would be cool if you actually had to track down a descendant from a dunmer grandmaster smith that knows the secret passed down in windhelm, their ancestors having arrived in skyrim as refugees. ... similarily to make daedric armor then have to seek a deadric prince or greater deadra out to learn the secrets. ... ebony seems a little less exotic but perhaps you could go into some dwarven place dig that knowledge up.
It seems kind of weird how I immediately accept the existence of magic, dragons and daedra but I take one look at glass armour and go "That's unrealistic"
This is largely the same reason why they cut down on the use of the Dire Wolves in Game of Thrones; dragons and magic is something we have no knowledge of, so just accepting that they are there to begin with shuts off our sense of disbelief, but when you add seemingly unrealistic materials and animals that you know instinctively how they are supposed to look and act, that sense comes back in and pulls you out (more specifically it was harder to CGI the wolves than the dragons and keep them realistic, while the dragons were ALWAYS going to be unrealistic).
Maybe if you Irish (coming from your name) actually pronounced every single letter, instead of just drunkenly dropping every second, third and fourth consonant and vowel in the word, you'd understand how people have difficulties understanding thickly accented individuals, as well as discerning individuals from slight changes in accent. Alas, you speak drunken gibberish and that gives your people the "ability" to communicate with an species able to get drunk. So while your superiority is insufferable, at least you can communicate to multiple species. Though that may be from your fucking all zoos in Ireland before giving birth to your malcontent ass.
@irish rover We can tell.... all of us can. Are you forgetting that we are the same race? Why are you shitting on a group of (admittedly ignorant) people of your own race? I don't hate the dutch or the fins or the lithuanians, so why do you hate us? A lot of Europeans see us as a seperate group, despite being the exact same, and that is what "they" want.
Could have been "Loon takes bunch of drugs and fistfights flaming giant bear", since, y'know, that actually happens in New Vegas. But yeah, an archer or spellsword in glass armor might be fun also, Fudgemuppet needs to make one like that, and it'll naturally be called "The Glass Cannon"...
Can we sit back and think about the fact that they have been denying ESO as connon lore up until now where they use lore from a book in the game without mentioning ESO, im very exited for the future of their channel with motif books, like stalhrim and frostcaster. Or daedric and... Daedric.
I love how the idea of a glass sword works, with the steel/iron core and tang, with a malachite edge and point, it kind of evokes the image of macuahuitl also known as the aztec sharp paddle in a way, which used wood as the core, and obsidian as the sharp edges
My greatest issue with glass armor is how the "glass" parts of the armor look more like decoration, like most of the armor is made from another material than the "glass"
I admit this is kinda one reason why I miss durability from the older games. Glass was a thing in Morrowind for example, and while it was great as both armor and weaponry, the drawback was that it lacked durability, so you would constantly have to repair your gear, or at least a LOT more often than you would on heavier armor. It was a noticable drawback and price you had to pay. Glass and light armor in general was also much less enchantable on the whole than other armor types or clothes, so it didn't work as well for mages or anyone heavily into enchanting.
I personally hate durability systems, mainly because of my philosophy of "Useful, therefore never use." Besides that, there are many alternatives for drawbacks, like weight, expense, swing speed, etc.
In German the translation for the glass armor is Vulkanglas ( volcano glass ). So I think the translators also thought that just plain glass isnt a good armor xD
KaîÇee Crane even though it was obvious that the stats were higher simply by glass items requiring a much higher smithing level? I just don't honestly get this mindset when pretty much nothing about the materials in the game are realistic to begin with.
This video is really interesting. It just so happens that we were having a conversation about glass armor (mainly our preferred style of glass armor) on The Imperial Library's discord channel. I made sure to share this video there as well.
I use glass as the heaviest allowable armor for my Breton nightblade destruction mage build. Magicka & Glass as an homage to my elven forbears, light enough for stealth, and just durable enough if I get stuck and have to mix it up SW.
I didn't know the closely guarded knowledge of Glass armor smithing escaped the Altmer by way of a Dunmer slave. After Oblivion launched I always imagined the Dunmer design of the Glass armor in Morrowind was like something of a spit in the face to the overbearing "elegance" of the Altmer's use of the material. This lends to that headcanon, so thank you muchly.
