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Well, he made it through Tatooine without crying... too much. I just picture him arriving on a ship (space or boat), dropping to his knees, and bitterly sobbing. Lol
For anyone wondering about killing Alduin in Skyrim, therefor stopping the Kalpa Cycle. Remember how when you kill him, you don't absorb his soul? Alduin can't be stopped, only postponed. The end was, is and always will be coming.
It would be tragic if the last dragonborn absorb Alduin's soul. It means the dragonborn now bears the duty of world eater and the end will comes much sooner.
Hunter Thomas no because sovengard is on the boundary of Aethirous he just returned to Aethirous where he will reform and be reborn to fulfil his destiny and the dragon in the soul cairn is trapped there by the ideal masters there is no one to trap Alduin and it's not like anyone could he is literally a god after all
if you ask the greybeards (can't remember the guys name) he specifically mentions it's possible that Alduin will be brought back at the end of the kelpa. So it's all good. Except the bit where the world ends.
Actually, the dude that lives in the lighthouse of Anvil in oblivion if asked mentions that he takes people to several locations INCLUDING Yokuda. And according to the Elderscrolls wiki it was not completely destroyed. So maybe just maybe There's one last Sinistril Elf alive just like Knight-Paladin Gelebor.
Mr. Mysterium no, the basement is where the member of the black hand resided, the one who framed Lucian Lachance for killing his mother as a boy, THAT black hand member... it wasn’t the lighthouse keeper
The Sinistral Elves would be a really cool character to roll-play! If the new Elder Scrolls 6 is about High Rock I would be hoping the Sinistral Elves would be incorporated into the story somehow. I feel that landmass out there looks too close to be Yokuda, but the Sinistral Elves could have made their way there. If some Redguards survived, why couldn't they?
Did you ever hear the tragedy of The Sinistral Elves? I thought not. It’s not a story the Redguards would tell you. It’s a Yokudan legend. The Sinistral Elves were a race from the previous Kalpa, so powerful and so wise they could use the sands of their continent itself to create great artifacts… They had such a knowledge of their magic that they could even survive the end of time itself. The Sinistral elven magics were a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. They became so powerful… the only thing they were afraid of was losing their great empire, which eventually, of course, they did. Unfortunately, they taught the Yokudans everything they knew, then the Yokudans killed them in a sudden bloody war, and of course, the Yokudans went on to become the Redguards of Tamriel. Ironic. They could save others from the destruction of Yokuda, but not themselves.
Interesting fact: The Gods of the Redguards/Ancient Yokudans didn't exist in our Kalpa. But so many people believed in them that they manifested in this Kalpa, such as Hoonding.
"sinistral" probably comes from "sinister" which is latin for "left/left-hand" (right = "dexter", i believe) sinistral elves just means left-handed elves, it just sounds cooler.
SSRI happy hour Really now? Huh. Kind of weird when you consider the old (I think you'd call them) wive's tales about left handed catholic school children being beaten and told being left-handed is evil, or rather... Is sinister?
That certainly would explain where the developers got the name, but wouldn't explain where the Sinistral Elves got their name within the Elder Scrolls universe.
Camelworks true, but then if we're speaking strictly canonically, Sinistral has no real meaning is TES as Latin was never a language on Nirn. i liked your rewritten history interpretation, the yokudans being the one's who "named" the elves, seeing their culture as lesser. we all know only victors write the history books!
11 I do believe. Aldmer Altmer Ayleid Bosmer Chimer Dunmer Dwemer Falmer (Original) Maormer Orsimer Sinistral Elves Barsaebic Ayleids are a bit iffy. New Falmer are a bit iffy. Bretons are a bit iffy. Cantemiric Velothi are a bit iffy. And the Khajiit... well that's a video for another day.
There were also rumors/theories of the Ilyadi (mentioned only in Daggerfall) being related to the Aldmers. Weird stuff we'll never see in a ES game I guess.
ayleid were the first elves and then they broke in to different tribe bosmer wood elves altmer high elves chimer/dunmer (after curse) dark elves felmer (had a different name) were once snow elves maormer sea elves orsimer orcs (created by curse) bretons are half-elves khajiit depending on source
Camelworks I see myself as someone with quiet a Good lore knowledge but I never heard of the cantemiric velothi. Could you explain a little bit or make a Video?
Two corrections I'd like to make. "Sinistral" is actually an English word that means of or on the left side or the left hand. And given they weren't decedents of the Aldmer, they would not have been known as Mer, only as Elves. "Mer" means "folk" in Aldmeri, it was added to other words to distinguish the different Elven races from one another. Example; Altmer = Alt-Mer = High Folk. Given the Sinistral Elves did not descend from the Aldmer, they would have never received an Aldmeri distinction, therefore they would have never had "mer" added to their name.
So did the dwemer move into the next Kalpa, or did they travel to aetherius? In the college of winterhold quest when Arniel Gane mimics what the dwemer did with the heart of Lorkhan by using a warped soul gem, he turns into a shade. I guess this implies that he's probably stuck in aetherius as he looks kind of similar to some of the followers conjured from oblivion like the familiar wolf, but it's always possible that he was stuck between kalpas or something
I was thinking about the Dwemer moving Kalpa Cycles, but the Sinistral Evles and Yokudans, left their Kalpa Cycle as it died and moved into the rebirth. Given our Kalpa Cycle didn't end when the Dwemer vanished makes me think they couldn't have moved Kalpa cycles because ours still exists, therefor there was nothing to move to. Unless they actually time traveled and are now in the future. But there is no evidence of that being possible.
I think is most likely that Arniel stuck in your skin and thats why you can summon him. Same as the Numidium witch is believed to absorbed all this phycopath dwemer to its skin...
Isn't it possible that the Dwemer are in Oblivion (as in the plains of Oblivion) with Azura? also, doesn't she mention that the dwemer were "her people" at the end of morrowind? plus wouldn't that explain why the one dwemer you find in Morrowind is still on Tamriel, because when they all disappeared he was in a plain of Oblivion.
Why do ppl ask this, the dweemer turned into the skin of the numidium. The didnt ascend or dragon break when kagernack smacked that heart, all dweamer on mundus instantly created the brass tower. Whoever! If the dweemer created a tower, a litteral phsical reality bearing chain...then is this not something that always has to happen in every kalpa one race will rebel and become a reality chain? Imagine how much was lost during the yokuda sinking, they could have told everyone has this reality ends and other stuff, it really does add a deep sense of history to the game
Skyrim has already broken the Kalpa cycle though, with the defeat of Alduin. The Dragonborn literally stopped the end of time by destroying the aspect of the end of time. It makes me wonder if there isn't some huge conspiracy in the Elder Scrolls that's working to stop the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Maybe something both the Yokudans and Dwemer either knew about or were even in on.
Actually it's quite possible that the Lefthanders were not Elves at all, they were only referred to as such in Varieties of Faith and were simply known by some form of left handedness. You see, the Yokudans had a very strong swordsmanship culture and had records of every single possible sword technique, except for the Pankratosword. Pankratosword was created by the Sinistral and thus were immediately exiled for creating such a destructive weapon. This in turn caused an incredible amount of racism between the Raga and the Sinstral, after the cataclysm of Yokuda the Raga began interacting with Tamrielic humans, they recognized "elf" as a word roughly equivalent to "enemy" and so used the term to describe their defeated oppressors from the Homeland.
Ok, Complete conjecture here, but what if The Yokudans actually LOST their war with The Left Handed Elves and were forces to flee the islands or face extinction? They then made up The Tragedy of The Sword Singers and how their islands sunk as a consequence. The Left Handed Elves, now masters of their homeland, may be xenophobic like many other elves and use their own brand of magics to either wipe the minds of any who arrive on the issland or end their expositions via storms or other accedents. Thus Yokuda and The Sinestral Mer didnt GO anywhere. They're still there and make certain that neither the decendents of Man nor Mer know of their existance less they bring war to Yokuda once more.
It could be that the sinistral or left-handed part in their name could be a reference to "the left-hand path". Which meant that they might've been very proficient in spells and rituals much darker than necromancy.
Nah they're not all wiped out. Dwarves all wiped out? Nope, one survived because of Corprus. Falmer/Snow Elves all wiped out? Nada, two lived, one cuz of vampirism. So if they ever want to bring in a Sinistral Elf, they can, easily.
TheNN pretty much we just know the elves as a civilization doesn't exist anymore. Maybe one or two immortals but they aren't going to be reproducing into relevance anytime soon.
The dwarf didn't survive because of Corprus, he states in Morrowind that he was outside of mundus at the time of the dwarves' disappearance, and was thus left behind.
The lore of the elder scrolls games are so complex and fascinating and yet the only game to do the lore justice was morrowind. Both oblivion and Skyrim failed to use the lore to the full potential, especially Skyrim with Alduin.
