The "Butcher", Windhelm's Serial Killer - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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  • @SerObeseHightower
    @SerObeseHightower 5 місяців тому +1528

    Thank goodness the Dragonborn sorted this one out, or else Blood on the Ice surely would have become a
    Cold case

    • @MidniteSpectre
      @MidniteSpectre 4 місяці тому +37

      So glad the Dragonborn was able to take this cold blooded killer off the streets.

    • @Rocco049
      @Rocco049 4 місяці тому +37

      It’s chilling to think what would have happened had the Dragonborn not intervened

    • @emeraldkoala2
      @emeraldkoala2 4 місяці тому +36

      (Insert CSI Miami "Yeah" sound here)

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 4 місяці тому +27

      you could say they were…hot on the trail. _guitar riff_ 😎🤏

    • @moviemaker2011z
      @moviemaker2011z 4 місяці тому +12

      (Insert the YEAAAAAAH) from the "we won't get fooled again" song.

  • @elderliddle2733
    @elderliddle2733 4 місяці тому +573

    One thing you missed:
    The reason we don’t see blood on Calixto in the first scene is because you can actually find the clothing item blacksmith’s clothes. Here’s how it happened:
    Calixto at first stalks his victims to determine the quality of the parts he would need. In the case of Susanna, he needed tendons from her legs and arms, which are consistent with the wounds. He killed her on a specific time frame to line up with the ritual. Calixto then left the knife in her to prevent bleeding and carried the body back to Hjerem. He changed into the blacksmith’s clothes, recovered the samples he needed then changed back, then dragged the body to the square to be seen. He then screamed, getting the attention of Silda the Unseen. His ultimate goal is found thanks to ESO. He was creating a Flesh Golem that would have his sister’s soul in it. Problem is that this flesh golem would have killed him, as they are deadric abominations.

    • @blacklisted756
      @blacklisted756 3 місяці тому +42

      Wow, never looked into this, that's really interesting

    • @aperson3996
      @aperson3996 3 місяці тому +33

      Huh, I never thought of it that way, but I suppose it would make sense, as the fact that he doesn’t have bloody clothes on and theres no real reason to suspect it is him due to him since semeingly, Sussana just cried out for help recently. Great explanation as to how it happened!

    • @DarkShines86
      @DarkShines86 2 місяці тому +9

      His journal explains his motive as well

    • @quinnzykir
      @quinnzykir 2 місяці тому +1

      Wait what

    • @derskalde4973
      @derskalde4973 Місяць тому +5

      You know, I basically came to mostly the same conclusions.
      It doesn't make much sense, that there is such a blood trail to the House, when he just quickly cut her open, extracted her tendants, and left. Those wouldn't have enough blood on them for that kind of trail. Not to mention, I can't remember seeing her clothes anywhere on the crime scene. So if we'd go with the "official" Timeline, the butcher would have stabbed Susanna, prompting her to scream, which alerted the beggar woman, who says she ran to the crime scene the moment she heard the scream. Even if we place her the farthest away within hearing distance, the butcher would have to stab her, killing her immediately, strip her, cut her open *_with surgical precision_* to get the parts he needed, and then flee the scene. Unless there is time manipulation magic involved, I can't see all that activity cramped into such a short time frame.
      So my theory was pretty much identical to yours: stab her, drag her to the hideout, extract the needed parts, drag the body to the "crime scene", leaving that blood trail. He could also just have abducted her, only killing her in his hideout.
      But here is where my theory diverges a bit: from the diary and the fact that he wanted to bring his sister back, it's clear, that he's supposed to be at least somewhat knowledgable in magic. So why wouldn't he drag the body to the "crime scene", place it there, and then quickly cast a spell to clean himself up? I'm pretty sure, there are spells to do so, and I simply refuse to believe, that there wasn't some mage somewhere at some point, who invented a spell to help tidy up themself or their workshop. And just because the PC can't learn anything like that is no proof to me. I'd estimate, that probably about 90-95% of all spells you can learn are offensive in some way, with the rest being defensive, healing or for exploration. There's just no need for the PC to have such "daily convenience" spells, as they don't really have any purpose in your heroic, dragonslaying life. And there are spells only NPCs can use/that exist in the world, but you can't use. Flying or levitation magic, for example, for which the Lore reason is, that it's usage is prohibited outside of Morrowind.

  • @Younecorn
    @Younecorn 5 місяців тому +992

    A new era of Skyrim videos to sleep to.

    • @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976
      @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976 5 місяців тому +27

      His voice is so soothing i almost fall asleep but its interesting so I always gotta see whats next lol

    • @bapattack5706
      @bapattack5706 5 місяців тому +5

      My thoughts exactly

    • @thenurieta1999
      @thenurieta1999 29 днів тому +3

      Not a single original experience, lol.

  • @derperpines
    @derperpines 5 місяців тому +789

    Of all the many times replaying Skyrim, Windhelm is one of the few places that has actually made me feel uncomfortable. And not just because of this quest.

