Skyrim: 5 Spooky Theories Crazy Enough to be True - The Elder Scrolls 5 Lore (Part 4)
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2018
- Skyrim is a game with many plotlines, quests and interesting tales, however not everything in the world of The Elder Scrolls 5 may be as it seems. Countless players have developed complex, wacky and fun theories in an effort to explain some of Skyrim’s strangest happenings. So today we’ll be taking a look at five more theories crazy enough to be true in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
- Ігри
Spookiest intro thus far "hey guys Nathaniel here"
I'm pale
How's it goin'
Best comment thus far
my name is nathaniel
I rather support the Subtitles - Fanueil
I like to justify Lydia's stupidity with the theory that she is in fact a very odd looking mudcrab, rejected by her own kind and recruited by Balgruuf whilst on a fishing trip.
This theory is now MY headcanon
Logical.
Of course, it's so obvious. The dead eyes, the aimless scuttling...
Lydia is the source of most of my stupid follower stories. I experiment with different followers, so it's inevitable that I would get a couple from others.
Lots of sense
"That candle simply never went out" ....like literally every candle ever in Skyrim??
Abi Beck lmao
Immersion breaking
It should be pitch fucking black like a real cave
😂😂😂
@@brandonfoley7519 my head canon is that people in the Elder Scrolls universe have a better night vision than us here and we see the world through their eyes
Or should I be whooshed?
"She is given to us by the jarl as a thank you"
well it just sounds weird when you put it like that.
Hah! yeah...
Nobody:
kjf 365: WIeRd
You spelled weird wrong
`\("_")/`
I did think it is weird, how does one "give" you a person if they are of free will? And the way she says "I am sworn to carry your burdens."
I always just figured Lydia was in the city guard but got dismissed because of one too many "friendly fire" incidents, then just hung out in Dragonsreach munching all the bread till Balgruff could find a way to get rid of her. I think that she's so ridiculously loyal because she's glad to have a friend.
"Part 3 if I remember correctly"
*He did not remember correctly*
Oh dear 😅
recall*
Owen Apple
I fell into my own curse...
He also remembered the time line incorrectly... He fucking doubled the time between tes4 and tes5
I was looking for this comment
When u off to kill Cicero if u summon Lucien ghost he would say: " i feel disturbance in the darkness, Sitis doesnt wish cicero dead". It means sithis has conscious in a certain way
Sithis: No hurting my boy Cicero!
That is the sorely reason i kill cicero, btw Lucien could be claiming Siths is talking to him but it could be a set up
Yep I didn't kill cicero I actually wanted to keep him alive and did I like his crazy that is him and he's a fucken God when it comes to assassination and fighting
@@lumberjack7178 I just didn't want to oil mother in her hard to reach places. Hearing her speak is spooky enough
Wow, I've never gotten that dialogue before. Typically when I kill Cicero, he's already fought and killed Lucien and I finish him off. Thats nuts. I freakin hate that clown, but would be cool if there was a way to side with him.
"It's Nathaniel here." Sounds like Nate's in trouble with himself.
Candle never went out you say? You mean like every other lit candle in skyrim? Incredible.
The candles in various tombs and crypts that have been lit before recorded history lmao
Normally I'd agree with you on this but it's said that the draugr keep the torches lit
Just blew my mind
Game mechanics and lore are different things. The lights in the rest of the game don't count.
Candles that resist the power of a shout, that's the magic I need to learn.
theory: Nazeem is actually molag bal in disguise
He's Sheogorath, trying to drive you insane by repeating the same thing over and over again, making you question your memory and sanity through repeated dejavu.
@@ThatWildcard no he's dead now
@@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 Are you sure...? **X-File Theme Played**
@@arfn1973 well his body is sitting in my living room in a hilarious position so yes
Do you get to Oblivion very often? What am I saying, of course you don't.
There’s no famine because food never goes bad in Skyrim.
Andrew S Shit, I need health...Oh awesome, I still have that 500 year old cheese I found in that cave!
All of Skyrim is a giant refrigerator
I have food piles in every house.
