People keep saying that Wyndelius was touched by Sheogorath, but I think it's clearly possession. The last entry is dated to the first era, and he acts as if he was a spirit there for a while. Sheogorath is an easy cop-out for anything madness related, but really possession makes more sense.
I always thought of it as possession myself, he's living in a crypt....with the living dead and lots of super powerful living dead. I mean greater draugr, and Dragon priests its not hard to see how he could be possessed.
@@sinclaire5479 Could be a family curse, treasure hunters cursed to get mad by not getting the treasure because they lack the key. as happened to Syndelius Gatharian before in oblivion.
One thing I will give Skyrim's writing over Morrowind's: the random ass bandit dens you run across typically have a lot more interesting and fleshed out side-stories in them in Skyrim. I can remember quite a few weirdoes I raided like I was the Nordic equivalent of the FBI, meanwhile I barely remember most of Morrowind's common bandits despite all of them being uniquely named. Just goes to show you what a few diegetic notes can do for environmental storytelling.
That is true. Lost Knife Hideout was one of my first raided bandit dens (i don't even remember how I ended up there so early) and it blew me away. Easily my favorite aspect of Skyrim as well.
“these people are far too superstitious for their own good” bro you live on nirn you got ice wraiths and goblins and whatever else. like the doom apocalypse is in recent memory for many elves at that time. people have a right to be terrified every day for every reason on that planet.
to be fair, all culture descriptions are just generalizations, she could have been more accepting of it similar to some mages in the college of winterhold
Sorry for a third comment, but Wilhelm is a deeper character than I think you realize. He's vowed to 'protect' Lynley, which is interesting. He buys his mead illegally, and most interestingly, during Narfi's quest to find his sister, if you go to Wilhelm first, he gives out Narfi's lines verbatim, in a crazy begger voice. It's incredibly unsettling and the stuff of nightmares. Camelworks detailed this all in a 4-hour video on Narfi and Reyda's quest. In it he outlines a detailed conspiracy where all of these details intermingle and eventually lead to the conclusion that Wilhelm put the DB hit out on Narfi and Reyda.
I was thinking about doing a video on Wilhelm but there's already a 4hr video as you said 😅 I'm aware of most of the things you mentioned, although I have to revisit that Narfi dialogue. Forgot how creepy he can be.
There are notes about the prawn frawn and wildhelm with a deal, it talks that wilhelem refuses to sell the trinkets from the barrow anymore cause it's haunted.
42:00 Bashnag could've been a Legionnaire. Orcs are prized in the Legion for their strength and smithing. Maybe this coven of spellswords is his way of preparing to war with the Thalmor outside the confines of legal warfare.
Always loved Windellius. When I started playing Skyrim, I arrived in Ivarstead while exploring and experienced this quest late at night. I had never played any RPGs before and I was floored with the fun storytelling of the game. It made me fall in love with Skyrim for the first time.
Gotta say your vids have the same energy, Especially in the openings. As the early 2000's history and discovery channel shows. Honestly it blows my mind at the eye you have for good shots and editing. Also great narration and information.
When it comes to Bashnags unusually potent silent spell, that could potentially come from him being a devotee of Malacath. Curses are part of Malacath portfolio and when it comes to most Orcs on Tamriel, the deities they worship is usually either Trinimac or Malacath/Mauloch. So Bashnag following the latter seems likely and I could total see Malacath enhancing the more curse like effects of spells like burden, silence, drain attribute effects, etc that last for weeks, months, or even years would fit a boon that Malacath might give to his most faithful followers. Honestly think something similar is happening with Molag Bal and Sild the Warlock to. Torturing people, then killing them, capturing souls, and using thier enslaved, tortured souls as your foot soldiers? Yeah that's some Molag Bal worshiper type shit right there.
Looking at the location, the fact that there is a full on road, and the fact that it's called "sanctum", it might well be an old sacred site to Malacath. And it was no issue making spells and poisons that last for weeks in Morrowind. So from a gameplay perspective it is possible. Expanding that to lore is not a big task, especially since there is nothing in lore speaking against long lasting spells.
Love the part where the guard hits its Head at the Inn-sign xD: 5:09 Love this Video series!! Just like with the new encounters in Skyrim, every once in a while i stumble upon a new Channel creating amazing Elderscrolls Lore :D Glad i found yours!!
It’s been a trying week this video couldn’t have come at a better time Skyrim truly is a great place to find respite from the rest of the world and an even greater gift to be guided back into her atmosphere by your lovely words and stories
What makes Wyndelius's story all the more tragic is that the supposed treasure of Shroud Hearth Barrow is nothing more than a booby trapped chest with nearly worthless content.
Is it the one about dead alchemist & Narfi's sister? I love the video but never finished it so I don't remember the part about Wyndelius, gonna check it out!
I think wyndelius succumbed to the same sort of mind control that affects the Draugr. Draugr are only ‘technically’ undead, having never actually died bodily, though they are dead mentally. If you entered a draugr tomb shortly after it’s construction, you’d find them to be whole & hale, but just as mindless. I think wyndelius is halfway to being that. The draugr gave up their lives for their dragon priest lords, & lend them their life force. You can get white souls from soul trapping them, meaning they no longer have fully human black souls, probably having given up too much of it. Whatever dragon priest is connected to shrouded hearth probably dominated wyndelius or, being in one of those tombs makes you a draugr over time
Maybe Sheogorath himself brought Wynde food and alchemy ingredients to expedite his descent into madness! There's zero evidence of this, but it's a fun thought.