    • @lildon112
      @lildon112 4 місяці тому +77

      Same. I could be the most OP character in the whole game but doing this quest I was still scared of accidentally running into the killer

    • @mamie8734
      @mamie8734 4 місяці тому +68

      Weirdly, it was always and still is probably my favorite city. I spent plenty of time wandering around and making believe in Solitude and Riften when I was younger, but Windhelm will always have my heart. As bleak, freezing, and racist as it is

    • @themilkman6969
      @themilkman6969 4 місяці тому +62

      @@mamie8734
      same here, i always make sure to play a khajiit married to either a dunmer or an argonian and to settle down in hjerim because there’s something really funny about literally the dragonborn looking at what is arguably the worst city to be in as one of the beast men/dunmer and going “i’m going to live here”

    • @remhauck1577
      @remhauck1577 4 місяці тому +29

      Me too. The vibe of that city is just off.

    • @Alexander_Enderweld
      @Alexander_Enderweld 4 місяці тому

      It's because of those no good dirty rotten stormcloaks

  • @OperationQuip
    @OperationQuip 4 місяці тому +436

    ‘... and he also has a meat pie in his pocket’ absolutely sent me

    • @xSageFables
      @xSageFables 4 місяці тому +7

      I almost snorted my drink out of my nose

    • @PaulRudd1941
      @PaulRudd1941 4 місяці тому +15

      His dry quips are exactly what keeps me coming back. 😂

    • @moon1749
      @moon1749 Місяць тому

      The dry quips are _chefs kiss_ and catch me off guard so many times, I just have to go back and be sure I heard him right. ​@@PaulRudd1941

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 5 місяців тому +767

    I never thought about it before, but you’re 100% right that the guards/Wildhelm nords immediately blaming the Dark Elves for “their” young women being killed is such a good place for them to go, as their prejudice has been well established and it would serve as a believable red herring. I’m now really disappointed thinking about how that could have been such an interesting angle to incorporate into the quest and what you could have done with it but what we gonna do? :/

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +117

      If, you decided to give Viola Giordano’s ring back to her directly from that unrelated misc objective, she openly states she doesn’t trust the Dunmer herself & has some rather prejudiced things to say. I’m surprised Ms Neighbourhood Watch didn’t attempt to connect the Butcher to the Dark Elves. It was just a thought I couldn’t stop thinking, there’s room for a lot of racism in this quest that would be more thematically appropriate than a Jack the Ripper Easter egg mixed up into a necromancy plot

    • @Tea_Noire
      @Tea_Noire 4 місяці тому +60

      Considering this is one of if not the most broken quests in the game, I have a feeling the devs originally intended for there to be a lot more content in this quest that got cut last minute due to the rushed release date. If you don't do all the steps in a pretty specific order, a lot of times the next part of the quest just doesn't trigger at all and you'd have to reload an old save to start it all over again. It's almost as if the game is searching for flags in the code that once existed but is no longer there, or maybe eas never written in the first place. I know it won't happen but it'd be nice if Bethesda could release a "dev's cut" of the gane with all the scrapped content put back in.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому

      The dunmer don't even have a reason to go after the ladies. If there is anyone they would take out, it's the guy who's entire life revolves around getting wasted at the in, and then spending all night being racist in the grey quarter.
      He is basically what he accuses the dunmer to be. A waste of breath. Meanwhile most of the dunmer are working stable jobs, being merchants, running a tavern, working the farms. But that guy is doing nothing but drinking and complaining.

    • @dominicp9296
      @dominicp9296 Місяць тому +7

      Theres tons of those moments in Skyrim its a fantastic game no denying but there's so much more that can be there in 2050 when we get the next elder scrolls let's all just hope it's done 100% right but Bethesdas latest track record isn't looking great but we'll see. Well the ones that will be alive

    • @alienking6396
      @alienking6396 Місяць тому +1

      Bro discovered racism

  • @emeraldkoala2
    @emeraldkoala2 4 місяці тому +219

    I always wondered what may have happened had Calixto succeeded.
    I imagine at some point after the quest ended you could go back to his house, where you'd find his dead body, and that of a horrendous Frankenstein's monster-esque creature, implying either that the resurrection went wrong somehow, or that his sister was so disgusted with what he'd done that she killed him, and then herself.
    Or maybe when you arrive Calixto is dead but the Lucilla monster is still alive, standing over his body, and either she is crazed and attacks you too, or maybe she's fully aware and tells you everything Calixto did and why she had to kill him, the conversation ending either with her sneaking out of the city to live an isolated existence in the wild somewhere, or with her begging the Dragonborn to put her out of her misery.

    • @mateuszslawinski1990
      @mateuszslawinski1990 4 місяці тому +31

      Imagine this being the outcome of accusing court wizard.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому +18

      Imagine if it goes even further, and we get something like with the Potema quest line.
      The necromanced creature escapes and causes havoc, and we are send to clean up the mess that we caused.