The roads are dead it says and trade between settlements bad. Good thing the settlements in Skyrim are all self sufficient - lol even Anise at her cabin is set to go: garden patch, meat and water near to hand; as well as ore and ingredients aplenty.
Food never goes bad.
It respawn.
People never starve to death, they just eat to boost some stats or refill their healthbar.
For the lurker theory, why didn't you address the load screen comment "sometimes people get lost in Apocrypha, never to return?" and connect it with Neloth's comment on finding out you've been in the black books: "yes, I can see it in your eyes." then later, after slaying Mirrak he says he's "looking for black spots in the eye's, ***signs of Mora's influence.***" (paraphrase) they could be people trapped for so long in Apocrypha that they get mutated and twisted.
They get lost searching for knowledge, kinda like a seeker not a lurker
@@troubledcourier8795 The smart ones become Seekers, the rest? Turn into Lurkers, tentacles, boxes, those lamps that recovers stamina/magica.
Camel did a video on this, suggesting that those who remain in apocrypha are transformed into seekers. It was pretty in depth
BRUH they are just Herma Mora's version of giants, the skall say that the deadra are twisted beings created by deadric lords because they f*ck up every thing they create unlike the All-Maker
LOL...
Just a joke your theory is better
that's actually a very cool theory. perhaps those with a clear purpose and deep hunger for knowledge turn into seekers, while those that want to get out but can't become lurkers. seekers seek the knowledge, lurkers lurk around without doing much.
When you brought up the Falmer, Nate, I thought you were gonna talk about that theory about how the Falmer were turned into FUEL by the Dwemer.
'Fuel?' I hear you ask, if you don't know what I speak of. Yes, fuel.
Falmer, in Skyrim, have WHITE souls, or they can fit in the various regular soul gems, but not BLACK souls like other sentient races have. And what do the many automatons in the various dwemer ruins run on? Soul gems filled with white souls.
TheNN that's... Honestly pretty plausible
lol this is very plausible
Nice nice nice!
That’s retarded, any non sentient creature has a white soul why wouldn’t they just farm common beasts?
st0rm You can't enslave an animal to do simple tasks as they wait to be slaughtered is one possible explanation.
My theory is that Bethesda leaves a bunch of opened-ended random bits/half-baked plots in their games(like the bugs in jars), leaving it up to the fan base to extend their lore with elaborate theories, filling in the holes for them. While they kick back in Tahiti, sipping their mojitos and living the dream!
Shaman Fox Nice to see that it's not just their games that they leave for the fans to complete
I mean, with past games and the community mods enhancing them, it seems to be working! I don't have a problem with it, since it just means an even better game further down the road! Community contributions to a greater purpose(or a sweet ass game, in this case)!
And isn't that nice of them? They let the fans do some work...I'm kidding
You figured it
I wonder if Bethesda knows phil
"Psss! I know who you are! Hail Sithis!"
The theory regarding the night mother doesn't quite add up because there are direct quotes which imply Sithis has some form of conscious.
Some quotes from the Spectral Assassin:
"I will kill this jester if you so desire, but there is a disturbance in the Void. Our Dread Father does not wish this"
"The Dread Father works through me. And his work has just begun."
"One day, you shall serve our Dread Father, as I do now."
pretty sure i read in lore books in oblivion that sithis created the deadra from the void. i always thought that was cooler.
"One day, you shall serve our Dread Father, as I do now"
Dovahkiin who has already shattered his soul between 13 different planes of Oblivion: "No, i don't think i will"
Okay, so to find the origin of the Lurker it might be prudent to look at the creatures that served as their inspiration: The Deep Ones
The Deep Ones are a race of mutated, fish-like humans that worship a creature known as Dagon. The Deep Ones procreate through humans, creating children that are born human but slowly grow up to become the fish-like Deep Ones. Many depictions of Deep Ones are very similar to the appearance of the Lurker, and the fact that the Lurkers serve a Deadric Prince who is inspired by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft (who is the author who came up with the idea of Deep Ones) may lead one to conclude that Lurkers are not just thematically similar to Deep Ones, but practically so as well.
