The year is 2088. I trapped myself in a cryogenic chamber. I wake up and ask the first person I see; “when was the last time epicnate posted a Skyrim top 5 video?” Future person: “uhhm about an hour ago, top 5 unusual rocks in Skyrim” Me: “thank god, there’s hope for humanity”
@@joelpierce1453 id fight. im waiting for it to happen every time i come home. I walk around my house with my eyes centered on those bastards just waiting for them to do something. they never have yet aside from just look at me or something but im always got a sword out waiting for something to happen. Its not a good way to live really. Sometimes ill come in and theyll be walking around then theyll look at me and then blink back into their spot.
Tiny details you might not have included in a video: -The dragon at the Western Watchtower may say "Dovahkiin no," as you slay him -There are noticeably more female Stormcloaks than Imperials (possibly due to historical accuracy for the Vikings and Romans) -The people in the Soul Cairn may say that "They're always watching," which might be referring to the fact that the sky in the Cairn resembles an eye that is always directly overhead, no matter where you are -The Volkihar ruins have a statue of Mara, candles still lit (What would vampires want with a statue to the love goddess?) -There is a size difference between male and female werewolves -When speaking to Serana, asking about her family will prompt her to ask the player about their family, allowing the player to decide on their character's past and how their family was
Unskippable? All you have to do is activate the statue of Mara, select your background, and then activate the bed. I mean, it's tedious the 400th time, but it only takes a couple seconds...
Mar Hawkman I think in either elder scrolls Arena or Daggerfall there was actually werealligators or werecrocodiles, but I don’t think you’re able to meet any in game, but they are valid and existent in elder scrolls lore
I would think that the Frost Giants being evolutionary predecessors to Giants and Trolls is a damn fine theory. Forgotten Vale also has the only remaining snow elves, making it basically the theme of Journey to the Center of the Earth, prior evolutionary animals and such. Great episode, sir.
2:40 - "Like their wolf counterparts, werebears necessarily suffer from lycantropy." Given that the word _lycantrope_ comes from Ancient Greek _lukánthrōpos_ "wolf-human", and the Ancient Greek word for "bear" is _àrktos,_ wouldn't it be Arkantropy in their case?
Collectively human who shapeshift into animal form are called therianthropes. Both wolfs and bears are pretty common forms of this across cultures. Interesting parallels in Norse culture are the beserker and ulfhednar. Though not traditionally shapeshifters, they would engage in trance inducing rituals before battle to take on the spirit of the bear and wolf respectively. Supposedly this allowed them to be stronger, faster, and ignore pain. Berserker means bear shirt and ulfhednar means wolf pelt reflecting that they were known for wearing their respective animal pelts.
According to everyone I should be on this list. I disagree. The dragonborn should be on this list. not me. (s)He always kills me. Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying. of course you don't.
@@arundownshack1019 arachnophobic here. i didn't know about the spiders and when i discovered them i just did the main questline as fast as possible to avoid spiders. i could've stopped but i didn't want Miraak to steal my dragon souls edit: i'm currently using a mod that erases spiders. bless the dude who created it
I wonder if Frost Giants have the disposition to sign people up for the Skyrim Space Program... But then again, Imperial "astronauts" may not have seen competitors back in the day.
You should really look into things yourself! Nate really only scratches the surface with these videos. I'm not saying you should stop watching Nate. I usually know things he'll talk about, but I still find the videos entertaining.
When I saw a Spriggan Earth Mother for the 1st time it scared the hell out of me. I had to summon 2 atronachs to deal with her 4 controlled Cave Bears and I dealt with her myself. It was near Riften sometime after level 40. She almost killed me!
i never noticed that the model for the frost giants eyes were the top set from the giant model and the bottom/rest of the face from the trolls. so cool!
Since I've only ever played special edition, my view on Earth Mothers is that they are just the next rank of Spriggans. It's rather surprising to learn that spriggans don't level up at all without DLC
You can actually *become* a werebear in Daggerfall. Slightly better stats than werewolves, but harder to do (werebears are a lot less common in the game).
I'm pretty sure "He's watching" is in reference to Durnehviir, who's job is precisely to watch over the region of the Soul Cairn we visit. The Reaper really is first and foremost a Gauntlet Easter egg.