  • @GTAVictor9128
    @GTAVictor9128 5 місяців тому +355

    Fun fact: if you manage to get your hands on the final butcher journal early and pick it up in front of Calixto, he will calmly take it off you and then sit back down as if nothing happened 😂
    In TES lore as explained in the Dawnguard questline, those whose souls are captured canonically end up in the Soul Cairn. So by the end of this quest, I made sure to soul trap Calixto to ensure he never reunites with his sister in the afterlife and is instead eternally trapped in the Soul Cairn as punishment for his crimes.
    The worst thing about this quest is the fact that it doesn't earn you the privilege to own property in Windhelm. For any other city - even the Imperial stronghold of Solitude - you are named thane of the city and get to purchase a house in the city regardless of political affiliation.
    Yet Windhelm is the only city where Ulfric doesn't name you thane despite doing the city a huge favour, so the only way to be able to buy s house is by either becoming a Stormcloak or deposing Ulfric by the end of the civil war questline.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +80

      It’s a bit of a farce to get ahold of Hjerim isn’t it

    • @pascalg16
      @pascalg16 5 місяців тому +22

      ​@@Fizhy
      It's the best house.
      And you need to finish the civil war quest too...

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 3 місяці тому +25

      Eh personally I think reuniting with his sister will end up worse for him. I don't think she will have very nice things to say to the "butcher" and that would hurt worse than being eternally separated but still holding onto the fantasy.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому +15

      And then there are the big brain Morrowind players who trap Vivec in Azura's Star.

    • @YDV669
      @YDV669 3 місяці тому +4

      The dude up in Dawnstar sells you a homestead for killing a giant.

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 5 місяців тому +286

    I think this quest needed more suspects or reasons to suspect multiple people. You’re only really given a reason to suspect Wuunferth, and while you don’t need to be a Sherlock level player to see Callixto is steering you the wrong way, I don’t think many first time players would twig it out either - I certainly didn’t when I first played it. 😅
    A possible Dark Elf vengeful for how his people are treated, Imperials trying to weaken Clan Shatter Shield’s shipping to benefit the East Empire Company, people blaming Arventus Arentino for summoning the Dark Brotherhood, there’s a lot of different avenues and suspects you could have put into this quest to make it more of a compelling mystery and give the player more reason to think about who it could be, what they gave to gain and why.
    As it is, they spell it out pretty blatantly, so while Callixto is still a surprising twist when you find out it’s him either way, it doesn’t change the fact that the experience does feel kind of underwhelming in comparison to what it could have been.

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 5 місяців тому +42

      Yep. That is why Skyrim is sometimes described as "wide as an ocean, but deep as a puddle."
      It's especially awkward when you join the Imperials as part of the civil war questline AFTER completing the Dark Brotherhood questline and having the emperor assassinated.

    • @williambartholomew5680
      @williambartholomew5680 4 місяці тому +10

      If you're not able to visit Collixto's Curiosities (half the time I play he won't run his shop but instead just stand around outside, most recently a gaurd posted there round the clock too) it is hard to place him as the killer - just a suspect of circumstance.
      If you break in it's easy to place him as the real murderer especially if you discover/open the chest. But taking the tour sure paints him as a fraud and establishes that he surprisingly HAS the embalming tools necessary to do these crimes.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому

      @@GTAVictor9128 I usually stay away from the civil war quest, as it changes nothing about the world, besides who makes you thane.
      But in my most recent playthrough I'm planning to go with the imperial side (because Ulfric is short-sighted, despite being right) and I wonder if they would even let me in the city once I joined the legion.
      But then, I'm probably too just to consequences from New Vegas, and Skyrim will change nothing at all in how the guards treat me.
      On the other hand, if you put the wizard in jail and the butcher acts again, that should take the wizard off the hook. Or at least setting him free and shadowing him.

  • @JumptheTrench
    @JumptheTrench 5 місяців тому +485

    My man’s going into Skyrim territory, bros continuously cooking up bangers🔥

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +45

      Not so sure about that BUT it’s better than not doing anything!

    • @J.CH1ggins
      @J.CH1ggins 5 місяців тому +15

      @@Fizhythey’re bangers bro trust us

    • @crusadergodx9795
      @crusadergodx9795 5 місяців тому +11

      @@FizhyPlease do more content on Skyrim, I’d love to listen and watch any videos you make on it

    • @kadeng8712
      @kadeng8712 4 місяці тому +2

      Cooking so hard it’s gotta be vegetable soup!!!!

    • @racoons9711
      @racoons9711 3 місяці тому +3

      @@Fizhythese absolutely are bangers, better than 99% of content on UA-cam

  • @ixeliema
    @ixeliema 4 місяці тому +180

    This quest drove me mad when I was fourteen and literally yelling at the TV that CALIXTO WHO OWNS EMBALMING TOOLS AND LITERALLY JUST THREATENED ME BY HANDING ME AN EMPTY BOOK AND SAYING "oh if it's blank you're gonna die soon". Not to mention he offered to "take the amulet off your hands" even knowing it was a piece of evidence, clearly displaying his interest in reacquiring it.

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 3 місяці тому +5

      The book wasn't a threat? It's just his hoaky curio museum shtick.