It's always been unknown as to what exactly happens to the people who get lost in the winding halls of Apocrypha. Perhaps those who continue to seek knowledge evolve into the Seekers, and those who were driven mad by their findings within Apocrypha change into the massive and unintelligent Lurkers? It would be a very thematically sound and interesting origin for Hermaus Mora's faithful Daedra!
I have a little more lore frendly and pausible theory, mutated maomer that went to apocrypha, and why are they in solstheim? well they can come out of apocrypha thanks to the whole situation with the books and miraak in the place
Personally I like to think fallout is in the same universe just in the far far far future and that the mirelurk kings are actually the descendants of lurkers (hence how different they look to other mirelurks) and the nirnroot on the prydwynn is all the proof I need. 🤣🤣
Jacob Krassilowsky
The second moon is just behind the other one. You just can’t see it the Fallout games.
I second this 🙌🏼
What in the copy and paste is this
Maybe the dwarves blinded the falmer to prevent them from seeing what the dwarves were working on? The dwarves did disappear and were never heard from again. Maybe the dwarves wanted to prevent the snow elves from finding out the secret which would eventually lead to the disappearance of the dwarves? I think it's all connected somehow.
going to the moon !!!!!???
This is actually a really cool theory.
I believe a daedric prince is involved
The Dwarves Got Send To Elder Scrolls Legends Lmao
They disappeared because the heart of lorkhan possibly they wanted to hide that from them, they were creating a god with the heart of lorkhan to take over all of nirn
Lydia is a....malfunctioning synth?
i wish prices would remain so consistent in the real world :(
as long as it's capitalism that's impossible
@@AndreyAndreyevich lol
@@lbanana2003 sad but true)
@@AndreyAndreyevich ... or you return back to early ages and have a barter economy
Homer Simpson nobody can be poor if there's no currency
Nathaniel. Being proper I see
The Third Crusader hello brother
*_DEUS VULT_*
The fuck did I just walk in on?
Andrew Chapman
*DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT*
Ah hel, why not.
WE WILL TAKE JERUSALEM!
Nate when ES6 comes out, I think you will get to the
1 mil mark. And when you do, remember me, and the rest of us who have been here since a time before "murdered to death" was a thing.
COOKIE WOKE Yes
Likely, though let's celebrate the near 200k first.
People will always come and go but Nate my friend as cookie Woke said, been here and loving your videos since day one. One of the only people who expands the lore details history and just this amazing place of a world. Very much appreciate what you do, and will be waiting for what ES6 has for you in store and the projects that come with it. Keep doing your work man we appreciate it!
Love this channel, it’s great! I hope you’re right about the 1 mil mark, he deserves it
COOKIE WOKE yeah, and the yeah and the big chicken in every end of the video too bad it aint in every end of his video anymore
Here's a theory about Lydia.
Maybe Lydia was Balgruuf's secret lover, mother of Nelkir. Brainwashed by order of Balgruuf 's wife. Balgruuf finds out and he killed his wife but the damage was irreversible. Her skeleton was hid under the bridge.
The skeleton belonged to someone who crossed Maven, if I recall.
@@banessuperbrutalmetalfunti2561 Maven Black-Briar?
Yep.
Tam Si Kucing DAMN
What bridge ?
Lydia could be Nelkir's birth-mother.
I mean... Yeah, I can see Balgruuf wanting to tap that. And wanting to keep it quiet later.
She was sworn to carry his burden
@@psych0185 Too bad she couldn't keep carrying his burdens.
She doesn't look like a milf to me.
>.>
Say sike
Rn
andré Amaral
I have a load or two for her
*M'aiq murdered the dragon born to death by killing him! He told me himself!*
HOW DID YOU KNOW!? MAIQ NEVER SAID SUCH THINGS
Maiq The Liar lol
ha
Ma'iq Lorkhan confirmed
Maiq you jerk you did try killing me the other day!
Lucien's ghost warns you not to kill Cicero, risking to anger Sithis, so to would seem je has some kind of will and plans of his own.
