Skyrim: 5 Spooky Theories Crazy Enough to be True - The Elder Scrolls 5 Lore (Part 6)
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Skyrim offers players no shortage of stories to be heard, lore to be learned and quests to be completed. However, in a world as big as the one offered by The Elder Scrolls 5, there’s bound to be some unanswered questions. Thankfully, Skyrim’s vast community has put forth several fascinating theories and interesting explanations behind the game’s most hard pressing mysteries. So today we’ll be taking a look at five more spooky theories crazy enough to be true in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
- Ігри
Please in ES6 let there be an old dark brotherhood assassin named aventus
Or even a young one. It doesn't need to take place a long time after Skyrim.
Or, if it takes place a while after, maybe a book about the brotherhood mentioning his name as an assassin
What if babette was in the game
dovah ting That'd make a lot of sense. Something Bethesda seems to lack nowadays
@@liam-ethanwallis4924 or maybe in a cave u can c the last few remaining vampires with babette and serana and a couple others
Know whats always bothered me? Ever notice all those green and red apples in skyrim?
Well, where the hell did they come from?
I've not seen a SINGLE APPLE TREE in Skyrim! Not one!
wilson Percival higgsbury Possibly from Valenwood
Huh...
I’ve wondered that as well. Luckily there’s mods for Apple trees. Some you can even shoot apples off to eat lol.
They're shipped in from the Empire. Sybille Stentor points out that Skyrim is dependent upon the supplies the Empire ships into the province.
Imported from the empire perhaps?
Jesus Nate, no need to scare us like that, calm down
Almost had a seizure
@@mitchmurray6323 I still can't sleep to this day !
@@upfry9593 let me know if you managed to sleep bb
I was spok
I died
What's interesting about the first theory, and lends a bit of credence to it is that starting off in the orphanage are 4 children. This number will go up to 5 whenever Aventus eventually returns and providing you don't murder and children's parents (or they're not killed by dragons or vampires) the number of children at the orphanage will remain at 5.
Now 5 is a very special number in the dark brotherhood. The night mother originally begat 5 children by the dread father Sithis whom she later sacrificed to him. The Back Hand, made up of 4 speakers and a listener is the ruling body of the Dark Brotherhood and each member of the Black Hand is said to have their own personal hand picked assassin for special tasks called a silencer. Finally, there are exactly 5 tenets of the code of the Dark Brotherhood.
5 sacrificed children of the dread father, 5 members of the ruling body of the Brotherhood, 5 hand-picked silencers and 5 tenets with 5 children at Honorhall Orphanage.
I hope the black hand are those children, grown up, in the next game
There are definitely four Silencers. Lucien Lachance specifically said every *Speaker* has a Silencer. He said nothing about the Listener having one. Having only 9 members in the Black Hand during Oblivion makes sense, if you go about counting who gets killed and who remains at the end of that questline.
Now, in the future they may indeed end up with 10 members instead of 9. Rather than disband the position of Keeper (it was created as an emergency) the Keeper becomes the Listener's version of a Silencer.
TES 5 confirmed.
I never got the dark brotherhood questline after I killed Grelod the Kind, maybe it was because I did a stealth kill when no one saw me?
-and five fingers for the black hand, maybe they'll reform it
That first one would make a good fanfic. I could see Babette befriending the orphans and protecting them as they train to become assassins.
Then when they are ready she makes them into vampire assasins
@@imablock16 yes! That would be perfect!
I'd love a story mod about that, maybe the creator of The Brotherhood of Old could add that in
Or better. After Dragonborn destroyed Dark Brotherhood, Babette somehow was send to orphanage, where she befriended with rest of the child and decide to teach and recruit them.
Babette particularly seems to enjoy hunting down child predators. She will sometimes reenact a recent contract on someone who was clearly trying to abduct an ostensibly lost and helpless child for unsavory purposes. To switch to IRL psychology for a second, part of why pedos in prison are treated far worse than any other kind of offenders by other inmates is that many of the inmates are mostly in crime because they were exploited or abused as kids. Babette was clearly attacked as a kid--that's how she became a vampire--and now she enjoys taking it out on child abusers. The kids in the orphanage were abused. With or without the dark brotherhood, they're likely to go into crime and become extremely violent to those who abuse children. Babette could (in a twisted way) be a decent role model for them. In an ideal world they'd deal with their trauma in therapy but Nirn is not an ideal world.
