One of my favorite quests was the jailbreak one in Markath. You get arrested and assume it'll go normally then suddenly you're pulled into this jailbreak scheme that is so cool.
why did you assume it would go normally the whole mission up to that point is just exposing the deep routed corruption and they always say time and time again that “no one ever escapes cidina mine”, safe to say, i atleast, was expecting some fucked shit going on down there although not madanch himself
One of my favourite tricks for that quest is stashing your gear in a sack by the prison bars before getting arrested, so that you can retrieve it from within to make the jailbreak much easier.
@@duckcoleman3745 You can get the friendship of two of the cannibals prior to the quest the shopkeeper woman and the dog trainer dude they'll count without actually sacrificing the priest but you can only get the lead cannibal if you sacrifice the priest.
"He had good taste." That implies to me that, rather than her eating him, he was actually a fellow cannibal (possibly the one who introduced her to Namira's service?).
I love how the Cryptkeeper won't let markarth residents into the hall but he lets a random stranger he met for the first time go in. He also didnt have a second thought before lying down on the obviously blood splattered sacrifice altar
Altar table aside because that has no explanation, it would make sense to a degree why you would have an outsider do it. Imagine the anger and hate Verilus would receive after someone finds their grandma's corpse eaten. Compared to an outsider who may not tell the people of markarth.
Personally I prefer the Silverbloods if we are picking a poison since we all do depending on who you side with. Silverbloods are jerks but the one who becomes Jarl is at least nice and pleasant compared to his brother who runs the banking part and to their creidt they at least do have values. The Silverblood family does care for Skyrim and in the war will give Silver to the national treasury of Skyrim to kickstart its economy. At the very least they believe in something. Maven has no honor, loyalty, and does not even really care or be loyal to the Empire she is supposed to serve. You see her at the Thalmor Embassy where she admits she respects the Thalmor in a real recognizes real situation that she admires their power and money. She is in bad with what is essentially a medieval mafia which unlike the mine while the conditions are horrible, the thieves guild is only used to better her family and is used to bully her political rivals. That and again the Silverbloods you can get friendly with that their ambient dialogue is the friendship one where they say nice to see you again. Maven is not only custom voiced, you can never get on her good side even as leader of the mafia she uses. She will always be a bitch. This is getting wordy so will end it here but TL:DR: I hate Maven.
@Fizhy Not true. You can lead what's his face to the temple and get your quest completed and then kill all the cannibals before they can eat the priest.
@@emeraldkoala2like, Who among them is actually important ? Lisbet gets replaced, the dog and meat vendor are the definition of meh and I don't remember the rest. Granted I spend 70 percent of my playthrough in nicer holds, Like Whiterun and solitude, but I've never brought anything major in markarth, Ever.
I only just did this quest to get the ring for the daedric artifacts achievement, then proceded to reload to a save before eating the priest so i can get rid of all of these cannibals, it really feels like the right thing to do
I've had my fair share of hours playing Skyrim and all those playthroughs of mine - I really couldn't side with the cannibals. The closest I sided with them is when the priest was already laying in that contraption, but I had a change of heart and slaughtered every cannibal there.
Wait, so all this time, we could have just been asking priests of Arkay to come protect us whenever we need to clear draugr dungeons and we just haven’t been doing it? Come on, Bethesda Also, Lisbet sounded to me like she was implying her husband was a cannibal too, not that she killed him. Though I’m sure she definitely ate him afterwards. He probably wanted it. Sick fuck 😂
As someone who role plays as a character dedicated to arkay and stendar, I will say, I personally, with great joy, put down every skeleton, drauger, and vampire I come across. It’s their time for their souls to pass on to the next side.
I'll chalk it up to Bethesda writers not looking too far into it, but I'll say it anyway. Hogni's comment about "the bloodiest beef in The Reach" shouldn't really imply he's selling human, as human meat reportedly tastes closer to pork, hence it getting the alternative name of "long pig", and would be fairly noticeable to the average Markarthian. Since I've never heard rumours that the meat he sells is "strange", maybe he just doesn't sell the human meat to customers that aren't in the cannibal circle and the slogan is more of a call for anyone who's looking to newly partake or join their circle?
Humans tastes like veal. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DqWAF9PgDg2c&ved=2ahUKEwiRraC3ouKHAxVusVYBHWv1EycQwqsBegQIEBAF&usg=AOvVaw0gjRyVfQct8HA85E_ntZuN
Love the idea of the dragonborn wiping the blood and flesh of a human from their mouth as Namira gives them a ring before saying "Ah thank you, that's very kind of you."