It would seem*
I think he does say that is isn’t what Sithis would want... doesn’t he?
If you think about it, any loyal Dark Brotherhood member should spare him. The rest of the members were more just payed assassins who mainly cared about money and power. But In oblivion, all of the members constantly praised the night mother and Sithis and only took up contracts that both of those entities would approve of, and they would kill for a reason. However Cicero is different. He loves the Night Mother and Sithis and he sees that all of the members weren’t truly loyal too the Night Mother, so he deserved life more than any of them. Also, he is very interesting, fun, and useful. Plus he has a good backstory and Lucien was an awesome Character and if he doesn’t want me too kill somebody, there is probably a good reason for it
@@generictoasterstroodle1080 One time while fighting a dragon I accidently punched him and he stopped me mid combat to scream. "I'm going home!" like a 4 year old. I love this jester.
Someone wrote a backstory for Lydia that I liked. She was an orphan who was adopted by the steward of whiterun, hence why she would hold a position in the court once she was an adult. She was likely a hold guard who got promoted thanks to battle prowess (seeing as she stronger than the current hold guards) and her adoptive father's position.
She is a mudcrab rejected by her own kind, and was recruited by Balgruuf during a fishing trip.
That's my head canon
"Anyway, its been a while since we've made one of these videos and even longer since we've made one worth watching."
11/10 for brutal honesty. I respect that.
to your theory of lurkers, I may have an addition to that, so we all know the orcs were high elves and followers of trinimac before boethiah devoured him and he transformed to Malacath and they changed with him, with the dark elves also changing by pissing off azura, what if the lurkers were Sea Elves(Maomer) that got corrupted by hermaeous mora
Good theory i can confirm that they are living creatures by their in-game classification (i didn't really test detect living but i came across the fact that i could affect them with my modded restoration spells that only work on the living). Is there some way to confirm, or to confirm the opposite, that they are classified as humanoids (man or mer). I don't know if they took these classifications that serious after all ash spawns are classified as mechanical/ machines and it looks like miraak is classified as atronach or daedra.
Jeremy Bitar - I can't confirm this, but I can give you a lead - there's an artifact in the game, called Wuuthrad (Companions questline) that deals bonus damage to elves, so you might check if it deals bonus damage to Lurkers. This might fail, however, depending on the implementation - I don't know if there's a special tag stating "elf" on each of the meric races or rather the axe simply has multitude of hidden effects such as "if race == dunmer", "if race == altmer" etc. etc.
It's more likely the latter, it's easier and more reliable. Instead of having a variable one must remember to add a tag on dozens of npcs, it's one that's on all npcs.
earl smith what if they are Sloads?
Makes sense
isnt Skyrim 200 years after Oblivion not 400? since the 4th era begun when Martin septim sacrificed himself and Said the 4th era started and Skyrim is in the year 4E 201??
Yep you’re correct I think he said that by accident
finnish innebandy Yeah. The ES timeline is crazy but I was pretty sure it was 200 years
I think Nate is living in a dragon break.
My skyrim is in the year 203, is that because I've played a lot?
Yes
To add to the Lydia theory, Jarl Balgruuf's son Nelkir in the Daedric quest "The Whispering Door" (which is coincidentally the Mephala quest) says that his mother is not the same one as his siblings'. Speculation arises on what this means. But if Lydia could be anyone before her mindwipe, then why not the mother of Nelkir? They might have conceived him out of wedlock and to avoid scandal they removed her memories and altered her personality. I don't believe this is true, but it's an idea.
Personally, I think Lydia might just get a lot of head injuries in battle since she doesn't wear a helmet (and not a whole lot of followers wear them either, hmm), so has amnesia on top of some other limitations to her faculties. Although all the Housecarls don't tell you their backstories, even the ones who might have interesting ones like Rayya. Anyway, that's just my three cents.
I need a theory on why Hermaeus Mora and Sanguine get pronounced incorrectly every damn time
Not skyrim but if you play Monster Hunter World or any of the other monster hunter games, many people say Tie-grex and its spell to seem that way but its actually TEA-GREX...