SubliminalPancakes 78 Oblivion I would agree with but I think Skyrim did fine with the lore, it was just a lot less forced than Morrowind. If you wanted to know you had to go and find it in Skyrim, they didn't force it upon you like Morrowind did.
Mike Smithmyer nah not really they kinda messed up with the hole pantheon of the nords which made them look like big blond strong Imperials who just live in the North aka Skyrim. They just took the lore about nord Culture and throw it away
aysseralwan Well in terms of their gods, they did in some places but not others. There are a few people who openly praise Kyne and Shor and whatnot and not the Imperial pantheon, again it was just one of those things you had to go and find and deduce rather than the game forcing you to learn it.
Ulfgar Fog-Eye, the keeper of the lighthouse in Anvil, said in Oblivion that ships sail to harbours in Yokuda, so it has to be inhabited to this point.
You know, the Sinistril Elves were masters in magic... maybe they rose the islands again, or made it sink on purpose so the redguards will leave. Kinda like how the Psjiic order could make their island disappear at random. UPVOTE SO CAMEL LORD SEES.
It also could be that the "sinking" was more like a huge flood, submerging half of the continent in a visual sense where it feels like the sea level just rose up, with many villages and towns being centered on rivers for agricultural purposes, it would still be devastating to have to rebuild higher up the mountains, the land would be different so growing food would be hard, there's less woodland for resources, and a huge drop in the animal population. Its quite likely that at least some of those elves are still alive, and have at least partially rebuilt yokuda, and just decided they dont wanna travel, or dont have to resources yet to travel to tamriel.
Yokuda's sinking = Illusion magic? (The College of Winterhold was able to be hidden in TES5 with the Illusion magic of the Staff of Magnus.) Why not an entrie contintent being hidden by Illusion magic? (e.g. Paradise Island aka Themyscira from DC's Wonder Woman lore which is said to be somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle aka Devil's Triangle)
what if they didnt sink it, just flooded the everloving shxt out of it long enough to get away, and sincerely thought they sank it cus they never actually went back to check?
Regarding the left handed elves being conncted to Lorkhan and the redguard hating Lorkhan, it's possible that the last Kalpa Lorkhan favored the elves, while Auriel favored humans. It would also explain why the left handed elves seemed to be the dominant race who had the big empire, as opposed to humans like with the tamrielic empire. The roles are reversed. Maybe when this Kalpa ends, one race of elves (say, the altmer) and the imperials will sidestep, and they will wage war and the altmer will wipe out the imperials during the next kalpa, and then not want to talk about the imperials anymore for their actions (mainly Tiber Septim's conquest of Summerset) darkens their days. They will destroy their continent of Aldmeris and proceed to invade the new continent of this new Kalpa, killing all humans they find on their way, as a Lorkhan-favored race of elves destroys their human overlords and takes their place as the head of the empire.
Well, the reason Lorkhan favors Men over Mer is not because of some innate trait, they're both just degenerated Et'Ada/Ehlnofey, it's because Men for the most part accepted Mundus and Lorkhan's goals for it as an Arena for the spirits to better themselves and achieve the Walking Ways and eventually Amaranth. Meanwhile, Mer originally all rejected it and looked for a way to become Et'Ada again. This is what split the Ehlnofey, basically, into the wandering Ehlnofey that became Men after leaving Tamriel (they came back later, clearly) and the stationary ones who built up Tamriel and became Mer. Of course, most have forgotten that these days, and many Mer even accept or defend Mundus these days, such as the Khajiit (they did so very early on at the urging of Azura though. Also to add, yes Khajiit are Mer, they were originally Mer of unfixed shape and the same species as the Bosmer, until the race split when some signed up with the Aedra Y'ffre to attain fixed shape and the others were helped by Azura to be bound to the moons and achieve many different fixed shapes) and the Dunmer (their so-called Three Good Daedra, including Azura again, taught them some of the purpose of Lorkhan and they accepted his goal and view of the world as an Arena, basing their approach to life around it.) It's pretty much just the Altmer trying to undo reality at this point. Interestingly enough, in the present Kalpa, it's actually implied that one of the reasons why the Nords could never conquer Morrowind or exterminate the Dunmer is because of the intervention of Lorkhan, who does not want to see either of these two races who follow his will to die out, Man or Mer.
Maybe the humans of the past Kapla followed Anui'el instead of Sithis, and the elves followed Sithis instead of Anui'el. (I'm assuming that Shor son of SHor is legit, and Lorkhan's dad Sithis was the Lorkhan in the previous Kapla, while Auriel's dad Anui-El was the Auriel in the previous Kapla.)
The Italian term for left is "sinistra", which could be related to their name. Also, what if Yokuda never sank? History is unreliable, and the ancient Redguard could have lost a fight, fled to Tamriel, said they won, and invented an excuse as to why no-one can go to Yokuda and check.
Oscar Walsh yes it means left. Sinistra means left or sinister too in another context. Yea dont worry its nothing major.. grammar is annoying in all languages lol
Maybe everyone who goes in the vicinity get their memories wiped of the area. That the sinister elves are so advanced but they want to be in peace and als brainwashed the red guards in saying that.
I always find Yokuda to be interesting. Hammerfell and the Redguards are far more interesting a place and culture than Skyrim in my honest opinion. Something about desert sands and Arabesque architecture combined with the warrior culture and somewhat sinister past of the Redguards really tickles my fancy. Honestly if it wasn't for the fact that real-world problems might cause it to get some negative press, an Arabian styled Elder Scrolls game would be an amazing game to play.
It all depends on whether the weiters bother to do some research or if they decide to just regurgitate old stereotypes. But it would be way cooler than Medieval Europe (Again)
It would be so cool to see some form of the sinistral elves in future elder scroll games, I think it would be more interesting than the dwemer returning (because the mystery of their disappearance might be better left unexplained) at the very least it would be cool to learn more about them. If they do get put in sand weapons would be pretty nice.
I'd love to see a Game Set in The Glory Days of Yokuda. The Left-handed Elves look Really cool and I hear that they had Magic that could Create Cities Out of Magic. I highly doubt Any of them Survived because Either they we're wiped out by The Yokudan's or If they Survived they probably Left Yokuda or more than Likely they Just died Along With Yokuda
Tarlo The Boar I want it a bit modern. Like playing in Hammerfell and having dlc's in yokuda. And introducing the new elves in some way would be great!
Ranger Cervantes I think Hammerfell with Yokuda DLC Would be Great! Especially with The Left-handed Elves in it. I think The story for the DLC would be an Expedition gone wrong
I would preffer an elder scrolls legends game set during the en of the last Kalpa, revolving around the yokuda an the sinistral elves sidestepping the end f the world.
It's crazy that the Redguard are practically time travellers. Explains why their culture seems so powerful and wise: they've literally been recording and inventing things for two worlds at least now.
Loved the video, Camel! I just love immersing myself in such intricately, interesting lore of such a magnificent world. I'd love to see a future video on the Warp in the West.
Bro I just want to say all your lore videos have made my dungeons and dragons game amazing it's set after the world ends and is being reborn tribe's are forming and my players get peices of the past similar to the Dwemer race but all of previous history they come across old magic no one understands it's great and I can't thank you enough for the resource you provide here
Personal Theory; Yokuda is now a series of atolls & mountainous islands (like Pyramid Island off Australia), and at the heart of this is a disturbance or whirlpool that pull in vessels that get too close, hence why no-one returns from going out there
The Redguard legends might be false, do we really for sure that the continent was destroyed/sunk. The red guards could have lost, but not just want to admit it, while the lefthanded elves are chilling on their continent
I really hope these elves make an appearance in a future game. It would be cool to have this ancient forgotten race mysterious reappear, perhaps arriving on the coasts of Tamriel and establishing settlements. Somehow it seems strange that such a powerful race would die out so quickly, although to be fair the same has happened to the Ayleids, the Dwemer, and the Snow Elves.
Question my friends....they were active during the Merethic Era and 1st Era, then how are they of a different kalpa cycle? They just herald from an older time like the Ayleid, Dwemer, Dovah, Atmorans, Nedes, etc., right? I mean if they are of a different time altogether then they would be prior to the Dawn era.
I'm really glad you decided to take the time to distinguish what was confirmed lore and what was fan theory. Most Elder Scrolls Lore channels don't care enough to do that and it leads to a lot of misinformation.
“1. Using the left hand more naturally then the right. 2. Advancing by turning **Counterclockwise** 3. Perverse” That second definition really sticks out to me.