I was lucky to experience this blind 2021 and months later found out Aela was a companion not just a mysterious storyline and as soon as she talked about her other vampires I pretended to side with her. She had her get together and i killed them all. For a 2011 game that was a great surprise
There is an optimal way to "fail" this quest. Rather than dispatching Eola in the Hall of the Dead, you can go along with her scheme and rid the draugr from Namira's shrine. Then, proceed as normal and convince Brother Verulus to come to the feast. This way, all the guests are there. After he has been put to sleep on the altar, you can rid the world of Eola and her guests. Provided you dispatch them quickly enough, Brother Verulus will remain unharmed. He will be dazed and confused, but you can now explain the situation to him. He will thank you for all you've done and eventually find his way back to Markarth. In this way, you have saved Brother Verulus _and_ wiped out what is suspected to be the whole cannibal coven in Markarth. No, you don't get the Ring of Namira; but, if you aren't a cannibal, that's not exactly a loss worth mourning. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
plus it is etical way to feed ebony blade, because they trust you. I did on my last game, plus I used zompie staves so I killed them again again until my blade was full
Yeah, this is one of the few quests that I instantly screw up on purpose, and if I don't, then I do it to gather the rest and kill the rest of the cannibals. One of the few quests I can say is horrible in so many ways.
So, in TES, is it considered cannibalism if you eat another similar species? Like a Nord eating a Nord or Redguard is obviously cannibalism since both are human, but is it technically cannibalism if you eat an Elf since they’re a different species, even if they’re still outwardly humanoid? To say nothing of Beastfolk like Argonians or Khajiit, surely they have to be considered akin to any other animal you can hunt, even if they do obviously possess intelligence and free will? I don’t like having to consider this question but in my defence, it wasn’t my idea to make the Dragonborn canonically a cannibal so I’d have to ask it, lmao.
Biologically what defines a species is being able to breed and have fertile offspring. So humans, elves, and even beast races are technically one species since they can all interbreed.😊
I really wouldn't consider it canonically. No sane person is a cannibal. Ergo, Eola is insane. Ergo, her words about you have as much weight as the pea size brains she has
@@novelgiani Yeah I’ve repeatedly heard/read that man and argonians/Khajiit can’t interbreed (Except that one time with a man & argonian but that was with the help of outside power apparently ) :)
It is cannibalism. Wood elves actually engage in ritualistic cannibalism of their kills, human or otherwise, as ordained by the green pact. Lore accurate Bosmer players need to do this quest first before killing anything so they can properly eat their kills the green pact way.
It’s always funny to me doing this quest as a vampire or werewolf, of course I eat people, why would I feel guilty about it? Edit: Bosmer too, cannibalism is literally part of their religion, if they kill it, they eat it
I just want you to know I watch hours of these vids a day and they are the absolute best! Even if there isn't a theory on it yet you still make a good video on it
In Whiterun, Andurs needs your help to retrieve his amulet because he says "it's the source of my divine powers and also a sacred badge of office" and that without it he's powerless to confront the dead. In Markarth, Verulus just gives you his amulet.
It does imply that he doesn't care much about his job as a priest of arkay, which lines up with the other instances of his characterization in the quest.
I don't really like this quest overall. Being implied that you're a cannibal, having to be a cannibal in order to get the ring, it's all kind of annoying.
I thought my quest for this was bugged bc no matter what i did or when i did it, eola WOULD NOT DIE turns out it was most likely my “followers cannot die” mod… so rip to verulus i guess 🤷🏼♀️
I love the fact that you think you’re helping this priest of Arkay out with some minor issue in his catacombs as another generic side quest, and then the game retcons your character into having repressed memories of cannibalism as a child and there’s literally nothing you can do about it, no way to say no and no way to bring this insane cannibalistic, daedra worshipping cult to justice, you HAVE to join them or pretend the quest isn’t in your log. 😂 And yet they’re still probably the most normal and well adjusted people in Markarth. 🤣
You don't really have to do either, you can just kill them 🤷♂️ either kill Eola in the catacombs after telling her she's nuts, or wait till Verulus is on the table and kill the cannibals to save him.
@@Chino429 True, but that’s clearly not what you’re supposed to do and you have to go outside what the game set up to get that outcome. It’d be nice if there was a quest related way to end up there is what I’m saying.
@Longshanks1690 Definitely would have been nice to have a more in depth option, maybe reporting it to the Jarl and leading an investigation, or having Verulus do some cool ritual and bring some Arkayal magical smack down on them 🤘🤘 I wouldn't say it's not what you're SUPPOSED to do/outside the game though. Plenty of quests have hidden options that aren't on the quest markers because the devs want more role-playing options and secret endings that aren't too obvious, but the additional dialogs or quest paths show they obviously meant for it to be found at some point. Like Verulus having things to say if you kill them, or Boethiah having a different speech if you kill her cultists, or saving the monorail instead of having it blow up in Fallout New Vegas if you don't go to Hsu first.
