Tamriel's Sentient Sword, the Story of Umbra - The Elder Scrolls Lore

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • Today, the story of Umbra, Enjoy!
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  • @yopoxikeweapescai9066
    @yopoxikeweapescai9066 Місяць тому +36

    Damn, i just opened yt, saw the video, thought "dont remember this one", see the uploaded time, 1 minute lol

  • @CorvoFG
    @CorvoFG Місяць тому +16

    I didn’t know the books had a bad rep. I enjoyed both of them.

  • @GarboWulf
    @GarboWulf Місяць тому +14

    The books are HEAVILY underrrated! Some of my fav reads ever, I need more TES novels!!!

  • @thomasscream4179
    @thomasscream4179 Місяць тому +3

    I wouldn't mind more elder scrolls novels. Some are bound to be misses but they're worth it for the hits

  • @voryntheriolu2525
    @voryntheriolu2525 8 днів тому

    Sheogorath playing the long con by throwing a meteor and then possibly making umbra to cause a domino effect to cause the red year, Umbriel, and by chance the Argonian invasion, just because he's board will always be hilarious

  • @umbrablade1734
    @umbrablade1734 Місяць тому +2

    Umbra sends it regards.. (for real though, this just happened to be my channel name). Keep up the good work! :)

  • @dragonberrymead9525
    @dragonberrymead9525 Місяць тому +4

    Silly Clavicus Vile, if you wanted a sword that captures souls you could have just went to any run-of-the-mill town merchant. Bought one from Alvor in Riverwood just the other day.

  • @EllEmm1313
    @EllEmm1313 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you for these videos, have a good festive season

  • @AndrewWukusick
    @AndrewWukusick Місяць тому

    Umbra has always been a huge fascination for me, and my favorite weapon in any game. I really do hope that they bring it back in the next Elder Scrolls game, it's such a sick sword.

  • @st.anselmsfire3547
    @st.anselmsfire3547 Місяць тому +15

    Umbra isn't the only Daedric artifact that wasn't actually made by a Daedra. Volundrung and Spellbreaker were both made by the Dwemer, for example. I'm pretty sure Goldbrand was forged by a Dunmer. Now that I think about it, only Azura's Star, Wabbajack, and Sanguine's Rose were confirmed to have been crafted by their respective princes. And I'm not even sure about wabbajack.

    • @DualEquinox
      @DualEquinox Місяць тому +6

      I call cap. According to Khajiit Myth, Skeleton Key was made by a Daedra, specifically Azurah and Noctra (Noctrurnal) stole it from her and fled into the void. The Sword of Jyggalag is confirmed to have been created by Jyggalag according to Sheogorath's Dialogue in Shivering Isles and Black Books are directly confirmed to be made by Mora in the Dragonbron DLC, to name a few examples.

  • @grzegorzha.
    @grzegorzha. Місяць тому

    How cool that this dropped right as I was reading the novels.

  • @shaeam.4124
    @shaeam.4124 Місяць тому

    I’ve been binging your channel for days because your videos are the perfect thing to listen to/watch while i work on christmas projects and wrap

  • @keithfta789
    @keithfta789 Місяць тому +1

    Always happy to see a new video from you!

  • @padlockeussy
    @padlockeussy Місяць тому

    And somehow not spears made me just now realize I’ve never seen spears or halberds or anything of their like in any of the ES games and I’ve never noticed til now.

  • @st.peterunner8758
    @st.peterunner8758 Місяць тому +4

    This is the sword I use in oblivion. I just don't return it and leave that daedric quest incomplete

  • @Lili_Chen2005
    @Lili_Chen2005 Місяць тому

    When I was little, I pronounced it as the umbrella sword. 😅
    I have nothing but font memories of it. It's my favorite weapon in tes haha

  • @edwardanthonyferris5389
    @edwardanthonyferris5389 Місяць тому +2

    God i love this channel

  • @EpicPrawn
    @EpicPrawn Місяць тому

    I own both Infernal City and Lord of Souls. In fact they are on the shelf right next to me. I thought they were great additions to The Elder Scrolls lore, and personally can't recommend them enough. Are they perfect novels? Idk probably not. But they are right at home in the unique storytellings of Tamriel, Nirn, Oblivion and the Aurbis

  • @Your_Warden
    @Your_Warden Місяць тому

    This was really enjoyable to watch 😀

  • @ainathekhajiit
    @ainathekhajiit Місяць тому +4

    I liked the books.