    • @ixeliema
      @ixeliema 3 місяці тому +19

      @shadenox8164 i don't think the book itself was a threat, it's just an empty book and curio museum people do that kinda thing all the time. I do however think that my guy made himself even more suspicious by saying "oooh if it's blank you're probably gonna die soon" bc I was just looking at him like "alright edgelord are you trying to say you're gonna kill me or is this the schpeal you give everyone?"

  • @C_Cooke
    @C_Cooke 5 місяців тому +162

    I don’t know if this quite counts as a bug, but it’s certainly an instance of Skyrim being Skyrim. At the end of the questline, I followed the guards to the Arch Mage’s chambers to arrest him, and decided to take the Stone of Barenziah on his desk. Instead of arresting the Butcher, every guard decided to attack me for theft instead.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому +8

      you forgot to sneak before taking the stone.

    • @Leeloo-Foxx
      @Leeloo-Foxx 6 днів тому

      its definitely a bug, the stones of barenziah are not marked as owned

  • @tzvikrasner6073
    @tzvikrasner6073 5 місяців тому +133

    I did a shadowblade playthrough at point. Ignored the game and spent three months taking out guards in the backstreets of Windhelm and Riften, taking all their gear, and making a beeline for the nearest forge to destroy the evidence. It was so addicting I finally had to make a new character just to stop.

    • @Rocco049
      @Rocco049 4 місяці тому +9

      Oh that sounds fun. NEW PLAYTHROUGH IT IS!

    • @tzvikrasner6073
      @tzvikrasner6073 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Rocco049 Happy to help!

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 4 місяці тому +41

      I learned I could pickpocket paralysis poisons onto guards then loot them down to their skivvies. didn’t even sneak, just ran up and started stealing pants. at some point it stopped being a crime and became a raid on the Stormcloaks’ pants supply.

    • @tzvikrasner6073
      @tzvikrasner6073 4 місяці тому +3

      @@oscaranderson5719 Nice

    • @YouTubecanfuckagoat
      @YouTubecanfuckagoat 4 місяці тому

      @@oscaranderson5719
      You need help .. but I now know I want to strip guards to their grundies & run away

  • @MishraArtificer
    @MishraArtificer 4 місяці тому +52

    There's a fairly similar murder-mystery-leads-to-necromancers plot that spans two quests across two different acts of Dragon Age II...that one gets a *lot* more personal, though.

    • @Catandgoose
      @Catandgoose 4 місяці тому +8

      (Spoilers) I *hated* Leandra, and I still cried

  • @jeffreylooter535
    @jeffreylooter535 4 місяці тому +28

    At 19:28 the sound is clipped over itself and my brain couldn’t handle it 💀

    • @huntclanhunt9697
      @huntclanhunt9697 Місяць тому +1

      Oh thank goodness I thought my phone was broken!

  • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
    @Practitioner_of_Diogenes 4 місяці тому +43

    My biggest issue with Wuunferth is he says "Necromancy? I am a member of the College of Winterhold, in good standing! They haven't allowed necromancy for hundreds of years!"...
    This actually doesn't add up if you actually visit the place, as the expert in Conjuration, Phinis Gestor, says if questioned about necromancy, "By Sheor, no. Those archaic policies died out with the Mages Guild, and were never enforced here. Necromancy, as any other type of magic, is a tool to be used. Of course, non-mages may not see it that way, so we don't go around flaunting it."
    One could see this as Wuunferth as lying, or an inconsistency in the world building... which the former is more likely as Wuunferth does mention about the rituals the killer is conducting, which are all based on necromancy.
    That said, it's possible Wuunferth is somehow involved, as all the victims before the Dragonborn's involvement are, apparently, all Nords. If you lock up or talk to Wuunferth before the next murder, the next victim (or would-be victim) is Arivanya, an Altmer. She doesn't add up when comparing to the other victims, as they were Nords. So, one could see it as Calixto becoming more desperate and having to expand to more than just Nords as this point, or because the one with actual Necromantic knowledge being locked up, Calixto with no actual knowledge is just picking anyone he can.

    • @huntersingletary3007
      @huntersingletary3007 Місяць тому +2

      Came here to comment this and it seems someone else has already explained it better than I could. Cheers.

  • @mrvampire7577
    @mrvampire7577 4 місяці тому +45

    If you have Dead Thrall you can have Susanna’s corpse follow you round on the quest.

    • @thunderclanliveson1
      @thunderclanliveson1 2 місяці тому +5

      Now that's some true cursed pain for him

    • @Leeloo-Foxx
      @Leeloo-Foxx 6 днів тому

      bonus points if you let her corpse get the killing blow

  • @GraniteGhost778
    @GraniteGhost778 4 місяці тому +83

    I actually didn't listen to the caution and confronted the court wizard directly myself. Didn't realize that i had bypassed the entire wrongful accusation thing.

    • @adamfighter358
      @adamfighter358 3 місяці тому +10

      I did that too and the first dialogue option was "I heard you dabble in necromancy" 😂

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 місяці тому +7

      That is the first hing to do. The easiest thing to do.

