Argonians are DAEDRIC?! - An Elder Scrolls Lore Theory about the Dubious Origins of the Hist

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  • @phexsten
    @phexsten 3 роки тому +912

    As Mehrunes Dagon learned the hard way.
    When you invade the Argonians, they invade back.

    • @etinarcadiaego7424
      @etinarcadiaego7424 3 роки тому +108

      In Soviet Tamriel, Argonians invade you!

    • @Never_heart
      @Never_heart 3 роки тому +91

      Dagon: Hey that's not fair that's my trick
      The Hist: hehe Argonians go brrrr

    • @timyuusis3372
      @timyuusis3372 3 роки тому +9

      Unless you're just nabbing a few slaves!

    • @noonenowhere877
      @noonenowhere877 3 роки тому +33

      Dunmer also learned this the hard way.

    • @BigOrangeLizard
      @BigOrangeLizard 3 роки тому +5

      @@etinarcadiaego7424 lol, that is funny and true as well.

  • @mythicmars4848
    @mythicmars4848 3 роки тому +347

    Me: starts playing argonian playthrough
    Fudgemuppet next day: Argonians daedric?

    • @spikymarshmallow7611
      @spikymarshmallow7611 3 роки тому +4

      I not long started an Argonian Slave mixed with Berserker elements, and Fudgemuppet uploads about Argonians. Coincidence? I think not!

  • @Exile_Sky
    @Exile_Sky 3 роки тому +837

    The fact that the Daedra fled from Blackmarsh and closed their side of the portal says a lot about the Argonians.

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому +178

      Well man can you imagine the pure horror of cracked out lizardmen swarming you and tearing your friends limb from limb some crawling like creepy creatures some hulking raging beasts. Also unless I'm remembering wrong, it was the argonians who closed the portal. From the daedra side.
      *gulp*
      *gets chased through portal by the beasts who then slam the door shut behind us*
      OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo-

    • @willsword8100
      @willsword8100 3 роки тому +95

      Given that neither the Daedra nor Tiber Septim could properly conquer blackmarsh.

    • @Exile_Sky
      @Exile_Sky 3 роки тому +49

      @@milkgxng I thought it was the Daedra that did it themselves, but I could be misremembering. *It's been a long time*.
      Also, lmao.

    • @thomasrosendahl2783
      @thomasrosendahl2783 3 роки тому +33

      Somehow Scott missed that, when he placed them last among the best lore races.

    • @kennethhuffman3754
      @kennethhuffman3754 3 роки тому +95

      @@Exile_Sky yes Dagon closed the portals in blackmarsh AFTER the argonians started to invade his realm of oblivion In a very successful attempt to close his portal.
      Basically the argonian counter attack was so effective that Dagon didn't think blackmarsh was worth the trouble.

  • @LcHR21212
    @LcHR21212 3 роки тому +658

    FudgeMuppet: Argonians are daedric
    Bethesda: good idea, i'll be taking that

    • @katiefincher2433
      @katiefincher2433 3 роки тому +44

      I know that a lot of people think this sort of thing about Bethesda, but the fact is their Elder Scrolls lore is more or less "finished" internally at this point, with only a few true enigmas left. Argonian lore is "finished"... and they are not daedric-- nor are they aedric-- any more than sithis (sith-hist/sithis-ishist) omg) itself is aedric or daedric. It's neither, predating both.

    • @forgetaboutit1354
      @forgetaboutit1354 3 роки тому +68

      @@katiefincher2433 yeah...right...it's not like they regularly changed their lore throughout the years...right ? lmao

    • @Аллаявбар-ы8ч
      @Аллаявбар-ы8ч 3 роки тому +42

      @@katiefincher2433 a dragon break wants to know your location... oh nvm, you didnt actually exist in the first place

    • @katiefincher2433
      @katiefincher2433 3 роки тому +26

      @@forgetaboutit1354 I mean, I used to work there so..... I would know. I'm not saying the lore was always pretty much done, I'm saying that for the first four ages plus the pre-eras, and most certainly the cosmology itself, it is more or less finished. Fifth era, I have no idea, I haven't been an employee of Bethesda (or Zenimax) for five years.

    • @katiefincher2433
      @katiefincher2433 3 роки тому +3

      @@Аллаявбар-ы8ч Hi russian person who wouldn't know.

  • @GTGizra
    @GTGizra 3 роки тому +365

    So basically Dagon's forces were fucked from the second they stepped into Black Marsh. They were trying to invade another Daedric Lord's territory at that point.

    • @tanrata8658
      @tanrata8658 3 роки тому +56

      More like the devil bumbled into Cthulu's lair.

    • @Ian-nl9yd
      @Ian-nl9yd 3 роки тому +18

      i mean, we see deadra invade other deadric realms in the elder scrolls: battlespire. and i think it happens in eso too?, though i havent played eso

    • @tanrata8658
      @tanrata8658 3 роки тому +25

      @@Ian-nl9yd Aedra and Daedra are common among man and mer and even the cat folk. Argonians and the Hist on the other hand depending on your sources are particularly alien compared to the rest of the continent.

    • @BigPanda096
      @BigPanda096 3 роки тому +13

      The Hist would probably dunk a Daedric Prince tbh. Lorewise they are pretty damn op, especially when the Argonians are near them, they are basically unbeatable. An army that knows everything the other forces are doing simultaneously while being empowered beyond normal mortal means. That's hard to beat even with godly power.

    • @23Raind
      @23Raind 3 роки тому +5

      @@BigPanda096 hard for an army of lesser daedra...sure. Hard for a deadric lord? Not remotely.
      What are the hist gonna do against an immaterial cosmic entity that can just chuck at moon a them (aka sheogorath)?
      How are the argonians going to save them from that?