There's a hidden ending to that story, one BGS actually accounted for with dialogue. You can bring Verulus to the feast, but when the time comes to kill him, don't do it. Kill every cannibal in the room instead, purging their vile cult from the Reach. You can then talk to Verulus and he'll be unharmed and acknowledge what you did. This option allows a person to infiltrate the cult, kill every member, save the priest they planned to murder and consume, and leave Markarth a much better place. If you want to take an extra step in undoing the horror they inflicted on the city, you can discreetly put down the vicious, man-eating hounds in the keep which leaves no trace of the evil cannibals outside of whoever bought "food" from Hogni. You can even justify it in roleplaying if your character is smart enough to think ahead and realize they have a chance at identifying a whole group of maniacs, based on Eola's first conversation.
I liked the quest, but damn, I actually hate it because it gets rid of the best merchant to sell everything to in the game. Because she stays in a cave for the rest of the game instead of giving me all the gold from all the gems and useless swords and armour I looted off everything and sold it to them. She had the most gold out of any other merchant from what I seen
What I like to do is to bring the priest to the Altar and instead of killing him I'll kill everyone else. Eola even has a special line If you attack her. It fails the quest ofc course but the priest survives and cannibals are all dead
4:54 I did this quest ONLY once in only one file I ever had (have had about 12 in only like 2-3 years 😅 Usually get bored of a file by lvl34). He speech here turns my stomach- literally 🤢 13:36 😳🤮 Naturally I didn’t do the deed myself; when it came to the objective to kill him- I killed the cannibals instead & spared his life. Don’t regret it… Not worth the Daedric artifact. Too gross a concept to me..
15:45 "And now so are we..." Better be speaking French cuz i don't know what this Oui business is 😬 Eola and her crew are the only ones getting eaten round here, and it's by the carrion beetles in the crypt, not by me, a respectable, wholesome Dragonborn. I play along with her nonsense just long enough to reveal the identities of her whole coven before I wipe them out, and Brother Verulus wakes up from his trance and thanks you heartily. No need to join them, and to Oblivion with that nasty rotten slag Namira. If i want to feed on people, i don't need her ugly ring to do it, I'll do it with a much better ring of Hircine in my wolf form, the way God intended. As for Eola's nonsensical ramblings about you and your past in the catacombs, i hardly call that Canon. I treat her sick fantasies the same i way I treat Brynjolf calling me, an honest true-hearted saint, a filthy thief who never gained gold correctly, or the same way i treat people on reddit who say that after the Solstheim DLC, the Dragonborn canonically serves Hermaeus Mora, or the same way i treat Ulysses from Fallout New Vegas who tries to assign my poor innocent Courier his bad AO3 fanfic as my backstory; that is to say, i treat them as if they're delusional, cuz they are. Nobody decides what my character's story is but me, kthxbai 😇🫶
I accidentally agreed to join their cult and now I have an annoying prompt to eat bodies when I’m tryna loot 😤 ion wanna eat the bodies man just give me my LOOT
I think in markarth I might get to buy some spell books from a certain person that is looking for a arrow might be an underground reach I don't know but I will keep the arrows
Since a shrine of Molag Ball is located there, and covert cultists of Namira live there, does that mean Markarth was once a Forsworn capital? They worship Daedra.
They do pretty explicitly say in the game that the area was once inhabited by the Forsworn, and they consider themselves natives and the rightful inhabitants to that land the same way Nords consider themselves natives and rightful inhabitants to all of Skyrim. It makes sense that once the Dwemer vanished that the humans around the area, the Forsworn, would move in and make it their city. And then Ulfric showed up 😅
*Reachmen The native human population of the Reach are known as the Reachmen/Reachfolk. The Foresworn are a radicalized faction of Reachmen; akin to what the Stormcloaks are to the Nords, the Thalmor to the Highelves or the An-Xileel to the Argonians.
The Reach broke away from the Empire when the war broke out with the Aldmeri Dominion. It was ruled by reachmen for somewhere around ten years before Ulfric (under the authority of the Empire) reclaimed the city and began to execute all separatist sympathizers. Those that survived and escaped became the forsworn, with the other reachmen being assimilated once more into the Empire. This is an echo of more ancient history in which the reach was conquered by Tiber Septim/Talos. Since then, it became a part of the Skyrim provence despite ethnic and cultural differences with the rest of the territory. Reachmen culture revered a selection of both aedra and daedra. We can assume these daedra included molag bal, namira, and periyte as they all have shrines within the reach. We don't know if the independent kingdom of the reach returned to these practices, but we can clearly see that the forsworn have chosen to embrace these ancient traditions once again.
I have an idea for a video, there's this letter from a secret lover on Haelga's Bunkhouse that says some...things they did. Anyone discovered who is the secret lover? Am i trippin?