You know, I plan to run a Pathfinder campaign set in TESV Skyrim at some point. I came across a mod titled "Death consumes all", which I thought would make an interesting adventure hook and thought to somehow incorporate at least the concept of the mod in my Game. Then I found a short Pathfinder adventure, I think it was included in "The Book of the Dead", where the Players stumble into a Village in the Mountains, cut off from the rest of the world, and almost destroyed by undead, and thought, that'd make a nice introduction to the plotline introduced in the mod. I knew about the Redguard Woman trying to bring her husband back from the dead, but I didn't really have it on the Screen to maybe incorporate it into my game. So thank you very much for reminding me of this little story, so I may include it in that plotline.
I love the hostile Orsimer mini-strongholds: Cracked Tusk Keep, Bilegultch mine, & Rift Watchtower. It's like encountering wild west natives, some tribes will make you bloodkin, welcome, & do business with you, other tribes are bandits
now that you mention it wilhelm is odd as hell. With this quest and the whole narfi and reyda thing. Reyda could have been killed by narfi and it just broke him permanently. But yeah the fact he had the claw at all is weird, not totally out of question since the shopkeeper had one sold to her but it wasnt for a barrow right next to the village.
I'm starting to think that Wilhelm is one of the best written npcs, because he's so - realistic. Has that smirk all the time and is related to so many subtle, weird situations. So if he's truly shady, it's so subtle and deep, almost too much for a mere game character.
there's a very realistic inconclusiveness to him, it's not very cinematic, but he gives the vibe of someone who just keeps cropping up in relation to an unsolved case or something, but has no evidence that he did anything wrong or anything or maybe he's just a well-connected but slightly shady innkeeper or maybe Bethesda just needed questgivers and endpoints for a few different minor quests in the rift and there weren't that many people in ivarstead who made any sense, but i like the idea that the vibes he gave out were deliberate
When you initiate find reyda remain after talking to Narfi, you can ask wilhem about narfi, the caviat is that he put an expression of Pity when she talks about Reyda, as if he was trying to look innocent when talking to the player. And then... Wilhem says where Reyda would occasionally go and look for ingredient ( suspicious 1) after that he says "One day she 'just' vanished" ( suspicious 2 ) and he mention to the player that he tries to look for her but she never showed up. Suspicious 1 : Wilhem know reyda activity where she would go and when she would return home Suspicious 2 : wilhem was 100% sure that reyda was gone and that indicate that wilhem has something to do with Reyda, he doesnt speculate what happen to reyda, he just says he is pretty sure she's dead. implying that he could've been the one that murder her. Another weird part about Wilhem is that he kept Lylnly Star-sung as Barmaid despite her awful singing and clumsy attitude, my guesses is that he has thirst for beautiful women. When staying at the Inn you would hear his dialogue with Lynly.. "I swore i would protect you" showing the player his Hidden manipulative tactic to win over her trust and comfort. Conclusion : Wilhem definitely has something todo with reyda, it could've been that he was in thirst with reyda, and that reyda was smart independent and could resist Wilhem manipulative tactics, and when wilhem confront reyda at the bridge during night, wilhem is frustrated and angry at Reyda for refusing him and strangled her to death, throwing her body to the river. overall he is one shady inkeeper
When i played as a thief, the portal actually opened while the the mages were still alive and i accidentally went through it while sneaking around collecting loot. Sanguine gave me his staff and teleported me to whiterun, but i realized my follower was still waiting at Morvunskar. When i made it back, I found Naris getting jis face bashed in by Sanguine himself. True story.
Man I wish I could get Skyrim mods working again so I could get back to playing and do more lore diving, thanks for the new video dude last one was great!
haha went to bed last night listening to the first part of this series. woke up to let the dog out n pick something else to fall back asleep to and heres this!
Your videos are so damn good. So appreciative that there's still content creators doing really well done long format videos for Skyrim. Please keep it up 👏🏻
@@boreanknight old but gold. It's truly a testament to the game and the players that it's still played constantly and that videos for it are still in demand. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
I just read your about me and I am so happy that you've found some healing in your favorite game. Your content is lovely, very well done. I wish you the best on your journey. Thank you for sharing your story and your content with us. :)
Maybe that orc belonged to another Organisation, that's wanted by the Thalmor. Could also be, that he fought in the first great war on the side of the imperials and somehow caught the eye of the Thalmor, or came into contact with them another way, that didn't end with friendly relations. Or maybe he was something like a spy in service of the Thalmor, and has gone rogue, and therefore fears retribution. There are a lot of reasons, why he could be afraid to get found by the Thalmor specifically.
suggestion on a character.. The NPC with most dialogue lines : Mjoll the Lioness. She is the Hero of Riften, stands up even against Maven Blackbriar, calling her a heartless bitch. Not afraid of anyone, and when she is your follower, give her a set of heavy armour and Volendrung. When you do the Stormcloak or Emperial quest, take her to clear out a fort..she will turn in to a one woman army, clearing it on her own, just follow her and hear her one liners.. Give her two stafs and she will doublewield them untill they are empty, then switch to her dominant weapon
Wyndelius's story seemed like Sheogortath shenanigans to me, gave him the idea or recipe for the potion and let his obsession and defence of the barrow do the rest.
having lu’ah al-skaven’s story as part of a DLC would have been SO cool! i love the idea of undead hoards disrupting the civil war! and i’m glad i’ve found your videos!