I am not sure about this: First; wouldn't an armour of Jadeite quite heavy? The mineral has quite a high density. Second: Well, at least in Skyrim the biggest "outcrop" of Malachite (let's just assume that is is in fact Jadeite) is near Kynesgroove, which lays at the rim of a volcanic caldera (At least this is what I see in the structure). Malachite is formed near plutonic and volcanic bodies, whereas Jadeite is at High- pressure metamorphosis forming mineral. Could it be possible that such a rock was transported to the surface by the volcanic eruption as part of a xenolith? Possible. However, given the location I am much more inclined to believe that this what can be found there is in fact Malachite.
@@madgeologist495 it wouldn't be too heavy there are "Mere" weapons made from nephrite. As for the geological process I'm inclined to believe pockets were brought to the surface through volcanic forces. It's why you can only mine it near red mountain in Morrowind.
Makes sense actually. Means you'd have a second pick on you in the chance that it breaks while you are working. Saves you from having to go back and get another one, and instead you can just go right back to working.
The glass sword is similar to the Aztec weapon called the, "Macuahuitl". If you are unfamiliar with this weapon, it was a sword of heavy wood, with pieces of sharpened obsidian, along both sides of the wooden sword. Legends say that an Aztec warrior completely cut the head off of a Spanish Conquistador's horse, while the Spaniard was riding it. Not bad for primitive weapon.
@FudgeMuppet Your voice is so soothing and easy to listen to that when the Elder Scrolls Lore becomes a geology lesson I still want to listen. It's like the aural equivalent of reading a geology lecture if it had been written by Tolkien.
Disappointing that with all the Alternative Armor Creations heavy armor types for light variants, no one thought to do the opposite with Glass and Elven
Glass armor and weapons are one of my favorites i just wish it had a bit more blue in it tho and i hope that in TES 6 they bring back mithril, which could be like the human equivalent of elven armor and have the appearance of crusader armor
I'd more argue that Ebony is the heavy armor version of Glass myself. Daedric is better, yes, but it is also meant to more be made in Oblivion, or otherwise requiring things from Oblivion to make. Keeping to just stuff that can be found in Tamriel, Ebony is the best thing you can forge normally.
Geologist undergraduate here: First of all: Extremely well researched (and factually correct) video.I have a slightly different theory about the formation: Let's put everything together: With Malachite, Moonstone (Potassium-rich Feldspar) and Iron/Steel we get the elements C, O, Si, K, Fe, Cu. What can we make out of this? Well, Si and C can be used to create Silicon carbide, a rather strong and hard compound. Glass is nothing else than a liquid that is cooled down extremely fast ("frozen liquid") with no long-range order. Thus you can more or less everything (with the exception of pure compounds) together (e.g. Feldspar), heat it up until everything is molten then cool it down rapidly and you get glass. In nature this would manifest in obsidian or pitch stone. I know the Natives in Central and South America used to put small pieces of obsidian in e.g. their clubs, thus producing extremely sharp edges (I think I do not have to tell anybody that the edge of glass is very suitable for cutting). So; that's my hypothesis: When people in Tamriel are talking about e.g. Glass weapons what they are actually talking about is a weapon with a wooden handle (or a handle made of steel). The blades is made from glass but they sit in socle (or are maybe coated; both thing would be technically possible) made of Silicon carbide. Especially Silicon Carbide could be used for the Armour. The green colour could stem from powdering Malachite to dust and then sprinkling the dust into the liquid. If this liquid is then cooled fast enough, the particles could still be intact, resulting in a greenish hue of colour.Actually I am working at an article explaining the geology of Tamriel. Could I link your video in my article, guys? Would be really nice.
Some of my family worked at a glass works, so could probably mock up a set of Glass gear! Hell, I can't remember if it was my uncle or grandad, but one relative of mine made a Colt Single Action Army, plus 6 rounds, out of glass!
A video on all the native arms and armor of each province would be interesting and give some ideas for Skyrim role play characters... And maybe lead to some new build ideas?
Hmm... seems to be more like obsidian, which was used by the ancient Aztecs to edge some of their weapons. I wonder if you could use this malachite blend to create a large tube-like structure that could withstand the force of using magic to fire large fast moving metal projectiles...
Great video as always guys! Any chance we'll see more original writings like your Fallout Redemption series or Dwemer ruins short story? I absolutely love those videos! Keep up the awesome work!
You can make metals today like glass in the in the arrangement of its molecules. Kind of like ceramics. This makes them have a lot more strength and blade retention.