Sorry to bring this back up but... Advance by going counterclockwise...so they got to the known Kalpa by regressing through their own? Could this have something to do with why Yokuda "sank"? Maybe it just "went back to the beginning", and then in ESO what we see makes sense. It didnt sink as time went forward, it "sank" as it was unformed as time went backwards. Yet it still remains. Time travel hurts my head. I hope what I said makes sense. Lol I wanna think on this more if you've got any other provocative definitions to throw around
In Markarth the new expansion of ESO we found out that a Vampire Lord named Rada al-saran was a great yokudan warrior. Then maybe in the future we can find others survivors like these elves
Redguards are my favourite race in all elder scrolls, I even make a mage with a redguard, and would love to see yokuda, and the left handed elves, they would probably be my favourite elf race if we could play as them of course
Ive heard in the lore community that Nords also escaped from a previous Kalpa using high hrothgar. Also that nords were originally nords, then became atmorans, then returned to Skyrim and became nords again. Also ancient nords and giants were once practically indistinguishable, and share a common ancestor. Maybe a video on either or both of those? Also maybe Amaranth, the dreamsleeve, or that the ocean is actually memories? Could that be why you can see yokuda across the sea?
The Nords essentially believe that Kyne always breaths them into being on Snow-Throat at the start of every world. We know this can't be entirely true since Nords actually come from the splitting of the Ehlnofey (think lesser spirits who became mortal during the creation of the world, and are the ancestors of most mortal races) and so they not always Nords, but it's entirely possible that something such as Kyne always turning some Ehlnofey into Nords at Snow-Throat could happen every Kalpa. So the Nords don't by anything they believe or is told us jump Kalpas, or at least they don't anymore if they ever had the knowledge, but it could be that Nords always come into existence in every Kalpa because of Kyne. It's theorized that Giants are essentially another split from the wandering Ehlnofey (basically the kind of Ehlnofey that became the ancestors of Men) who have somehow degenerated to their present state. Nords and Giants would thus be related through that ancestry. Amaranth is the achievement of the final apotheosis. Not to achieve power by emulating metaphysical constructs or even realizing you are in a dream like with the Walking Ways, but actually achieving the status of Godhead yourself, independent from the current one, and dreaming your own world. The Dreamsleeve is the temporary home of souls where some dwell in afterlives while they wait to reincarnate; when that happens we don't know. Their memories are stripped there at reincarnation, so they do make up the Dreamsleeve somewhat.
Maybe the left handed elves had the roll of the dunmer in the previous kalpa as there are similarities Dark skin Possible connection with lorkan (lorkan heart had a roll in turning the chimer to dunmer) Last elves in their kalpa (C0DA has the dunmer and khajiit as the last races) So maybe the dunmer will enter the next kalpa
I really loved this video and all your ES lore videos I dunno if this is a stupid theory or has already been suggested because there’s a lot more smarter ES nerds than me but the Left-handed Elves could possibly be the Dwemer. The incident in Vvardenfell could have sent them back in time to the last timeline, where they spent god knows how long trying to get back to their own time. If the ancient Yokuda hated Lorkan because of them it could actually be because it was his heart that sent them into the ancient Yokuda’s world/timeline. The Dwemer could actually have caused the destruction of the last timeline in order to “walk sideways” back into their own time and the Yokuda followed them and caused them to hate them. The Left-handed Elves were incredibly skilled with magic and making cities, in your video their city was larger than the Septim empire, this is all skills the Dwemer had in Tamriel before vanishing. They were already on steam powered technology at the time the rest of the races were still coming out of the dark ages/tribal ages, if they hadn’t of vanished, by the time of Morrowind they could have been at modern technology or better especially mixed with magic, so if they wound up in another world they would be more than capable and smart enough to start again and evolve. Although the colouring is different to the Dwemer, they could have been in this other timeline for millions of years and given both them and the Yokuda/Redguards have a culture based around the desert it’s safe to say they came from a desert climate in the past timeline and over the millennia could have evolved to suit the climate and darkening their skin tone. Also, although it’s not the same, them having this talent at burrowing under the sand could be linked to the Dwemer building their cities underground and living below ground in Tamriel, just a further skill they could have improved upon to survive in a desert climate heat and weather. This could also be why the last Dwemer with Corpus from Morrowind couldn’t find the Dwemer even tho he searched for thousands of years in different realms because they weren’t in his time anymore. I don’t believe they died at Vvardenfell and given the nature of Elder Scrolls games anything is absolutely possible, if 2 races can travel to the new world after their own is destroyed its completely possible for another to be sent back, especially with the help of a gods heart
This would make a great DLC for ES:6. Call it something like "The Reborn Land" or "Unsunken". Plot; Turns out that the Left-handed Elves actually drove out the Ra Gata, and the red guard have lied about their origin to hide their culture's shame. Now, almost 5000 years later, the left-handed elves have amassed armies of mer and strange stone machines to invade mainland Tamriel and wipe out the descendents of their ancient enemy, the Red Guard, and all other races of men, mer, and beast folk who would oppose their rule.
Wait, so time works kinda like Dark Souls in the Elder Scrolls universe? ...well, shit, then doesn't that mean we're doing kinda the same thing in Skyrim? The end of time, of an age, is coming in the form of Alduin, yet humanity rejected it and threw him into the future, forestalling the inevitable. We as Dragonborn then killed Alduin, halting the end of times yet again. That sounds terribly like the linking of the First Flame. I never noticed that before.
thing is, not everything is the same in every kalpa. for example in the current kalpa Alduin decided 'screw it' and enslaved humanity to worship him and the dragons- his job is destruction of all things, but that's it. then when he comes back in Skyrim, he attempts to destroy everything earlier or at least that's what i think, seeing as how Akatosh was gracious enough to put a dragonborn on Nirn to stop him. i mean, why else would he? only Akatosh has the power to make a dragonborn. so in a sense, each kapla is and is-not the same. there are similarities, sure, even mirror kalpas, but also distinct differences.
I have to HAND it to you for breaking down this mysterious race which LEFT me a bit puzzled as to whether or not we can see them again in another ES game
It's possible that those are the remaining islands in the distance. It is known that the main continent of Yokuda was sunk, but some of the islands remained.
11:22 I believe that they put it there either because they thought i looked better or probably because the level-designer did not really know the lore and simply looked at the map wish show an island out there.
Nah, they are SOOOOO strict with what goes into the game. Entire conintents are not added by accident. There is also no other islands in the distance randomly, anywhere else on the shores of Tamriel, except exactly where Yokuda is :)
10:18 That can't be a remnant of Yokuda. It's way too close to Tamriel. You can observe it from different points in Glenumbra and triangulate how far is it. I estimate that landmass is no more than 1/4 times the lenght of Glenumbra into the ocean.
It would have been nice to have been able to meet one of these Sinistral Elves and learn a bit about the previous Kalpa. But their existence also leaves an interesting possibility. If the current Kalpa of TES ends in a future game, it is possible that one or more of the races of Tamriel could survive and travel to the next Kalpa. We could possibly even get a Fallout 4 type of situation, creating a character from the familiar ten races, witnessing Alduin's return and the end of the world, but somehow surviving it. Later, the player wakes up in a foreign world, inhabited by races we haven't seen before.
It's a Latin word. Not English. English comes from Germanic languages, Not Latin. unlike others that share Latin ancestry like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French.
@@CodexSan English is actually a mix of both Roman languages and Germanic languages. Old English is purely Germanic, yes, but after the French took control in England a lot of their language stuck to the English language. Thus, the current English language actually has a lot of words derived from Latin in it! Sinistral is in fact an English word, but of course it is only taken from French, which took it from Latin. So a lot of the commenters here are all right, in a way ;-)
I've gotten an idea while watching this. Is there a possibilty that the dwemer used their tonal stuff to do as the Yokudans did? Evading time and space until the beginning of the next kelpa, but not for survival, but to rule and dominate it? That might also explain why they enslaved and disfigured the Falmer which are possibly linked to Auriel, the embodiment of the beginning of time. When an Elder Scroll was used to send Alduin forth in time nobody was able to determine when Alduin would reappear in the timeline - so the Dwemer needed something from the Falmer to learn how to "aim" for the "tune" of Auriel, since everything is about the tonal stuff for Dwemer. Maybe we shouldn't ask where the Dwemer went, but when? What do you think?
also FYI the word 'sinister' means left-facing in heraldry, and used to be a euphamism for left-handed people. so sinistral elves is just another synonym / translation for left-handed elves
I was thinking that maybe the left handed elves could be some sort of spiritual ancestor of the dunmer, of course there isn't a lot of evidence as far as I am aware beyond appearances as shown in the video and their homelands possibly leading to similar biological resistances of fire and heat.
That was a fantastic video. My only question is if we are able to get that sword through a mod or something. Imagine when you power attack the ground or something, it will create an earthquake like reaction, and stagger everyone
Hey there camelworks I just had a query, when Alduin destroys the world/ends that cycle of time, is there anyway to escape it when it's already happening? As in, what is the nature of the destruction, is a new world shape formed? As in Tamriel is gone and a new world starts? Could be something you do a video on if there's enough to say about it I guess. Just wondering if the dwarves were on to something by being underground, or maybe they were trying to attach themselves to the heart of Lorkhan as a means of escaping the end of time as its said that the heart cannot be destroyed, rather than accidentally destroying the race? I'm not sure.