My Wyndelius theory is that the magic used by the ancient Nords that allows the Draugr to rise up and defend their tombs got to him from prolonged exposure. Did his potion make him more vulnerable? Potentially, but since so few people choose to stay in one for so long it might not have done anything at all.
'nothing inherently evil or criminal about Wyndelius'. ...You know, aside from terrifying people he knows to be superstitious, disguising himself as a ghost to keep them out and away. Truly an upstanding citizen who only had the best interests of people at heart. :P
I just found this channel awhile ago I legitimately look forward to you post, I'm even binging the old ones they need to send you elder scrolls 6 first!!!!
I played 18 hours of skyrim in the past 2 days 💀, I feel the same joy from the game as I did when it came out, bringing out those nostalgic childhood memories you can't reproduce easily
Most of the time we wonder if its cut content, it more than likely is. The whispering door was meant to be longer than it was but time waits for noone and they were behind so, it shortened to what it is now. I wouldve loved another "Where is my child" sitch. Plus what if she saw her child happy and decided to let her stay instead of kidnap?We could use persuasion to get the adoptive parents to allow their daughter time with her bio mom. Not like a custody thing exactly but visitation (especially since she doesnt have her own place yet).
Now that I know your broad definition of _bandit,_ I see why Arondil made the first list. Still, I'm glad to see Wyndelius make it to this one. He is indeed one very unfortunate treasure hunter...
I started following your channel after randomly thinking "huh, wonder what made Skyrim no longer use that epic Nordic moustache in Morrowind" and coming across your video - now however I am very much happy to see your content gets better and better!
Dude, the quality of your videos are something else. The tidy on-screen edits, documentary-style cinematography, the pacing. It's all perfect. Skyrim was always ridiculed for its writing, but it's compensated for through what you're exactly describing in your videos, and I wish more people realized that instead of focusing on the negatives (and Bethesda themselves for ES6, if they can't get the main story working). Add to that that you seem to really enjoy making these videos while going through a nasty illness. I wish you the very best.
@@boreanknightI have a suggestion, for if you're still collecting footage for your next projects. The Photo Mode mod available on Nexus, while built for taking screenshots, can also be used for recording footage with different FOV, DOF, even actor expression and animation settings. The latter is difficult to manage, but it's great for the easy FOV manipulation alone. Just in case you haven't tried it/been using it.
I had a dumb little idea, imagine if there was a little quest to recruit Bashnag and his Sellswords to the side of the Stormcloaks? He seems particularly wary of the Thalmor, and he's right next to an Imperial fort. I imagine how it would go down is, as an optional preliminary quest to sieging and capturing the nearby fort in the name of the Stormcloaks, you could be sent as an envoy to Bashnag, and request his and his Spellswords' aid in taking control of the fort, under the condition that the fort will be put under his command once it is taken. I'm thinking once he takes control, he could be given a Stormcloak Officer hat, and you'd see both Spellswords and a few Stormcloak soldiers patrolling it.
So, I can't help but wonder if Wyndelious had received any help from Reyda or Narfi in collecting alchemical ingredients. It almosta makes sense, but I'm not sure.
7:41 What i like to roleplay on some of my characters is after initial exploration of the barrow drinking the potion and walking in the inn and up to Wilhelm with exact same speech, such an obvious thing to do, imo, wonder why it wasn't included in the original quest as a hidden little optional, would've been hilarious x)
This world is heavy with dark fantasy and I adore it for those moments. My favorite bandit is Arvel, another crazed archeologist/scholar in search of ancient eldritch power before being consumed by the dark of the ruin by Draugur. If you wait and the follow slowly his body is sprawled over a puddle of blood from where he fell. There was no scream, no cry for help, you follow after him ,and he lies dead. Nothing moves until you startle the silent guardians again, who deal death to trespassers. Wyndelius Gatharian was someone looking for the trove of dead warriors and fabled jarls. When he could not ascertain the claw, his obsessions of grandeur turned to madness. This is when the keeper of fear and living concept of the nightmare arrives. Vaermina tore a rend in his mind as she fed off the delusion he suffered from. This was a mortal ripe for eternal doubt and pain. A hero or maybe a villain of some proportion arrived and slaughtered the crazed fiend. He was a stranger lost in a hell he imprisoned himself within before being cut down. A strangled soul released of torment, Stendarr have mercy. There are things that stir the minds of people in Skyrim in such a way that you begin to imagine events differently because of fear and respect for how small the player is in comparison to the influences we cannot see. You think in a more occult sense that there is more than simple mental degradation but forces of physical proportion that influence and control mortals like puppets through breathing concepts. The player is susceptible to such tampering with the promise of power. - The Rueful Axe as reward for butchering a dog - The Nightingale Blade for allegiance to the permanent vigil of the night and the insanity of eternal servitude - Beating a priest bloody with a serrated mace, into submitting to the god of rape for a powerful vampiric cudgel This world is beautiful and haunting for what it does not tell you and does not care if you miss. It's very weird and very dark fiction. It's in introspection to speculative lore that makes these dives so fun.