Is it weird that I’ve never questioned or even had a second thought about glass armor or weapons🤷🏾♂️ like I’ve never really noticed that is was GLASS until now😂
I would love to see a video about Stalhrim. There are so many unanswered questions concerning that wondrous material, chiefly, where does it come from? Is it artificially made or does it occur naturally?
I like to believe that it's blackish in Morrowind because it's made with ebony, since they are in Vvardenfell, yet in Skyrim it's goldish because obviously it's made with moonstone i.e. High Elves chill there in 4E 201.
3.5 D&D has the alchemical material "glasteel" which is transparent, stronger than steel and weighs half as much. Since Elder Scrolls is a derivative of D&D, I honestly never questioned the armors and weapons. Glass was glasteel, ebony was adamantine. But this video was very informative!
Actually glass in the real word is pretty strong. Not as strong as some metals, but much stronger than ppl would think. The one difference between metals and glass is that metal is much much more flexible.
I am a blacksmith and I also cast bronze. The glass armor is an alloy of malachite and cream moonstone malachite is copper oxide and moonstone usually has a high silicon content so the so called “glass” is actually an alloy of silicon bronze
Scott, if you read this I want you to know how impressive these videos are! So incredibly well done! ❤️ I watch them all. Can you do a lore video on smithing? I think that would be really interesting
Ah, I thought perhaps it covered everywhere. Makes sense tho that it covers the valenwoods since those are the areas that need the protection. (It's just occurred to me, many places with valenwood as their names. They have a large redwood style forest with trees called valenwood in Dragonlance, and I would not be surprised to find one or two forests on Mimbar named after Valen lol)
Bosmer are allowed to use wood as long as it's imported from outside Valenwood. So using Imported hafts (Let's say from Summerset) to construct weapons would be perfectly fine.
Real world glass recipes use different additives for different properties. If we have a real-world equivalent to moonstone, I wonder if we can add ground up malachite and moonstone to produce something similar. I wonder what kind of properties this glass would have. I wonder how strong glass could be if it was made in the shape of a sword, shield, or armor with these kinds of thicknesses. On the topic of obsidian glass, it can be a blackish green. Obsidian is also typically 70+% silicon dioxide. Color depends on impurities, iron and magnesium typically give a dark brown to black color; though the overall color is due to chemical composition of impurities rather than dark colored minerals, like in basalt. There's also rainbow obsidian, with an iridescent sheen, cause by inclusions of magnetite nanoparticles. If it's possible to synthetically create obsidian, in the same way volcanoes do with water, but with controlled impurities, I wonder if it could be possible to create TES glass.
I've always felt that the Glass & Moonstone crafts of the elves are based more on the idea of the fictional fantasy material known as Mythril (or Mithril if you want to use Tolkien's original spelling) than any real world substance.
It always sounded to me like it was a very hard, dense form of fiberglass. Fiberglass is remarkably tough stuff for it's weight, and can be used in construction alongside other materials to keep things light without sacrificing the structural integrity of the whole object. Which is why all Elder Scrolls glass armor is always depicted as bits of glass worked into a steel or ebony framework, and weapons are only glass on the ornamental parts and the outer part of blades.
I am tempted to save up to buy Skyrim on PC purely so I can get whatever mod makes your glass armor look like that, especially considering that green is far and away my favorite color.
I like to think that its similar to bullet proof glass, augmented with metal like supports. I like this idea only cause it means i can make an unarmed fighter and call him The Bullet Proof Monk.
When it comes to weapon, glass weapons aren't unusual or impractical. It depends what you're using the weapon for. South American natives used obsidian for weapons for centuries. Their warfare focused on WOUNDING the enemy, not killing them, so that they could be captured or simply defeated. Glass/obsidian is used is many other cultures for similar reasons. Sometimes it's brittle, breakable qualities are part of its deadliness. Tiny glass shards can be difficult to remove and increase the chance of infection if left in the wound.
You have to like how they. Worked in real world mineral s . Plants an so on into the game. Obviously they add a twist . But just having them in it is a nice touch.
So...its like steel when it comes to having to have moonstone to make it more... Useable hm like howbiron is needed when making steel weapons because steelbis just really hard but also brittle when in battle
Steel is iron, with carbon added. Iron is not usually mixed with steel, lower carbon steels are mixed with high carbon steel however. High carbon is good for holding an edge as its much harder, low carbon steel is good for surrounding high carbon steel, for durability. Iron is always very brittle by itself and thus should be avoided in any weaponry or armor.