*Its not like they have families* or jobs to worry about.
Damn thats cold
Tis skyrim. Twas always cold foo.
Cold but not untruthful
Not as cold as Grelod the Kind's corpse...
Error not as cold as my frot bolt spell
Wai-
The scariest thing Nate can do in the next spooky video is not ask us "how's it going"
COOKIE WOKE gay?
@@gon3302 I don't think so.
@@revolutionarycomrade So you're just here to watch man on man action? Now that's a little gay my friend.
@@gon3302 Nate does have a sexy voice, no homo.
Your the justin y of Nate videos
Sheogorath in a spooky stories video? That's just a regular story video for him
Nate: “The organization of assassins is down to no more than 4 members.”
Dark Brotherhood Initiates: “Are we a joke to you?”
Canon fodder
Yes they are
Given I’ve played the dark brotherhood quest line dozens of times and not once even talked to a recruit other than maybe that one chill argonian I’ll sometimes catch in the sanctuary. Idk if he’s new or if I just don’t see him around my first time there
Whispers *murdered to death*
If the Dark Brotherhood is rebuilt with the children of Skyrim, the odds are good that the next Listener will be Nelkir, the illegitimate child of Jarl Balgruuf.
Think of it: he could hear the Whispering Lady behind that door in Dragonsreach where the Ebony Blade is kept. If you accept the idea the Night Mother is an aspect of Mephala, then Nelkir has heard the voice of The Night Mother.
The night mother is shrouded in so much mystery that I wouldn't be surprised if she was really Molag Bal trying to enslave people again.
Selestiel Wolf well with...sex being a part of her sphere...that would not surprise me lol
And his companion will be Bruce Willis we get it
@zemar's 51 backwards guys You're probably right.
Why would you accept that, when the night mother has been built up lore wise for at least 300 years with no mention of any sort to that belief ?
1: Nazeem is actually the strongest character in Skyrim and all of the ES games.
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.
How many times have i killed you?
That's it, I've lost my will to live
Yeah I literally tore you (and almost all of Whiterun don’t ask why) to pieces with my werewolf form...
I do get to the clout district tho
Well soon you will be in the cloud district forever.
I just imagine someone talking about how horrid the Dark Brotherhood is, and how terrifying they are, so someone goes to join them, only to find an order of murderous children. 😆
So Little Lamp Light
"Yet another child has prayed to their Mother..."
I imagine in ES6 there will be dude somewhere named Nate that has almost every book in a huge library named “Books you may not have read”
rhapsodefully Yes! Hell, Shirley Curry is getting into the game, we need Nate!
mate ima be dead by the time ES6 is released :(
Reyda was actually a victim of circumstances, according to Narfi Narf Narf and Wilhelm, Reyda used to pick up flowers and herbs, possibly to treat Narfi's condition, seems like she also didn't live with him but used to visit frequently. At the time of Reyda's disappearance, Windelius arrived at the crypt and started falling into his own madness, constantly spooking the guards whose barracks are literally in front of the barrow. It is possible that Reyda may or may not have a nirnroot in her possession (one growing near Vilemyr Inn) causing a guard or guards to become startled and in consequence, starting to fire arrows at her (hence why there are arrows always around the site where her body lies). Due to the proximity of her corpse to the bridge, it is possible that Reyda was in fact walking by it at that moment, and either by the guards accounting for their mistake or in her confusion and pain falling to the water, Reyda died of drowning before succumbing to her wounds, what few people knew about the incident decided to keep shut about it
I like this theory. It actually makes sense. If Narfi did it you would think he would run into the wilds out of guilt as he already seems to be kinda unhinged. And as a seeming budding alchemist she would constantly be on the prowl for ingredients. It is very possible she was the victim of foulplay and why Narfi gets a contract put on him is because whoever is responsible wants the sole person keeping attention on the matter to "go away". It even makes sense if her death was not intentional. Because if it was why not just take care of Narfi themselves if it was?He certainly would be easy to lure away to someplace discreet.
You expect me to read all that
@@sackettandres9457 Nope. I am sure we all don't expect anything out of you.