I was about to go to sleep, much like the rest of us. Instead, I find myself honored with an hour of somniferous Borean bliss! Feels like datenight, thanks BK. 🥰 I just wanted to say how much I really appreciate you. I'll spare the comments section my list of reasons, but seriously- Thank you for your service!😄🫡
I always got the impression that Wyndelius was being corrupted/possessed by the draugr spirits within the tomb, possibly addled by drinking too many potions with suspect ingredients.
I was suspicious of Wilhelm also but his kindly old man demeanour fooled me....just like it fooled poor Wyndelius...Wilheim knew what he was doing and the idea that he fooled folk with his act probably added to his delight
I’ve been looking for a channel to take over content that @TheEpicNate makes. He barely posts Skyrim content now and I would like to thank you for this. Please keep posting thanks
There's a lot of life missing in the world of Skyrim. Less NPCs makes for easier storytelling with more in depth stories, but the world feels far less lived in. One of my favorite things about Oblivion and Morrowind is the amount of NPCs makes the world feel real and *lived in*. I mean, even the so called Capital of Skyrim is so small and empty for the, ya know, capital city of a whole ass country. Whereas the capital cities in Morrowind and Oblivion are massive and have numerous NPCs going about daily routines. My point is that the last bandit, Sild the Warlock, really highlights this with his diary entries about a fairly steady flow of adventurers, plunderers and bandits making their way into his ruin.
I think Wyndelius' potion had some unintended side effects where it eroded his memory the more he used it. Making yourself appear ethereal cannot be good for the body.
People keep saying that Wyndelius was touched by Sheogorath, but I think it's clearly possession. The last entry is dated to the first era, and he acts as if he was a spirit there for a while. Sheogorath is an easy cop-out for anything madness related, but really possession makes more sense.
I always thought of it as possession myself, he's living in a crypt....with the living dead and lots of super powerful living dead. I mean greater draugr, and Dragon priests its not hard to see how he could be possessed.
@@sinclaire5479 Could be a family curse, treasure hunters cursed to get mad by not getting the treasure because they lack the key. as happened to Syndelius Gatharian before in oblivion.
I always thought that his ghost potions were slowly driving him mad till he actually thought he was a ghost.
I thought it was his potion that unraveled his mind
@@theEpicxY If you read his journal the entries start with 4th Era, and the last one ends with 1st era as the entry.
One thing I will give Skyrim's writing over Morrowind's: the random ass bandit dens you run across typically have a lot more interesting and fleshed out side-stories in them in Skyrim. I can remember quite a few weirdoes I raided like I was the Nordic equivalent of the FBI, meanwhile I barely remember most of Morrowind's common bandits despite all of them being uniquely named. Just goes to show you what a few diegetic notes can do for environmental storytelling.
Also just, a boat load of more complex scripting to make said encounters way more dynamic than what was possible in Morrowind.
That is true. Lost Knife Hideout was one of my first raided bandit dens (i don't even remember how I ended up there so early) and it blew me away. Easily my favorite aspect of Skyrim as well.
Agree. Though I will say morrowind takes the cake in terms of main story & side questing. I’m kind of dissapointed that skyrim lost most of that depth
the bandits in their den: "been a while since we had a good guard raid"
If you dont remember Snowy Granius there's no helping you...
“these people are far too superstitious for their own good” bro you live on nirn you got ice wraiths and goblins and whatever else. like the doom apocalypse is in recent memory for many elves at that time. people have a right to be terrified every day for every reason on that planet.
I think you understated how much redguards despise necromancy. The fact that she decided on using it says a lot about her grief.
to be fair, all culture descriptions are just generalizations, she could have been more accepting of it similar to some mages in the college of winterhold
Sorry for a third comment, but Wilhelm is a deeper character than I think you realize. He's vowed to 'protect' Lynley, which is interesting. He buys his mead illegally, and most interestingly, during Narfi's quest to find his sister, if you go to Wilhelm first, he gives out Narfi's lines verbatim, in a crazy begger voice. It's incredibly unsettling and the stuff of nightmares. Camelworks detailed this all in a 4-hour video on Narfi and Reyda's quest. In it he outlines a detailed conspiracy where all of these details intermingle and eventually lead to the conclusion that Wilhelm put the DB hit out on Narfi and Reyda.
I was thinking about doing a video on Wilhelm but there's already a 4hr video as you said 😅
I'm aware of most of the things you mentioned, although I have to revisit that Narfi dialogue. Forgot how creepy he can be.
There are notes about the prawn frawn and wildhelm with a deal, it talks that wilhelem refuses to sell the trinkets from the barrow anymore cause it's haunted.
Love his stuff but takes forever to come out tho saddly.
42:00 Bashnag could've been a Legionnaire. Orcs are prized in the Legion for their strength and smithing. Maybe this coven of spellswords is his way of preparing to war with the Thalmor outside the confines of legal warfare.