  • @achmadtitofauzan3809
    @achmadtitofauzan3809 3 роки тому +167

    Lusty argonian maid lowkey is a lesser daedric prince

    • @rifflerunderhill7006
      @rifflerunderhill7006 3 роки тому +28

      Definitely worshiped more than people let on, despite all the jokes.

    • @bigbrohybrid
      @bigbrohybrid 3 роки тому +28

      Naughty boys get pegged by the demon futa waifu scalie oWo
      coming to crunchyroll this frostfall 4E 2021

    • @lordwintertown8284
      @lordwintertown8284 3 роки тому +3

      @@bigbrohybrid Damn that's been a long era 2021 thousand years lol for the fourth era.

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 роки тому +144

    I believe the Hist are Daedric, in that they came before Nirn making them "Original Spirits", but they did not lend to its creation, hence they are "Not Ancestors". But the Argonians are just mortals that have been augmented by them.
    Similar to how Hercine makes Werewolves, but Werewolves are not Daedra.
    Or how Molag Bal made Vampires, but Vampires are not inherently Daedric in nature.

    • @sancturillore
      @sancturillore 3 роки тому +26

      Holy shit. That's a very good point. Werewolves and Vampires are indeed both not Daedric even though they come from Daedras. Thank you for bringing that up.

    • @draconian_dragons6588
      @draconian_dragons6588 3 роки тому +12

      The souls of argonians are recycled similarly to deadra or things like dark seducers and golden saints

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 роки тому +13

      @@draconian_dragons6588 Yup. And the sould of all mortals go through the same(or at least an eerily similar) process in the Dream Sleeve.

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 3 роки тому +3

      Fun fact: The original homeland of the Hists which located in Oblivion was destroyed in the Ehlnofey War between Man and Mer.

    • @stuartjohnson5686
      @stuartjohnson5686 Рік тому

      According to ESO Molag Ball's intent was just to hurt Arkay but it led to creation of vampires who hate both Molab Bal and Arkay.

  • @archades115
    @archades115 3 роки тому +64

    Daedra invade Argonia.
    Argonians: *I'm not locked in here with you, YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!*

    • @DiogenesDworkinson
      @DiogenesDworkinson 2 роки тому +2

      Invasion request received, invitation accepted, mobilizing troops...
      One cannot resist the Hist!

  • @Batman_the_bad_man
    @Batman_the_bad_man 3 роки тому +797

    Argonians have quite a fascinating HISTory

  • @WASDLeftClick
    @WASDLeftClick 3 роки тому +131

    >Be Imperial Legionary
    >Get deployed to fight in Black Marsh
    >Tisn’t Me starts playing and the Hist trees start speaking Jel

    • @alexanderstilianov
      @alexanderstilianov 3 роки тому +17

      >Thank Stendarr you're not a Dark Elf and shout "PELINAL DID NOTHING WRONG!"
      >Hear slow clapping from the nearby bushes

  • @JustDaZack
    @JustDaZack 3 роки тому +203

    The hist talk a bit too much for my taste, but dang, they are just so charismatic and convincing!

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому +3

      All these years to find out the hist (besides a taste on oblivion) is just a couple annoying forced character tryhards. :(

    • @docop8926
      @docop8926 3 роки тому +15

      @@milkgxng what do u mean by character tryhards?

    • @Zen-751
      @Zen-751 3 роки тому +7

      @@docop8926 he doesn't actually know, he just said it to say it

  • @pingpong5877
    @pingpong5877 3 роки тому +249

    Everyone's laughing until the trees start speaking Argonianese.

  • @nightterror6727
    @nightterror6727 3 роки тому +134

    Mehrunes Dagon: Tries to invade all of Tamriel
    Argonians: *_Uno reverse card_*

    • @ShadeMeadows
      @ShadeMeadows 3 роки тому +8

      Hist: "We got Dibs on the Realm already"

  • @argacc9434
    @argacc9434 3 роки тому +188

    The last major elder scrolls game came out almost ten years ago and you can still pump quality content out like this. Yesterday I was watching your Arizona/Utah fallout video and was amazed at the thought you guys put into it. I just love this channel

    • @fabricatorgeneralchadius1114
      @fabricatorgeneralchadius1114 3 роки тому +5

      They are my favourite UA-camrs I love these guys

    • @dave1317
      @dave1317 3 роки тому +2

      Eso is a major game? They infact use tons of pictures and lore directly from eso....

    • @Corrinelester74
      @Corrinelester74 3 роки тому

      Almost 8* eso is a major game

    • @dave1317
      @dave1317 3 роки тому

      Yea and if you are a xbox player most lile 6 years

    • @TheBlakamon15
      @TheBlakamon15 3 роки тому +2

      @Nero Beerus Disagree. I understand you do not like the game but you cannot disregard the game like it does not exist. Eso is a very successful game. Seven year game that is still getting new content. It has so much lore that it eclipses the lore that is in the main elder scrolls games and it builds upon the lore from all of them. Not just Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind but Daggerfall and Arena. Also Redguard. To call Eso not an elder scrolls game is just pure ignorance.What makes a game a elder scrolls games is the lore and world not gameplay since all the actual main games all played differently.

  • @thomasrosendahl2783
    @thomasrosendahl2783 3 роки тому +67

    There might be a connection between the early Daedric Chimer civilization and the tribal Argonians, since they both lived in Southern Morrowind where there is swamp areas like black marsh.

    • @tomix7712
      @tomix7712 3 роки тому +20

      The Argonians used obsidian in the old weapons. With Red Mountain being the only volcano they would have access to it seems that the Argonians had presence all the way through Morrowind before the Chimer were even there. Which is why they have also connection with the dwemer (their shields and maces have a design similar to that of dwemer architecture). When thw Chimwr first came they most likely fought the Argonians back down into Black Marsh where the Hist are.