Geez calm down Jacob
@@futuregohan2398 are you the badass Gohan with one arm? or the lame Gohan with good grades?
Maybe instead of Sheogorath it’s Meridia due to her rivalry with the undead
Jacob Willey specifically that she is an enemy of Molag Bal as expressed in ESO
I was just thinking the same thing.
"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEA- I mean, yes, I am Arkay"
How about molag bal to test the strength of the existing vampires. A double bluff to kill off the dawnguard and test vamp homies. As seen with the boethia priest.
"The guild will survive in Elder Scrolls: 5"
The guild will be fixed in Elder Scrolls: 6
4:21 Girl that riekling has got some moves.
#6: the dragonborn is actually a mortal and everyone is just paranoid
But we went to sovengarde and murdered alduin to death
The Dragonborn is actually a mortal, and is just a bandit or someone, having REALLY lucid hallucinations as they're bleeding to death.
As Listener, I'll recruit Aventus when he comes of age.
Why wait until he is of age? There are mods that allow you to adopt him like any other orphan in the game. Add that to a mod that allows child followers and you have an assassin in training since childhood. Like a Nord Shadow scale in a way. I do this every Dark Brotherhood play through. By the time The Dragonborn dies of old age, the post of Listener will be in good hands.
@@maiqtheliar789 "dies of old age"
Hah vampirism
@@maiqtheliar789 M’aiq..? Is that you?
If i remember well sybille refers to the vampires of Pinemoon as "uncivilized". She says something like that after you clear the cave as she asked. Could be wrong tho.
Considering the Reiklings, in ESO we meet goblins in northern Skyrim who are smaller and more pale than their green counter parts so it is believed that the Reiklings are a goblin specie which evolved to the Skyrim climate
I actually have an interesting theory of my own
So, in Skyrim you have a few weapons that do extra damage to certain species, Horksbane does more damage to Horkers, Trollsbane does more damage to Trolls, Dragonsbane... I think you know what I'm about to say, but where did this weapons get these powers? Well, in the journal of the man who weilds Horksbane, you get the explicit line of "It brought a fire to my chest, a hate to my gut that I can almost feel coursing into my mace in my hand."
My theory now is, that these weapons power actually comes from the pure determination, desires and rage of the ones who wielded them. Wuuthrads power came from Ysgramor, Horksbanes power came from Sadir, Trollsbanes power came from Frofnir Trollsbane and Dragonsbanes power came from an ancient Blades Memeber that used it.
The sheer enchanting power of "FUCK YOU"
My only problem with this is you would expect there to be some merbane, or "elfsbane" weapon in Skyrim if this were the case.
#1: The dragon born is not as fierce as a mud crab
i see you comment on every video i watch
Are you following me?
Hello senpai
I've fought mud crabs tougher than you !
Seriously thought, have you ever fought a Mud Crab on legendary difficulty? I feel like I'm fighting a Dragon on adapt or something.
I like to think I'm raising my children to be fine assassins. Traveling from one home to another, learning to fight with actual weaponry. The one I adopted from the orphanage has even lately started gifting me with daggers and deathbells.
I'm so proud of them.
Dark Brotherhood Initiate: am I a joke to you?
Sybille has really glowing red vampire eyes (like all vampires) in my game so it was pretty obvious she was a vampire. The weird thing was, she gave me a quest to kill some vampires, but she talked about the vampires as if she hates others of her own kind. It sounded more like something I'd expect a member of the Dawnguard to say. And it was different to just not liking those particular vampires - she insulted vampires as a race.
I have a quick thing you might not have known, The Draugr actually use a different shout than Fus Ro Dah as they use Fus Do Rah which translates to Force of God
Here's a theory: if you noticed, skyrim has very few non-alcoholic beverages. So what if there isn't actually any dragons and everyone is just drunk out of their minds?
It's all the skooma talking.
Yes because drinking alcohol will make you burn/freeze to death
And what if your Dragonborn doesn't consume any alcohol? Explain that.