Ah, good point!
weak theory, if he was a legionaire he wouldnt be attacking the player ruthlessly like a barbaric warlord.
And to think i was about to go to bed 😂
literally same!
You're adorable 😊
Same lol
I watch these to sleep cause if usually takes me an hour so right as it ends I'm 😴
@@SupSheepey sounds fun :)
Bro gonna dethrone Fudgemuppet and Epic Nate at this rate💯💯
Well, he’s already doing better than Mittensquad sheerly by virtue of not being dead.
Pretty easy to beat Epic Nate considering all he does is click bait
Always loved Windellius. When I started playing Skyrim, I arrived in Ivarstead while exploring and experienced this quest late at night. I had never played any RPGs before and I was floored with the fun storytelling of the game.
It made me fall in love with Skyrim for the first time.
Ah. No. My sleep can definitely wait for hour.
Sleep? I came here TO SLEEP 💤🛏️
Gotta say your vids have the same energy, Especially in the openings. As the early 2000's history and discovery channel shows. Honestly it blows my mind at the eye you have for good shots and editing. Also great narration and information.
I always wanted to make a documentary style Skyrim video, maybe that's why :)
Wyndelius' "leave this place" genuinely terrified me the first time I heard it. I don't know why. I didn't go in the barrow after that.
He makes a good dead thrall. Mimicking the behaviours of ghosts to the point I kept him as a undead slave for many adventures
When it comes to Bashnags unusually potent silent spell, that could potentially come from him being a devotee of Malacath. Curses are part of Malacath portfolio and when it comes to most Orcs on Tamriel, the deities they worship is usually either Trinimac or Malacath/Mauloch. So Bashnag following the latter seems likely and I could total see Malacath enhancing the more curse like effects of spells like burden, silence, drain attribute effects, etc that last for weeks, months, or even years would fit a boon that Malacath might give to his most faithful followers. Honestly think something similar is happening with Molag Bal and Sild the Warlock to. Torturing people, then killing them, capturing souls, and using thier enslaved, tortured souls as your foot soldiers? Yeah that's some Molag Bal worshiper type shit right there.
That's a great Daedra connection, never thought of it!
Looking at the location, the fact that there is a full on road, and the fact that it's called "sanctum", it might well be an old sacred site to Malacath.
And it was no issue making spells and poisons that last for weeks in Morrowind. So from a gameplay perspective it is possible. Expanding that to lore is not a big task, especially since there is nothing in lore speaking against long lasting spells.
Love the part where the guard hits its Head at the Inn-sign xD: 5:09
Love this Video series!!
Just like with the new encounters in Skyrim, every once in a while i stumble upon a new Channel creating amazing Elderscrolls Lore :D
Glad i found yours!!
5:09 that guard bonking his head on the sign XD
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It’s been a trying week this video couldn’t have come at a better time Skyrim truly is a great place to find respite from the rest of the world and an even greater gift to be guided back into her atmosphere by your lovely words and stories
Thanks so much! Skyrim does feel very relaxing.
Hey, prayers ur summer gets better and less stressful. God bless ✌️
This comment actually helped my anxiety. I have to drive for a few hours to see my family, and I'm just gonna learn about skyrim while I do it lol
What makes Wyndelius's story all the more tragic is that the supposed treasure of Shroud Hearth Barrow is nothing more than a booby trapped chest with nearly worthless content.
Great video! Camelworks made like a 4 hour video on Iverstead where he goes deep (too deep some might say) into theories about Wyndelius and Winhelm
Is it the one about dead alchemist & Narfi's sister? I love the video but never finished it so I don't remember the part about Wyndelius, gonna check it out!
@@boreanknight yes indeed!
I think wyndelius succumbed to the same sort of mind control that affects the Draugr. Draugr are only ‘technically’ undead, having never actually died bodily, though they are dead mentally. If you entered a draugr tomb shortly after it’s construction, you’d find them to be whole & hale, but just as mindless. I think wyndelius is halfway to being that. The draugr gave up their lives for their dragon priest lords, & lend them their life force. You can get white souls from soul trapping them, meaning they no longer have fully human black souls, probably having given up too much of it. Whatever dragon priest is connected to shrouded hearth probably dominated wyndelius or, being in one of those tombs makes you a draugr over time
Wasnt expecting this but absolutely dropping the other vid i was watching to watch this 😊
Cracks a beer and packs my pipe. "Welp got a reason to celebrate this Saturday night! The goat has uploaded!"
Thanks!
Maybe Sheogorath himself brought Wynde food and alchemy ingredients to expedite his descent into madness! There's zero evidence of this, but it's a fun thought.
More cheese?
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The Wydelius Gatharian side quest gave me an M.R. James story vibes. Thank you for another great video!
You know, I plan to run a Pathfinder campaign set in TESV Skyrim at some point.
I came across a mod titled "Death consumes all", which I thought would make an interesting adventure hook and thought to somehow incorporate at least the concept of the mod in my Game.
Then I found a short Pathfinder adventure, I think it was included in "The Book of the Dead", where the Players stumble into a Village in the Mountains, cut off from the rest of the world, and almost destroyed by undead, and thought, that'd make a nice introduction to the plotline introduced in the mod.