Spriggan earth mothers are definitely not afflicted by vampirism. They are most likely the oldest type of Spriggan, as being soul trapped will result in a greater soul.
re - 11:27 "... a skeleton _embroiled_ in executioner robes." The word _embroiled_ doesn't taste right in that sentence. _Adorned_ would have been a far better fit.
A dragon riding giant flying over a mountain pass east, north-east of Morthal, midway to to Winterhold, literally jump scared me a few years back. Never been surprised by anything in a game since then.
I remember seeing an interview with a developer who mention that the Lurkers are references to the fish people in the H P Lovecraft book "A Shadow over Innsmouth". Given the Lovecraftian nature of Herma-Mora and his realm as well as the reference to this specific book in Oblivion's side quest it would explain the slaughterfish scales.
when I went to solstheim and ran into a lurker it was actually surprisingly easy to defeat, I honestly thought it would be harder to fight but just a few swings and it was down
The Gildergreen Qwest sends you to Eldergleam Sanctuary. There, at lvl 18, I fought a Spriggan Earth Mother that absolutely smacked me around like a play toy.
I'm thinking that the reason why werebears and werewolves have such a specifically hostile relationship is possibly their roots in DnD. Werebears are a neutral good monster while werewolves are chaotic evil. They naturally will not get along very well based on alignment.
I know you don't do New Vegas but, MAN! That first night on launch, staying up all night to only crap your pants because you had no clue that Nightkin existed.
That's why I don't want to play Fallout. But I also want to play because I want to see the alive world of TES applied to a world with firearms instead of swords and shields. What a hard choice.
Synonyms for large for Nate to use at his disposal: BROAD CONSIDERABLE ENORMOUS EXTENSIVE FULL GENEROUS GIGANTIC GIANT GRAND GREAT HEFTY VAST WIDE BLIMP? COLOSSAL COPIOUS EXORBITANT GRANDIOSE JUMBO MOUNTAINOUS (oddly fitting) MONUMENTAL IMMEASURABLE HUMONGOUS VOLUMINOUS (my fave) PLENTIFUL CAPACIOUS SPACIOUS Comment anymore y'all can come up with.
I always assumed the reason the Reaper takes the form of an executioner was related to some of the souls saying something about being drawn and quartered, which is two thirds of a particularly gruesome method of execution known as being "hanged, drawn, and quartered".
@@goldenknight578 By the Nine, that would be terrifying. I can already imagine the horrific look of it. Ugh... (shivers while holding an Alduin plushie for comfort)... the eyes....
@@genkureshima9834 I didn't kill them mainly because I did not want to encur the wrath of a possible Chicken loving Deadra. You never know...never know. 0_0
I personally always saw the earth mothers as simply being incredibly ancient spriggans. Their bodies are dark because the bark that their bodies are made up of has become petrified, hence the name "earth" mother. However, with age comes wisdom, and so the earth mothers are far more powerful than their younger counterparts. As to the purple glow, there a bunch of different possibilities. Perhaps, rather than the green mosses and leaves that the lesser spriggans have domain over, the earth mothers associate more with rare funguses and vegetation found deep underground like those in Blackreach. It could also be that the earth mothers utilize a form of nature magic completely separate from the standard spriggans, purple being a closer match to the pallet of storm atronachs, which, as we know, also are quite rock-like in appearance.
Theory: Frost giants were prevalent in the northern parts of Skyrim however Elven expansion and early human settlement drove them to extinction in all but the most secluded place in Tamriel, the Forgotten Veil. Bear in mind it's the last sanctum of the Snow Elves, all one of them.
One theory I like about Lurkers (which can support them not being entirely Daedric) is that they actually belong to Hircine, and are possibly another one of his twisted versions of animals and beast, like a werefish. That said, I can't say that explains the reason why they use tentacles. Maybe due to spending too much time in Apocrypha?
Hermaeus Mora can’t create, only accumulate - so my thought was always that Lurkers were corrupted people who get stuck in his realm. Similar to the seekers, except they didn’t get stuck in apocrypha because they were looking for knowledge.