@@Occultivity who's to say he/she doesnt? You dont start your character from birth so who knows what he/she has done in the past
@@banaanzxcvbnm I'm sure it's happened
Hey Nate, idk if this has been covered already for Fallout 4 ten tiny details but i’ll jz suggest it anyway
-In the quest where you take Billy home, when you do take him home, the raider Bullet (the one that tries to buy Billy from you) will approach the house with a group of other raiders. If you pass the speech check where you lied that they’re *not* here and they just leave, it unlocks a random encounter where you can randomly encounter Bullet during your other journeys in the Commonwealth
-(Idk if this is a random encounter) There is a unique Brahmin named “Idiot” that you can meet throughout the map. I encountered it at the National Guard Training Facility, but I’m still doubtful if its a random encounter or if its part of that location
Idiot is the Brahmin owned by the traveling doctor. Pretty sure.
It was said that Harkon One Eye and other Nord heroes requested help from Miraak in their revolution, but Miraak refused them and challenged the dragons by himself, and ofc, failed
I found a rather dark little implication in Riften's Temple of Mara.
Inside one of the bedrooms is a letter from that one Argonian in Riften who wants you to get him 3 flawless amethysts so he can propose to his girlfriend. In it he's asking if the temple would be willing to learn and perform the rather complicated argonian wedding ceremony, he even offers to provide a book on the subject.
Next to that letter is the book detailing how to contact the Dark Brotherhood.
I think it's more likely the snow elves on solstheim were wiped out by the nords during the battle of Moesring. Also florentius could also be an agent of meridia instead of sheogorath as she hates undead and has been in direct conflict with molag bal before. and since the dawnguard, being offshoots of the vigilants of stendarr hate daedra he is being deceptive not insane for his protection.
If you meet Aventus after completing his mission he will sometimes say something along the lines of "when I grow up I'm gonna become an assassin too, so I can help lots of children, like you did"
A questline about multiple vampire factions waging a secret war would be amazing!
I wouldn't be surprised if the Arkay guy was being talked to by Meridith or however you spell her name, the Daedric Prince who hates Undead and is only pretending to be Arkay to help the Dawnguard kill vampires.
Also, Dawnguard - Dawnbringer? I know it's a coincidence, but the two things do share a purpose in defeating undead.
I'd buy it
Meridia* dawnbreaker*
A N E W H A N D T O U C H E S T H E B E A C O N
It would make sense why she's helping him, but Meridia's voice is distinctly female, how could he mistake her for Arkay?
@@astuteanansi4935 Confirmation bias? He hears a godly voice in his head and assumes it has to be his god! Alternatively, it could be a daedric servant of Meridith, as well as Meridith simply altering how she sounds. I mean come on, she's a daedra prince, and technically speaking their genderless, i.e. changing their appearance/voice is totally within the realm of their power.
BY THE NINE DIVINES! Don't scare me like that Nate!
There are 8
That detect dead spell didn’t work on my wife Ysolda after I was tasked into making her a vampire, and later I was a werewolf she didn’t care like the rest of the castle: “Have Serana change you back!”
I wonder where Babette went during destroy the dark brotherhood. Was she out on a contract? She could’ve been a little girl that “needed saving” when you destroy the stronghold, “I’m just a prisoner here.” Perhaps later assassin notes would be signed by Babette instead of Astrid (notice you can’t even bring up that Assassin’s Note signed by Astrid when you join, I was attacked by three of them before murdering to death that “kind old lady”). You can help Cicero get his wagon fix after you destroy the dark brotherhood. Perhaps Babette will show up in the next game. Not sure when and where it’s set. If it’s centuries later, that means nothing to a vampire. If it’s elsewhere (could even be Elsweyr 🤣), she can ask the new protagonist: “have you ever been to Skyrim?”
near uttering hills cave, there's a frost troll lair, containing a dead wolf, a skeleton, fur gauntlets and a stormcloak helmet. maybe he/she was taking a toilet break and got eaten by a troll, and the wolf was his pet who died defending his /her master.
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Doing the Divines' work, I see.
Wait, UA-cam has the same algorithm?
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The tale that Solstheim physically split from Skyrim due to Vahlok and Miraak battling one another is almost certainly a myth, and much more likely a metaphor for the divergence of the two cultures following Miraaks fall, with the mainland Nords becoming, well, Nords; while the Nords of Solstheim become the Skaal.
Hey Nate. You forgot about the initiate. After the quest line you always get a initiate.