  • @TheWhiteDragon3
    @TheWhiteDragon3 3 роки тому +50

    "Elsweyr and elswhere" is such a good line. I left a like just for that

  • @morrigankasa570
    @morrigankasa570 3 роки тому +46

    Argonions are my favorite race tied with Orcs and Bosmer. Favorite human race is Breton.

    • @TheCheese1988
      @TheCheese1988 3 роки тому +7

      I like the Nords the most, especially the lore-accurate ones. Skyrim did them a bit dirty, in my mind. The further north you go, the more the Nords were supposed to be part of the wind, wearing less clothing, not being cold, and being fast and agile.

    • @Draazen
      @Draazen 3 роки тому +4

      Kek the only reason bretons are you favorite human race is because their only half human!

    • @morrigankasa570
      @morrigankasa570 3 роки тому +6

      @@Draazen perhaps but it is mainly due to game mechanics/abilities. Nords the Warcry thing is pointless who wants their enemies to run away makes it more difficult to kill them. Imperial Voice of the Emperor is similarly pointless why try to calm enemies unless you are a Vampire needing to feed then you have Vampiric Seduction that you get at the necessary time, otherwise just slaughter them all. Redguards Adrenaline Rush is also pointless regenerating stamina. While Bretons their Dragonskin absorbs magic so is helpful to reduce damage. Also beyond abilities natural other things then Nord and Redguard have reasonable use with Cold Resistance and Poison Resistance but Magic Resistance beats Cold Resistance cause beyond just resisting cold attacks it also applies to other elemental attacks. Imperial doesn't even have a resistance of some kind. Also Bosmer beats Redguard cause not only does it have the Poison Resistance they also have Disease Resistance so that beats out Redguard though admittedly the Bosmer ability is also fairly pointless but the duel resistances makes them valid.

  • @noonenowhere877
    @noonenowhere877 3 роки тому +216

    The Hist Trees: Stop trying to compromise our national security
    Imperial Researchers: Aaah so scary!
    The Hist Trees: Stop stealing our subjects!
    Dunmer: Aaah why are we being attacked?
    The Hist Trees: No invading! counter invasion activate!
    Mehrunes Dagon: Aaaah! This is illegal.

  • @electricc437
    @electricc437 3 роки тому +52

    Imagine facing an argonian with a machiavellian personality holding a macedonian sword working in an italian garrison for a draconian purpose.

  • @etinarcadiaego7424
    @etinarcadiaego7424 3 роки тому +344

    Hist: "Kill all the dunmer."
    Argonian: "But it's not our way!"
    Hist: "DEW IT!"
    Argonian: "Oh, okay!"

    • @deondreglenn6524
      @deondreglenn6524 3 роки тому +5

      Starwars Palpatine to ankin in ROTS

    • @jaeger3905
      @jaeger3905 3 роки тому +46

      It was more like this
      High elves:"Hey do you want to help us with our invasion?"
      Argonians: "Nah we're good."
      The Hist: "Ah good, they chose to be peacef-"
      An-Xi'leel: *INITIATE EXTERMINATUS*

    • @jetnebula7915
      @jetnebula7915 3 роки тому +22

      " b e c a u s e w e a r e t i g h t e r t h a n b a r k o n a h i s t t r e e"

    • @jaeger3905
      @jaeger3905 3 роки тому +3

      @@jetnebula7915 was that in the latest issue of the lusty argonian maid?

    • @Emperor_Palpatine_66
      @Emperor_Palpatine_66 3 роки тому +2

      Good... Good...

  • @Outcrow
    @Outcrow 3 роки тому +154

    Argonian: *Licks Hist sap*
    “We require more minerals.”
    “We require more minerals.”
    “Spawn more Shadowscales.”
    “The Hist Cluster is under attack!”
    “We require more minerals.”

    • @lambrioza
      @lambrioza 3 роки тому +26

      Hist gives Argonian super soldier serum to invade Oblivion:
      EVOLUTION COMPLETE!

    • @jetnebula7915
      @jetnebula7915 3 роки тому +5

      Is this some sort of ESOnline joke that I'm too Single-Player to understand?

    • @Oaglor
      @Oaglor 3 роки тому +24

      @@jetnebula7915 It's a Starcraft joke.

    • @sleepysartorialist
      @sleepysartorialist 3 роки тому +3

      NICE

    • @rifflerunderhill7006
      @rifflerunderhill7006 3 роки тому +13

      Construct additional ziggurats.

  • @the_teymur_
    @the_teymur_ 3 роки тому +23

    I remember watching you guys during the Oblivion Let’s Play with Robyn Pierre. Long story short, I just rediscovered this channel thanks to your podcasts, and now I’m hooked. Your videos are an excellent listening material to work out to, keep up the sensational work 👍

  • @Thomw72
    @Thomw72 3 роки тому +24

    I've heard of the stoned ape theory but the stoned lizard theory is a new one... Lol. Excellent one.

  • @Lcgx
    @Lcgx 3 роки тому +38

    i love watching these lore videos, they’re so relaxing and enjoyable

    • @zackdelarosa14
      @zackdelarosa14 3 роки тому

      Literally taking a nap listening to this. 👌

    • @Lcgx
      @Lcgx 3 роки тому +1

      @@zackdelarosa14 there too interesting for me to miss out on but i do get that same sleepy feeling 😂

  • @mrself5824
    @mrself5824 3 роки тому +17

    Something has shifted in Argonia, egg brother.

  • @ZonarohGaming
    @ZonarohGaming 3 роки тому +15

    I knew I loved the Argonians for a reason! Who knew the Daedra were a playable race after all?
    Also new theory; the Hist roots are slowly covering all of Tamriel and are one day gonna change all of Tamriel into swamp for the Argonians to rule for them.