I knew about the Redguard Woman trying to bring her husband back from the dead, but I didn't really have it on the Screen to maybe incorporate it into my game.
So thank you very much for reminding me of this little story, so I may include it in that plotline.
I love the hostile Orsimer mini-strongholds: Cracked Tusk Keep, Bilegultch mine, & Rift Watchtower. It's like encountering wild west natives, some tribes will make you bloodkin, welcome, & do business with you, other tribes are bandits
now that you mention it wilhelm is odd as hell. With this quest and the whole narfi and reyda thing. Reyda could have been killed by narfi and it just broke him permanently. But yeah the fact he had the claw at all is weird, not totally out of question since the shopkeeper had one sold to her but it wasnt for a barrow right next to the village.
I'm starting to think that Wilhelm is one of the best written npcs, because he's so - realistic. Has that smirk all the time and is related to so many subtle, weird situations. So if he's truly shady, it's so subtle and deep, almost too much for a mere game character.
there's a very realistic inconclusiveness to him, it's not very cinematic, but he gives the vibe of someone who just keeps cropping up in relation to an unsolved case or something, but has no evidence that he did anything wrong or anything
or maybe he's just a well-connected but slightly shady innkeeper
or maybe Bethesda just needed questgivers and endpoints for a few different minor quests in the rift and there weren't that many people in ivarstead who made any sense, but i like the idea that the vibes he gave out were deliberate
When you initiate find reyda remain after talking to Narfi, you can ask wilhem about narfi, the caviat is that he put an expression of Pity when she talks about Reyda, as if he was trying to look innocent when talking to the player. And then... Wilhem says where Reyda would occasionally go and look for ingredient ( suspicious 1) after that he says "One day she 'just' vanished" ( suspicious 2 ) and he mention to the player that he tries to look for her but she never showed up.
Suspicious 1 : Wilhem know reyda activity where she would go and when she would return home
Suspicious 2 : wilhem was 100% sure that reyda was gone and that indicate that wilhem has something to do with Reyda, he doesnt speculate what happen to reyda, he just says he is pretty sure she's dead. implying that he could've been the one that murder her.
Another weird part about Wilhem is that he kept Lylnly Star-sung as Barmaid despite her awful singing and clumsy attitude, my guesses is that he has thirst for beautiful women. When staying at the Inn you would hear his dialogue with Lynly.. "I swore i would protect you" showing the player his Hidden manipulative tactic to win over her trust and comfort.
Conclusion : Wilhem definitely has something todo with reyda, it could've been that he was in thirst with reyda, and that reyda was smart independent and could resist Wilhem manipulative tactics, and when wilhem confront reyda at the bridge during night, wilhem is frustrated and angry at Reyda for refusing him and strangled her to death, throwing her body to the river. overall he is one shady inkeeper
@ramasaputra6205 Now i wanna do a video on Skyrim's hidden evil NPCs 😅
When i played as a thief, the portal actually opened while the the mages were still alive and i accidentally went through it while sneaking around collecting loot. Sanguine gave me his staff and teleported me to whiterun, but i realized my follower was still waiting at Morvunskar. When i made it back, I found Naris getting jis face bashed in by Sanguine himself. True story.
I always come back to skyrim content to see someone breath life into a flawed classic over and over again. This is a blessing.
Man I wish I could get Skyrim mods working again so I could get back to playing and do more lore diving, thanks for the new video dude last one was great!
first one you posted was suck a masterpiece, cannot understate how stoked i am for a part two
haha went to bed last night listening to the first part of this series. woke up to let the dog out n pick something else to fall back asleep to and heres this!
I like the cinematography of your videos. Its very well done. Thank you for another great video. Hope you have an excellent day.
Thank so much and have a great day as well :)
Your videos are so damn good. So appreciative that there's still content creators doing really well done long format videos for Skyrim. Please keep it up 👏🏻
Sometimes I forget that Skyrim is an old game. Time really flies.
@@boreanknight old but gold. It's truly a testament to the game and the players that it's still played constantly and that videos for it are still in demand. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
I just read your about me and I am so happy that you've found some healing in your favorite game. Your content is lovely, very well done. I wish you the best on your journey. Thank you for sharing your story and your content with us. :)
@@slowpoke_tails Thanks! 😊
Happy Fathers Day Alek! Great to see some more bizarre bandits in Skyrim!
Maybe that orc belonged to another Organisation, that's wanted by the Thalmor.
Could also be, that he fought in the first great war on the side of the imperials and somehow caught the eye of the Thalmor, or came into contact with them another way, that didn't end with friendly relations.
Or maybe he was something like a spy in service of the Thalmor, and has gone rogue, and therefore fears retribution.
There are a lot of reasons, why he could be afraid to get found by the Thalmor specifically.
I love the way that you help me appreciate the small things in this game. Each NPC feels significant when given the Borean Knight treatment.
Just saw part one last night. This is a treat.