    • @Leeloo-Foxx
      @Leeloo-Foxx 6 днів тому +2

      honestly same, since i always play a mage i was like "pff... i aint afraid of no wizard"

  • @Joskilani
    @Joskilani 5 місяців тому +128

    What the hell? I just re-downloaded and modded up Skyrim and started playing again last night. Get out of my walls lmao

  • @Inoffensive_name
    @Inoffensive_name 4 місяці тому +43

    A forty minute video documentary 10 years after Skyrim came out? YES PLEASE

  • @indigochild8032
    @indigochild8032 5 місяців тому +70

    Not gonna lie I was half asleep around 19:24 because I love to fall asleep to these kind of vixens and I got confused as hell 💀

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +17

      I have become your fever dream

  • @jonchh956
    @jonchh956 5 місяців тому +48

    After a recent return to Assassin's Creed content, I wasn't really expecting something from The Elder Scrolls. Whatever it is, we can always trust in Fizhy for quality videos.

  • @non1263
    @non1263 4 місяці тому +13

    I never fully read the journal in Hjerim, so just now did I realize that Calixto used the words "flesh magic" rather than "necromancy". There is a difference between the two, which could be a clue as to what exactly he hoped to accomplish. As far as I know though flesh magic can't be used to "bring back" someone like necromancy kind of can, it's literally just crafting monsters with flesh. Perhaps he was intending to use a combination of flesh magic and necromancy to both give his sister a body and force her soul to inhabit it. Maybe that could lend credence to the theory that Wuunferth and Calixto were partnered with Wuunferth supplying the necromacy and Calixto supplying the flesh magic. However I get the impression that Calixto was inexperienced and merely dabbling with these dark magics and so didn't quite understand that flesh magic couldn't be used to bring someone back to life. Maybe he was content to create a creature that looked like his sister but wasn't actually because he was that demented.

  • @valkeriejones3818
    @valkeriejones3818 4 місяці тому +8

    This quest broke for me in my first playthrough. The time it took me to realize it was fucked beyond repair was way too long

  • @Nimno74
    @Nimno74 4 місяці тому +3

    That first minute was a very well worded homage to the spirit of the game, in many people's eyes. Kudos.

  • @TommyBritten
    @TommyBritten 5 місяців тому +54

    I love that you are doing Skyrim content, you probabley already have a bunch of ideas but Morthal alone is infested with mysterious shit going on.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +14

      Please feel free to let me know what you'd like to see covered, I have 2 or 3 ideas to get going but after that it's a blank canvas for now.

    • @TommyBritten
      @TommyBritten 5 місяців тому +19

      @@Fizhy That's cool, well in Morthal theres the following...
      . Fallion the redguard mage who I believe in the only individual in the game who can cure Vampirism, he is also overall just suspicious, he has a young girl he's mentoring, he sneaks of to the woods at night and you are actually asked to investigate him at some point and I believe he is suspected to be a necromancer.
      .The Jarl and her son both have some kind of clarevoyant powers.
      .Theres a quest called laid to rest in which a house is suspiciously burnt down and the wife and daughter are killed whilst the husband moves on to a new lover who turns out to be a vampire, after investigation you discover a bunch of vampires nearby run by movarth piquine.
      .Theres also just small creepy things like the inn has an innkeeper and a bard but no customers, i'm fairly sure if you move your family into the house you build near Morthal they will complain about it.
      Theres obviously a bunch of mysteries in other holds but for me Morthal is just the creepiest and most interesting, the whole vibe there just feels off somehow in a way it doesn't elsewhere.

  • @witchywoman2008
    @witchywoman2008 4 місяці тому +22

    “Triggering the quest Blood on the Ice”
    Maybe. If the game feels like it.
    (Seriously though great video 🎉)

  • @Whiskin87
    @Whiskin87 3 місяці тому +2

    No matter how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent in Skyrim since 2011, I still love finding new content. This is a great immersive walkthrough!

  • @hopelessedgelord
    @hopelessedgelord 3 місяці тому +3

    Still love how this is like the only quest in skyrim you have to pay attention to, in order to get the right answer.
    Like every other quest competes when you've made the "right" choice this one, you made a choice good enough

  • @quietstories795
    @quietstories795 5 місяців тому +19

    I came for the GTA Myths and Legends and will be continuing to stay for the Skyrim content too now!

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +3

      Absolute legend

  • @knightslayer6161
    @knightslayer6161 5 місяців тому +24

    33:29. “Happens to the best of us” in regards to Calixto? A necromancy recognizing another?

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +14

      “Happens to the best of us” is a more general phrase simply stating that Wuunferth isn’t judging Calixto for mis-identifying the amulet

    • @knightslayer6161
      @knightslayer6161 4 місяці тому

      @@Fizhy ah got ya

  • @totallyrandomuser5760
    @totallyrandomuser5760 4 місяці тому +6

    This quest is so buggy that in my play through Calixto attempted the Square murder during daytime 😂

  • @Pokelemon3434
    @Pokelemon3434 5 місяців тому +29

    Oh fizhy and Skyrim? I fw this big time.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +6

      Oh aye

  • @NIKSEEN
    @NIKSEEN 4 місяці тому +5

    The one thing that made me very suspicious about Wuunferth the first time I played was that he said that necromancy is forbidden in the College of Winterhold when it clearly is not.