GingerGuitarist great Theory, basically saying that Mora punished those who seek the power of the black books without respecting the knowledge contained within them
Maybe the lurkers are combination of two tamerielic creatures, merged and corrupted by the magic of herma mora. Maybe his wild imagination had him combine a giant with a slaughterfish, and maybe this is the event which happened for the giants when they fled for the mountains and returned afterwards changed (giants disappearing in the mountains is Micheal Kirkbird narration if I'm remembering correctly). Guess only Todd Howard knows, and well.. his lips are sealed.
First time i saw a Lurker he was running to me from behind, i freaked out after turning and closed the game.... How the fuck did they put my mother in law in the game???
Personally i always theorized that the reaper was some type of forgotten daedra or even daedric prince that was sealed away by the ideal masters when they took over the soul cairn part of oblivion.
An actually good and informative list. I had no idea about the Reaper or his origins and I didn't know that banish daedra doesn't work on Lurkers. Maybe Bethesda just overlooked it? Does it work on Herma Mora's other servants?
Maybe frost giants look like that because the ones in the forgotten veil seem to travel alone, where the ones native to Skyrim focus on herding and stuff, maybe the giants are just becoming more advanced, domesticating animals and such, and because they kill mammoths and wear the fur, and the fur on their body wasn’t necessarily
Ermm... Spriggans are mentioned quite a bit. The priestess that asks your help to restore the Guildergreen in Whiterun talks about Nettlebane - a blade for sacrificing Spriggans. Valdr was attacked by Spriggans and says he never believed they existed. If you harm the Eldergleam, you will be attacked by Spriggans. They're pretty much Kyne's agents, protectors of the natural world.
"Earth Mothers start spawning in at level 30!" Nate's 2H increases in skill to 17 while swinging at one. Bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him.
I just found something out so I was redoing the entire Dark Brotherhood questline and when you first enter the Falkreath Sanctuary you have to talk to Astrid, instead I went around her and went straight to Nazir and very special text popped up just wanted to let you know Nate
Lurkers are pretty much a required encounter in the deagonborn dlc since when you go to purify or whatever to the pillars you summon at least one lurker each time
The year is 2088. I trapped myself in a cryogenic chamber. I wake up and ask the first person I see; “when was the last time epicnate posted a Skyrim top 5 video?”
Future person: “uhhm about an hour ago, top 5 unusual rocks in Skyrim”
Me: “thank god, there’s hope for humanity”
Kyle Isbart oh good. you're finally awake
The year is 2088. Lord Howard still hasn't blessed us with Elder Scrolls 6
It would be a top 5 things you missed in TES5 video.
Kyle Isbart sadly half-life three isn’t out yet
2 weeks after waking: TES 6 will be on our creation engine. "TAKE ME BACK TO THE COLD SLEEP!"
most terrifying creature of all: The Mannequin. they play pretend like theyre not alive but they are. believe me. they are
Those things haunt my nightmares
What if they attacked you wearing all the good armor you gave them...
@@joelpierce1453 id fight. im waiting for it to happen every time i come home. I walk around my house with my eyes centered on those bastards just waiting for them to do something. they never have yet aside from just look at me or something but im always got a sword out waiting for something to happen. Its not a good way to live really. Sometimes ill come in and theyll be walking around then theyll look at me and then blink back into their spot.
At least the elderscrolls dosen't have knomes to pare with them.
If Bioshock taught me anything it's to never trust mannequins. Skyrim is one of those times
Me: *farming souls in skyrim*
Some bush: I have decided to become *spriggan*
Promoted to Customer me with fireball already in my hand: then you have chosen death
Skyrim is a vast, cold, open, cavernous, dangerous, beautiful, scary, cheerful, expansive, thicc, memorable, fantastical, land
It's true though.
@Furisin done
Ck* lol grammar warrior here finally
Next April 1st epic Nate releases a 10 min video with just descriptive words on how large Skyrim is
Its şqųįşhý
Tiny details you might not have included in a video:
-The dragon at the Western Watchtower may say "Dovahkiin no," as you slay him
-There are noticeably more female Stormcloaks than Imperials (possibly due to historical accuracy for the Vikings and Romans)
-The people in the Soul Cairn may say that "They're always watching," which might be referring to the fact that the sky in the Cairn resembles an eye that is always directly overhead, no matter where you are
-The Volkihar ruins have a statue of Mara, candles still lit (What would vampires want with a statue to the love goddess?)