13:21 holy shit, I had never realized the cruel irony that the claw was in the hands of the Ivarstead townsfolk, and not within the barrow...
suggestion on a character.. The NPC with most dialogue lines : Mjoll the Lioness. She is the Hero of Riften, stands up even against Maven Blackbriar, calling her a heartless bitch. Not afraid of anyone, and when she is your follower, give her a set of heavy armour and Volendrung. When you do the Stormcloak or Emperial quest, take her to clear out a fort..she will turn in to a one woman army, clearing it on her own, just follow her and hear her one liners.. Give her two stafs and she will doublewield them untill they are empty, then switch to her dominant weapon
your skyrim videos are the best ive seen in years, please make more! :)
Thank you!
What a great topic for a series!! I can't wait to see what whacky and messed up bad guys we get to see in the next one!
Wyndelius's story seemed like Sheogortath shenanigans to me, gave him the idea or recipe for the potion and let his obsession and defence of the barrow do the rest.
This was an insightful video on the bandits of Skyrim thank you Borean Knight
Keep it up - love this series and its quality
I haven't done a Skyrim playthrough in a while. I think this convinced me of what my next game I play will be after my current haha.
Loved this one. Looking forward to the next video!! 😊😁
having lu’ah al-skaven’s story as part of a DLC would have been SO cool! i love the idea of undead hoards disrupting the civil war! and i’m glad i’ve found your videos!
Another great video!
My Wyndelius theory is that the magic used by the ancient Nords that allows the Draugr to rise up and defend their tombs got to him from prolonged exposure. Did his potion make him more vulnerable? Potentially, but since so few people choose to stay in one for so long it might not have done anything at all.
I loved the first one, looking forward to watching this!
Awww shit, here we go again 😂 I will have started a new play-through by the end of this video
Love these type of videos! :D
I always shoot Wyndelius through the door bars before he finishes his 'Warning'. So satisfying.
0:25 confirmed channel is run by the Alik’r
Elderscrolls dad joke
Awesome vid as always!
The return of the King.
Ive been watching you since your morrowind battles and I really love your new lore videos. Great job keep it up 👍
Loved doing those battles! Thanks!
'nothing inherently evil or criminal about Wyndelius'.
...You know, aside from terrifying people he knows to be superstitious, disguising himself as a ghost to keep them out and away. Truly an upstanding citizen who only had the best interests of people at heart. :P
None of that was evil or criminal. He just wanted to be alone.
I just found this channel awhile ago I legitimately look forward to you post, I'm even binging the old ones they need to send you elder scrolls 6 first!!!!
Keep making these bro they're awesome and when i play i think of all of the deep lore that i would miss if it weren't for your videos
I played 18 hours of skyrim in the past 2 days 💀, I feel the same joy from the game as I did when it came out, bringing out those nostalgic childhood memories you can't reproduce easily
Most of the time we wonder if its cut content, it more than likely is. The whispering door was meant to be longer than it was but time waits for noone and they were behind so, it shortened to what it is now. I wouldve loved another "Where is my child" sitch. Plus what if she saw her child happy and decided to let her stay instead of kidnap?We could use persuasion to get the adoptive parents to allow their daughter time with her bio mom. Not like a custody thing exactly but visitation (especially since she doesnt have her own place yet).
After watching so so much fudgemupet, this channel is a breath of fresh air
Glad to have found it
Now that I know your broad definition of _bandit,_ I see why Arondil made the first list. Still, I'm glad to see Wyndelius make it to this one. He is indeed one very unfortunate treasure hunter...
I started following your channel after randomly thinking "huh, wonder what made Skyrim no longer use that epic Nordic moustache in Morrowind" and coming across your video - now however I am very much happy to see your content gets better and better!
There is also the Guy in the Dwemer Ruin. I forgot his name. The Peryte Quest, i mean.
Thought this channel had a million subs, the quality’s so good.
Dude, the quality of your videos are something else. The tidy on-screen edits, documentary-style cinematography, the pacing. It's all perfect. Skyrim was always ridiculed for its writing, but it's compensated for through what you're exactly describing in your videos, and I wish more people realized that instead of focusing on the negatives (and Bethesda themselves for ES6, if they can't get the main story working).
Add to that that you seem to really enjoy making these videos while going through a nasty illness. I wish you the very best.
Thanks so much! I'm working on another Skyrim video at the moment and really needed some extra morale boost :)
@@boreanknightI have a suggestion, for if you're still collecting footage for your next projects. The Photo Mode mod available on Nexus, while built for taking screenshots, can also be used for recording footage with different FOV, DOF, even actor expression and animation settings. The latter is difficult to manage, but it's great for the easy FOV manipulation alone. Just in case you haven't tried it/been using it.
@@TheR6R6R Sorry for late reply. My current wabbajack modlist Elysium has no photo mode so I rely on console commands. I can try adding it for future.
I had a dumb little idea, imagine if there was a little quest to recruit Bashnag and his Sellswords to the side of the Stormcloaks? He seems particularly wary of the Thalmor, and he's right next to an Imperial fort. I imagine how it would go down is, as an optional preliminary quest to sieging and capturing the nearby fort in the name of the Stormcloaks, you could be sent as an envoy to Bashnag, and request his and his Spellswords' aid in taking control of the fort, under the condition that the fort will be put under his command once it is taken. I'm thinking once he takes control, he could be given a Stormcloak Officer hat, and you'd see both Spellswords and a few Stormcloak soldiers patrolling it.
thanks for the upload
So, I can't help but wonder if Wyndelious had received any help from Reyda or Narfi in collecting alchemical ingredients. It almosta makes sense, but I'm not sure.