Ok so in Skyrim you could be a cannibal and in Oblivion you know the exact punishment for the crime of necrophilia. Do all the main heros do freaky things with the dead?
i fucking hate this quest. such a buggy and shit way to become a canibal, i tried like 3 different times to become a cannibal over multiple playthroughs. like 3/5, she gets pissed at me and if i have a follower or summon (always have a follower, it's double the carry weight basically. she refuses to accept my ceasefire, and dies to my follower or summon), she dies. only time i get to complete this quest is when the game doesn't make her randomly hostile, or make her charge in front of every attack i try to do because i go into this quest leveled a lot and she can't hold her own
Skyrim would be better if Balgruuf sided with the side that the player joined, instead of signing with the empire. Its stated in game that its a toss up what side he will choose
Cannibalism has always been on my bucket list. I always played as a vampire-cannibal in Skyrim, and always felt a real sense of belonging in Markarth, real subterranean-imposter vibes. I love this video :D
One of my favorite quests was the jailbreak one in Markath. You get arrested and assume it'll go normally then suddenly you're pulled into this jailbreak scheme that is so cool.
Markarth is certainly a fun place to do quests, they go to places the game often doesn't go if you catch my meaning.
Oh gosh, I H.A.T.E. this quest. In fact, I find many of the quests in Markarth make me avoid the city more than I probably should.
The prison should have been bigger and more complex but then again that goes for about everything in Skyrim not enough NPCS
why did you assume it would go normally the whole mission up to that point is just exposing the deep routed corruption and they always say time and time again that “no one ever escapes cidina mine”, safe to say, i atleast, was expecting some fucked shit going on down there although not madanch himself
One of my favourite tricks for that quest is stashing your gear in a sack by the prison bars before getting arrested, so that you can retrieve it from within to make the jailbreak much easier.
using the Ebony Blade on the coven is not only a very practical ( and surprisingly moral ) way to empower the blade, but also ironic.
Guess this is one of the few times Mephala can be considered "good" outside of Dunmer terms.
Would you have to do it after the priest sacrifice for them to count?
plus you can use zombie spell/staff until you change complitely the blade. I think mephala like ironic situation
@@duckcoleman3745 You can get the friendship of two of the cannibals prior to the quest the shopkeeper woman and the dog trainer dude they'll count without actually sacrificing the priest but you can only get the lead cannibal if you sacrifice the priest.
6:54 actually if you tell her “Your tricks won’t work on me! Monster!” She’ll get angry and scream “To oblivion with you then!” And attack you
"He had good taste."
That implies to me that, rather than her eating him, he was actually a fellow cannibal (possibly the one who introduced her to Namira's service?).
that's what i thought too
Aww thats slightly wholesome with a massive side of EWW
Yea that makes a lot more sense
Why not both, he could have introduced her to the coven, died to forsworn, and been eaten.
@@phoenixgaming4185 Fair point!
It's worth noting that Eola could very well be using the same charm spell on us that she uses on Verulus.
I love how the Cryptkeeper won't let markarth residents into the hall but he lets a random stranger he met for the first time go in. He also didnt have a second thought before lying down on the obviously blood splattered sacrifice altar
Verulus is charmed by Eola as soon as you enter the dining hall. His mind is twisted to where he can no longer recognize the threat.
@@brokenursa9986Exactly, weird spell. I wonder if it's from Namira or ordinary magic.
@@chrislovato7141 It’s likely a normal spell, but possibly empowered by Namira, since Arkay is likely to protect his priests.
Aedra are powerless to the daedra. Having lost their strength in the creation of mundus. Verelus is alone
Altar table aside because that has no explanation, it would make sense to a degree why you would have an outsider do it. Imagine the anger and hate Verilus would receive after someone finds their grandma's corpse eaten. Compared to an outsider who may not tell the people of markarth.
To be fair, Riften and Markarth are pretty equally as bad on the corruption scale, just for slightly different reasons.
Riften's a bit more honest about it.
@@Fizhytrue
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu True but Riften has the Thieves Guild, which is more fun
Personally I prefer the Silverbloods if we are picking a poison since we all do depending on who you side with. Silverbloods are jerks but the one who becomes Jarl is at least nice and pleasant compared to his brother who runs the banking part and to their creidt they at least do have values. The Silverblood family does care for Skyrim and in the war will give Silver to the national treasury of Skyrim to kickstart its economy. At the very least they believe in something.
Maven has no honor, loyalty, and does not even really care or be loyal to the Empire she is supposed to serve. You see her at the Thalmor Embassy where she admits she respects the Thalmor in a real recognizes real situation that she admires their power and money. She is in bad with what is essentially a medieval mafia which unlike the mine while the conditions are horrible, the thieves guild is only used to better her family and is used to bully her political rivals.
That and again the Silverbloods you can get friendly with that their ambient dialogue is the friendship one where they say nice to see you again. Maven is not only custom voiced, you can never get on her good side even as leader of the mafia she uses. She will always be a bitch.
This is getting wordy so will end it here but TL:DR: I hate Maven.
Cool story @@idkaname1085
What a wonderfully cinematic approach to storytelling!
Great seeing you here.