It's just poor communication between the dev's and community
If im not correct, correct me but is it pronounced:
Her-may-us Mor-ah
Sayn-gween
@@notadoctor9041 Herma is correct, but Sanguine is "Sang-win." He pronounces it like that himself at the end of A Night to Remember.
@@AlanomalyOfficial ohhh gotcha, its been a while and I don’t think i had the volume on when i did that quest
Isnt hermaeus mora latin? So it would be pronounced her-mi-us
I always thiught that Lydia was a Whiterun guard who just was assigned to you.
>Nathaniel
>400 years before Skyrim
Nate, you're home, go drunk.
I was thinking the same thing, but I also thought "maybe he was thinking about Morrowind, but said 'oblivion' by mistake?" but Morrowind events were only ten years before the Oblivion crisis, so that isn't right either. Maybe he correctly added 200 years for the Oblivion crisis, then unfathomably added another 200 for the events of the Nerevarine, then whoopsied it all up by saying 'oblivion' instead of 'morrowind'?
Or maybe he knew this stuff when the game was new and he- like all of us proper Elder Scrolls addicts- would heedlessly dive into all the in-game books and immerse ourselves in the lore of Tamriel, but since so much time has passed between now and then, he's just forgotten that it was just 200 years, not 400...
xD
it is the timeline Bethesda themself released even many load screens will tell you the Oblivion Crissis was 400 years ago. or 4 centuries ago.
But officer, i swear to drunk i'm not God...
Or
They just relight the candle when your not looking
Right she just secretly replaces the candle regularly.
You should have been abble to put it out with a frost spell and get an 10000 bounty for it 😂
@@pisscvre69 The first time I learned about the candle, I went to it hoping for an option to extinguish it
The kinda player choice we need
Sithis does have a will. If you summon Lucien Lachance's ghost during the mission to kill Cicero, he'll tell you that Sithis still has a plan for him or something similar
Feel like I saw somewhere that the Snow Elves fully knew the substances they were taking would damage their vision: initially it allowed for their body to adjust to life fully underground and the Snow Elves worked alongside the Dwemer willingly. Obviously as the Dwemer vanished, unforeseen effects of the substances given and taken (willingly) by the Snow Elves transformed their biological structure and without any guidance or society existing without the Dwemer, they devolved. But the main point is that they weren't enslaved or forced to become blind: again, fairly certain this is just another theory.
I think it actually makes the most sense.
@D. R. Or maybe the Dwemer wanted to cover up their cruelty since they were very arrogant and wanted to prevent anyone from finding out how evil they were, so they made up a story that the Snow Elves willingly worked for them.
@D. R. Okay, I'll bite. What evidence do you have to support the theory that giants are actually Snow Elves, and/or mammoth young?
I used to be an adventurer like you, then i got murdered to death
Lydia may have been the mother of Nelkir but Mephala poisoned her mind so Farengar had to wipe her memory and made sure that no one but he and the jarl knew who she was but could not tell her about her past out of fear that Mephala would regain control of Lydia's mind
I think that the night mother is Lydia who traveled through time, after looking at an elder scroll and brought a slaughter fish to past hermeous more then with her past magic and lit a candle because the elder scrolls made her not see well making her randomly walk into things and miss alot. Then she was trapped in the dwemmer's caves and they experimented her and took her past magic and memory and she somehow ended up in whiterun without her memory and was found by jarl balgruff
The no.4 theory the lurkers being a corrupted fish makes a bit of sense since mora is based on yogg sithoth from the cathullu mythos and the lurkers are based on the deep ones
Troper H'ghar fish human hybrids*
This video is the first clear look I had at a lurker, since I play it on Xbox 360. The combat animation is the same as a giant. Of course we can use the mundane explanation of saving memory/processing, or we could theorize that a lurker is a mutated giant/slaughterfish
What if lurkers are a different type of giant that moved between land and water when one was not as habitual, who became enslaved by hermaous mora or mirak when they came up
there's also the possibility of them being maormer
It's like no one remembers Dreugh are a thing.
the Lydia one doesn't feel right I think the lack of backstory is because she is only a soldier who was good enough to climb up the ranks
This was always my assumption, she's accomplished in martial combat and has a highly proffesional demeanor.