@@Paguo except they aren't called sinister elves, they're called sinistral elves, which in English means left handed. This whole thing is English, not Latin.
@@theepokedex8514 ??? But they are called "sinistral" because they are left handed... and sinistral comes from sinister, it all means "left". Come on man, a 10 second google search is enough
Yokuda as depicted by maps is the Yokuda of today. It used to be much much MUCH larger, but most of that sank into the ocean. I believe most of modern Yokuda is uninhabitable, much like Atmora.
Given that TES6 is almost certainly going to be set in Hammerfell, it doesn't seem entirely out of the question that the plot may be that the left handed elves reveal themselves and attack. Presuming they don't just single out the Redguards, geographically they'd also be likely to strike High Rock as well, so this (purely hypothetical) scenario would certainly lend merit to the idea that TES6 may be set in both Hammerfell AND High Rock. The fact that the announcement video was set in the coastline between the two may also be a subtle hint towards this. Even if this is not the plot of TES6, the rediscovery of the left handed elves would still make for great DLC, or perhaps a mages guild questline. We'll have to wait and see.
I find it hard to believe that there is a land mass that's visible from the Tamrielic empire that no emperor has tried to sail to and conquer. They went to Akavir first? I'm thinking that might be an oversight by Zenimax. They heard about Yokuda but didn't realize how lore unfriendly it would be for you to be able to see it. However you can make it lore friendly. The Sinistrel elves have been living on Yokuda under the water since it was sunk. They figured out some magic that allowed them to do that and they decided to stay in hiding. Every so often though, (let's say every 2,000 years or so) they have to surface to collect oxygen or sunlight or something. The player from ESO decided not to tell anyone about what they saw because they thought they were hallucinating and no one would believe them.
An interesting theory, the Sinistral Elves living under water. I wonder if there is any connections with the Maomer or the Sload. Especially as Thras is not really that far from old Yokuda. Given how transformative elves are in the lore, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sinistral elves were transformed. Turned into the Sea Slugs themselves 😂😂 Ehh those are just my theories and speculations, I would love for Bethesda to write more lore on these Elves.
@@Gobbygiblet Nice plot twist. They evolved into the Sload so they can survive under water but they were still mad at the Yokudans for sinking their homeland so that's why they spread the Thrasian plauge.
I doubt that's Yokuda you can see in the distance. Even in near perfect conditions a person can only see a few miles at best. According to the same map you use in the video, Yokuda is roughly 500 miles from High Rock. So the only explanations are A) You can see 100x farther in Tamriel than in real life B) Yokuda has an elevation of a couple hundred miles or C) it's some random island not listed on the map that's just beyond the horizon.
Don't get map distances and in game distances mixed up. On the same map, Skyrim is about 400 miles across, yet in game we can walk across Skyrim in about 15 minutes. And we know your character isn't walking at 1,600 miles per hour. So with in game scaling, that is 100% Yokuda.
Actually due to light refraction you can see further than the horizon over large bodies of water. I used to see across the long island sound before I moved away.
8:44 "Sinistral" is just a fancy term for left handed from the Latin sinistram or Sinister (note that in olden times, left handedness was considered evil witch is why in English 'Sinister' became an adjective for some thing negative)
just found this channel watched like three videos and its amazing, ive been playing the elder scrolls since arena and know alot if not most of the lore and your literally the only one whos ever mentioned something that i wasnt already somewhat aware of so good on ya mate definately worth a subcription and 1000 likes
Camel you should totally go into detail about how all the other elves came to be back from the beginning and you should also do a video on the falmer lore. The snow elves are my favorite race in the elderscrolls franchise and they def deserve a vid
I feel it would be reasonable to speculate that Yokuda didn't completely sink into the ocean as much as it was destroyed. The forbidden technique could've blasted a massive crater in the continent resulting in natural disaster that made the whole continent uninhabitable. This could easily be recorded as the "Sinking of Yokuda" by historians.
It could be a Temporal Anomaly that you're seeing in ESO, as if the Elves sent a message back through time and they made the Yokudans believe them to be wiped (like the Dwarves did). Or they resurfaced, but swore never to leave the Continent.
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Camelworks i have a question are left-handed elves daedric? Because they look like dremora to me.Please reply
You didn't ask*
And your point is?
would it be sad if I say that the name bought me here lol.
LOL XD
Ps, not sad
"..Red guards are quite literally not of this world"
Well that explains why they have *curved swords*
There is no canon evidence of the redguards coming from another Kalpa.
𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐃. 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒.
SLUG BOY absolutely.
SLUG BOY look it up on the uesp (unofficial elder scrolls pages). It's where the big boys go to research lore.
It focuses on the source material only, no c0da bullshit.
"They could make armour out of sandstone and sand"
Don't take Anakin Skywalker to Yokuda
The same thing I thought
I keep imagining him each time a khajit tells me "may your journeys lead you to warm sands" and I curse Anakin for ruining this for me.
I don't get it
Well, he made it through Tatooine without crying... too much. I just picture him arriving on a ship (space or boat), dropping to his knees, and bitterly sobbing. Lol
@17mohara Hara HE HATES THEM.
For anyone wondering about killing Alduin in Skyrim, therefor stopping the Kalpa Cycle. Remember how when you kill him, you don't absorb his soul?
Alduin can't be stopped, only postponed. The end was, is and always will be coming.
It would be tragic if the last dragonborn absorb Alduin's soul.
It means the dragonborn now bears the duty of world eater and the end will comes much sooner.
well he is killed in sovangarde so maybe his soul is trapped there, kinda like the dragon in the soul cairn
Hunter Thomas no because sovengard is on the boundary of Aethirous he just returned to Aethirous where he will reform and be reborn to fulfil his destiny and the dragon in the soul cairn is trapped there by the ideal masters there is no one to trap Alduin and it's not like anyone could he is literally a god after all
Damn that's deap
if you ask the greybeards (can't remember the guys name) he specifically mentions it's possible that Alduin will be brought back at the end of the kelpa. So it's all good. Except the bit where the world ends.
Actually, the dude that lives in the lighthouse of Anvil in oblivion if asked mentions that he takes people to several locations INCLUDING Yokuda. And according to the Elderscrolls wiki it was not completely destroyed. So maybe just maybe There's one last Sinistril Elf alive just like Knight-Paladin Gelebor.
Since I started playing Oblivion again, I'm gonna look out for that.
Pineapple dude well it seems the elder scrolls have more to tell us and I hope and pray we find this race
Pineapple dude didn't that dude have a severed head in his basement or something? How can we know he's even sane?
Mr. Mysterium doesn't everyone in tamriel have atleast a few skulls in their homes though? XD
Mr. Mysterium no, the basement is where the member of the black hand resided, the one who framed Lucian Lachance for killing his mother as a boy, THAT black hand member... it wasn’t the lighthouse keeper
They were the elves that the redguards... Left behind.
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The Sinistral Elves would be a really cool character to roll-play! If the new Elder Scrolls 6 is about High Rock I would be hoping the Sinistral Elves would be incorporated into the story somehow. I feel that landmass out there looks too close to be Yokuda, but the Sinistral Elves could have made their way there. If some Redguards survived, why couldn't they?
We could get sea elves cause most likely it’s gonna be set in valenwood
what makes you think valenwood is more likely to be the setting for ES6 over other provinces?
Looks like your dreams could be coming true
There were apparently some islands that surrounded Yokuta that survived the destruction. Maybe the Sinisteral elves left to stay on those islands
Omg I want them in the game too
Did you ever hear the tragedy of The Sinistral Elves? I thought not. It’s not a story the Redguards would tell you. It’s a Yokudan legend. The Sinistral Elves were a race from the previous Kalpa, so powerful and so wise they could use the sands of their continent itself to create great artifacts… They had such a knowledge of their magic that they could even survive the end of time itself. The Sinistral elven magics were a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. They became so powerful… the only thing they were afraid of was losing their great empire, which eventually, of course, they did. Unfortunately, they taught the Yokudans everything they knew, then the Yokudans killed them in a sudden bloody war, and of course, the Yokudans went on to become the Redguards of Tamriel. Ironic. They could save others from the destruction of Yokuda, but not themselves.
Thanks for telling us this Palpatine.
Emperor Calpatine
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that was fantastic lol
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Interesting fact: The Gods of the Redguards/Ancient Yokudans didn't exist in our Kalpa. But so many people believed in them that they manifested in this Kalpa, such as Hoonding.
Bruuuuh that’s so dope 👌🏿🔥
A bit like a tulpa?
"sinistral" probably comes from "sinister" which is latin for "left/left-hand" (right = "dexter", i believe)
sinistral elves just means left-handed elves, it just sounds cooler.
SSRI happy hour Really now? Huh. Kind of weird when you consider the old (I think you'd call them) wive's tales about left handed catholic school children being beaten and told being left-handed is evil, or rather... Is sinister?