Ok now if TES6's Dark Brotherhood questline isn't medieval Oliver Twist with extra murder, I will be very disappointed.
'boo.yeah this is another of those spooky intros'
-TheEpicNate315,2019
Sybile asks the Dragonborn to clear out the cave so she's certainly not concerned with protecting her kind. She just doesn't want attention drawn to it.
Good I needed my Skyrim fix.
I’ve been spooked Nate
9:16 i believe him he did kill 30 vampires with his bare hands after all
#1 that's why I downloaded the "save the dark brotherhood" mod
I enjoy all your research and theories about Skyrim. Thanks Nate!
The Dark Brotherhood one is something I adamantly believe in, tbh. I believe wholeheartedly that Adventus will grow up to be a brother, even if none of those other orphans do.
'angry smurfs' XD i almost choked on a Doritos
Krystle Dawes lol
Nate, I absolutely love your content. You keep my love for Skyrim alive and you definitely deserve more views and subscribers. Keep being awesome!
Arkay:”He just listens, gets me, y’know?”
You my friend, are a big reason that the game is still so popular and , growing in depth of mods, and game play ,3200 hours of playing this this game and still injoying it
All of your Skyrim videos have become my primary resource for my Skyrim story.
Me: Relaxing and completely vulnerable.
Nate: Boo
Me:Hshwjrjjeisbdsjsj
Day 69 of asking nate to make a video about trees
A Tree yes
You mean normal trees or Hist?
nice
Might I direct you to Indeimaus?
oh i so hope this happens for you lol
NGL, I've been watching these videos to sleep in for about two weeks now and it's still about the best thing ever. So, thanks for that.
I love your humor nate. Like "those angry smurfs" lmfao
I hope that in TES VI we would meet Dark Brotherhood and assassins named like these kids.
ever hear the theory that the atronach forge beneath the college of winterhold was built by the dwarves? supported by the fact that the offerings box has the same appearance as the doors in dwarven ruins.
Dwarves didn't worship the Daedra
like i said, it's only a theory.
Rieklings could be the result of Insular Dwarfism which happens to an isolated population that find themselves suddenly in a limited environment with fewer resources like an island. I think I once read somewhere that people were speculating that Rieklings were snow elves that revolted against the Dwemer after awhile. However they had consumed the fungus but not enough of it to lose their eyesight yet tho it effected their minds causing them to degrade in intelligent a bit.
Fifteen minutes of pure glory... you're spoiling us, Nate.
I'm pretty sure Florentius is an Easter Egg nod to the mad Irishman from Braveheart. One of his comments about Arkay not being sure about you is suspiciously close to a line used in the movie.
I like to think that the goblins evolved from the Falmer who left Skyrim for Cyrodiil and/or Solstheim, becoming an entirely different species, and that the Reiklings are a variant of goblin that's not exactly a separate species from goblins, just more adapted to the cold and possessing more intelligence. Goblins in Cyrodiil demonstrate greater intelligence than Falmer, and Reiklings likewise demonstrate greater intelligence than regular Goblins. The key would be that goblins and Reiklings would have gotten away from the poison that the Dwemer fed the Falmer, while the Falmer continue to consume it and thus have their eyesight suppressed to the point where they still have no eyes, and their progress with intellectual evolution stunted.
Well i dont see where the goblins are more intelligent than falmer. I mean falmer actually build cities(look at the dawnguard dlc), while goblins usually use probably looted gear and move in ruins or caves changing near to nothing except some decorations or traps(mostly traps). This by no means means that i dont think goblins are intelligent creatures, i just think they are a bit inferior in that aspect compared to the falmer.
The Falmer's structure building can be considered a holdover from their uncorrupted days. The goblins have definitive tribal structure. Judging the intelligence of either race from gameplay alone isn't perfect and it's definitely subject to interpretation and personal bias.
@@JETWTF I'm not saying you're definitely wrong here, but I can't find any indication that the goblins existed prior to the First Era, whereas the Falmer became as they are in the Merethic era. Can you point me to some resources that clarify the matter?
I don't think either are related to the goblins. But I do think Rieklings are related to the Falmer.
@@crisp9929 there's definitely some relationship between Reiklings and goblins. They're remarkably similar in appearance.