  • @Random_Chiroptera
    @Random_Chiroptera 3 роки тому +8

    This lore should be used to make a Skyrim mod giving similar effects to Argonians when consuming Sleeping Tree Sap.
    Enai Saion's Wintersun Faiths of Skyrim Mod identifies the Sleeping Tree as a Hist tree.

  • @koru1362
    @koru1362 3 роки тому +10

    "The roots hold us all together." Have you guys learned at all about mycelium networks? This is a Real Thing! I love the notion that the Hist is Tamriel's version of mycelium. Check it out!

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 3 роки тому +122

    Last time I was this early, Indoril Nerevar was alive

    • @whiterunguard5749
      @whiterunguard5749 3 роки тому +14

      I trust the day's found you well, thane.

    • @marcanthony3167
      @marcanthony3167 3 роки тому +3

      have you found my sweet roll yet???

    • @whiterunguard5749
      @whiterunguard5749 3 роки тому +3

      @@marcanthony3167 yes nazeem has eaten it, so he is now spending life in the Whiterun dungeons, your welcome.

    • @marcanthony3167
      @marcanthony3167 3 роки тому +3

      justice is served!

  • @xanderdaniels8284
    @xanderdaniels8284 3 роки тому +11

    If you guys have never driven home from work while listening to these lore videos, do yourself a favor and try it. Best commute in a while

  • @brigittehuber9745
    @brigittehuber9745 3 роки тому +5

    Man, I've been watching this chanel for far too long now. Just saw the title and thought: "Ah, Drew uploaded a new video." I love how you always come up with theories that make much more sense (or are at least much more original) as the confirmed lore. Please keep up the good work (all three of you)!

  • @xfirexrainx6668
    @xfirexrainx6668 3 роки тому +5

    I'd love if they made an elder scrolls that ends with the kalpa cycle resetting, it would be interesting

  • @tysonkestner03
    @tysonkestner03 3 роки тому +6

    I love how TES lore is in depth to the point where the tes universe’s origin story isn’t just unknown but is contested between multiple myths based on race, religion, and culture. I have myself convinced either this one or the nirn being a daedric realm one are the truth theu make the most sense

  • @tineshboopathy9819
    @tineshboopathy9819 3 роки тому +73

    If Argonians are Daedric, then perhaps that would explain why the Dunmer go: "Hippity hoppity, Argonians are property." After all binding Daedric creations are something commonly done.

    • @Wired_User
      @Wired_User 3 роки тому +13

      Nah, they’re just really racist (or at least used to be). The Dunmer think anything that isn’t an elf is just a talking animal, subhuman for lack of a better term. Other elves are below them too, but they’re at least considered people. Beast races get it the worst. Orcs of course are dumped in with the beast races, because they love to pretend Orcs aren’t elves even though the Dunmer LITERALLY came from the same conflict that created Orcs.
      Source: Morrowind dialogue on the Dunmer’s view of necromancy. I think from the Orc necromancer in the Balmora Mages Guild. To them, playing with animal souls isn’t necromancy, which includes all the other races because ThEy’Re NoT pEoPlE.

    • @gamermoment656
      @gamermoment656 3 роки тому +1

      @@Wired_User The Ordinators would like to know your location

    • @Wired_User
      @Wired_User 3 роки тому +4

      @@gamermoment656 Ah never you mind sera, I’m a member of the Temple!

    • @Seth-uo4zn
      @Seth-uo4zn 3 роки тому +1

      @@Wired_User I mean, they aren't people. Dunmer literally are the master race

    • @Wired_User
      @Wired_User 3 роки тому +4

      @@Seth-uo4zn Nah, that’s the Altmer.

  • @ReformedSauron
    @ReformedSauron 3 роки тому +3

    "Merry, the tree is talking!"
    "Don't talk to it Pip! Don't encourage it!"

  • @BaalFridge
    @BaalFridge 3 роки тому +58

    The Hist are better rulers than most emperors.
    All hail our argonian overlords.

    • @georgemurdock7670
      @georgemurdock7670 3 роки тому +2

      Only argonian thing that rules is the taste of an argonian egg omelette

    • @echos5823
      @echos5823 3 роки тому +16

      THE EMPEROR IS AN ARGONIAN IN A SKIN SUIT!!!!
      -Alexius Jonius. Probably.

    • @BigOrangeLizard
      @BigOrangeLizard 3 роки тому +1

      @@georgemurdock7670 I confirm.

    • @arempy5836
      @arempy5836 3 роки тому +5

      @@echos5823 I'M TIRED OF THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER TURNING THE FREAKING LIZARDS SMART!

  • @qahnaarinsedov1268
    @qahnaarinsedov1268 3 роки тому +6

    What if the hist trees are just an extension of Lorkhan, meaning that the Argonians are just daedric beings made by Sithis, which is why they can be so powerful.

  • @Aethuviel
    @Aethuviel 3 роки тому +28

    ""Both in Elsweyr, and elsewhere on the continent"
    Oh, clever boy.

  • @ZeroSeriesMMX
    @ZeroSeriesMMX 3 роки тому +5

    Last time I was late, I was trapped in one of those "transportation networks" of Black Marsh.

    • @Joe_Potts
      @Joe_Potts 3 роки тому +2

      (Squishy knocking sound) "Can somebody cut me out of here?"

  • @adammenhennett
    @adammenhennett 3 роки тому +6

    Brilliant. Great research and as usual a sublime video. Thanks for all the legendary work.

  • @Eldincy
    @Eldincy 3 роки тому +3

    My green Argonian is choping wood while I listen to Drew

  • @XelionGraves
    @XelionGraves 3 роки тому +5

    Now Mehrunes Dagon is trying to invade again. Rise up my Argonian brethren, it's time to teach the big guy another lesson.