Yeah yeah, super secretive knowledge which my lizard magically learn after crafting 1000 iron daggers
Nics Trendy and 600 leather bracers
It was super secret, now everybody and their parents know how to make it.
would be cool if you actually had to track down a descendant from a dunmer grandmaster smith that knows the secret passed down in windhelm, their ancestors having arrived in skyrim as refugees. ... similarily to make daedric armor then have to seek a deadric prince or greater deadra out to learn the secrets. ... ebony seems a little less exotic but perhaps you could go into some dwarven place dig that knowledge up.
Yeah after they made 1000 iron daggers the Hist told them.
It seems kind of weird how I immediately accept the existence of magic, dragons and daedra but I take one look at glass armour and go "That's unrealistic"
But dragons and magic have their explanation this does not
The same as me
This is largely the same reason why they cut down on the use of the Dire Wolves in Game of Thrones; dragons and magic is something we have no knowledge of, so just accepting that they are there to begin with shuts off our sense of disbelief, but when you add seemingly unrealistic materials and animals that you know instinctively how they are supposed to look and act, that sense comes back in and pulls you out (more specifically it was harder to CGI the wolves than the dragons and keep them realistic, while the dragons were ALWAYS going to be unrealistic).
BADCompanySarge fancy seeing you here. Love ur vids btw
It's not though.
The 9 Divines have granted this American the ability to differentiate Scott and Michael's specific Thu'um. Something I do not take for granted.
This American has not learned that yet
Same way how non Americans can't tell our accents apart really
Maybe if you Irish (coming from your name) actually pronounced every single letter, instead of just drunkenly dropping every second, third and fourth consonant and vowel in the word, you'd understand how people have difficulties understanding thickly accented individuals, as well as discerning individuals from slight changes in accent. Alas, you speak drunken gibberish and that gives your people the "ability" to communicate with an species able to get drunk. So while your superiority is insufferable, at least you can communicate to multiple species. Though that may be from your fucking all zoos in Ireland before giving birth to your malcontent ass.
*8 Divines
@irish rover We can tell.... all of us can. Are you forgetting that we are the same race? Why are you shitting on a group of (admittedly ignorant) people of your own race? I don't hate the dutch or the fins or the lithuanians, so why do you hate us?
A lot of Europeans see us as a seperate group, despite being the exact same, and that is what "they" want.
Hmm, this seems like a perfect material for a fast soldier build. A Glass Warrior, if you will.
The smaller and less successful brother of the Ebony Warrior.
Whiterun loon wraps themselves in beer bottles and fights a bear
Could have been "Loon takes bunch of drugs and fistfights flaming giant bear", since, y'know, that actually happens in New Vegas.
But yeah, an archer or spellsword in glass armor might be fun also, Fudgemuppet needs to make one like that, and it'll naturally be called "The Glass Cannon"...
There is a glass warrior.
@@SilverFang2789 only less successful if you dont beat him
You should do a video on all the diffrent religions of the elder scrolls universe
I agree
We should make a religion out of this
@@jauhnwilks2114 I agree
ESO is a very confusing mixed bag for elder scrolls fans, but one must admit that the item style descriptions in the style books is lore gold!
Can we sit back and think about the fact that they have been denying ESO as connon lore up until now where they use lore from a book in the game without mentioning ESO, im very exited for the future of their channel with motif books, like stalhrim and frostcaster. Or daedric and... Daedric.
It’s amazing that ESO’s strongest point of lore is still the motifs lol
After 15 minutes of looking for something to sit and listen to, Talos blessed me with a notification from Fudgemuppet
@Remove Talos I'm true to Talos and to Skyrim. I'm positive on my choice of words, friend
I was always confused by it until Skyrim’s smithing came along and it was like “oh, so it’s Malachite and Moonstone..ok”
I love how the idea of a glass sword works, with the steel/iron core and tang, with a malachite edge and point, it kind of evokes the image of macuahuitl also known as the aztec sharp paddle in a way, which used wood as the core, and obsidian as the sharp edges
Damn, the last time I was this early Morrowind was slightly less of a volcanic cesspool.