People used to think left-handed people were weird and scary. That's where the word sinister comes from
That certainly would explain where the developers got the name, but wouldn't explain where the Sinistral Elves got their name within the Elder Scrolls universe.
SSRI happy hour right is “rectus” I believe
Camelworks true, but then if we're speaking strictly canonically, Sinistral has no real meaning is TES as Latin was never a language on Nirn. i liked your rewritten history interpretation, the yokudans being the one's who "named" the elves, seeing their culture as lesser. we all know only victors write the history books!
"They stepped sideways in time"
I know next to frak-all about ES lore and it's blowing my mind. Thanks Camel.
Lucky Jedi might be
Just how many Elves do the elder scrolls have? What is next, the kitchen sink elves?
11 I do believe.
Aldmer
Altmer
Ayleid
Bosmer
Chimer
Dunmer
Dwemer
Falmer (Original)
Maormer
Orsimer
Sinistral Elves
Barsaebic Ayleids are a bit iffy.
New Falmer are a bit iffy.
Bretons are a bit iffy.
Cantemiric Velothi are a bit iffy.
And the Khajiit... well that's a video for another day.
There were also rumors/theories of the Ilyadi (mentioned only in Daggerfall) being related to the Aldmers. Weird stuff we'll never see in a ES game I guess.
ayleid were the first elves and then they broke in to different tribe
bosmer wood elves
altmer high elves
chimer/dunmer (after curse) dark elves
felmer (had a different name) were once snow elves
maormer sea elves
orsimer orcs (created by curse)
bretons are half-elves
khajiit depending on source
Larsa Valeth Aldmer were the first elves
Camelworks I see myself as someone with quiet a Good lore knowledge but I never heard of the cantemiric velothi. Could you explain a little bit or make a Video?
Two corrections I'd like to make.
"Sinistral" is actually an English word that means of or on the left side or the left hand.
And given they weren't decedents of the Aldmer, they would not have been known as Mer, only as Elves. "Mer" means "folk" in Aldmeri, it was added to other words to distinguish the different Elven races from one another. Example; Altmer = Alt-Mer = High Folk. Given the Sinistral Elves did not descend from the Aldmer, they would have never received an Aldmeri distinction, therefore they would have never had "mer" added to their name.
Just a idea for a possible video later on maybe talk about namira since there's not a lot att all of it in the namira quest in skyrim
Camelworks: In Latin, sinister means left hand, also
when we cast spells we use our left hand as default i always figured that had a connection considering how the yokudans feel about magic
I was gonna say there was probably a linguistic reasoning for it, as the Italian word for left is sinestra.
I was going to comment on that too
So did the dwemer move into the next Kalpa, or did they travel to aetherius? In the college of winterhold quest when Arniel Gane mimics what the dwemer did with the heart of Lorkhan by using a warped soul gem, he turns into a shade. I guess this implies that he's probably stuck in aetherius as he looks kind of similar to some of the followers conjured from oblivion like the familiar wolf, but it's always possible that he was stuck between kalpas or something
I was thinking about the Dwemer moving Kalpa Cycles, but the Sinistral Evles and Yokudans, left their Kalpa Cycle as it died and moved into the rebirth. Given our Kalpa Cycle didn't end when the Dwemer vanished makes me think they couldn't have moved Kalpa cycles because ours still exists, therefor there was nothing to move to. Unless they actually time traveled and are now in the future. But there is no evidence of that being possible.
I think is most likely that Arniel stuck in your skin and thats why you can summon him. Same as the Numidium witch is believed to absorbed all this phycopath dwemer to its skin...
Isn't it possible that the Dwemer are in Oblivion (as in the plains of Oblivion) with Azura? also, doesn't she mention that the dwemer were "her people" at the end of morrowind? plus wouldn't that explain why the one dwemer you find in Morrowind is still on Tamriel, because when they all disappeared he was in a plain of Oblivion.
Why do ppl ask this, the dweemer turned into the skin of the numidium. The didnt ascend or dragon break when kagernack smacked that heart, all dweamer on mundus instantly created the brass tower.
Whoever! If the dweemer created a tower, a litteral phsical reality bearing chain...then is this not something that always has to happen in every kalpa one race will rebel and become a reality chain?
Imagine how much was lost during the yokuda sinking, they could have told everyone has this reality ends and other stuff, it really does add a deep sense of history to the game
Skyrim has already broken the Kalpa cycle though, with the defeat of Alduin. The Dragonborn literally stopped the end of time by destroying the aspect of the end of time.
It makes me wonder if there isn't some huge conspiracy in the Elder Scrolls that's working to stop the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Maybe something both the Yokudans and Dwemer either knew about or were even in on.
Actually it's quite possible that the Lefthanders were not Elves at all, they were only referred to as such in Varieties of Faith and were simply known by some form of left handedness. You see, the Yokudans had a very strong swordsmanship culture and had records of every single possible sword technique, except for the Pankratosword.
Pankratosword was created by the Sinistral and thus were immediately exiled for creating such a destructive weapon. This in turn caused an incredible amount of racism between the Raga and the Sinstral, after the cataclysm of Yokuda the Raga began interacting with Tamrielic humans, they recognized "elf" as a word roughly equivalent to "enemy" and so used the term to describe their defeated oppressors from the Homeland.
Where does it state that the Sinistrals oppressed the Yokudans? I thought they were simply two strong societies that didn't get along.
Oppression can go both ways, the Sinistral were exiled. Then they caused a civil war which drove the Raga away from their homeland.
Redguard started it.
@@dylannroofsundayservice988 How do you know?
@@khakihades8876 Redguard are inherently violent.
Ok, Complete conjecture here, but what if The Yokudans actually LOST their war with The Left Handed Elves and were forces to flee the islands or face extinction? They then made up The Tragedy of The Sword Singers and how their islands sunk as a consequence.
The Left Handed Elves, now masters of their homeland, may be xenophobic like many other elves and use their own brand of magics to either wipe the minds of any who arrive on the issland or end their expositions via storms or other accedents.
Thus Yokuda and The Sinestral Mer didnt GO anywhere. They're still there and make certain that neither the decendents of Man nor Mer know of their existance less they bring war to Yokuda once more.
EccentricSage or for elder scrolls 6 which takes place in the area of high rock and hammerfell where the main race is redguards....
The guy in the Anvil Lighthouse in Oblivion, Ulfgar Fog-Eye, actually mentions that he has taken people to Yokuda.
That’s kinda cap, but the islands rise & sink through time
That would make more sense considering how powerful the sinistral elves were
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Can i still join if I'm ambidextrous but favor my left hand?
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Daddy Camel released a new video alongside Fudgemuppet. Both of them are elves themed too, Christmas came early!
Azriel Moha so did i
Hey, I never thought of that. Christmas = Elf lore.
It could be that the sinistral or left-handed part in their name could be a reference to "the left-hand path". Which meant that they might've been very proficient in spells and rituals much darker than necromancy.
Have you heard of the high elves?
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Ezio Auditore everyone has they are one of the most well known races.
kylie caperton it's a joke, smart one
Nah they're not all wiped out. Dwarves all wiped out? Nope, one survived because of Corprus. Falmer/Snow Elves all wiped out? Nada, two lived, one cuz of vampirism. So if they ever want to bring in a Sinistral Elf, they can, easily.
TheNN pretty much we just know the elves as a civilization doesn't exist anymore. Maybe one or two immortals but they aren't going to be reproducing into relevance anytime soon.
The dwarf didn't survive because of Corprus, he states in Morrowind that he was outside of mundus at the time of the dwarves' disappearance, and was thus left behind.
Well yes, but he only lived for the THOUSANDS of years after that because he caught Corprus, which makes you immortal.
That's true, but you still said he survived because of corprus.
@@TheNN He caught corpus after the Dwemer disappeared, please read carefully 😑
The lore of the elder scrolls games are so complex and fascinating and yet the only game to do the lore justice was morrowind. Both oblivion and Skyrim failed to use the lore to the full potential, especially Skyrim with Alduin.
It's almost as if all the best writers left after Morrowind... Oh, wait.
Yeah true and sad
SubliminalPancakes 78 Oblivion I would agree with but I think Skyrim did fine with the lore, it was just a lot less forced than Morrowind. If you wanted to know you had to go and find it in Skyrim, they didn't force it upon you like Morrowind did.
Mike Smithmyer nah not really they kinda messed up with the hole pantheon of the nords which made them look like big blond strong Imperials who just live in the North aka Skyrim. They just took the lore about nord Culture and throw it away
aysseralwan Well in terms of their gods, they did in some places but not others. There are a few people who openly praise Kyne and Shor and whatnot and not the Imperial pantheon, again it was just one of those things you had to go and find and deduce rather than the game forcing you to learn it.