  • @SilverFang2789
    @SilverFang2789 3 роки тому +50

    We need an An-Xileel Warrior build soon

    • @thomasrosendahl2783
      @thomasrosendahl2783 3 роки тому +5

      Argonians also have powerful nightblades and spellswords, nords, orsimers and redguards only have martial talents, so a magic combat hybrid build is out of the question.

    • @DensApri
      @DensApri 3 роки тому +4

      @@thomasrosendahl2783 not true, ancient nords had mages

    • @ikeaman7247
      @ikeaman7247 3 роки тому +9

      @@thomasrosendahl2783 although it’s uncommon any of those people from those races could do magic if they wanted to. It’s not like there is anything stopping them

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому +4

      @@thomasrosendahl2783 Every single race can do magic. What the fuck is Sword Singing for redguards? I would argue it's a form of magic. There are orsimer prophets/sages/healers/etc. Same with Nords. Idk what the fuck you're on about no magic lmao

    • @PR0J3CTMKU
      @PR0J3CTMKU 3 роки тому

      @@milkgxng facts magic literally is just divine life energy pretty much in elder scrolls

  • @buckrichards3965
    @buckrichards3965 3 роки тому +20

    Is it just me or does the really big tree with the orange glowing things hanging from it kinda looks like the eldergleem tree

    • @true4976
      @true4976 3 роки тому +10

      Thats the hist tree, the purple looking one in skyrim is different cuz its like a subspecies of hist that grew on a floating city made by a character called umbra.

    • @justsomewitcherwithalongsw4233
      @justsomewitcherwithalongsw4233 3 роки тому +6

      Just a character is an understatement. Sentient Sword, Host of the current Wielder, Bane of Clavicus Vile. It holds many titles. Too bad we didn’t get to encounter it in Skyrim.

    • @MLPDethDealr32
      @MLPDethDealr32 3 роки тому

      @@justsomewitcherwithalongsw4233 THe Legacy of the Dragonborn mod adds Umbra back into the game. Its being carried by an Orc somewhere outside of Markarth. Its also a great way to pick up a full set of Ebony Armor early game.

    • @true4976
      @true4976 3 роки тому

      @@justsomewitcherwithalongsw4233 haha yeah but I didnt wanna overwhelm them with all the details! Just enough so they could find out more if they liked :-)

    • @pisscvre69
      @pisscvre69 3 роки тому

      @TRUEthatguy thats not the Eldergleam thats the sleeping tree from the sleeping tree camp, the eldergleam has been there since before time tho so it may be similar or maybe something like that is inherent to creation daedric hist or aedric

  • @paladinofthelostdays7392
    @paladinofthelostdays7392 3 роки тому

    I love this idea of a Bethesda writer staff meeting where they get together, hammer out some of this complicated, multifaceted, shape shifting lore that can be taken in so many ways, all the while knowing that some random UA-cam channel will painstakingly break down every detail and completely unravel the mystery of the Elder Scrolls

  • @mrfivegold
    @mrfivegold 3 роки тому +6

    Its explained in books in Daggerfall that the Atlmer when they controlled the continent created creatures that share humanoid and beastly characteristics, that's why we have centaurs, minotaurs, and the like. That would also explain Khajiit and Argonians.

    • @lordslashingtonsmoments6125
      @lordslashingtonsmoments6125 3 роки тому

      So are the altmer the guys behind the moons with khajiit and the hist trees with argonians?

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому +1

      @@lordslashingtonsmoments6125 The moons is something else imo but I could see the altmer creating argonians (so long ago its mostly forgotten) and then the argonians eventually finding the Hist. Remember the hist is it's own entity. If I recall correctly they weren't always in a symbiotic relationship

    • @papadoug4681
      @papadoug4681 3 роки тому +6

      I wouldn't be surprised if A. That stuff is retconned given that it wasn't bethesda that wrote those (but that's boring). So lets have fun with it and say that B. it's Altemer Propaganda to make them out to be superior. I wouldn't put it past them. After all they are no strangers to re writing history to suite their own ends ;)

    • @mrfivegold
      @mrfivegold 3 роки тому

      @@papadoug4681 Well the Atlmer did create goblins, and have been said in Morrowind to have been responsible for the creation of the Dreugh. And it has been implied that the moon cycle and hist were gifts from the gods, other than the 8, but that was retconned along with other deities created in Daggerfall and Arena.

    • @papadoug4681
      @papadoug4681 3 роки тому

      @@mrfivegold I'm sure just about all the cool stuff from the first 2 games that contradict the current lore (or vice versa) can be waved away as being retconned. But that gets boring honestly. I think it can be more fun to try and find reasonable lore explanations for things not entirely being true from back then lol Though i hadn't touched all the old lore myself. Pretty cool fact about the goblins and Dreugh though. Didn't know that myself.

  • @alexanderstilianov
    @alexanderstilianov 3 роки тому +1

    My new Oblivion character is a Hand-to-hand Argonian fighter named Throws-Many-Punches. While he was still in the Imperial prison he received a vision of the upcoming Oblivion crisis but he was still locked up. The vision, which was, of course, sent to all Argonians by the Hist, showed him that the majority of his marsh-brothers and marsh-sisters were returning to the homeland and becoming empowered by the sap in order to prepare for the Daedric invasion. By the time Throws-Many-Punches got out of jail, he figured he might as well stay in Cyrodiil, train with the Fighters Guild and protect the locals who had no idea what was about to befall them since he was shown that Black Marsh would emerge victorious anyway.

  • @NieroshaiTheSable
    @NieroshaiTheSable 3 роки тому +36

    Simple test. Find a Hist's name, kill it, summon it. If it works, it's a daedra.