She totally fits into the position of a Soldier that's been specifically lifted out of regular guard and is assigned to protect Whitburn VIPs
the Alduin we fought wasn't really the Alduin of legend
The strength of dragons comes from words, and since Al-Du-In, mean destroy, devour and master respectively, so Alduin is meant to master stuff by destroying and devouring them, but by refusing to destroy the world and instead trying to dominate it, he is no longer Alduin, not really, he is more Paar-Thur-Nax Ambitious, overlord cruelty.
The reason that Alduin was meant to be able to eat the world but was so easy to defeat is that Alduin had lost all of his legendary power because he wasn't in line with his name/purpose
@D. R., right, so when you see both of them at the same time, when Alduin gets destroyed and Paarthurnax lives (or vice versa if you actually obey Delphine like an idiot) they’re the same? And Paarthurnax is really Numinex? You need to stop coming up with ideas, you aren’t good at it.
@@mattrogers6107 To clarify, I wasn't saying that Alduin and paarthurnax are the same being, it was more that ambitious-overlord-cruelty was a more apt description for the Alduin we fought since he wasn't in line with the destroy-devour-master name of Alduin.
"Part 3, if I recall correctly."
*Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.*
I can't get over how legendary this game is. I always get the best feeling every time i play it. Its just such a deep game with never ending adventures. No matter how many elder scroll games that come out Skyrim will always have a special place in my heart
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Let's just pretend Lydia has an arrow drawn. Let's just pretend.
That's one of the least poor battle decisions she's made yet.
Lurkers could be the end result of the transformation into a "Deep one" Which you learn about in Cyrodill a few hundred years prior in TES 4 Oblivion. Living in the village of Hackdirt, where they worship the "Great old ones"
Which lets be honest, Hermaus Mora is a pretty accurate representation of Azathoth or Nyarlathotep, and could very well be referred to as one of the great old ones by a bunch of backwater villagers who don't know any better.
How is Mora a more accurate representation of Azathoth, than he is Yog-Sothoth? He's literally the demon of knowledge.
I know this is an old video but oblivion took place 200 years before skyrim
Thank you
I really don’t know how he keeps getting that wrong, Oblivion ends the 3rd Era and Skyrim starts in the 201st year of the 4th Era, it’s not exactly complex. Is it supposed to be a joke? It’s not very funny if it is.
@@mattrogers6107 literally nobody besides you turbo virgins give a s h i t
Yes, it ain’t no 400 years
Don't all housecarls have no backstory ??
Lydia is the only one who matters
Maybe all of them were brainwashed. These huscarls are bassically slaves to some douchebag, its not the best life. Maybe they were some criminals or something in their previous life and its a punishment for them
@@Asraeks wait I know you
@@Asraeks you have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people what do you say in your defense
@@ancientgospel909 I'd rather die than go to prison!
Ah, Lydia. I've married her, I've sacrificed her, I've killed her because I like to be alone and don't need a fucking housecarl. She's been through a lot.
*F*
Lol
Who better to feed to the ebony blade
They make a big deal about their dumb candle that doesn't go out, but I've been in tombs that haven't been opened for thousands of years and they still have fresh candles and torches everywhere. Big whoop.
Super Squirrel yup x2
True
Yeah...wish there was a mod that unlits all candles...so you, aka the tomb raider (badum tsss), has to like..lit them...to see...hey guys if there is a mod like this please tell me:D
@Super Squirrel While they're tending to the lightsources: "Hot damn, I heard footsteps! Quick! Better hide in those sarcophagi!"
@@bajkotamas6285 there are like 20... yet they are indeed lighted by the draugr as there is a book that tells that they have a semi-routine in their tombs (thats is why some are awake) they go ahead and tend for their graves and tombs specially true if it is a sacred place or a dragon priest ruin
I'm a little late to the party, but ill take a gander and say that the lurkers are likely corrupted sea elves. note the pale blue/purple skin, the human build, and the fact that they are aware enough to wear chitinous armor.