“So what brings you to Markarth traveler?”
“I’m a humanitarian.”
“So you’re here to help the city, right? Right?”
I usually just get rid of Eola. It’s one of the few quests that you can “fail” right out of the gate.
That's true, it's a shame there's no superior path to clearing the quest and you have to either fail it or eat people.
@Fizhy Not true. You can lead what's his face to the temple and get your quest completed and then kill all the cannibals before they can eat the priest.
@@taylorslade961 but that kills a LOT of markarth citizens/vendors unfortunately
@@jaysonwillard1200 citizens who are cannibals, of course. Gameplay wise it's not great, but story-wise the city's better off without them.
@@emeraldkoala2like, Who among them is actually important ? Lisbet gets replaced, the dog and meat vendor are the definition of meh and I don't remember the rest.
Granted I spend 70 percent of my playthrough in nicer holds, Like Whiterun and solitude, but I've never brought anything major in markarth, Ever.
Markarth being “the safest city in the Reach” just shows how dangerous the Reach actually is
Also the only city in the reach
I only just did this quest to get the ring for the daedric artifacts achievement, then proceded to reload to a save before eating the priest so i can get rid of all of these cannibals, it really feels like the right thing to do
I've had my fair share of hours playing Skyrim and all those playthroughs of mine - I really couldn't side with the cannibals. The closest I sided with them is when the priest was already laying in that contraption, but I had a change of heart and slaughtered every cannibal there.
I’ve been totally freaked out by cannibalism since I was a kid, it grosses me out waaay too much to do in any game
That's definitely what I'm gonna do once I get around to that quest.
This is some of the best content you’ve ever made. Keep it up
Tasty human flesh for my freezer
Take me for the freezer Fizhy 😩😩😩
Just like Hannibal and Dahmer
Real and Coffinpilled
Fun fact of the day! A bear looks a little to much like a human when their pelt has been removed.
This is great that you're doing skyrim content because I'm doing a playthrough rn the timing is gr8
"I feel the hunger inside of you" bit presumptuous of you..... I'm a werewolf, not a sicko
I know it would ruin the tone but I always wish you could respond being like “I was an only child”
I love that you have been doing Skyrim videos lately ! Please do more mystery/creepy themed videos. I love the depth.
There's a lot to digest in this video
Wait, so all this time, we could have just been asking priests of Arkay to come protect us whenever we need to clear draugr dungeons and we just haven’t been doing it? Come on, Bethesda
Also, Lisbet sounded to me like she was implying her husband was a cannibal too, not that she killed him. Though I’m sure she definitely ate him afterwards. He probably wanted it. Sick fuck 😂
Vore couple
As someone who role plays as a character dedicated to arkay and stendar, I will say, I personally, with great joy, put down every skeleton, drauger, and vampire I come across. It’s their time for their souls to pass on to the next side.
I did the quest, got the ring for myself then killed everyone later. Just wanted the ring
Did you covet a precious of your own?
@@Fizhy Ye
The Last Dragonborn is, by definition, a cannibal. They literally consume the souls of dragons, and their own soul is that of a dragon.
Tbf, we don't really have a choice here. If you slay a dragon, you automatically absorb their soul.
Soul absorption is less like sustenance and more like knowledge transference...
Absorbing something and consuming it are VERY different.
Idk about you guys but I eat the dragons
On a spiritual level the dragonborn is a cannibal 😂
I'll chalk it up to Bethesda writers not looking too far into it, but I'll say it anyway. Hogni's comment about "the bloodiest beef in The Reach" shouldn't really imply he's selling human, as human meat reportedly tastes closer to pork, hence it getting the alternative name of "long pig", and would be fairly noticeable to the average Markarthian. Since I've never heard rumours that the meat he sells is "strange", maybe he just doesn't sell the human meat to customers that aren't in the cannibal circle and the slogan is more of a call for anyone who's looking to newly partake or join their circle?
Humans tastes like veal. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DqWAF9PgDg2c&ved=2ahUKEwiRraC3ouKHAxVusVYBHWv1EycQwqsBegQIEBAF&usg=AOvVaw0gjRyVfQct8HA85E_ntZuN
Bethesda literally had no writers on the books for skyrim. Just world builders. All the writers left in a mass exodus after Morrowind and oblivion
I'd turn up my nose anyway, since there shouldn't be any blood in the beef if it was butchered properly.
despite being about cannibals, you still manage to make a beautiful looking video. thank you for all the care and effort, it's refreshing
“There’s cannibals, daedra, and immense poverty, slavery and murder. Oh, and the steward can’t get it up.”
Love the idea of the dragonborn wiping the blood and flesh of a human from their mouth as Namira gives them a ring before saying "Ah thank you, that's very kind of you."