To the question of why the dragon priests became tyranical: too much power can often corrupt people. They simply started enjoying all the power they had a little too much and started stretching what they could do and exerting more control and power than they should and they enjoyed it.
You are amazing man.
You can still make content out of an old but a great game like this.Keep it up !
Maybe the Rieklings are hybrid dwarf/falmers like the Bretons are Hybrid Altmer/humans?
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LET THIS SERIES NEVER END!
Aventus quite literally has lines saying "When I grow up, I want to be an assassin!" which I discovered recently when he randomly showed up at the orphanage.
I thought the theory for Florentius was going to be that he was in contact with Meridia, as she would have similar light based abilities, and also have a reason for wanting the dead gone.
A good mod for expanding the dark brotherhood is, the brotherhood of old, it feels more realistic than leaving just three assassins
Ah back to the MURDER TO DEATH thing
You'll hear from my lawyers, Nate. Almost gave me a heart attack with that intro!
Another thing that could have happened with the Dragon Priests:
With the ambition for power that all the dragons have internally (as mentioned by Paarthurnax), perhaps the Dragon Priest masks were created by the Dragons, having some of their power, and, unbeknownst to anyone, they actually had some of this ambition in it also, growing and growing over time, until their lust for power led them to atrocities.
Can anyone identify Nate's ENB and major graphics mods? Or did he maybe make a video on it?
Did you ever find out? If you did I'd like to know
Sybille stentor could be part of the volkinhar clan. If you join them, they sometimes give you missions to turn a person into a vampire of high importance. They also give you a mission to clear out unblooded vampires. Much like stentor when she asks you to clear out a vampire nest.
thank god, i have had the worst day in a long time, and i’ve been binging the whole skyrim series for the last three days and just ran out of content. woke up to a video from my FAVOURITE skyrim series 💕💕💕
My favourite vid of yours. Good job
I swear there is more theories and conspiracies in Skyrim than there will ever be about world war 2
These videos are getting better even though you are losing ideas (possibly). Great job!
OH MY GOD MAN ya done spooked me. Good job.
Keep up the great work. I believe I've watched all of your videos.
Yeah just what I want hroar as one of my dark brotherhood assassins.
I think I'll just buy/free criminals, the guild could use a khajitt or two.
This is better education than school
Love your vids, Nate. Keep it up!
"angry smurfs" thank you Nate for the laugh XD
These intros are the most evil thing in your videos.
I have a theory that every goblonoid creature is derived from one of the Mer races.
Falmer (Snow) - Duh confirmed
Goblins (Orcs)
Reiklings (Dunmer)
That’s very Tolkien of you. 😉
Hey Nate, I loved this vid. Lolz. Thanks for the great content!
I was home alone and I left my Bluetooth speaker on by accident and went down stairs, so when I started this video and you saying boo at max volume made me need a new pair of pants.
My Grandfather was watching the intro and he died of a heart attack!!!! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF NATE!!
Is the Skyrim chapter of the Dark brotherhood the only surviving assassins? I know they are likely the last active chapter but chances are there are still some assassins out there
Didn't Cicero himself say that the skyrim sanctuary was the only one that wasn't ran sacked and have their members slaughtered?
I remember one time when I was exploring a riekling cave, I discovered a riekling hut filled with stamina potions, rags, and a copy of the lusty argonian maid. Had a good laugh at that one😂
Yo, Nate. Just to add to what you said about Sybille. In vanilla Skyrim, I kinda already suspected Sybille was a vampire ever since I first encountered her as she had those red-orangish eyes vampires have. I noticed that yours was modded and her eyes were different. That's all really. Just gotta say I love your videos, man. Keep it up.
Someday...
The Elder Scrolls VI is a big game
Who else gets spooked every time they see a skeleton in a cave?
pussy
pussy
Oh my God I just about lost it laughing when he referred to the rieklings as these angry Smurfs
Something that I just found out today... During the first Thieves Guild mission where you're to collect gold from the three shopkeepers, Bersi and Haelga (if your relationship is high enough) will respond to your character as "Darling" and gladly give you the gold instead of the more negative routes you can normally take.
As for Stentor being part of that Vampiric order... Makes sense... As does Count Hassildor of Skingrad in Oblivion.