Maybe Lydia found the ebony blade and that’s why she had to be brain washed
got there before I did. Lydia got too curious about what was in the pantry, just before Balgruuf and Irileth show up behind Her wearing Ray Ban sunglasses. Farengar steps in, pulling the old "secret-fire" out of his front pocket and... poof! New Housecarl. Irileth jokes about how She's the one that makes this job look good.
@@genesisdos1968 that is hilarious
@@genesisdos1968 that is some M.I.B. stuff.
Why would the Dwemer want to blind the Falmer? Easy. To prevent them from ever using an Elder Scroll.
Dwemer are the scientists of Tamriel, so maybe they didn't know what was going to happen, and used the Snow Elves as guinea pigs.
Bruce Haag Well why wouldn't they just do a couple tests on a small amount of snow elves?
Honestly, i'm kind of just against the idea that the dwemer ever intended the falmer as slaves, not because i think the Dwemer aren't massive jerks but like.. the dwemer don't need slaves. They have whole armies of Animunculi for anything they'd need a slave for.
I half imagine they made the falmer slaves just to keep them busy more than anything else. So the idea that they blinded them to better enslave them doesn't make much sense to me. Theres got to be something else to it.
Yaldabaoth
need to be blind to read an elder scroll. The scrolls blind anyone who isn't worth looking upon them. Only the blind moths can read them.
nyesis I meant to say that the Dwemer were afraid of revenge by using an Elder Scroll. The only thing the Dwemer couldn't understand or control. Precaution.
Azura Moonstar No, you need to READ it. You can't do it while blind. That's the entire point of half of Dawnguards questline. The blind mothpriests are already spent and live out the rest of their lives in the monastery.
*me, sneaking, draw my bow back, zoom in, take careful aim, prepare to loose the arrow...*
Lydia-*"WHATCHA DOING THERE BUDDY!!!!!"*
Sort of related, once I was in Blackreach on the thieves guild quest. I was maybe 10 feet away from a few falmer, with more sprinkles throughout the area. I was hidden and could’ve snuck by all of the falmer if one of my 2 companions (who have to accompany you) said something along the lines of “What was that?”. The falmer immediately went hostile and started attacking us, all thanks to Brynjolf.
@@willgillespie4840 Happend to my past run - I ditched it since it kinda got boring so I went back to the classical Juggernaut Run
I always figured the falmer just evolved into blindness due to living underground.
Oblivion takes place 200 years before Skyrim. Not 400 years.
Hold on...200 years...thats when he said the candle was lit...OH MY GOD!
What if Mephala is the "wife" of Sithis, Sithis being the force in which Mephala directs and chooses, leading by a marriage of concepts and interference of the mortal realm. True Daedra princes tend not to often share the spotlight, but Sithis isnt a daedra and rather an overvoid like concept that can be used rather than communed with. Mephala is the night mother, but not what we consider. Perhaps the night mother we see is a symbolic totem of that union of the weaving of darker forces joining together in a conspiracy beyond our ken?
I vaguely remember seeing in a video that you can hear the voice of the Night mother if you hide inside that coffin with the tied up corpse. It's not the corpse talking though, but a disembodied voice.
In oblivion has some about the night mother
The reason why they've had no inflation is because they're on a gold and silver standard obviously
Tell that to the Spanish conquistadors 🙃
I always assumed Lurkers are the creatures who Live Below... in A Shadow over Hackdirt.
Same here...i mean...we have NO IDEA what Skyrim's waters or TAMRIEL's waters hide...except for ya know...slaughterfish and horkersXD
I must disagree with the info about Sithis in this video. If Sithis is unable to care about literally anything, why would Lucien Lachance say "I will kill this jester if you so desire, but there is a disturbance in the Void. Our Dread Father does not wish this"? This implies *heavily* that Sithis cares in some manner.
I thought of the same thing during that part. Once I realized that Lucien said stuff like that when you had him around, I summoned him during the quest to kill Cicero specifically to see what he and Sithis thought about the situation.