  • @jaredrobinson7071
    @jaredrobinson7071 5 місяців тому +10

    Hjerim is my favorite house in the game. I always bee line to get it first so that I can find out if the quest is going to bug out on me and prevent me from getting my home before I dump hours into a playthrough.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +1

      Understandable

  • @jayl5032
    @jayl5032 5 місяців тому +42

    Skyrim lore outta nowhere? Nice!

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +10

      I am a man of many thoughts

  • @woologist
    @woologist 4 місяці тому +5

    I’m playing Skyrim for the first time atm (ik I’m a bit late too it 😭) and this is how I found out that I did not complete the quest and captured the wrong man. I swear this game keeps on getting better and better.

  • @artsyhoodies
    @artsyhoodies Місяць тому +3

    I love how sassy Wuunferth is when you come back to him after another victim. "Oh, another dead, and I'm still here in the Bloodworks." Adore the sass.

  • @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976
    @letsthrowapartyfornoreason1976 5 місяців тому +6

    Yes!! Fizhy skyrim content is just what I need. And a 40 minute one no less.

  • @emsomatic4044
    @emsomatic4044 4 місяці тому +2

    I love love love, that people still make videos about this game. everytime I think I've seen every good one, a new one pops up

  • @vv1050
    @vv1050 4 місяці тому +2

    As grim as the narrative is, the video still felt cozy. Loved the calm cinematic shots in between the cutscenes!

  • @musicallystoned7489
    @musicallystoned7489 5 місяців тому +11

    You really have a knack at documenting in-game serial killers, this and your GTA Eddie Low one are my favorites so far. Really captured the true crime feel.

  • @ImmaSayKOOHWIP
    @ImmaSayKOOHWIP 3 місяці тому +3

    Someone finally said it. You load up the game, mod the hell out of it, setup a dope character, play it nonstop for a couple of weeks, then repeat 2-4 years later.

  • @WattsonorSomething
    @WattsonorSomething Місяць тому +1

    Oh my God thank you. I have literally 3,700 hours in Skyrim and I still have yet to complete this quest.

  • @verbodenmagi
    @verbodenmagi 23 дні тому +2

    I cant believe Fizhy was the Bay Harbor Butcher

  • @thekeeperoftwindragons5976
    @thekeeperoftwindragons5976 4 місяці тому +2

    Skyrim was the first console game I played, it's special to me, I'm glad you are covering this game

  • @pianoforte3785
    @pianoforte3785 4 місяці тому +1

    I beggg you do another video like this, going through the quest with the added commentary was really relaxing to listen to, a bonus with it being Skyrim content too😅

  • @samantha_lawrence5100
    @samantha_lawrence5100 4 місяці тому

    Exactly the sort of concise, humorous, and well thought out investigation one would expect from Mr. Matthew Crawley. Well done 👏🏽👏🏽

  • @aurelcorstan5242
    @aurelcorstan5242 4 місяці тому +6

    This story is highly similar to the one in Dragon Age 2 where Hawke's mother is getting Necromancy flesh crafted to replace some psyco's wife.

  • @RepublicofNvidiaGamers
    @RepublicofNvidiaGamers 5 місяців тому +14

    I was having a terrible day, then the legend with the most calming and crisp voice came back. At least I shall sleep easy tonight.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +4

      I’ve come to bequeath unto you, Skyrim

    • @RepublicofNvidiaGamers
      @RepublicofNvidiaGamers 5 місяців тому

      @@Fizhy & I shall repay you back with a lovely message on the 12th of July my friend.

  • @hanamizuno0625
    @hanamizuno0625 3 місяці тому +1

    I have played skyrim about 50 times all the way through. And i NEVER KNEW IT HAD A SECOND PART

  • @crispymango5626
    @crispymango5626 4 місяці тому +4

    last time i played through this quest, i took a break from it partway through to start the dark brotherhood story. i never saw the fourth victim after jailing wuunferth, instead i had gone to talk to him in his prison after killing the orphanage owner and he said “the butcher is back at work” in reference to the murder at the orphanage. the quest carried on from there. it was pretty weird!

  • @IreneSmith
    @IreneSmith 3 місяці тому +2

    Now you've done it. You've made me want to play Skyrim again.

  • @RandomGuythe1st
    @RandomGuythe1st 5 місяців тому +12

    @Fizhy Just letting you know that there’s audio overlap at around 19:22

  • @penguinmaster7
    @penguinmaster7 4 місяці тому +7

    the first time i tried this quest, the butcher killed my wife-to-be, which is doubly insulting because she was an argonian and her death had no purpose.
    of course, now i have mods that add additional options. like Deeja. you want knives? you want them in your belly? no? then you stop talking to deeja.

  • @asgrahim9164
    @asgrahim9164 5 місяців тому +1

    To be honest, I could watch your videos no matter which game they're about. The narration is quite cozy.

