afterwards I have seen two of bdg's own videos before without knowing his name. The ha ha what video and the iona street one. He's a comedic genius
@Boco Corwin We're all gay for Brian, we're all gay.
I love it when people talk directly to Todd. We know he's always watching.
My personal favorite book in Skyrim is Racial Phylogeny, because, "... it is by no means clear whether the Argonians should be classified with dreugh, men, mer, or (in this author's opinion), certain tree-dwelling lizards in Black Marsh." I'm not quite sure why, but that line gets me every time.
its just so funny how casually racist like half the books in these games are to every race without exception
@@plugshirt1762 This a problem pervasive in the high fantasy genre.
@@Silverwind87 Why is it a problem? Racism is a thing that would 100% exist in that setting, and it should be there for the player to either have the chance to combat it(such as when you can persuade the argonian dock workers employer to pay them the same wages a nord receives) or ignore it or enable it.
@@Silverwind87the other dude who replied has a point, the intent was clearly there to make it racist, but not because they are racist but to be faithful to how the world would realistically develop with vastly different races/species (very unclear sometimes)
It literally just hit me that all the skyrim books combined are longer than Ulysses and the first book of a song of ice and fire wtf bethesda
Crazy part is even normal games can have 1000s of pages of dialog.
If your erection lasts for more than 7 acts, consult your physician.
Such a LArGe and MAgNiFICent piece!
Oh I snortled!
If you need me call me
HA
1000 likes
Perfect
316k words? That's the size of a good fanfic.
Good fiction
Goooood fiction
on this watch I was definitely like, hold on a sec, Embers by Vathara is 700,000+ words, 300,000 is sizable but it’s not wild
Everyone, reply with the biggest fanfic you've ever read! Mine is 789,589 words long (according to the AO3 word counter).
@@thewolfofthestars1847 Around 1.3 million words was probably the largest one I've read in its entirety.
The thing is that a lot of the literary analysis of historical, mythological, and even “eh” texts are important to the lore. “Alduin is Reel,” which was in your Eh section, shows the concept of mirrors, how different cultures *literally* shape gods, something confirmed by multiple other books like the Monomyth or even out of game lore like Shor, Son of Shor. Also the sermons of Vivec are a master class in metaphorical analysis.
Necromantic romance? So like zom-rom-com
I like your style
Marry me
That's just Santa Clarita Diet.
Shaun of the Dead?
zom?
Please, please PLEASEEEEE do a dramatic re-enactment of the plays!!!
Frederico K YESSSSSS
Polygon Presents: Skyrim Plays
Please please please do the dramatic re-enactment!!!!
We all want to. He shouldn't lie to himself
Make this comment get a bunch of likes... maybe we'll be lucky
“History is BOORRRINGGGG” As a history major, I feel that.
Imagine Sheo's voice (aka Wes Johnson) saying that, friend.
SOME history is boring. Migration and war history is never boring. History of the common bowl and spoon would be boring. Things like Norse history, the Mongols, or the Great Plague isn't. I can spend hours just reading about or listening to knowledgeable people talk about ancient weapons and armor and their history.
Wayne Purcell some migration and war history is very boring. A lot of the wars that were started over the dumbest things and resulted in no gain whatsoever can get boring after the 100th time.
@@Aplesedjr Sometimes I find the stupid and pointless history to be fun because the stupidity and pointlessness is amusing.
Michael Henry there’s a level just above that though. The point where something was really pointless or stupid but not pointless or stupid enough to be amusing. It’s like the movies that are so bad they’re funny, but there’s also just bad movies.
BDG: ITS OVER 312,000 WORDS!!
*fan fic writers/ readers laughing maniacally in the distance *
Ew.
Ew.
C0DA
Ew.
My exact thoughts.
The final section has the exact same energy as guards telling you to avoid certain crypts and, much like with the guards, I now find myself on a quest to do exactly what I was warned not to.
not gonna lie, everytime I'm told by an NPC in any game ever to not go somewhere or avoid something, I do the exact opposite and run gleefully towards my promised demise, all to satisfying my undying curiosity, and I have never once regretted it
Nat Not even when you end up in Blackreach?
@@GobaGNon oh no my friend, that's where the _real_ party is
@@wooby4104 made that mistake with the quarry in fallout new Vegas, fresh into the game I decided to explore like I usually do with open world games and b-lined it for the quarry, some dude told me to watch for death claws, being my first fallout I had no idea what that meant, I was imagining some slow crab looking things, imagine my shock when a fucking demon out of hell was sprinting at me at lightspeed and oneshotting me.
"There's no way you can maintain that kind of erotic tension for seven acts" *cries in 400k words slow-burn enemies-to-friends-to-lovers fanfic*
I feel that.
Lol you’re actually right about this.
No lie, I wanna read that.
YES. THIS.