    • @angrybanana5476
      @angrybanana5476 3 роки тому +6

      Simplicity is truly a scientist's best friend

    • @GeraltORivia
      @GeraltORivia 3 роки тому +17

      If it doesn’t, you just murdered a magic tree

    • @davidleroth8644
      @davidleroth8644 3 роки тому +7

      @@GeraltORivia murdered a magic tree for SCIENCE

    • @arthurjohnson7473
      @arthurjohnson7473 3 роки тому +15

      You'll have to learn how to speak Tree first, though. Good luck getting the Vietnamese to teach you.

    • @BigOrangeLizard
      @BigOrangeLizard 3 роки тому +2

      @@arthurjohnson7473 lmao

  • @ladsinc527
    @ladsinc527 3 роки тому +28

    I for one welcome our argonian overlords of tamriel with the hist at their side

  • @missspider3572
    @missspider3572 3 роки тому +1

    Love the video. For years I played nothing but highelves. Last year switched to bretons. After this video I am switching to argonian.

  • @supercalifragic1551
    @supercalifragic1551 3 роки тому +13

    The comment on how the swamp changes made me imagine a TES game with random generation, randomizing the Black Marsh or areas of the black marsh per playthrough, or per load. This tool would also be able to give us endless Daedric realms or otherwise dungeons we could explore.
    How interesting could it be for a full RNG RPG, that continuously generates worlds as you travel as you wish, minecraft style (Not graphics, the near endless terrain generation). Obviously far more advanced than a game that came out what 15 years ago? Not a TES game unless there were some story reason for the world collapsing and reality being unmade or something and the player is like an anchor re-binding reality giving it new form and shape. A good complicated generator that doesn't just handle terrain and dynamic cities and buildings (As well as a host of pre-made assets to just place like story locations or important cities (The outskirts of which could still be generated for more expansive cities), but also generate NPCs, factions, reputation systems (Generated faction x hates generated faction y, and is allied with generated faction z, and the generator determines Conflict Points by mapping the terrain between the two factions and plotting paths of travel, and placing forts and checkpoints, and patrols). No voiced NPCs, only generic sounds, all text. Text that can be generated in addition to premade "Personalities" for important characters, and premade NPCs in general that have a ton more detail such as a collection of premade story characters, romance options, and companions, while there would also still be possible generated companions.
    A system for the generation of armor, clothes, and weapons would also be incredible, when generating a faction or region it'd generate a Style for that faction and base object designs around that style, pulling from a suite of assets for Materials, textures, and and shapes. And of course, you could make your own clothes or armor by pulling from the same assets in a crafting menu via Tailoring and Blacksmithing skills. If the terrain can be generated, it should be possible to likewise allow deformation, destruction, and creation. Mining, tunneling, sieging buildings. Burn down a town, a dragon attack melting stone walls and leaving ash-shadows of people that were too close. Permanent scars of conflict, player and NPC made. But also a system for fixing these things. NPCs will passively do repairs on their own except when some threshhold is met for being too damaged, and a threshhold shared by the town at large if enough structures and people were destroyed or killed, then the village, town, or city would be abandoned into a ghost town and you could find the survivors as refuges traveling elsewhere and slowly adapting to a new location, and you might even recognize an NPC from a ruined village as a body on the road or in a dungeon as they were picked off by bandits or monsters or betrayed, ect.
    I feel like this should be entirely possible. Skyrim is almost a decade old. As is Minecraft, though pretty sure it was out for years before that release date google gives.

    • @sancturillore
      @sancturillore 3 роки тому +2

      So, like Daggerfall, but with more stuff?

  • @TheSkaara
    @TheSkaara 3 роки тому +3

    This video was well made. Keep up the greate work!

  • @realzachfluke1
    @realzachfluke1 3 роки тому +3

    Damn, I’ll never be able to unsee this theory.
    I really do have to admit, it’s an *extremely* compelling case.
    Just as extreme as the marshes and swamps deep in the heart of Argonia 😉🦎👾

  • @marcusmcclain3251
    @marcusmcclain3251 3 роки тому +27

    I don't think anyone in-universe realizes just what kind of threat the HIST are to Nirn as we know it. Talos guard us from these alien bonzai.

    • @noonenowhere877
      @noonenowhere877 3 роки тому +9

      To be honest they only seem to lash out when they are wronged. Maybe Nirn just needs to learn to leave well enough alone.

    • @MrsTavington
      @MrsTavington 3 роки тому +14

      Hardly, you have that backwards. The Hist were here long before anything else, so the "alien" are the races not native to Tamriel... including Nords, who are a threat themselves.

    • @muslimcrusader5987
      @muslimcrusader5987 3 роки тому

      @@MrsTavington True Nords came from Atmora

    • @douglaspurcell9199
      @douglaspurcell9199 3 роки тому +5

      Yeah, I've been saying for a while that the Argonians are gonna be making big moves soon. They've been isolated and nearly non consequential for way too long in the lore. Can you imagine how terrifying they would be on a next gen console with realistic graphics? I would shit myself if I just saw a squad of them rising out of the water in front of me lol

    • @thescholarlychronicler1805
      @thescholarlychronicler1805 3 роки тому +5

      Marcus McClain -- They're only a threat in response, so long as you leave them alone, they won't have any dreams or desires of conquest. Every time they've attacked, it has been in response to something that threatened them.

  • @TheJedaiHero9000
    @TheJedaiHero9000 3 роки тому

    They are my 2nd favorite race in The Elder Scrolls series.
    Enjoyed watching and listening to this one right here!

  • @nat040496
    @nat040496 3 роки тому +2

    This is probably a shot for the moon, but i would love to see an ES game where if you start as an Argonian and pick the Shadown sign as your birth sign, you start in the Dark Brotherhood or have a unique starting point that leads you to it.

  • @LaughingLiftingGaming
    @LaughingLiftingGaming 3 роки тому +37

    Jaara: “Finally, I’ll hear the Hist”.
    Hist: “Shiiiiiiii, what up cuh?!