-There is a size difference between male and female werewolves
-When speaking to Serana, asking about her family will prompt her to ask the player about their family, allowing the player to decide on their character's past and how their family was
Mulminir I botched his name but yes he said dovakhin no
@@realbrickdojo mirmulnir
I can imagine that there are more female starmcloaks because Skyrim is where they live, while the imperial legions have moved in from Cyrodiil.
I don't think that last part was true I never seen this dialogue unless you mean modded
@@corruptedbeastvoidit’s true
Petition for Bethesda to make a "Nate-the wise" character in TES 6
👇
Didn't someone make an actual change.org petition for it? I recall seeing someone post a link on another video.
Follower that tells the lore as you travel around with him
He should have a weapon just called "Huge sword"
S.R. 4 Nate the True, traveling companion to Maiq the Liar.
"Stay awhile and listen." Maybe it's the wrong franchise, but I could see "NPC-Nate" saying something at least similar.
The true monster of this game is the unskippable introduction, along with nazeem.
Mod for skipping the intro kill freaking nazeem even his wife doesnt want him
Heimskr is pretty op too.
Unskippable? All you have to do is activate the statue of Mara, select your background, and then activate the bed. I mean, it's tedious the 400th time, but it only takes a couple seconds...
Hengebobs that’s the alternate start mod not vanilla
@@eldertoguro1 wooooosh
M'aiq was happy to be featured.
I like cats....but not you.:)
M'aiq The Liar wait you lie......so does that mean you don’t like the feature? 🤣
M'aiq The Liar i feel you’re very trustworthy for some reason
@@8igh8isreal lol
Lorkhan the trickster
Although to be fair,
Even though they are rare,
You might wanna prepare for the
werebeares there.
-- The Senile Scribbles
I thought that was a joke, had no idea it was an actual thing.
Yeeeess
@3RR0R UNKN0WN Mine too. The best I have seen. I go back to it from time to time.
Dammit. I was gonna make that reference, lol
@@daughter-of-loki1062 You have got to see it, if you haven't yet. It is hilarious.
"They're just like werewolves, minus the wolf part" so like a guy who goes onto rage fits on full moons?
Yep
“@&#$ off, ya stupid %=+>ing moon!”
Furry hulk
Mr Hyde
You forgot to add the bear part.
"The werebears terrifying transformation..."
*Human turns to werebear via powerpoint*
lol
Me when I see a we’re bear: WE BEAR BEARS!
Nate: "I hope we will see werecrocodiles in future"
Argonian: *exists*
Nate: *surprised pikachu face*
Argonians aren't were-anything though.
Mar Hawkman I think in either elder scrolls Arena or Daggerfall there was actually werealligators or werecrocodiles, but I don’t think you’re able to meet any in game, but they are valid and existent in elder scrolls lore
I pictured a gatorclaw from nuka world
@@mystic1029 they're mentioned in daggerfall along with werevultures, weresharks, and werelions
More like daedroth
"Hopefully we get to see a wherecrocodile"
Argonians: "am I joke to you?"
I would think that the Frost Giants being evolutionary predecessors to Giants and Trolls is a damn fine theory. Forgotten Vale also has the only remaining snow elves, making it basically the theme of Journey to the Center of the Earth, prior evolutionary animals and such. Great episode, sir.
Heard they're reforming downguord.vampirah hunter or something in the old fort near riften.might consider joining up myself.
Be careful sir, I thought you took an arrow to the knee!
@@combatraptor4592 i did,when i was a adventurer
Did you have a fucking stroke when typing that?
I seriously hear that every single time when i walk into Whiterun....
Must be glitched.I can't sleep anymore cuz its stuck in my head..
@@literallyjesus9207 😭😭😭
Some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures.
Oh a bit of this and a bit of that.
@@sournote8610 Odds and ends, that sort of thing.
@@bigdaz8378 Looking to protect yourself, or deal some damage?
@@sournote8610
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Lurker could be a reference to Lovecraft’s novel ‘the shadow over Innsmouth’ which describes a town of fish people
Very possible, as the previous game, Oblivion, had a few references to that book as well.