My greatest issue with glass armor is how the "glass" parts of the armor look more like decoration, like most of the armor is made from another material than the "glass"
I agree. It certainly looks more like Cermonial Armor than Practical Armor
I admit this is kinda one reason why I miss durability from the older games. Glass was a thing in Morrowind for example, and while it was great as both armor and weaponry, the drawback was that it lacked durability, so you would constantly have to repair your gear, or at least a LOT more often than you would on heavier armor. It was a noticable drawback and price you had to pay. Glass and light armor in general was also much less enchantable on the whole than other armor types or clothes, so it didn't work as well for mages or anyone heavily into enchanting.
Yeah, I miss durability too.
another thing to remember about morrowind glass is that it is not made of malachite but rather a stone like substance from meteors.
why would the ELVES create and primarily use armor that is awful for enchanting?
I miss a lot of things from Morrowind
I personally hate durability systems, mainly because of my philosophy of "Useful, therefore never use." Besides that, there are many alternatives for drawbacks, like weight, expense, swing speed, etc.
Obsidian does also count as a glass material. Its sharp as glass and breakable as glass. Makes really sharp and deadly arrows with it.
In German the translation for the glass armor is Vulkanglas ( volcano glass ). So I think the translators also thought that just plain glass isnt a good armor xD
well that's what it's referred to as in morrowind as well
Khajiit has glass armour, if you have coin!
You have Skooma?
@@hamzaferoz6162 of course
What about some of that sweet sweet balmora blue
Khajiit ALWAYS has Skooma.
Skooma is bad, Moonsugar on every meal and in drink however now thats a Khajiit's religious right😊
I would love to see more videos around smithing, maybe elder scrolls 6 will expand upin what skyrim had.
When I got my first glass sword I was like "Wtf this thing is made out of GLASS how does it not break after clashing against steel and iron armor?"
This video is the first time I now know that glass weapons and armor aren't made of glass
@@kaiceecrane3884
Did you not realise that when you craft them
@@the_dropbear4392 I didn't craft them because they were made of glass (as I thought) and making equipment made of galss made no sense to me
KaîÇee Crane even though it was obvious that the stats were higher simply by glass items requiring a much higher smithing level? I just don't honestly get this mindset when pretty much nothing about the materials in the game are realistic to begin with.
@@insertname1667 exactly it is kinda stupid people expecting a lot of realism for a fantasy game.
That's how -mafia- glass works.
-What-
Edit: I was just trying to figure out how to do -this- and I got it on my first attempt 😅
that is because you are a genius.
I was always such a sword slasher but now I fell In Love with the one handed war axes lol they are great
This video is really interesting. It just so happens that we were having a conversation about glass armor (mainly our preferred style of glass armor) on The Imperial Library's discord channel. I made sure to share this video there as well.
The Imperial Library Discord: discord.gg/ygcWFpz
"Great video!" Thank you for filling in the gaps about this armor.
I use glass as the heaviest allowable armor for my Breton nightblade destruction mage build. Magicka & Glass as an homage to my elven forbears, light enough for stealth, and just durable enough if I get stuck and have to mix it up SW.
I didn't know the closely guarded knowledge of Glass armor smithing escaped the Altmer by way of a Dunmer slave.
After Oblivion launched I always imagined the Dunmer design of the Glass armor in Morrowind was like something of a spit in the face to the overbearing "elegance" of the Altmer's use of the material. This lends to that headcanon, so thank you muchly.
Woohoo, another video from Fudgemuppet! I loved listening to it while doing chores in the kitchen ^^
Dude same
Glass is not Glass or Malachite. It's more like Jade/Nephirite. Which has high toughness and lower hardness.
Trust me i'm a jeweler
I am not sure about this: First; wouldn't an armour of Jadeite quite heavy? The mineral has quite a high density.
Second: Well, at least in Skyrim the biggest "outcrop" of Malachite (let's just assume that is is in fact Jadeite) is near Kynesgroove, which lays at the rim of a volcanic caldera (At least this is what I see in the structure). Malachite is formed near plutonic and volcanic bodies, whereas Jadeite is at High- pressure metamorphosis forming mineral. Could it be possible that such a rock was transported to the surface by the volcanic eruption as part of a xenolith? Possible. However, given the location I am much more inclined to believe that this what can be found there is in fact Malachite.
@@madgeologist495 it wouldn't be too heavy there are "Mere" weapons made from nephrite. As for the geological process I'm inclined to believe pockets were brought to the surface through volcanic forces. It's why you can only mine it near red mountain in Morrowind.