I was lucky to experience this blind 2021 and months later found out Aela was a companion not just a mysterious storyline and as soon as she talked about her other vampires I pretended to side with her. She had her get together and i killed them all. For a 2011 game that was a great surprise
This would have been the perfect video to have a "Make sure you aren't what you eat" joke at the end.
Great video as always nonetheless!
There is an optimal way to "fail" this quest. Rather than dispatching Eola in the Hall of the Dead, you can go along with her scheme and rid the draugr from Namira's shrine. Then, proceed as normal and convince Brother Verulus to come to the feast. This way, all the guests are there. After he has been put to sleep on the altar, you can rid the world of Eola and her guests. Provided you dispatch them quickly enough, Brother Verulus will remain unharmed. He will be dazed and confused, but you can now explain the situation to him. He will thank you for all you've done and eventually find his way back to Markarth.
In this way, you have saved Brother Verulus _and_ wiped out what is suspected to be the whole cannibal coven in Markarth. No, you don't get the Ring of Namira; but, if you aren't a cannibal, that's not exactly a loss worth mourning. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
plus it is etical way to feed ebony blade, because they trust you. I did on my last game, plus I used zompie staves so I killed them again again until my blade was full
Hello didint expect i see u all so soon again
Ideally I'd like to not leave a good week and a bit between uploads. It doesn't satisfy my desire to be productive.
Yeah, this is one of the few quests that I instantly screw up on purpose, and if I don't, then I do it to gather the rest and kill the rest of the cannibals. One of the few quests I can say is horrible in so many ways.
These fizhy videos got me into elder scrolls thanks my fizzle
We are loving the series keep em coming fizy boi
So, in TES, is it considered cannibalism if you eat another similar species? Like a Nord eating a Nord or Redguard is obviously cannibalism since both are human, but is it technically cannibalism if you eat an Elf since they’re a different species, even if they’re still outwardly humanoid? To say nothing of Beastfolk like Argonians or Khajiit, surely they have to be considered akin to any other animal you can hunt, even if they do obviously possess intelligence and free will?
I don’t like having to consider this question but in my defence, it wasn’t my idea to make the Dragonborn canonically a cannibal so I’d have to ask it, lmao.
Biologically what defines a species is being able to breed and have fertile offspring. So humans, elves, and even beast races are technically one species since they can all interbreed.😊
I really wouldn't consider it canonically. No sane person is a cannibal. Ergo, Eola is insane. Ergo, her words about you have as much weight as the pea size brains she has
@MadDragonify I thought that Argonians and Khajiit couldn't breed with other races.
@@novelgiani
Yeah I’ve repeatedly heard/read that man and argonians/Khajiit can’t interbreed
(Except that one time with a man & argonian but that was with the help of outside power apparently )
:)
It is cannibalism. Wood elves actually engage in ritualistic cannibalism of their kills, human or otherwise, as ordained by the green pact. Lore accurate Bosmer players need to do this quest first before killing anything so they can properly eat their kills the green pact way.
surprised you didn't cover what happens when you rightfully kill all the Cannibals and save the priest before he gets killed
It’s always funny to me doing this quest as a vampire or werewolf, of course I eat people, why would I feel guilty about it?
Edit: Bosmer too, cannibalism is literally part of their religion, if they kill it, they eat it
This is my favorite quest in skyrim. I love Namira.
I just want you to know I watch hours of these vids a day and they are the absolute best! Even if there isn't a theory on it yet you still make a good video on it
"Nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In Whiterun, Andurs needs your help to retrieve his amulet because he says "it's the source of my divine powers and also a sacred badge of office" and that without it he's powerless to confront the dead.
In Markarth, Verulus just gives you his amulet.
It does imply that he doesn't care much about his job as a priest of arkay, which lines up with the other instances of his characterization in the quest.
I don't really like this quest overall. Being implied that you're a cannibal, having to be a cannibal in order to get the ring, it's all kind of annoying.
I thought my quest for this was bugged bc no matter what i did or when i did it, eola WOULD NOT DIE
turns out it was most likely my “followers cannot die” mod… so rip to verulus i guess 🤷🏼♀️
this skyrim content is legendary
What's funny is that, if you're a werewolf, she doesn't say a word, even though it's guaranteed that you've eaten people in that form.
I really enjoyed this video. That is all.
Great video, do one on the Markarth prison escape
Why cant i go in
"I can't talk about it"
What if i help
"Okay fine....bodies are being eaten"
This guy is way too trusting...
You could say this about most quest givers in Skyrim 😅
@@esuriolitum9169 yep 🤣 do love the game though
I love the fact that you think you’re helping this priest of Arkay out with some minor issue in his catacombs as another generic side quest, and then the game retcons your character into having repressed memories of cannibalism as a child and there’s literally nothing you can do about it, no way to say no and no way to bring this insane cannibalistic, daedra worshipping cult to justice, you HAVE to join them or pretend the quest isn’t in your log. 😂
And yet they’re still probably the most normal and well adjusted people in Markarth. 🤣
Indeed.