Yea there is even books about "deep ones" just like in Lovecraftian lore
Wombat something or other Hackdirt, right?
@@nicholasfarrell5981 Yeah! It's an interesting quest.
I doubt it
Nate you should make a Skyrim playthrough.
Get this man a cookie
Yes
Totally agree
YESSSSSSS
Holy crap yes. Hed be the most knowledgeable one to ever play
Easiest way to test your vampiric spriggan theory would be a detect life/death spell
This man is a genius
I always thought a were-bunny would be a great addition to skyrim. Beware the killer rabbit! Ni!
As long as it's not a gang of old ladies. Or sheep.
We demand a shrubbery
Finlay Wallace Smith A nice one. But not too expensive.
It's got sharp, pointy teeth!
*Watership Down fandom rises*
Make me in your image Lord Frith
Unpopular Opinion:
Lurkers.
Big Ol' Mudcrabs.
I thought Lurkers were hot, although, being turned into a Mudcrab, that's hot as fuck.
@@shadysam7161 *_what_*
@@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou Sorry my cat was using my keyboard.
@@shadysam7161 that's not much better
@@shadysam7161 yeah no
2:40 - "Like their wolf counterparts, werebears necessarily suffer from lycantropy."
Given that the word _lycantrope_ comes from Ancient Greek _lukánthrōpos_ "wolf-human", and the Ancient Greek word for "bear" is _àrktos,_ wouldn't it be Arkantropy in their case?
yea
Collectively human who shapeshift into animal form are called therianthropes. Both wolfs and bears are pretty common forms of this across cultures. Interesting parallels in Norse culture are the beserker and ulfhednar. Though not traditionally shapeshifters, they would engage in trance inducing rituals before battle to take on the spirit of the bear and wolf respectively. Supposedly this allowed them to be stronger, faster, and ignore pain. Berserker means bear shirt and ulfhednar means wolf pelt reflecting that they were known for wearing their respective animal pelts.
Then they should be be under Arkay, Death Bears.
Lurkers bear striking resemblance to The Deep Ones, from H.P Lovecraft.
Herma Mora in general is very lovecraftian.
i'd say Bugg-Shash. he's a mass of eyes and tentacles.
@@phantomhurricane666 Or Yog-Sototh.
I mean in oblivion there was a town than worshipped "the deep ones", camelworks did a video on it
Bethesda has always referenced Lovecraft. Didn't they even refer to creatures called "The Deep Ones" during the quest "A Shadow Over Hackdirt"?
Nate : Here's some horrifying creatures you should avoid
Dragnborn: Challenge accepted
The flying Lurkers
Lurkers may be immune to Banish simply because they were natural creatures made by the Moura to spite Skyrim wizards
yee haw
Oh wow
Justin Y. They drop slaughterfish scales
You are everywhere, man!
The spookiest are the levitating mammoths that fall from the sky
I've seen those!
Lol I have not seen them and lol it sounds ridiculous
Just saw a couple of those today.
They always fall when I visit Rorikstead lol like every time
I was super sad when you couldn't become a werebear :(
If you have the moonlight tales mod you kinda can but not really lmao
Sadly it's true
Werewolf Perks Expanded + Moonlight Tales + Growl + Patch, you get a solid endgame werewolf/werebear
According to everyone I should be on this list.
I disagree. The dragonborn should be on this list. not me. (s)He always kills me.
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying. of course you don't.
Wait a minute! I KILLED YOU!!!
Hey do you assist the jarl
If the Dragonborn was a less disturbing creature, they might be invited to the cloud district every so often.
@@Grugh Yes
@@lau2900 Never
This guy talks like how i write essays trying to make word count lol
Lol your so funny. Go on now. Leave.
@@writer5790 i still like the guy, thats why i watch most of his videos and am a sub 🤷🏾♂️
@@ShaazamR sorry i thought you where being a jerk, and now i am the jerk.
@@writer5790 dont worry about it dude. You're chill
Except his voice is actually insanely ugly and I wish he'd funding chill because his videos are well researched. But its super ugly and annoying.
2 things that scare me the most in skyrim
That one dark hallway in apocrypha where you can see the outlines of lurkers roaming around
And cicero
Conclusion:
Dragonborn DLC is scary.