Yay, someone who knows their hard green materials.
@@lawaern3474 Like the Hulk?
@@TheOriginalSheep ... Perhaps... But now I don't like the possible humor that can come from this.
I can never get enough of Skyrim miners mining whilst carrying a second pick axe on their hip
Makes sense actually. Means you'd have a second pick on you in the chance that it breaks while you are working. Saves you from having to go back and get another one, and instead you can just go right back to working.
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The glass sword is similar to the Aztec weapon called the, "Macuahuitl". If you are unfamiliar with this weapon, it was a sword of heavy wood, with pieces of sharpened obsidian, along both sides of the wooden sword. Legends say that an Aztec warrior completely cut the head off of a Spanish Conquistador's horse, while the Spaniard was riding it. Not bad for primitive weapon.
Vvardenfell glass armor design is still my favorite. ❤️
I know a certain warrior would really enjoy using this kind of armor....
His voice is so peaceful, another reason I love to watch his videos
Malachite, or Stalhrim and Ebony's cousins, like the Dunmer who revealed their secrets, an elegant combination
Magic
Your wording is always so well done.
By the divines I have been blessed when bored yet again thank you for another awesome video
The Skyrim modded glass and Morrowind glads armor look sick.
@FudgeMuppet Your voice is so soothing and easy to listen to that when the Elder Scrolls Lore becomes a geology lesson I still want to listen. It's like the aural equivalent of reading a geology lecture if it had been written by Tolkien.
Great video. I hope you make more videos about the armaments of Elder Scrolls.
You need some good old fashioned steel. Leave the fancy elven stuff to the elves.
I know you don’t like to, but I really appreciate you using ESO content in your lore videos
Discovering glass Armor in oblivion is such a fond memory of mine as a 12 year old boy
Wow that's a lot of glass warriors. I wonder what there backstory and skills are...
Disappointing that with all the Alternative Armor Creations heavy armor types for light variants, no one thought to do the opposite with Glass and Elven
Glass armor and weapons are one of my favorites i just wish it had a bit more blue in it tho and i hope that in TES 6 they bring back mithril, which could be like the human equivalent of elven armor and have the appearance of crusader armor
Mithril armor with that translucent blue tint is by far my favorite armor aesthetic
I also wish they would add amber armor back maybe as a heavy version of glass armor
@@silentcrow7311 Daedric is the heavy version of glass, been that way since Morrowind.
I'd more argue that Ebony is the heavy armor version of Glass myself. Daedric is better, yes, but it is also meant to more be made in Oblivion, or otherwise requiring things from Oblivion to make. Keeping to just stuff that can be found in Tamriel, Ebony is the best thing you can forge normally.
Scott my man you did it once again. Another oddly entertaining video on tes that has me hooked. Give my love to the rest if the fudge muppets
Man, you guys have just been cranking out great videos! Love them all!
Geologist undergraduate here: First of all: Extremely well researched (and factually correct) video.I have a slightly different theory about the formation: Let's put everything together: With Malachite, Moonstone (Potassium-rich Feldspar) and Iron/Steel we get the elements C, O, Si, K, Fe, Cu. What can we make out of this? Well, Si and C can be used to create Silicon carbide, a rather strong and hard compound. Glass is nothing else than a liquid that is cooled down extremely fast ("frozen liquid") with no long-range order. Thus you can more or less everything (with the exception of pure compounds) together (e.g. Feldspar), heat it up until everything is molten then cool it down rapidly and you get glass. In nature this would manifest in obsidian or pitch stone. I know the Natives in Central and South America used to put small pieces of obsidian in e.g. their clubs, thus producing extremely sharp edges (I think I do not have to tell anybody that the edge of glass is very suitable for cutting). So; that's my hypothesis: When people in Tamriel are talking about e.g. Glass weapons what they are actually talking about is a weapon with a wooden handle (or a handle made of steel). The blades is made from glass but they sit in socle (or are maybe coated; both thing would be technically possible) made of Silicon carbide. Especially Silicon Carbide could be used for the Armour. The green colour could stem from powdering Malachite to dust and then sprinkling the dust into the liquid. If this liquid is then cooled fast enough, the particles could still be intact, resulting in a greenish hue of colour.Actually I am working at an article explaining the geology of Tamriel. Could I link your video in my article, guys? Would be really nice.