@아니네 But its a vkoooook
We want a full synopsis of every book. Make it happen.
Aaron Lutes yes please
Agreed
*Do you want to kill this man??*
Full re-enactment of all 337 books
Took a break from reading an academic book on history to watch this, spat my drink all over the desk when he said 'nobody has ever enjoyed writing or reading an academic paper'
I don't know how I got here, or where I am going next, but this looked like a TED talk about books in skyrim, and I was not disappointed.
These silly Polygon videos are the reason I subscribed in the first place, I really miss these and hope they do more of them
Jordan I love the editing. It’s very Steve Brule-esque
Jordan I am honestly surprised they made something genuinely funny and interesting. Can I just subscribe to this guy?
he has his own youtube channel at brian david gilbert, and also two podcasts, one called let's make a music and also there's a polygon one called gill and gilbert (very, very good)
I give two shits about a king who lost a war seven hundred years ago
Yeet
Everyone does, they just don't know it. August, Saturday, etc.
I give three tbh
@@eoincronin6146 I give three hundred shites!
slow down there ^
I will never forget the book about the thief girl who worked too slowly & her vampire-related revenge on her teacher. It was brilliant. I kind of forgot what I was doing in-game after the book ended honestly... The book about Sheogorath's background is pretty cool too
The rewatchableness of this video is so strong. I've lost count of how many times I've seen this and I always come back later and rewatch it and catch different jokes he slides in each time. Is freaking gold.
I'm back
...again.
And everytime I watch it I want to read all of the books even more...I'm sorry BDG.
Videos that can be rewatched tend to be the best kind there are
This is so relatable
I actually really liked the instructional book on Shadowmarks. It adds a nice little bit of flavour to the world when you can crouch down by a building and see the Thieves' Guild symbol for a house that's got loot in it, or a fence who'll buy your stolen stuff. I felt like I'd discovered a secret when I read that book the first time, it was great.
I carry that one around in my backpack to this day
@@brosef4154 I always have one about alchemy around, just in case I need to look up components without having an alchemy table at hand.
Fun fact: those are based on the "hobo signs" that poor traveling workers might* have used to signal potential dangers and opportunities to other passing hobos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. while to anyone else, the signs would just be meaningless graffiti or etchings that weren't worth removing. The same idea is also used for the 'railsign' that The Railroad uses in Fallout 4.
*theres a bit of a debate over whether a set of 'code' actually emerged, but hobos definitely used symbolic and pictographic graffiti to communicate messages
I’ve been playing Skyrim for over ten years and I’ve never read this book and did not know any of that. Please hold while I go find that book
Odd boast but alas
*Peculiar boast
Unorthodox display of hubris but oh well
Perculiar boast yet acceptable nonetheless
Tricky talent but coolio
Congrats on playing (a) Simon Petrikov in Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake.
Here here 🥂
"history is boring"
- video made for fans who are invested in a game's lore and history
Henriko Magnifico we are kinda boring.
I enjoyed the accounts of Mzelfenkelt or whatever. Seriously. Both him and Bzaltenzalft.
Okay that was my lame attempt at being funny, But I literally enjoyed every historical book I came across, especially the ones about Dwemer lore because their civilization fascinated me.
@Mendes idk I like it all
I've had to pause this video after he said that to come and make this comment. He has the songs of Pelinal in his "boring" category, and I just have to wonder what fucking life he lives that the stories of a racist time travelling robot are fucking boring.
"I don't care about Barenziah, it's boring" DID YOU MISS THE BOOK WITH THE THORNED KHAJIT COCK? YOU THINK BARBED CAT MAN PENIS IS BORING?
I feel like making a mod where Brian David Gilbert appears as an Npc outside of the cave in Helgen and just tells you to get these books for "300 gold-points".
Then add quest markers to the nearest copies of the top 5 choices.
Would've made it way easier for me to find them.
Please actually do this. I'll pay you 300 gold-points.
yes
Aaah?
Teacher- “make sure to read 15 books over break”
me- “time to head to the college of winterhold”
Me: i don't have time to read five scientific articles everyday, my teacher's expectations are way too high
Also me: ah yes time to re-read and chronologically organize my entire elder scrolls library
Its a good place to find books 😄📚
Katrin Baumgarten right???
Honestly, I have been reading books from oblivion for my Final project.. why not
@@nicole_hagedorn There's books in Oblivion? 😮
rewatching this video again and remembered that directly because of this video recomendation i read Beggar, Thief, Warrior, and King as my reading book in english last year. i copied the entire series into my phones notes app and really enjoyed reading it. i even took notes and wrote summaries during the last two minutes of our class reading time so that i could better remember and understand the story as i read it. it was such a different style from everything else i read that year and reminded me how much i enjoy reading and analyizing stories, aand encouraged me to actively find media that i enjoyed rather then just pick a random book from my shelf when i was told i need a reading book for my english class.