Especially for people with arachnophobia. There are fucking fire-breathing spiders in Dragonborn, and they're huge and terrifying.
@@arundownshack1019 arachnophobic here. i didn't know about the spiders and when i discovered them i just did the main questline as fast as possible to avoid spiders. i could've stopped but i didn't want Miraak to steal my dragon souls
edit: i'm currently using a mod that erases spiders. bless the dude who created it
Yup I screamed the first time I went into the black book and saw one of those spider thingies
The only thing disturbing is how Nate is able to put out such fire content every other day
Okay, fire. I hopeful roll and tell them that I already have a BWILA in my life.
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Me: WHAT THE F*** IS THAT? Oh right, apocrypha
Since kynareth created the eldergleam tree in Skyrim, and that the sprigans guard it, it’s safe to say they are created from kynareth
I wonder if Frost Giants have the disposition to sign people up for the Skyrim Space Program...
But then again, Imperial "astronauts" may not have seen competitors back in the day.
Nice vids Nate all I really know about Skyrim and fallout I have gotten the info from you keep up the good vids
You should really look into things yourself! Nate really only scratches the surface with these videos. I'm not saying you should stop watching Nate. I usually know things he'll talk about, but I still find the videos entertaining.
His bio is “I talk to myself for a living”...
I can relate so hard to that... just minus doing it for a living
“Avoid”
Yeah hunting them now, never seen a Frost Giant 😂
When I saw a Spriggan Earth Mother for the 1st time it scared the hell out of me. I had to summon 2 atronachs to deal with her 4 controlled Cave Bears and I dealt with her myself. It was near Riften sometime after level 40. She almost killed me!
Sorry im late
Had to watch an ad called soap for dudes.
Worth it
Really well made ad. Also I remember watching a sunglasses ad by the same guy.
Yeah you don't want to smell like mama's little boy. 😂😂
I have an ad blocker. No ads. Worth it.
@@lmulligan6969 it's nut good
*throws chemicals*
"Explains negative side effects of said chemicals"
In Morrowind there was a book called 'Natural Predators' Which claimed Frost Giants as the ancient terrors of Atmora
5:03 "thank Talos for that".
*[Thalmor intensifies]*
After my 1000s of hours played, Nate still seems to teach me something nearly every video
i never noticed that the model for the frost giants eyes were the top set from the giant model and the bottom/rest of the face from the trolls. so cool!
Also they drop netch leather so a hybrid deadric corruption of a slaughterfish and netch
Seems legit
Since I've only ever played special edition, my view on Earth Mothers is that they are just the next rank of Spriggans. It's rather surprising to learn that spriggans don't level up at all without DLC
"Although to be fair, even though they're rare, you might want to prepare for the werebears there."
This should have more likes.
@@lauraadams7562 I took it from Senile Scribbles.
You can actually *become* a werebear in Daggerfall. Slightly better stats than werewolves, but harder to do (werebears are a lot less common in the game).
Huh, never incountered the Reaper in the Soul Cairn. I'll have to take a look! Thanks Nate.
he is a hidden boss you need to find the lair and 3 of the reaper gem fragments.
I'm pretty sure "He's watching" is in reference to Durnehviir, who's job is precisely to watch over the region of the Soul Cairn we visit. The Reaper really is first and foremost a Gauntlet Easter egg.
lurkers could be a reference to fallout 4 or vice versa, as lurkers resemble mireLURK kings in both name and appearance
They look more like the lakelurks from New Vegas to me, personally, though I can see where you're coming from.
Spriggan earth mothers are definitely not afflicted by vampirism. They are most likely the oldest type of Spriggan, as being soul trapped will result in a greater soul.
re - 11:27 "... a skeleton _embroiled_ in executioner robes."
The word _embroiled_ doesn't taste right in that sentence. _Adorned_ would have been a far better fit.
Omg I love this channel, I like how Nate is so enthusiastic and funny when talking about things he really brings this to life
What so spooky is how Nate know every detail about TES lore....Oh my god.....he is the godhead !!!!
;^)
Nate is Talos!
A dragon riding giant flying over a mountain pass east, north-east of Morthal, midway to to Winterhold, literally jump scared me a few years back.