You don't really have to do either, you can just kill them 🤷♂️ either kill Eola in the catacombs after telling her she's nuts, or wait till Verulus is on the table and kill the cannibals to save him.
@@Chino429 True, but that’s clearly not what you’re supposed to do and you have to go outside what the game set up to get that outcome. It’d be nice if there was a quest related way to end up there is what I’m saying.
@Longshanks1690 Definitely would have been nice to have a more in depth option, maybe reporting it to the Jarl and leading an investigation, or having Verulus do some cool ritual and bring some Arkayal magical smack down on them 🤘🤘
I wouldn't say it's not what you're SUPPOSED to do/outside the game though. Plenty of quests have hidden options that aren't on the quest markers because the devs want more role-playing options and secret endings that aren't too obvious, but the additional dialogs or quest paths show they obviously meant for it to be found at some point. Like Verulus having things to say if you kill them, or Boethiah having a different speech if you kill her cultists, or saving the monorail instead of having it blow up in Fallout New Vegas if you don't go to Hsu first.
12:15 i thought that meant that her husband was also a cannibal and he had good taste in humans
That's how I interpreted it as well.
8:33
"Aight, I'mma head out."
Cool to see other things besides rdr. All the videos are amazing just cool to see other stuff
Markarth the city that definitly does exist
Another banger video man, keep it up!
There's a hidden ending to that story, one BGS actually accounted for with dialogue. You can bring Verulus to the feast, but when the time comes to kill him, don't do it. Kill every cannibal in the room instead, purging their vile cult from the Reach. You can then talk to Verulus and he'll be unharmed and acknowledge what you did. This option allows a person to infiltrate the cult, kill every member, save the priest they planned to murder and consume, and leave Markarth a much better place. If you want to take an extra step in undoing the horror they inflicted on the city, you can discreetly put down the vicious, man-eating hounds in the keep which leaves no trace of the evil cannibals outside of whoever bought "food" from Hogni. You can even justify it in roleplaying if your character is smart enough to think ahead and realize they have a chance at identifying a whole group of maniacs, based on Eola's first conversation.
Went well with my supper 😂 Some ham and bread .... Thank you for another entertaining video 😊
There is no Forsworn in Markart.
I liked the quest, but damn, I actually hate it because it gets rid of the best merchant to sell everything to in the game. Because she stays in a cave for the rest of the game instead of giving me all the gold from all the gems and useless swords and armour I looted off everything and sold it to them. She had the most gold out of any other merchant from what I seen
"The safest city in the Reach"
Hey fishy great video as always. If they make an assassins creed 1 remake would you be up for covering that?
*Cannibals eating living and dead bodies*
Arkay: Oh hell naw!
my Breton Vampire is a Namira Cultist. Helps her cravings.
I think Lisbet means that he husband had the same taste as her, as in they both practiced cannibalism together.
I just started this vid with my heaphones on and volume high and was greetednwith a satistying,y deeb bassy boom 👌👌👌
What I like to do is to bring the priest to the Altar and instead of killing him I'll kill everyone else.
Eola even has a special line If you attack her.
It fails the quest ofc course but the priest survives and cannibals are all dead
This is why i do nothing whenever a dragon attacks Markarth.
Without a doubt one of the worst cities I’ve ever heard of
Markarth: but you have heard of me
4:54 I did this quest ONLY once in only one file I ever had (have had about 12 in only like 2-3 years 😅 Usually get bored of a file by lvl34). He speech here turns my stomach- literally 🤢
13:36 😳🤮 Naturally I didn’t do the deed myself; when it came to the objective to kill him- I killed the cannibals instead & spared his life.
Don’t regret it… Not worth the Daedric artifact. Too gross a concept to me..
"Safest city" tell that to the blood dragon that attacked me right near the blacksmith.
Free dragon soul :)
@NCR_vet_ranger2347 true. I was just utterly surprised because in all these years I've never had a dragon attack in Markarth.
What happens if you off a few of these people before the mission? Or turn on them before the sacrifice? Or after?
...But I don't have four fathers, just one.
15:45 "And now so are we..."
Better be speaking French cuz i don't know what this Oui business is 😬 Eola and her crew are the only ones getting eaten round here, and it's by the carrion beetles in the crypt, not by me, a respectable, wholesome Dragonborn.
I play along with her nonsense just long enough to reveal the identities of her whole coven before I wipe them out, and Brother Verulus wakes up from his trance and thanks you heartily. No need to join them, and to Oblivion with that nasty rotten slag Namira. If i want to feed on people, i don't need her ugly ring to do it, I'll do it with a much better ring of Hircine in my wolf form, the way God intended.