Ulfgar Fog-Eye, the keeper of the lighthouse in Anvil, said in Oblivion that ships sail to harbours in Yokuda, so it has to be inhabited to this point.
Dewey Dezimal Yokuda is still somewhat above water, but most of the continent has sunken beneath the sea.
It’s just being visited for research, not for colonization
camerer marsh source?
@@jasonpyre8572 play oblivion bro
You know, the Sinistril Elves were masters in magic... maybe they rose the islands again, or made it sink on purpose so the redguards will leave. Kinda like how the Psjiic order could make their island disappear at random.
UPVOTE SO CAMEL LORD SEES.
LostAutomata I was thinking about the Psjic Order and their island magic as soon as he mentioned it! Great theory
It also could be that the "sinking" was more like a huge flood, submerging half of the continent in a visual sense where it feels like the sea level just rose up, with many villages and towns being centered on rivers for agricultural purposes, it would still be devastating to have to rebuild higher up the mountains, the land would be different so growing food would be hard, there's less woodland for resources, and a huge drop in the animal population.
Its quite likely that at least some of those elves are still alive, and have at least partially rebuilt yokuda, and just decided they dont wanna travel, or dont have to resources yet to travel to tamriel.
Yokuda's sinking = Illusion magic? (The College of Winterhold was able to be hidden in TES5 with the Illusion magic of the Staff of Magnus.) Why not an entrie contintent being hidden by Illusion magic? (e.g. Paradise Island aka Themyscira from DC's Wonder Woman lore which is said to be somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle aka Devil's Triangle)
what if they didnt sink it, just flooded the everloving shxt out of it long enough to get away, and sincerely thought they sank it cus they never actually went back to check?
Honestly Camel, I for one am most impressed when we don't ask for you and you surprise us with something like this
Regarding the left handed elves being conncted to Lorkhan and the redguard hating Lorkhan, it's possible that the last Kalpa Lorkhan favored the elves, while Auriel favored humans. It would also explain why the left handed elves seemed to be the dominant race who had the big empire, as opposed to humans like with the tamrielic empire. The roles are reversed. Maybe when this Kalpa ends, one race of elves (say, the altmer) and the imperials will sidestep, and they will wage war and the altmer will wipe out the imperials during the next kalpa, and then not want to talk about the imperials anymore for their actions (mainly Tiber Septim's conquest of Summerset) darkens their days. They will destroy their continent of Aldmeris and proceed to invade the new continent of this new Kalpa, killing all humans they find on their way, as a Lorkhan-favored race of elves destroys their human overlords and takes their place as the head of the empire.
Well, the reason Lorkhan favors Men over Mer is not because of some innate trait, they're both just degenerated Et'Ada/Ehlnofey, it's because Men for the most part accepted Mundus and Lorkhan's goals for it as an Arena for the spirits to better themselves and achieve the Walking Ways and eventually Amaranth. Meanwhile, Mer originally all rejected it and looked for a way to become Et'Ada again. This is what split the Ehlnofey, basically, into the wandering Ehlnofey that became Men after leaving Tamriel (they came back later, clearly) and the stationary ones who built up Tamriel and became Mer. Of course, most have forgotten that these days, and many Mer even accept or defend Mundus these days, such as the Khajiit (they did so very early on at the urging of Azura though. Also to add, yes Khajiit are Mer, they were originally Mer of unfixed shape and the same species as the Bosmer, until the race split when some signed up with the Aedra Y'ffre to attain fixed shape and the others were helped by Azura to be bound to the moons and achieve many different fixed shapes) and the Dunmer (their so-called Three Good Daedra, including Azura again, taught them some of the purpose of Lorkhan and they accepted his goal and view of the world as an Arena, basing their approach to life around it.) It's pretty much just the Altmer trying to undo reality at this point.
Interestingly enough, in the present Kalpa, it's actually implied that one of the reasons why the Nords could never conquer Morrowind or exterminate the Dunmer is because of the intervention of Lorkhan, who does not want to see either of these two races who follow his will to die out, Man or Mer.
Maybe the humans of the past Kapla followed Anui'el instead of Sithis, and the elves followed Sithis instead of Anui'el.
(I'm assuming that Shor son of SHor is legit, and Lorkhan's dad Sithis was the Lorkhan in the previous Kapla, while Auriel's dad Anui-El was the Auriel in the previous Kapla.)
Thats one of the most interesting tes lore videos you or fudgemuppet ever posted
Hate to break it to you, but a lot of this is based on non-canon lore.
The Italian term for left is "sinistra", which could be related to their name. Also, what if Yokuda never sank? History is unreliable, and the ancient Redguard could have lost a fight, fled to Tamriel, said they won, and invented an excuse as to why no-one can go to Yokuda and check.
Oscar Walsh except people do still go there, in Oblivion the keeper of the lighthouse in Anvil says that ships stop at harbours in Yokuda
Oscar Walsh just a quick fix : the italian term for left- handed referred to a person, is 'mancino'
luis 96 sorry, I must have misremembered. Sinistra just means "left" so?
Oscar Walsh yes it means left. Sinistra means left or sinister too in another context. Yea dont worry its nothing major.. grammar is annoying in all languages lol
Maybe everyone who goes in the vicinity get their memories wiped of the area. That the sinister elves are so advanced but they want to be in peace and als brainwashed the red guards in saying that.
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Camelworks Damn straight! 😁
I always find Yokuda to be interesting. Hammerfell and the Redguards are far more interesting a place and culture than Skyrim in my honest opinion. Something about desert sands and Arabesque architecture combined with the warrior culture and somewhat sinister past of the Redguards really tickles my fancy. Honestly if it wasn't for the fact that real-world problems might cause it to get some negative press, an Arabian styled Elder Scrolls game would be an amazing game to play.
It all depends on whether the weiters bother to do some research or if they decide to just regurgitate old stereotypes. But it would be way cooler than Medieval Europe (Again)
It wouldn’t get any negative press what are you talking about?
Do an elder scrolls detective about winterhold, maybe the pirate you can summon, argur of dunlain or maybe the great collapse
Been meaning to do one on the pirate :)
It would be so cool to see some form of the sinistral elves in future elder scroll games, I think it would be more interesting than the dwemer returning (because the mystery of their disappearance might be better left unexplained) at the very least it would be cool to learn more about them.
If they do get put in sand weapons would be pretty nice.
I'd love to see a Game Set in The Glory Days of Yokuda. The Left-handed Elves look Really cool and I hear that they had Magic that could Create Cities Out of Magic. I highly doubt Any of them Survived because Either they we're wiped out by The Yokudan's or If they Survived they probably Left Yokuda or more than Likely they Just died Along With Yokuda
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I want it a bit modern. Like playing in Hammerfell and having dlc's in yokuda. And introducing the new elves in some way would be great!
Ranger Cervantes I think Hammerfell with Yokuda DLC Would be Great! Especially with The Left-handed Elves in it. I think The story for the DLC would be an Expedition gone wrong
I would preffer an elder scrolls legends game set during the en of the last Kalpa, revolving around the yokuda an the sinistral elves sidestepping the end f the world.
We actually have no idea what the left-handed elves look like; the images in this video are not canon.
Dagoth Ur Oh ok. I still think they'd appear similar to how they do in the video
It's crazy that the Redguard are practically time travellers. Explains why their culture seems so powerful and wise: they've literally been recording and inventing things for two worlds at least now.
Just imagine we get to meet a Left Handed Elf in Elder Scrolls 6 like how we met Yagrim Bagon in Marrowind
WHAAAAAT !!! Two videos from Ideal master in the same day flkkking spoilt :) thank you lore king 👑
Loved the video, Camel! I just love immersing myself in such intricately, interesting lore of such a magnificent world. I'd love to see a future video on the Warp in the West.
Bro I just want to say all your lore videos have made my dungeons and dragons game amazing it's set after the world ends and is being reborn tribe's are forming and my players get peices of the past similar to the Dwemer race but all of previous history they come across old magic no one understands it's great and I can't thank you enough for the resource you provide here
Personal Theory; Yokuda is now a series of atolls & mountainous islands (like Pyramid Island off Australia), and at the heart of this is a disturbance or whirlpool that pull in vessels that get too close, hence why no-one returns from going out there
If a snow Mer could hide for 4,000 years a left handed Mer could survive if they knew the same magic the snow Mer did
The Redguard legends might be false, do we really for sure that the continent was destroyed/sunk. The red guards could have lost, but not just want to admit it, while the lefthanded elves are chilling on their continent
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10:40 fuck that’s eerie
moviesmusicme Something is going to rise from the depths and devour us all... Any second...
I think it's just another instance of ESO fucking up the lore because it's writers are terrible.
I never noticed that before. It can't be an accident because we can also see the tower that the Convention took place in Covenenat territories.
An NPC in Oblivion also says that he takes people to Yokuda, so I doubt it's ESO fucking things up.