  • @Muddeth63
    @Muddeth63 3 роки тому +9

    Just wanted some input from the experts, I’m replaying Skyrim SE with the Alternate Start mod, and I’m playing as a High Elf Thalmor, and I want to role play in the direction that she has just recently joined the Thalmor and got transferred to Skyrim, but then she slowly starts to realize how fucked up the Empire and the Thalmor are and I would like her to experience some in game experiences of this so she’ll change and eventually take up arms with the Stormcloaks. I’ve helped the Grey-Manes in Whiterun save their son, and I’ve joined the College of Winterhold because High Elf mages. But any in game examples anyone can give me would be appreciated! Also using most of Enai Siaions mods like Ordinator, Apocalypse, and Wintersun and she is worshipping Syrabane.

    • @darkdragoking2186
      @darkdragoking2186 3 роки тому

      You do know that the thalmor are for the rebellion

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 3 роки тому

      @@darkdragoking2186 Only as long as it is ungoing. Should they, or the imperials win and finish the war however...

  • @Nova-jw6ju
    @Nova-jw6ju 3 роки тому +5

    Blackmarsh is just the southern coast of Louisiana. Dont say im wrong, you know im right. I wouldnt be surprised to see a lizard man walking around in New Orleans.

  • @CB-vx1fu
    @CB-vx1fu 3 роки тому

    this channel has slowly become my favorite. Skyrim lore is so cool.

  • @eusoumaniaco
    @eusoumaniaco 3 роки тому +2

    Just a small nitpick: argonians don’t serve Sithis by going only to the DB, as even Veezara at the sanctuary states he was bred to serve an argonian order of assassins that died out, then and only then he went to the brotherhood.

  • @NamelessKing1597
    @NamelessKing1597 3 роки тому +1

    In my head canon the Hist most likely figured out how to stay on Nirn while maintaining their omnipotence and omniscience by destroying their sense of self and becoming identical unidentifiable trees that rely on other creatures to exert their will. essentially Chim in reverse.

  • @flpnj1419
    @flpnj1419 3 роки тому

    You’d think that ads would be personalized to the video subject, but I got a Trojan ad. That is literally the opposite of this.

  • @trafo60
    @trafo60 3 роки тому

    The best thing about ESO is that ES lore youtubers now have footage for all the other provinces

  • @Mephilis78
    @Mephilis78 3 роки тому +1

    I always thought the Argonian Behemoths were just a nod to Super Mutant Behemoths tbh

  • @kenzauter6626
    @kenzauter6626 2 роки тому

    You are a master content creator and this was a wonderful and exciting video. Perhaps Arogonians defy definition. Neither Daedra nor “organically” Tamrielic. Perhaps they’re some kind of hybrid or evolutionary step? All I know is I love them and they look soooo good in Dragonscale armor!

  • @funkboy14
    @funkboy14 3 роки тому +4

    Lol, with Closed Captions it says “Argonians worship Syphilis.”

  • @mysticranger6894
    @mysticranger6894 3 роки тому +2

    Is the lusty argonian maid a Daedric Prince? The potentials make me smile.

  • @loneronin6813
    @loneronin6813 3 роки тому

    I didn't need anymore reasons to click on this video other than the fact that it's about Argonians. They are my favorite race to play as in The Elder Scrolls Series since I first played Morrowind as a kid. I especially loved playing as them in Oblivion, usually emphasizing the hand-to-hand, athletics, and acrobatics skills.

  • @RamblingMan.
    @RamblingMan. 3 роки тому +1

    Far into the future I see an elder scrolls game not probably buy the same moniker anymore but an elder scrolls game nonetheless and in this game it finally stretches on kirkbride's theories and we come back to Nirn after we left it for some time and it looks old and different and decrepit could be like some star fields type stuff you know kind of like how SG 1 and Stargate finds out they're actually alterans instead of humans

  • @jpf7942
    @jpf7942 2 роки тому +1

    *Argonians walking into the Deadlands juiced out of their mind on hist
    "Nice place nigga"

  • @haphazardlark1502
    @haphazardlark1502 3 роки тому +2

    I hadn’t even thought of this!

  • @athanasshia
    @athanasshia 3 роки тому +3

    If the Duskfall never happened and their stone masks didn't crumble, those Argonians would proceed to become the ultimate lifeform by tapping into the power of a red stone. They would become invincible! Immortal! Unkillable! Unmatched!

  • @OgieSifter
    @OgieSifter 3 роки тому

    I like the implication the two part novel made, where there's like an issue of communication between hist and argonian. Like if they were 100% egg made by the hist it would be like a 1/1 mind link to the evermind

  • @Mr.Xarxes
    @Mr.Xarxes 3 роки тому +2

    Todd: write that down, write that down!

  • @BigPanda096
    @BigPanda096 3 роки тому +1

    So that's why Mehruns was like "wait they invaded us back? Fuck close the portal!"

  • @lemonlefleur6236
    @lemonlefleur6236 3 роки тому

    I’ve recently realized that Khajiit and Bosmer are likely variations of Argonians. Khajiit love Moon Sugar which I believe may be Hist Sap altered by Azura that when consumed maintains the Khajiit connections to the lunar cycles. Bosmer, or Wood Elves / Tree Sap Elves, are likely the Sappy offspring of the Bosmer deity who’s name I can’t spell but I know has been depicted as a massive tree. I believe the Wild Hunt is based around consuming Hist Sap which has been seen to cause alterations in Argonians. Given what the Wild Hunt does to Bosmer, it makes sense that their parent deity would prohibit the consumption of plants in the hopes of avoiding sap eating.