  • @UnswimmingFishYT
    @UnswimmingFishYT Місяць тому +5

    Umbra becomes very hard to explain after the novels because everything included in Skyrim Anniversary is accepted official by Bethesda, and that list includes a quest about Umbra. For those who don't know, the sword appears in a cavern, held by another host it wields. This was a man who got injured badly and was dying before Umbra appeared to him in a dream, then he awoke to find the actual sword next to him. It healed his wounds and by the time you can find him, he's gone from the normal swordsman he initially was to an incredibly powerful guy. He uses master-level destruction magic to summon storms, duplicates different spectral variants of himself that fight different ways, temporarily becomes outright invincible, and delivers blows with Umbra which far exceed what other weapons will do.
    If you manage to actually beat him, which is legitimately far harder to do than the Ebony Warrior or debatably even Karstaag, you strangely don't inherit the same powers. The sword will hit very hard and trap souls like it always used to, but it won't heal you, allow summoning of spectral copies, or grant temporary protection from harm like it gave to the previous holder. This suggests that not only did Clavicus Vile fail to fully destroy the weapon, it kept getting stronger and is still its own thing with individual thought and the ability to choose who can wield its full power.

  • @AsahiMiya
    @AsahiMiya Місяць тому

    If they ever bring spears back, they should bring back the spear of the snow prince and maybe Hircines spear

  • @anderporascu5026
    @anderporascu5026 Місяць тому +1

    I have umbra, I reprogrammed it to want revenge on Clavicus Vile😅

  • @GrymmJymm
    @GrymmJymm Місяць тому +1

    This sword, as well as dawn and duskfang, were inspired by the sentient sword Stormbringer, from the Elric novels by Michael Moorcock. Not gonna lie, I have done more than one run as an Elric inspired snow elf. Even used the Stormbringer mod, which is nice, but I feel was never fully completed as I would love if it chaotically killed at will. Would definitely mess with roleplaying if your blade decided to kill Lydia just cuz. And who could blame the Black Blade, really?

  • @Dolmades123
    @Dolmades123 Місяць тому +1

    LETS GOOOOO

  • @fleezyp
    @fleezyp Місяць тому

    Chrysamere gang RISE UP 💪

  • @wesleyfilms
    @wesleyfilms Місяць тому

    Basically Stormbringer, from Elric.

  • @fullforcecinema
    @fullforcecinema Місяць тому

    I’m surprised it took you this many years to make a video about Umbra. Make a video about nerveshatterer!

  • @JunkyVirus
    @JunkyVirus Місяць тому

    Dude, you are fucking awesome. Elder Scrolls is my favorite universe but suck at gather lore knowledge so this is great, Umbra was my favorite sword in Oblivion, still remember when I found it many years ago.

  • @jackblevins1201
    @jackblevins1201 Місяць тому

    Ive read the books a couple of times, i thought that they were pretty good

  • @theindooroutdoorsman
    @theindooroutdoorsman Місяць тому

    #Giveusspears

  • @tatecrossette2855
    @tatecrossette2855 Місяць тому

    What's up with there being Mannimarco King Of Wyrms in both Daggerfall and Oblivion

  • @Surr3alD3sign
    @Surr3alD3sign Місяць тому

    I wish using the sword too much just slowly changed your characters name to Umbra, make it sigbificantly more lore accurate without effecting gameplay at all

  • @berilsevvalbekret772
    @berilsevvalbekret772 Місяць тому

    Wait anyone is saying the novals were bad??

  • @tauiin
    @tauiin Місяць тому

    I just think the creation club content is not canon :P

  • @Gouneas
    @Gouneas Місяць тому +1

    7th, yippee

  • @iwanttobelieve9496
    @iwanttobelieve9496 Місяць тому +2

    I absolutely DESPISE the "official" novels. Both for their treatment of TES lore and characters and as literature in general. My five-year-old nephew demonstrates more creativity talking to his poops in the bathroom than Greg Keyes has in his entire body, if the novels are any indication. I've read literal fanfics that are better TES content. Also, on a specific, more on-point note, FUCK what he did with Umbra.

    • @ImperialKnowledge
      @ImperialKnowledge  Місяць тому +4

      @@iwanttobelieve9496 lol, coming on a bit strong there buddy haha it wasnt that bad, but I suppose not for everyone

    • @ForestX77
      @ForestX77 Місяць тому

      OK, sounds like you are just trying to rage bait.