Been waiting forever for this and not at all am I disappointed
I would love to see a Stalhrim smithing secrets lore episode next! It’s up to you though, Fudgemuppet bros!
Dudes, THIS is the content I've been eagerly awaiting. 10/10, keep it up, kings!
Fun fact: you can hit any ore with a pickaxe and mine it like that so then duel wielding is twice as fast and you can quit mining at any time
I absolutely love this armor series, please, teach me more
Some of my family worked at a glass works, so could probably mock up a set of Glass gear! Hell, I can't remember if it was my uncle or grandad, but one relative of mine made a Colt Single Action Army, plus 6 rounds, out of glass!
Simple answer *It just works*
It's ain't much but it's honest work
*That's how Skyrim works*
I see you there, Todd. You can't hide.
@@jones81381 *Infinite quests*
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?!?!?
SO MANY VIDEOS ♥️
There are some fantastic looking Glass Armor mods.
Love your lore vids, could watch them all day if i had the time. The work you guys put into them is staggering. Thank you Fudge.
Hey, what mod did you use for that epic modified glass set? I've seen it in a few of your videos but it hasn't been explained to my knowledge.
immersive Armors: the Vvardenfell Glass/Steel Armor
@@naturalist10000 thank you!!
🙂🙃🙂
A video on all the native arms and armor of each province would be interesting and give some ideas for Skyrim role play characters... And maybe lead to some new build ideas?
Hmm... seems to be more like obsidian, which was used by the ancient Aztecs to edge some of their weapons.
I wonder if you could use this malachite blend to create a large tube-like structure that could withstand the force of using magic to fire large fast moving metal projectiles...
Glass armor in Oblivion honestly looks like Emerald armor
Damn son, that uploading is hot right now
Great video as always guys! Any chance we'll see more original writings like your Fallout Redemption series or Dwemer ruins short story? I absolutely love those videos! Keep up the awesome work!
The color of the "glass" is kinda similar to that of mirroring a mirror.
One things is clear, Morrowind had the coolest looking glass armor and Oblivion had the lamest. The tint of green used in ES4 just looks bad.
The glass weapons in ES4 look good, I think. But yeah, that one's true
You can make metals today like glass in the in the arrangement of its molecules. Kind of like ceramics. This makes them have a lot more strength and blade retention.
Is it weird that I’ve never questioned or even had a second thought about glass armor or weapons🤷🏾♂️ like I’ve never really noticed that is was GLASS until now😂
I know I’m late to the party, But I really want to see an eleven armour video like this?
I do dig the Vardenfell Glass Armor, since the glass blades and spikes on it, especially on the gauntlets mean the whole suit is potentially a weapon
I woke up at 4 am so i can watch a new fudgemuppet vid
I would love to see a video about Stalhrim. There are so many unanswered questions concerning that wondrous material, chiefly, where does it come from? Is it artificially made or does it occur naturally?
I like to believe that it's blackish in Morrowind because it's made with ebony, since they are in Vvardenfell, yet in Skyrim it's goldish because obviously it's made with moonstone i.e. High Elves chill there in 4E 201.
3.5 D&D has the alchemical material "glasteel" which is transparent, stronger than steel and weighs half as much. Since Elder Scrolls is a derivative of D&D, I honestly never questioned the armors and weapons. Glass was glasteel, ebony was adamantine. But this video was very informative!
Actually glass in the real word is pretty strong. Not as strong as some metals, but much stronger than ppl would think. The one difference between metals and glass is that metal is much much more flexible.
I am a blacksmith and I also cast bronze. The glass armor is an alloy of malachite and cream moonstone malachite is copper oxide and moonstone usually has a high silicon content so the so called “glass” is actually an alloy of silicon bronze
Scott, if you read this I want you to know how impressive these videos are! So incredibly well done! ❤️ I watch them all. Can you do a lore video on smithing? I think that would be really interesting
Would bosmer using glass Armour break the green pact?
Maybe not if they caught and ate the last owner lol.
But probably would violate the spirit of the Greenpact if done that way.
Depends on where they get the material from. The pact only covers valenwood
Ah, I thought perhaps it covered everywhere. Makes sense tho that it covers the valenwoods since those are the areas that need the protection.