I really hope these elves make an appearance in a future game. It would be cool to have this ancient forgotten race mysterious reappear, perhaps arriving on the coasts of Tamriel and establishing settlements. Somehow it seems strange that such a powerful race would die out so quickly, although to be fair the same has happened to the Ayleids, the Dwemer, and the Snow Elves.
"So do you ever use your right hand?" "No! It is forbidden!"
;-)
Teknodiktator lol
Question my friends....they were active during the Merethic Era and 1st Era, then how are they of a different kalpa cycle? They just herald from an older time like the Ayleid, Dwemer, Dovah, Atmorans, Nedes, etc., right? I mean if they are of a different time altogether then they would be prior to the Dawn era.
think of it this way: they are from a dream that the godhead had the night before. they predate all of nirn.
@@thomasjenkins7506 thats not true, the kalpa cycle has nothing to do with the godhead.
Great video Camel. Loved the visuals.
I'm really glad you decided to take the time to distinguish what was confirmed lore and what was fan theory. Most Elder Scrolls Lore channels don't care enough to do that and it leads to a lot of misinformation.
Elves that are left handed
“1. Using the left hand more naturally then the right.
2. Advancing by turning **Counterclockwise**
3. Perverse”
That second definition really sticks out to me.
Sorry to bring this back up but...
Advance by going counterclockwise...so they got to the known Kalpa by regressing through their own?
Could this have something to do with why Yokuda "sank"? Maybe it just "went back to the beginning", and then in ESO what we see makes sense. It didnt sink as time went forward, it "sank" as it was unformed as time went backwards. Yet it still remains.
Time travel hurts my head. I hope what I said makes sense. Lol
I wanna think on this more if you've got any other provocative definitions to throw around
In Markarth the new expansion of ESO we found out that a Vampire Lord named Rada al-saran was a great yokudan warrior.
Then maybe in the future we can find others survivors like these elves
Redguards are my favourite race in all elder scrolls, I even make a mage with a redguard, and would love to see yokuda, and the left handed elves, they would probably be my favourite elf race if we could play as them of course
Ive heard in the lore community that Nords also escaped from a previous Kalpa using high hrothgar. Also that nords were originally nords, then became atmorans, then returned to Skyrim and became nords again.
Also ancient nords and giants were once practically indistinguishable, and share a common ancestor. Maybe a video on either or both of those?
Also maybe Amaranth, the dreamsleeve, or that the ocean is actually memories? Could that be why you can see yokuda across the sea?
The Nords essentially believe that Kyne always breaths them into being on Snow-Throat at the start of every world. We know this can't be entirely true since Nords actually come from the splitting of the Ehlnofey (think lesser spirits who became mortal during the creation of the world, and are the ancestors of most mortal races) and so they not always Nords, but it's entirely possible that something such as Kyne always turning some Ehlnofey into Nords at Snow-Throat could happen every Kalpa. So the Nords don't by anything they believe or is told us jump Kalpas, or at least they don't anymore if they ever had the knowledge, but it could be that Nords always come into existence in every Kalpa because of Kyne.
It's theorized that Giants are essentially another split from the wandering Ehlnofey (basically the kind of Ehlnofey that became the ancestors of Men) who have somehow degenerated to their present state. Nords and Giants would thus be related through that ancestry.
Amaranth is the achievement of the final apotheosis. Not to achieve power by emulating metaphysical constructs or even realizing you are in a dream like with the Walking Ways, but actually achieving the status of Godhead yourself, independent from the current one, and dreaming your own world. The Dreamsleeve is the temporary home of souls where some dwell in afterlives while they wait to reincarnate; when that happens we don't know. Their memories are stripped there at reincarnation, so they do make up the Dreamsleeve somewhat.
Maybe the left handed elves had the roll of the dunmer in the previous kalpa as there are similarities
Dark skin
Possible connection with lorkan (lorkan heart had a roll in turning the chimer to dunmer)
Last elves in their kalpa (C0DA has the dunmer and khajiit as the last races)
So maybe the dunmer will enter the next kalpa
I really loved this video and all your ES lore videos
I dunno if this is a stupid theory or has already been suggested because there’s a lot more smarter ES nerds than me but the Left-handed Elves could possibly be the Dwemer. The incident in Vvardenfell could have sent them back in time to the last timeline, where they spent god knows how long trying to get back to their own time. If the ancient Yokuda hated Lorkan because of them it could actually be because it was his heart that sent them into the ancient Yokuda’s world/timeline. The Dwemer could actually have caused the destruction of the last timeline in order to “walk sideways” back into their own time and the Yokuda followed them and caused them to hate them.
The Left-handed Elves were incredibly skilled with magic and making cities, in your video their city was larger than the Septim empire, this is all skills the Dwemer had in Tamriel before vanishing. They were already on steam powered technology at the time the rest of the races were still coming out of the dark ages/tribal ages, if they hadn’t of vanished, by the time of Morrowind they could have been at modern technology or better especially mixed with magic, so if they wound up in another world they would be more than capable and smart enough to start again and evolve. Although the colouring is different to the Dwemer, they could have been in this other timeline for millions of years and given both them and the Yokuda/Redguards have a culture based around the desert it’s safe to say they came from a desert climate in the past timeline and over the millennia could have evolved to suit the climate and darkening their skin tone.
Also, although it’s not the same, them having this talent at burrowing under the sand could be linked to the Dwemer building their cities underground and living below ground in Tamriel, just a further skill they could have improved upon to survive in a desert climate heat and weather.
This could also be why the last Dwemer with Corpus from Morrowind couldn’t find the Dwemer even tho he searched for thousands of years in different realms because they weren’t in his time anymore. I don’t believe they died at Vvardenfell and given the nature of Elder Scrolls games anything is absolutely possible, if 2 races can travel to the new world after their own is destroyed its completely possible for another to be sent back, especially with the help of a gods heart
Always love to see your videos in my feed, another great video, thank you! Time well spent.
Yokuda is still around, just heavily reduced in size. People have been visiting it for hundreds of years. You can talk to sailors in Anvil
Great video camel! Really interesting video, cant wait for more!
This would make a great DLC for ES:6. Call it something like "The Reborn Land" or "Unsunken".
Plot; Turns out that the Left-handed Elves actually drove out the Ra Gata, and the red guard have lied about their origin to hide their culture's shame. Now, almost 5000 years later, the left-handed elves have amassed armies of mer and strange stone machines to invade mainland Tamriel and wipe out the descendents of their ancient enemy, the Red Guard, and all other races of men, mer, and beast folk who would oppose their rule.
Wait, so time works kinda like Dark Souls in the Elder Scrolls universe?
...well, shit, then doesn't that mean we're doing kinda the same thing in Skyrim? The end of time, of an age, is coming in the form of Alduin, yet humanity rejected it and threw him into the future, forestalling the inevitable. We as Dragonborn then killed Alduin, halting the end of times yet again.
That sounds terribly like the linking of the First Flame. I never noticed that before.
thing is, not everything is the same in every kalpa.
for example in the current kalpa Alduin decided 'screw it' and enslaved humanity to worship him and the dragons- his job is destruction of all things, but that's it. then when he comes back in Skyrim, he attempts to destroy everything earlier
or at least that's what i think, seeing as how Akatosh was gracious enough to put a dragonborn on Nirn to stop him. i mean, why else would he? only Akatosh has the power to make a dragonborn.
so in a sense, each kapla is and is-not the same. there are similarities, sure, even mirror kalpas, but also distinct differences.
Dark souls does it better
I have to HAND it to you for breaking down this mysterious race which LEFT me a bit puzzled as to whether or not we can see them again in another ES game
Great video, definitely want more like these!!! Cheers
While customizing my redguards eyes the other day I noted to myself how elven some of their eye presets where
Fuck, elder scrolls lore gets deeper the more you go down into it
It's CHIM. Vivec doesn't have to explain shit.
It's possible that those are the remaining islands in the distance. It is known that the main continent of Yokuda was sunk, but some of the islands remained.
11:22 I believe that they put it there either because they thought i looked better or probably because the level-designer did not really know the lore and simply looked at the map wish show an island out there.
Nah, they are SOOOOO strict with what goes into the game. Entire conintents are not added by accident. There is also no other islands in the distance randomly, anywhere else on the shores of Tamriel, except exactly where Yokuda is :)
Oh come on. Do you have to destroy our hopes? ;(
Camelworks, are you sure that’s a continent and not just a cut off cloud?
It is a continent.. I checked by turning of the fog in-game
Pretty sure it could be a fuckup from the devs, especially since they had mistakes with the lore before which they said were "Transcription Erros".
10:18 That can't be a remnant of Yokuda. It's way too close to Tamriel. You can observe it from different points in Glenumbra and triangulate how far is it. I estimate that landmass is no more than 1/4 times the lenght of Glenumbra into the ocean.