And both of them went insane, I don't know if that matters but it stands out, the more I think about it.
4:51 if at least half of Nordic barrows have walking dead in then, I'm not sure if that's superstition or reasonable caution😂
7:41 What i like to roleplay on some of my characters is after initial exploration of the barrow drinking the potion and walking in the inn and up to Wilhelm with exact same speech, such an obvious thing to do, imo, wonder why it wasn't included in the original quest as a hidden little optional, would've been hilarious x)
The Thalmor Dominion loathe anyone who is not of "pure blood"
Just the other day I was thinking about how cool would be to have a band of spellswords. Definitely an interesting bunch.
Erm, more skyrim? Yes please
Lu'ah Al-Skaven learned the darkest art. She looked at Arkay and spit in his face.
i love you and these videos thank you!!!
bro chill... you make me to install it again!
That claw had to be worth MORE than the entire town...
A SECOND part? Is it my birthday???
This world is heavy with dark fantasy and I adore it for those moments. My favorite bandit is Arvel, another crazed archeologist/scholar in search of ancient eldritch power before being consumed by the dark of the ruin by Draugur. If you wait and the follow slowly his body is sprawled over a puddle of blood from where he fell. There was no scream, no cry for help, you follow after him ,and he lies dead. Nothing moves until you startle the silent guardians again, who deal death to trespassers.
Wyndelius Gatharian was someone looking for the trove of dead warriors and fabled jarls. When he could not ascertain the claw, his obsessions of grandeur turned to madness. This is when the keeper of fear and living concept of the nightmare arrives. Vaermina tore a rend in his mind as she fed off the delusion he suffered from. This was a mortal ripe for eternal doubt and pain. A hero or maybe a villain of some proportion arrived and slaughtered the crazed fiend. He was a stranger lost in a hell he imprisoned himself within before being cut down. A strangled soul released of torment, Stendarr have mercy.
There are things that stir the minds of people in Skyrim in such a way that you begin to imagine events differently because of fear and respect for how small the player is in comparison to the influences we cannot see. You think in a more occult sense that there is more than simple mental degradation but forces of physical proportion that influence and control mortals like puppets through breathing concepts. The player is susceptible to such tampering with the promise of power.
- The Rueful Axe as reward for butchering a dog
- The Nightingale Blade for allegiance to the permanent vigil of the night and the insanity of eternal servitude
- Beating a priest bloody with a serrated mace, into submitting to the god of rape for a powerful vampiric cudgel
This world is beautiful and haunting for what it does not tell you and does not care if you miss. It's very weird and very dark fiction. It's in introspection to speculative lore that makes these dives so fun.
5:10 nice touch
I was about to go to sleep, much like the rest of us. Instead, I find myself honored with an hour of somniferous Borean bliss! Feels like datenight, thanks BK. 🥰
I just wanted to say how much I really appreciate you. I'll spare the comments section my list of reasons, but seriously-
Thank you for your service!😄🫡
Thank you so much! I had to delay the upload few hours due to tech issues, but at least it helps people sleep better :)
I may have work tomorrow, and its 2AM already, but it is what it is
Oh UA-cam algorithm sometimes so wrong but sometimes so right
I always got the impression that Wyndelius was being corrupted/possessed by the draugr spirits within the tomb, possibly addled by drinking too many potions with suspect ingredients.
Awesome video! Oblivions strange bandits when?👀
Haven't played Oblivion in a long time but I'd love to revisit it.
The room with the Dibella shrine and the leather straps ALSO has a potion of invisibility, implying something else may have been going on.
I was suspicious of Wilhelm also but his kindly old man demeanour fooled me....just like it fooled poor Wyndelius...Wilheim knew what he was doing and the idea that he fooled folk with his act probably added to his delight
Fleeing the nightmare that is tanking in ESO for Borean Knight overanalyzing Skyrim
I think all the potions wyndelius drank drove him crazy
Not a big deal in the long run, but making a video about bandits and having very few bandits in it is quite funny. Still subbed
What if the paste Wyndellius used to coat himself was toxic in some way and he was basically sniffing glue by accident
I always thought Windellius’s potion was what made him go mad.
I’ve been looking for a channel to take over content that @TheEpicNate makes. He barely posts Skyrim content now and I would like to thank you for this. Please keep posting thanks
There's a lot of life missing in the world of Skyrim. Less NPCs makes for easier storytelling with more in depth stories, but the world feels far less lived in. One of my favorite things about Oblivion and Morrowind is the amount of NPCs makes the world feel real and *lived in*. I mean, even the so called Capital of Skyrim is so small and empty for the, ya know, capital city of a whole ass country. Whereas the capital cities in Morrowind and Oblivion are massive and have numerous NPCs going about daily routines. My point is that the last bandit, Sild the Warlock, really highlights this with his diary entries about a fairly steady flow of adventurers, plunderers and bandits making their way into his ruin.
I think Wyndelius' potion had some unintended side effects where it eroded his memory the more he used it. Making yourself appear ethereal cannot be good for the body.