  • @arandomzoomer4837
    @arandomzoomer4837 3 роки тому +1

    They're certainly involved with Oblivion, at least, we kinda see that in the infernal city/lord of souls books

  • @Vandelberger
    @Vandelberger 3 роки тому +4

    Hmm, wonder what Hist mead taste like?

    • @kck-kck879
      @kck-kck879 3 роки тому +3

      Judging by what it did to you in Oblivion, you'd probably end up thinking your mug was a honeybadger

    • @joshuamourning6650
      @joshuamourning6650 3 роки тому

      @@kck-kck879 and that the dog in the corner is a daedric gourd of doom

  • @taleril5815
    @taleril5815 3 роки тому

    The only video in my suggestions that I wanted to click on today.

  • @timecoldslow2950
    @timecoldslow2950 3 роки тому +3

    i thought the argonians were related to the dragons at first since their like mini dragon people

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 роки тому +1

    I think Lyg was one of the 12 worlds, and now all thats left of it is at the bottom of Nirn's oceans.

  • @Alphatreeyyyy
    @Alphatreeyyyy 3 роки тому +2

    you also missed the fact that the argonians believe that their souls are given to them by the hist which would suggest the Argonian body is just a vestige of its own as well. When they die their souls return to the Hist to be born again

  • @igncom1
    @igncom1 2 роки тому

    Imagine marching your army into the swamp, camp for the night, only to wake up surrounded by a mountain range made out of roots, with your only escape being the way you came in.

  • @emmittodd2373
    @emmittodd2373 3 роки тому +1

    Mankar Camoran: TAMRIEL AI DAEDROTH
    Me: wow that guy is crazy
    Fudgemuppet: ARGONIANS ARE DAEDRIC
    Me: of course, how did I not see this earlier?

  • @galty1987
    @galty1987 3 роки тому

    This was so ASMRish to me... Muchas gracias

  • @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg
    @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg 3 роки тому +7

    I do believe I posted either this theory or a theory VERY similar to it on another one of your videos. :D
    I stated that Argonians are just the species of Nirn Daedra that have come closest to realizing exactly what they are.

    • @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg
      @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg 3 роки тому

      Not gonna lie, hoping I helped fuel this.

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому

      He probably just stole ya shit typical prison islanders

    • @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg
      @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg 3 роки тому

      @@milkgxng
      To be fair, the US is no better on that whole "used to be a prison/dump pile for outcasts" thing.
      Not saying you're from the US, just stating historical facts.

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 роки тому

      @@salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg rip YT didn't like my comment. :(

    • @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg
      @salkjdfhalsdgfkauhg 3 роки тому

      @@milkgxng :(

  • @cy3125
    @cy3125 3 роки тому

    A sect of the Vigilants of Stendarr hunting argonians with this mindset would be a great side plot

  • @40KWill
    @40KWill 3 роки тому +2

    Infernal City implird they were from the realm of Clavicus Vile.

  • @mr.d7689
    @mr.d7689 3 роки тому

    Looking forward to learning why some Argonians chose to worship Mehruhns Dagon in ESO blackwood expansion 🤔

  • @scottokaga2702
    @scottokaga2702 3 роки тому +2

    everyday i hope u post videos

  • @thefourmoodgroups2589
    @thefourmoodgroups2589 3 роки тому +1

    Another great one, Drew! And I gave the video its 666th like, so, the Daedric connection might just check out! 🤣

  • @LeDardeursPalace
    @LeDardeursPalace 3 роки тому

    Sounds like a slogan taken straight from a Tamriel's War on Drugs ad.

  • @KryyssTV
    @KryyssTV 3 роки тому

    Argonian creation mythology seems like the true origins of the Et'Ada and the Realms. Of all accounts it describes two opposing beings entering the void of Oblivion to find a newly formed Nirn. This sounds very much like the two most powerful survivors of the last Kalpa passing into the next andcbeing venerated as gods.
    The shattering of the original Nirn explains the many planes of Oblivion and why they bear similarities to Nirn itself.
    This may become the events of the next TES game where you, the hero, fail to prevent the end of the current Kalpa but manage to stop the villian from destroying the newly formed Nirn.

  • @royriley6282
    @royriley6282 3 роки тому

    I see that Wintersun Faiths of Skyrim mod. Good taste.

  • @yohef4537
    @yohef4537 Рік тому

    It seems es6 will be set somewhere other than Argonia/Black Marsh, and that is a terrible misstep indeed. A missed opportunity of the worst sort.
    Imagine this as a teaser trailer:
    Starts with a shot of the night sky with a certain constellation. Panning down to a tree top and all the way down it’s trunk to a clutch of eggs. Screen fades to show a black hand, inside the title appears… The Elder Scolls VI Shadowscale

  • @mariasokolova5615
    @mariasokolova5615 3 роки тому

    For the first couple of seconds I though I was watching a David Starkey documentary

  • @Curious_Traveler
    @Curious_Traveler 3 роки тому +7

    The lore just doesn’t back this theory. The idea about The Hist being Daedric I can get behind, but not the Argonians. Chaotic Creatia in the form of Amber Plasm may have been responsible for uplifting the Helstrom Ancestor Lizard to be the Argonians, but that lizard already had a soul no different than any other creature or mortal. The Hist did not create the Argonians, they only changed them like Azura did with the Chimer/Dunmer and Khajiit. Part of that change must have been increasing the size of the soul in some way.
    Not worshipping the Aedra/Daedra only makes sense, they are not descended from them. They are just mere creations, and their fear or reverence towards Sithis could be attributed to the Amber Plasm. The Argonians probably know on an instinctual level that they owe their existence to Sithis, while knowing that their existence may be wrong on Nirn.

  • @honestscriberelaxation9542
    @honestscriberelaxation9542 3 роки тому

    The Hist remind me a lot of Eywa, especially after watching this video.

  • @natebadger927
    @natebadger927 3 роки тому

    Great Video Fudge