(It's just occurred to me, many places with valenwood as their names. They have a large redwood style forest with trees called valenwood in Dragonlance, and I would not be surprised to find one or two forests on Mimbar named after Valen lol)
Bosmer are allowed to use wood as long as it's imported from outside Valenwood. So using Imported hafts (Let's say from Summerset) to construct weapons would be perfectly fine.
@D. R. lol. Can't escape that subject. hahaha.
Real world glass recipes use different additives for different properties. If we have a real-world equivalent to moonstone, I wonder if we can add ground up malachite and moonstone to produce something similar. I wonder what kind of properties this glass would have.
I wonder how strong glass could be if it was made in the shape of a sword, shield, or armor with these kinds of thicknesses.
On the topic of obsidian glass, it can be a blackish green. Obsidian is also typically 70+% silicon dioxide. Color depends on impurities, iron and magnesium typically give a dark brown to black color; though the overall color is due to chemical composition of impurities rather than dark colored minerals, like in basalt. There's also rainbow obsidian, with an iridescent sheen, cause by inclusions of magnetite nanoparticles.
If it's possible to synthetically create obsidian, in the same way volcanoes do with water, but with controlled impurities, I wonder if it could be possible to create TES glass.
2 words. Buoyant Armigers
I love the style of glass armor and hope it's just as amazing looking in tes6
Glass arrow heads make the most sense, that and a spiked mace
Book: *Says “Blood Gutters” instead of “Fullers”*
Me: *Triggered*
Historically they have been called blood gutters by poeple who don't know what they're talking about.
5:45 that armor thow
I've always felt that the Glass & Moonstone crafts of the elves are based more on the idea of the fictional fantasy material known as Mythril (or Mithril if you want to use Tolkien's original spelling) than any real world substance.
You can have a actual mithrill armour in Oblivion.
It always sounded to me like it was a very hard, dense form of fiberglass. Fiberglass is remarkably tough stuff for it's weight, and can be used in construction alongside other materials to keep things light without sacrificing the structural integrity of the whole object. Which is why all Elder Scrolls glass armor is always depicted as bits of glass worked into a steel or ebony framework, and weapons are only glass on the ornamental parts and the outer part of blades.
Hearing the rock-need stuff made it sound like the Earth’s crust was human skin. I loved it.
I remember when I was younger my friend told me that Glass armor was the strongest armor there was in Skyrim.
Do one about the Motierre family and if Amound would've made a better emperor once he returned to the elder council?
Great lore videos but please give us some more Skyrim builds
I am tempted to save up to buy Skyrim on PC purely so I can get whatever mod makes your glass armor look like that, especially considering that green is far and away my favorite color.
The insomniac’s guide to Tamerial.
I like to think that its similar to bullet proof glass, augmented with metal like supports. I like this idea only cause it means i can make an unarmed fighter and call him The Bullet Proof Monk.
Hotdog on a bun construction for the Glass Knife/Dagger/other weapons mentioned here. Remember -- and learn, for real-life applications.
When it comes to weapon, glass weapons aren't unusual or impractical. It depends what you're using the weapon for. South American natives used obsidian for weapons for centuries. Their warfare focused on WOUNDING the enemy, not killing them, so that they could be captured or simply defeated. Glass/obsidian is used is many other cultures for similar reasons. Sometimes it's brittle, breakable qualities are part of its deadliness. Tiny glass shards can be difficult to remove and increase the chance of infection if left in the wound.
You have to like how they. Worked in real world mineral s . Plants an so on into the game. Obviously they add a twist . But just having them in it is a nice touch.
Where’s the new Vegas content
There hasn't really been anything new going on with New Vegas in years. Though I would like there to be.
The Human races of Tamriel have so much interesting lore. It's so unfair that the Elves always have the best shit
So...its like steel when it comes to having to have moonstone to make it more... Useable hm like howbiron is needed when making steel weapons because steelbis just really hard but also brittle when in battle
Steel is iron, with carbon added. Iron is not usually mixed with steel, lower carbon steels are mixed with high carbon steel however. High carbon is good for holding an edge as its much harder, low carbon steel is good for surrounding high carbon steel, for durability. Iron is always very brittle by itself and thus should be avoided in any weaponry or armor.
Sounds like obsidian smithing might be a better real life comparison for glass armor.
FudgeMuppet": How does it work???"
Godd Howard: "You're not supposed to ask that question."
Spent so much time in comments,
Must rewatch/relisten!😆☺️😎