As for Eola's nonsensical ramblings about you and your past in the catacombs, i hardly call that Canon. I treat her sick fantasies the same i way I treat Brynjolf calling me, an honest true-hearted saint, a filthy thief who never gained gold correctly, or the same way i treat people on reddit who say that after the Solstheim DLC, the Dragonborn canonically serves Hermaeus Mora, or the same way i treat Ulysses from Fallout New Vegas who tries to assign my poor innocent Courier his bad AO3 fanfic as my backstory; that is to say, i treat them as if they're delusional, cuz they are. Nobody decides what my character's story is but me, kthxbai 😇🫶
*double thumbs up
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All you ever hear is "reduce, reuse, recycle" yet when you bring up cannibalism, you're the "weird" one.
I accidentally agreed to join their cult and now I have an annoying prompt to eat bodies when I’m tryna loot 😤 ion wanna eat the bodies man just give me my LOOT
Courier mentioned thats a fallout reference
Your content is incredible. You've gained a sub. Keep up the great work 🎉
Thank you very much!
Jarls steward catching strays for no reason
I think in markarth I might get to buy some spell books from a certain person that is looking for a arrow might be an underground reach I don't know but I will keep the arrows
This is why I like skyrim. I can roleplay as a cannibal like I always wanted all these years. I wish Namira was also IRL... :)
Namira would give you aids, leprosy, bot flies, herpes and chronic diarrhoea.
What mod are you using for all the guards armor?
please do a video in dawnstar please
Anything specific in Dawnstar?
also im thinking this videos gonna be a good one
@@Fizhy maybe about those two blacksmith people?
Maybe about... uh... the dock.. or uhm.. that one goat?
Whiterun is the best city. Fight me if u disagree
Since a shrine of Molag Ball is located there, and covert cultists of Namira live there, does that mean Markarth was once a Forsworn capital? They worship Daedra.
They do pretty explicitly say in the game that the area was once inhabited by the Forsworn, and they consider themselves natives and the rightful inhabitants to that land the same way Nords consider themselves natives and rightful inhabitants to all of Skyrim. It makes sense that once the Dwemer vanished that the humans around the area, the Forsworn, would move in and make it their city. And then Ulfric showed up 😅
*Reachmen
The native human population of the Reach are known as the Reachmen/Reachfolk. The Foresworn are a radicalized faction of Reachmen; akin to what the Stormcloaks are to the Nords, the Thalmor to the Highelves or the An-Xileel to the Argonians.
The Reach broke away from the Empire when the war broke out with the Aldmeri Dominion. It was ruled by reachmen for somewhere around ten years before Ulfric (under the authority of the Empire) reclaimed the city and began to execute all separatist sympathizers. Those that survived and escaped became the forsworn, with the other reachmen being assimilated once more into the Empire. This is an echo of more ancient history in which the reach was conquered by Tiber Septim/Talos. Since then, it became a part of the Skyrim provence despite ethnic and cultural differences with the rest of the territory. Reachmen culture revered a selection of both aedra and daedra. We can assume these daedra included molag bal, namira, and periyte as they all have shrines within the reach. We don't know if the independent kingdom of the reach returned to these practices, but we can clearly see that the forsworn have chosen to embrace these ancient traditions once again.
The cannabis of markarth
I have an idea for a video, there's this letter from a secret lover on Haelga's Bunkhouse that says some...things they did. Anyone discovered who is the secret lover? Am i trippin?
Every time I go there somehow I do something wrong and get arrested ??!! XD
Ok so in Skyrim you could be a cannibal and in Oblivion you know the exact punishment for the crime of necrophilia. Do all the main heros do freaky things with the dead?
Happy 2am to those who celebrate
I'm pretty salty that the game won't let me kill couriers who break into my home or convo-lock me in a fight. I'd love to feed them to Meeko.
Can you kill them as a werewolf and eat their hearts after?
Conspiracy theories!
i fucking hate this quest. such a buggy and shit way to become a canibal, i tried like 3 different times to become a cannibal over multiple playthroughs. like 3/5, she gets pissed at me and if i have a follower or summon (always have a follower, it's double the carry weight basically. she refuses to accept my ceasefire, and dies to my follower or summon), she dies. only time i get to complete this quest is when the game doesn't make her randomly hostile, or make her charge in front of every attack i try to do because i go into this quest leveled a lot and she can't hold her own
The dude that sells the meat has less chin than Andrew Tate, and that takes some beating.
Skyrim would be better if Balgruuf sided with the side that the player joined, instead of signing with the empire. Its stated in game that its a toss up what side he will choose
Not really, he always liked the Empire better.
Jarl Ballin' ain't a communist viking scum.
ESO is this you??
I can't stand Markarth. I avoid it as much as I can.
Cannibalism has always been on my bucket list. I always played as a vampire-cannibal in Skyrim, and always felt a real sense of belonging in Markarth, real subterranean-imposter vibes. I love this video :D
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wool socks to bed = sleep so good it eliminates need for caffeine🟤
11:47 are you saying the dragon born has been a cannibal at some point 😮 :S