  • @jasonruka1665
    @jasonruka1665 4 місяці тому +2

    Just started replaying Skyrim recently … awesome to have some fresh content from one of the best to do it 🍻

  • @luna_fm
    @luna_fm 4 місяці тому +5

    That quest could use a alternative route for usage of "Reanimate Corpse" spell.

    • @yias2815
      @yias2815 4 місяці тому +1

      Reanimated corpses cant speak

  • @HelFrostKara
    @HelFrostKara 5 місяців тому +3

    You basically summed up my feelings on Skyrim at the start. A cozy mess :P also this is one of my fave quests. Murder Mysteries in an open world fantasy game are often pretty fun quests (Witcher 3 has some fun stuff).

  • @TakoyakiDonuts
    @TakoyakiDonuts 16 днів тому

    My favourite quest. There are multiple paths to take and so many great small details. It's one of the quests in the game, as buggy as it can be, and the conclusion is so satisfying.

  • @dylanAlbasini
    @dylanAlbasini 4 місяці тому +3

    I have always wondered what the Butcher's magic was,I also wished Bethesda would explore a little about it.I can only imagine what we're missing out on...the lore I mean not the foul magic,at least I have no interest in the magic but I guess for some of us they lose more than the rest of us.

  • @nachoyoutube2732
    @nachoyoutube2732 5 місяців тому +6

    You should make more Skyrim videos. Would love to see your perspective on this wonderful universe 😁

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +2

      I’m on it

  • @dannydaristotle9669
    @dannydaristotle9669 3 місяці тому +1

    this quest was so buggy on one of my play throughs that i had to use three different mods just to complete it but it’s one of my favorites in the whole game

  • @whysosleepyjoe2811
    @whysosleepyjoe2811 4 місяці тому +3

    Blood on the ice is one of those quests i HAD to make a new character for

  • @odd-eyes6363
    @odd-eyes6363 16 днів тому +1

    I can't believe Calixto was the Windelhm Butcher

  • @charliehaynes9153
    @charliehaynes9153 5 місяців тому +2

    Fizhy uploaded Skyrim content?! Today is a good day! Please upload more in the future, loved revisiting this buggy as hell quest 😂

  • @stmsly
    @stmsly 5 місяців тому +2

    If you're looking for more ideas, a video on the dwarven airship in solstheim would be cool.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +1

      I'll put it on the list.

  • @leeroy8936
    @leeroy8936 4 місяці тому +4

    Im pretty sure he asks you to sell him the amulet because he needs it back from you and just blames the other mage to throw you off

  • @Sgt.Paprika
    @Sgt.Paprika 5 місяців тому +2

    very nice video, i could never get the quest to work right and gave up so ik glad you made this video lol. hope to see more skyrim/elder scrolls stuffs from you :)

  • @Gattancha
    @Gattancha 5 місяців тому +2

    Everything I heard you saying "Wuunferth the Unliving" my brain was correcting it to "Mumm-Ra the Ever Living"....

  • @Imtiredpleasedont
    @Imtiredpleasedont 4 місяці тому +5

    I really love these Skyrim videos.
    And your sense of humor makes me chuckle a lot in general
    The bucket punishment gets me every time I watch the video 😂

  • @gavinspace
    @gavinspace 4 місяці тому +1

    great to see you doing skyrim content! this is definitely my comfort game and i come back to it all the time

  • @Wandering_Nowhere
    @Wandering_Nowhere 4 місяці тому +2

    Skyrim was nostalgic in the late 2010s. Now it's historic.

  • @AathielVaDaath
    @AathielVaDaath Місяць тому +1

    It's kind of funny... Everyone says that Blood on the Ice is buggy but after many, many playthroughs, it's possibly the only quest that HASN'T bugged out on me... Unless you count the amulet getting stuck in my inventory because I forget to have Calixto "appraise" it.
    That's happened more often than not.

  • @cipher8048
    @cipher8048 5 місяців тому +1

    Wow Fizhy making Skyrim videos, such an amazing thing please consider doing series

  • @TuberoseKisser
    @TuberoseKisser 4 місяці тому +2

    When it wants to work; Blood on the Ice is quite possibly one of the best written quests in the game+ you get one of the best vanilla houses. It's a trash quest line because of how buggy it is.

  • @raccoonhatcity7627
    @raccoonhatcity7627 3 місяці тому +3

    Having a meat pie in your back pocket is considered odd?
    Good to know.

  • @hamoodyman9239
    @hamoodyman9239 Місяць тому +2

    Video intro reminds me of when you’re looking for a recipe for cookies and the author spends the first few paragraphs talking about how cookies changed her life instead of just getting to the recipe…