Never been surprised by anything in a game since then.
_Heads to the Soul Cairn_
*I REJECT MY SOUL, DRAGONBORN*
It amazes me how often I learn new things about this game after all this time, I had no idea the reaper even existed.
Shouldn't they be called Spriggan *Nirn* Mothers?
No they're mothers of earth. Dirt
I remember seeing an interview with a developer who mention that the Lurkers are references to the fish people in the H P Lovecraft book "A Shadow over Innsmouth". Given the Lovecraftian nature of Herma-Mora and his realm as well as the reference to this specific book in Oblivion's side quest it would explain the slaughterfish scales.
Nazeem is truly the most terrifying of creature in the frigid land of Skyrim
5 creatures you absolutely want to avoid, me:*SHARPENS GREATSWORD*
Deathclaws are WereLizards, fight me
Gatorclaws
when I went to solstheim and ran into a lurker it was actually surprisingly easy to defeat, I honestly thought it would be harder to fight but just a few swings and it was down
I really hope your grandchildren keep up your channel. Once the new game comes out.
The Gildergreen Qwest sends you to Eldergleam Sanctuary. There, at lvl 18, I fought a Spriggan Earth Mother that absolutely smacked me around like a play toy.
“Werecrocodiles”
You mean argonians?
*I will never look at those lizards in windhelm the same again*
I'm thinking that the reason why werebears and werewolves have such a specifically hostile relationship is possibly their roots in DnD. Werebears are a neutral good monster while werewolves are chaotic evil. They naturally will not get along very well based on alignment.
I know you don't do New Vegas but, MAN! That first night on launch, staying up all night to only crap your pants because you had no clue that Nightkin existed.
That's why I don't want to play Fallout. But I also want to play because I want to see the alive world of TES applied to a world with firearms instead of swords and shields. What a hard choice.
Synonyms for large for Nate to use at his disposal:
BROAD
CONSIDERABLE
ENORMOUS
EXTENSIVE
FULL
GENEROUS
GIGANTIC
GIANT
GRAND
GREAT
HEFTY
VAST
WIDE
BLIMP?
COLOSSAL
COPIOUS
EXORBITANT
GRANDIOSE
JUMBO
MOUNTAINOUS (oddly fitting)
MONUMENTAL
IMMEASURABLE
HUMONGOUS
VOLUMINOUS (my fave)
PLENTIFUL
CAPACIOUS
SPACIOUS
Comment anymore y'all can come up with.
Incredible?
When I see an Earth Mother, I like to practice the Joestar Family Technique.
This was the Jojo comment I was looking for
VaciliNikoMavich NIGERUNDAYOOOO
I dont think I heard you mention how large Skyrim is and its unsettling lol
It's just a small portion of Tamriel, and it only seems large in the first few hours of a playthrough.
VAMPIRE SPRIGGANS
VAMPIRE SPRIGGANS
I always assumed the reason the Reaper takes the form of an executioner was related to some of the souls saying something about being drawn and quartered, which is two thirds of a particularly gruesome method of execution known as being "hanged, drawn, and quartered".
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4:10 It's apparently gonna be High Rock, so more like WereGoats. WereTrolls, maybe? I'd take a transformation with that regen speed or more.
I'd say the Chickens are the most terrifying. Those... lifeless eyes, swear I can see the very gates of Oblivion in them. 0)_(0
I agree. The only thing that might be worse would be were-chickens.
@@goldenknight578 By the Nine, that would be terrifying. I can already imagine the horrific look of it. Ugh... (shivers while holding an Alduin plushie for comfort)... the eyes....
**Looking at the coments**
Am I the only mudafucka here that never killed a chicken...?
@@genkureshima9834 I didn't kill them mainly because I did not want to encur the wrath of a possible Chicken loving Deadra. You never know...never know. 0_0
I personally always saw the earth mothers as simply being incredibly ancient spriggans. Their bodies are dark because the bark that their bodies are made up of has become petrified, hence the name "earth" mother. However, with age comes wisdom, and so the earth mothers are far more powerful than their younger counterparts.