Light refraction.
if these elves are capable of jumping to different timelines, I see no reason that they can't do something similar to escape the sinking Yokuda
I’d love to see these older races back in the game. Snow Elves, Left Handed Elves, Dwemer...etc.
Survived the death of the universe but cannot stop their own genocide. That is fate.
It would have been nice to have been able to meet one of these Sinistral Elves and learn a bit about the previous Kalpa. But their existence also leaves an interesting possibility. If the current Kalpa of TES ends in a future game, it is possible that one or more of the races of Tamriel could survive and travel to the next Kalpa. We could possibly even get a Fallout 4 type of situation, creating a character from the familiar ten races, witnessing Alduin's return and the end of the world, but somehow surviving it. Later, the player wakes up in a foreign world, inhabited by races we haven't seen before.
Camel, sinistral literally just means left handed. It's an English word.
Coming from the Latin "sinister" meaning literally "left."
Unprofessional Gamers It comes from Latin, but which language does the modern version belong too?
That’s one of the most threatening sounding and least dangerous literal definitions I’ve ever heard.
It's a Latin word. Not English.
English comes from Germanic languages, Not Latin.
unlike others that share Latin ancestry like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French.
@@CodexSan English is actually a mix of both Roman languages and Germanic languages. Old English is purely Germanic, yes, but after the French took control in England a lot of their language stuck to the English language. Thus, the current English language actually has a lot of words derived from Latin in it! Sinistral is in fact an English word, but of course it is only taken from French, which took it from Latin. So a lot of the commenters here are all right, in a way ;-)
Now this is one of the kind. No others elder scroll lore masters touch this topic before.
They were frequent patrons of Ned Flanders' Leftoriam.
I've gotten an idea while watching this. Is there a possibilty that the dwemer used their tonal stuff to do as the Yokudans did? Evading time and space until the beginning of the next kelpa, but not for survival, but to rule and dominate it? That might also explain why they enslaved and disfigured the Falmer which are possibly linked to Auriel, the embodiment of the beginning of time. When an Elder Scroll was used to send Alduin forth in time nobody was able to determine when Alduin would reappear in the timeline - so the Dwemer needed something from the Falmer to learn how to "aim" for the "tune" of Auriel, since everything is about the tonal stuff for Dwemer. Maybe we shouldn't ask where the Dwemer went, but when?
What do you think?
Hiya camelworks I love your videos x
also FYI the word 'sinister' means left-facing in heraldry, and used to be a euphamism for left-handed people. so sinistral elves is just another synonym / translation for left-handed elves
I was thinking that maybe the left handed elves could be some sort of spiritual ancestor of the dunmer, of course there isn't a lot of evidence as far as I am aware beyond appearances as shown in the video and their homelands possibly leading to similar biological resistances of fire and heat.
That was a fantastic video. My only question is if we are able to get that sword through a mod or something. Imagine when you power attack the ground or something, it will create an earthquake like reaction, and stagger everyone
Hey there camelworks I just had a query, when Alduin destroys the world/ends that cycle of time, is there anyway to escape it when it's already happening? As in, what is the nature of the destruction, is a new world shape formed? As in Tamriel is gone and a new world starts? Could be something you do a video on if there's enough to say about it I guess. Just wondering if the dwarves were on to something by being underground, or maybe they were trying to attach themselves to the heart of Lorkhan as a means of escaping the end of time as its said that the heart cannot be destroyed, rather than accidentally destroying the race? I'm not sure.
8:45 "sinister" comes as a synonym for "left" in latin. Today in italian for example "sinistra" means "left"
"Sinister" means evil, "sinistral" means left handed.
@@theepokedex8514 bro... "sinister" comes from Latin, it means "left"
@@Paguo except they aren't called sinister elves, they're called sinistral elves, which in English means left handed. This whole thing is English, not Latin.
@@theepokedex8514 ??? But they are called "sinistral" because they are left handed... and sinistral comes from sinister, it all means "left". Come on man, a 10 second google search is enough
i'm short and left handed, therefore i am a left handed elf
Yokuda as depicted by maps is the Yokuda of today. It used to be much much MUCH larger, but most of that sank into the ocean. I believe most of modern Yokuda is uninhabitable, much like Atmora.
Given that TES6 is almost certainly going to be set in Hammerfell, it doesn't seem entirely out of the question that the plot may be that the left handed elves reveal themselves and attack. Presuming they don't just single out the Redguards, geographically they'd also be likely to strike High Rock as well, so this (purely hypothetical) scenario would certainly lend merit to the idea that TES6 may be set in both Hammerfell AND High Rock. The fact that the announcement video was set in the coastline between the two may also be a subtle hint towards this.
Even if this is not the plot of TES6, the rediscovery of the left handed elves would still make for great DLC, or perhaps a mages guild questline. We'll have to wait and see.
in oblivion, at least one of the sailors in anvil told me that he regularly sails to yokuda. don't know what to make of that, but there you go
What’s that song in the back ground?
I find it hard to believe that there is a land mass that's visible from the Tamrielic empire that no emperor has tried to sail to and conquer. They went to Akavir first? I'm thinking that might be an oversight by Zenimax. They heard about Yokuda but didn't realize how lore unfriendly it would be for you to be able to see it. However you can make it lore friendly. The Sinistrel elves have been living on Yokuda under the water since it was sunk. They figured out some magic that allowed them to do that and they decided to stay in hiding. Every so often though, (let's say every 2,000 years or so) they have to surface to collect oxygen or sunlight or something. The player from ESO decided not to tell anyone about what they saw because they thought they were hallucinating and no one would believe them.
An interesting theory, the Sinistral Elves living under water.
I wonder if there is any connections with the Maomer or the Sload. Especially as Thras is not really that far from old Yokuda.
Given how transformative elves are in the lore, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sinistral elves were transformed. Turned into the Sea Slugs themselves 😂😂
Ehh those are just my theories and speculations, I would love for Bethesda to write more lore on these Elves.
@@Gobbygiblet Nice plot twist. They evolved into the Sload so they can survive under water but they were still mad at the Yokudans for sinking their homeland so that's why they spread the Thrasian plauge.
Maybe yokuda didn't "sunk" maybe it is just uninhabitable anymore, You know just like Atmora
Hasan Colak could be
This went WAAAYAAAW deeper than I expected.
What's the music playing through this entire video? It's lovely. Please don't say Darude Sandstorm.
Yokuda could still be around just in Small Chunks. Some Sailor in Oblivion says he's been to Yokuda
Tarlo The Boar
Which one and where? Plz answer
Ranger Cervantes I'm not Sure but I Remember Hearing someone say It in Oblivion. Check the Wiki
I doubt that's Yokuda you can see in the distance. Even in near perfect conditions a person can only see a few miles at best. According to the same map you use in the video, Yokuda is roughly 500 miles from High Rock. So the only explanations are A) You can see 100x farther in Tamriel than in real life B) Yokuda has an elevation of a couple hundred miles or C) it's some random island not listed on the map that's just beyond the horizon.
Don't get map distances and in game distances mixed up. On the same map, Skyrim is about 400 miles across, yet in game we can walk across Skyrim in about 15 minutes. And we know your character isn't walking at 1,600 miles per hour. So with in game scaling, that is 100% Yokuda.
and also even though it has literally no relation to TES in Lord of The Rings elves can see literally past the curvature of the Earth
so there's that
Actually due to light refraction you can see further than the horizon over large bodies of water. I used to see across the long island sound before I moved away.
Looks like the bottom of the clouds to me .
Adam Carroll, touché. I bet that's what the devs would say to shut us up.
8:44 "Sinistral" is just a fancy term for left handed from the Latin sinistram or Sinister (note that in olden times, left handedness was considered evil witch is why in English 'Sinister' became an adjective for some thing negative)
What is this music? I need it
just found this channel watched like three videos and its amazing, ive been playing the elder scrolls since arena and know alot if not most of the lore and your literally the only one whos ever mentioned something that i wasnt already somewhat aware of so good on ya mate definately worth a subcription and 1000 likes
Are these elves a refrence to link from tloz? He looks like a elf and he is left handed
The elf shown at the very beginning reminds me of Egyptian gods/godesses. Mostly Bastet.
Love your work Camel, keep it up until you've exhausted all the lore available.
Camel you should totally go into detail about how all the other elves came to be back from the beginning and you should also do a video on the falmer lore. The snow elves are my favorite race in the elderscrolls franchise and they def deserve a vid
I feel it would be reasonable to speculate that Yokuda didn't completely sink into the ocean as much as it was destroyed. The forbidden technique could've blasted a massive crater in the continent resulting in natural disaster that made the whole continent uninhabitable. This could easily be recorded as the "Sinking of Yokuda" by historians.
It could be a Temporal Anomaly that you're seeing in ESO, as if the Elves sent a message back through time and they made the Yokudans believe them to be wiped (like the Dwarves did). Or they resurfaced, but swore never to leave the Continent.