  • @Sparten7F4
    @Sparten7F4 4 місяці тому +2

    I think Wuunferth was involved purely out of curiosity. As he says himself, he studies whatever he hasn't learned yet. Because power is the crux of the world. Calixto's motives aren't relevant to him. He has a partner to set up alibis as needed - hell, the murder after his imprisonment could have been preplanned by them EXPLICITLY to exonerate him - and this partner is both insane enough to cooperate, do the dirty work himself, and completely, totally disposable. The handwaved explanation for Calixto being incorrect about the amulet also adds to this. Wuunferth has no evidence for what he says the amulet found IS, he just asserts that Calixto is wrong and moves on without explanation.
    There's also the very real question of how Calixto got access to the locked house. And why the bloody hell he uses THAT as well as storing his linens and tools in his very own store. A guard with an axe would have a chest full of evidence against him, AND there are more tools IN the locked old house. Why not keep them there, where he'd be less likely to get outed?
    I think it's because he had a partner. Someone that couldn't be seen entering his store, but could use a bit of magic to easily slip into an unused home for work. But needed Calixto to also have tools on hand to kill and collect as needed. There's also the question of access to the house in a physical sense - and I see no evidence of Calixto's magical or lock picking skills.
    INstead, I think Wuunferth guranteed the access to a private place, and Calixto served as a disposable tool in Wuunferth's studies. And, when push came to shove, Wuunferth did as planned and set up Calixto to take the fall.

  • @BrightBlueInk
    @BrightBlueInk 4 місяці тому +1

    I didn't know Pete the Dog got a job as a court mage! Good for him.

  • @celestialclementine
    @celestialclementine 2 місяці тому

    i just did this quest yesterday off a gummy and the only thing i could think about was how uncomfortable those STONE beds would be in the inn where Marg stayed. I just imagined myself in skyrim absolutely hating my life and my poor back. Windhelm -1000000 aura

  • @JoeyBoswell89
    @JoeyBoswell89 5 місяців тому +4

    "the game broke for but I managed to bypass this with a few console commands"
    Todd howard - "it just works"

  • @kred792
    @kred792 22 дні тому

    this quest is so buggy that I literally never completed it on any of my many playthroughs of Skyrim, including the one where my goal was to become a Thane in all nine holds, which of course I failed because I could not complete this quest
    in other words, thanks for the video, very cool I finally got to see the end of the quest

  • @Jade_Callisto
    @Jade_Callisto 2 місяці тому

    So this is also touched upon with the Quest Mod called There Is No Umbra. Even going as far as to have you do the same magic to make a body for Umbra and referencing Calixto before you do that part.

  • @cyndlehick9777
    @cyndlehick9777 5 місяців тому +1

    I love these type of Skyrim videos. I hope for 15 more.

  • @vyperspit
    @vyperspit Місяць тому

    I’ve played the game a bunch of times, and I haven’t experienced any bugs or glitches like what you described when doing the Butcher case. However, there were some building or background glitches that kinda annoy me. Like the objects displayed on the shop stands near the blacksmith’s place are suspended in midair.

  • @hartplastikkaktus
    @hartplastikkaktus 4 місяці тому +6

    there seems to be some audio glitching going on when you are in the butcher house, explaining how to pass the bugs. Just a note for future videos so you can keep an eye out for htese kind of editing things

  • @nyxmoonoracle
    @nyxmoonoracle Місяць тому

    This is a quest I haven't gone deeply into.. I just get my house and that's it. I'm enjoying this!

  • @ravenreichyt
    @ravenreichyt 2 місяці тому +1

    ok. i thought i'm the only person modding this game to death and only play it for a couple of weeks.

  • @c-puff
    @c-puff Місяць тому +1

    "Regardless of how many times game has crashed d-"
    **video breaks and buffers**

  • @Krejii05
    @Krejii05 5 місяців тому +2

    I absolutely loved this quest, such a fun and unique quest i hope TES6 gets more like this.

  • @jarrodbright5231
    @jarrodbright5231 Місяць тому

    In all the playthroughs of Skyrim I've never had the second half of this quest trigger. I always figured it was Wuunferth.

  • @lexinicole4317
    @lexinicole4317 5 місяців тому

    Please make more Skyrim videos! I love your analysis videos and Skyrim has so much, I will watch this entire series. Amazing. Thank you

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому

      Thanks, will do!

  • @declassified137
    @declassified137 2 місяці тому

    Nothing beats discovering falkreth for the first time during full moon

  • @G.Alhumaidi
    @G.Alhumaidi 5 місяців тому +2

    I really appreciate your hard work and your dedication making a video for us just to enjoy it. Thank you so much, and please don't stop making videos for this series.
    I will always be waiting for a new video.

  • @fredrickjones566
    @fredrickjones566 4 місяці тому

    Yes more of this content! *my humble contribution for the algorithm*

  • @simplycinclair8979
    @simplycinclair8979 5 місяців тому

    Dude I LOVE seeing you post new stuff! I’d welcome more Skyrim stuff, especially

  • @crimzonempire4677
    @crimzonempire4677 4 місяці тому

    You made me cry
    The nostalgia is killing me

  • @ShaneReynolds0421
    @ShaneReynolds0421 5 місяців тому +1

    Nice 😎👍🏼 switchin’ it up.
    It doesn’t matter the game, it just matters the narrative.

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy  5 місяців тому +1

      indeed

    • @ShaneReynolds0421
      @ShaneReynolds0421 5 місяців тому

      @@Fizhy
      Narration might be the better word.
      Thanks for the reply. 😎👍🏼 I’m a big fan.