As to the purple glow, there a bunch of different possibilities. Perhaps, rather than the green mosses and leaves that the lesser spriggans have domain over, the earth mothers associate more with rare funguses and vegetation found deep underground like those in Blackreach. It could also be that the earth mothers utilize a form of nature magic completely separate from the standard spriggans, purple being a closer match to the pallet of storm atronachs, which, as we know, also are quite rock-like in appearance.
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Theory: Frost giants were prevalent in the northern parts of Skyrim however Elven expansion and early human settlement drove them to extinction in all but the most secluded place in Tamriel, the Forgotten Veil. Bear in mind it's the last sanctum of the Snow Elves, all one of them.
Werebear's, Werewolves... Skyrim needs more Wererabbits.
Geronimo!
@@joshuahadams Playing as Hutch would be the best thing ever. You could create a sword or a potion and he would say, "I'm inventing mostly."
Only way to kill one is with the Holy hand grenade
One theory I like about Lurkers (which can support them not being entirely Daedric) is that they actually belong to Hircine, and are possibly another one of his twisted versions of animals and beast, like a werefish.
That said, I can't say that explains the reason why they use tentacles. Maybe due to spending too much time in Apocrypha?
Hermaeus Mora can’t create, only accumulate - so my thought was always that Lurkers were corrupted people who get stuck in his realm. Similar to the seekers, except they didn’t get stuck in apocrypha because they were looking for knowledge.
GingerGuitarist great Theory, basically saying that Mora punished those who seek the power of the black books without respecting the knowledge contained within them
Maybe the lurkers are combination of two tamerielic creatures, merged and corrupted by the magic of herma mora. Maybe his wild imagination had him combine a giant with a slaughterfish, and maybe this is the event which happened for the giants when they fled for the mountains and returned afterwards changed (giants disappearing in the mountains is Micheal Kirkbird narration if I'm remembering correctly). Guess only Todd Howard knows, and well.. his lips are sealed.
First time i saw a Lurker he was running to me from behind, i freaked out after turning and closed the game....
How the fuck did they put my mother in law in the game???
Personally i always theorized that the reaper was some type of forgotten daedra or even daedric prince that was sealed away by the ideal masters when they took over the soul cairn part of oblivion.
Are we just going to let the whole “Earth” issue for Earth Mothers pass?
Earth as in dirt maybe? Not ‘Earth’
Most scary monster? *That damn snowtroll on the way to High Hrothgard.* that guy still hunts my nightmares and was stronger than any dragon.
Lol that bunny ok?
Looks like it’s been possessed.
An actually good and informative list. I had no idea about the Reaper or his origins and I didn't know that banish daedra doesn't work on Lurkers. Maybe Bethesda just overlooked it? Does it work on Herma Mora's other servants?
I'm still gonna fight em I'm a chaotic evil in skyrim
Maybe frost giants look like that because the ones in the forgotten veil seem to travel alone, where the ones native to Skyrim focus on herding and stuff, maybe the giants are just becoming more advanced, domesticating animals and such, and because they kill mammoths and wear the fur, and the fur on their body wasn’t necessarily
Dude you need to play this game called Hunt: Showdown!
Ermm... Spriggans are mentioned quite a bit. The priestess that asks your help to restore the Guildergreen in Whiterun talks about Nettlebane - a blade for sacrificing Spriggans. Valdr was attacked by Spriggans and says he never believed they existed. If you harm the Eldergleam, you will be attacked by Spriggans. They're pretty much Kyne's agents, protectors of the natural world.
"Earth Mothers start spawning in at level 30!"
Nate's 2H increases in skill to 17 while swinging at one.
Bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him.
The Earth Mother's black aura is very daedric-like....
Its been like 2 minutes and theres already over 30 comments. Wow.
I just found something out so I was redoing the entire Dark Brotherhood questline and when you first enter the Falkreath Sanctuary you have to talk to Astrid, instead I went around her and went straight to Nazir and very special text popped up just wanted to let you know Nate
Lurkers seem like the spawns of Dagon, and I ain't talkin' 'bout Mehrunes. Lovecraft fans catch my drift. 😉
Hell yeah, just like Seekers look like spawns of Cthulhu
Lurkers are pretty much a required encounter in the deagonborn dlc since when you go to purify or whatever to the pillars you summon at least one lurker each time