There's also the thing about the Tenets.
I thought of that, but it can be argued that the "Wrath of Sithis" is an automatic thing that happens without a conscious will behind it. Still, that doesn't explain why there would be any tenets at all if Sithis were a natural force without any personality whatsoever.
My thinking is that the book he mentions in this video that describes Sithis as this unthinking force was written by somebody who didn't really know what he was talking about. There's plenty of evidence in the game that the creature does think and issue commands.
AntiSkillshot
The truth is no doubt because Michael kirkbride conceptualised Sithis Prior to oblivion when the dark brotherhood was introduced. But Bethesda will claim ‘unreliable narrator’ it’s just lazy and inconsistent imo.
Edit: The dark brotherhood were not introduced in oblivion but were certainly overhauled
whenever someone mentions sithios, teh wrath of sithis or the dread father, that too could just be mephala being mephala.
mephala is known to take on male or female images depoending on the circumstances, mephala could be the night mother and the dread father at the same time and no one would ever know.
the only thing that works against the dark brotehrhood being influenced by mephala is that the hist worship sithis and it used to be common practice in black marsh for hatchlings who are bron under teh sign of the shadow to be given to the dark brotherhood, so the hist, which are the most ancient and wisest creatures on tamriel, trust that the dark brotherhood follows the will of sithis.
then again the hist might know that mephala is behind the dark brotherhood, but choose not to reveal that information, or the fact that the hist did at some point realize that mephala is behind the dark brotherhood was the reason why the tradition of the shadow scales was, discontinued.
I mean there's plenty of candles in draugr tombs and they have presumably been burning for centuries too.
There’s an in-game book that says the Draugr tend to that stuff
No, they light them every day
Yeah but it's been centuries and they don't run out?
Well, since you can make candles out of fat and a strip of cloth, it is quite possible that the tombs are lit by corpse fat candles...
Is anyone else getting lovecraft vibes frome the lurkers,seekers and hermaus moira
Yes. Thank you Captain Obvious.
@@cyryl3827 Don't be a prick. Maybe he/she didn't know.
What made you think that the f****** tentacles
I’ll bet the reason the Dwemer made the Snow Elves blind was so thier technology could never be coppied. They’re very protective of their technology. This explains all of the traps and robot esque guards within the dwemer structures
"low amount of crops compared to people"
Yeah, no, check the farm to city ratio. There is plenty of food.
Honest gold for honest work.
“And even longer since we’ve made one worth watching” bruh every one of your videos is worth watching.
I really like the idea that Mephala is the Night Mother. That's pretty brilliant honestly, and very on brand for her.
There isn't inflation because the currency is based on gold, so it's value is constant. I learned that in my Bard College econ class.
Yep, i've read a bit about this too.
I think the Lurkers are mutated sea elves
That's what I thought too idk why they resemble them a lot
I think their advanced Mirlurkes
I second this theory, has been what I had assumed since they were first introduced.
@@ugloriousslapp239 wrong game bud
Maormer eh? Remember that story about Herma Mora nearly tricking Ysgramor into becoming an Elf? Perhaps it was something similar.
So I've been working on a theory for about a year now and it would be really cool if you made a video about. The theory is that Alduin encompasses both the sphere of Akatosh and the sphere of Molag Bal. First off, how is this possible? Well to explain that just look at another god from the Nordic Pantheon, Orkey, who in many ways embodies both Arkay and Malacath. To truly get a grasp on how this is possible I divert you to the lorebook "Azura and the Box" where a Dwemer challenges Azura to tell him the contents of a box, but to everyone's surprise Azusa's prophesy was wrong and she disappeared, but as it turns out it wasn't. One possible reason for her disappearance (with which I agree) is that Azura was not fooled, rather everyone in the room was fooled into believing Azura was wrong and thus she ceased to exist within that room. Proving that at least some of the "Gods" are actually created by the mortals who worship them. Now onto the evidence of this theory in particular. Akatosh is simple enough to explain and is widely accepted. Dragon Gods of Time, pretty easy connection to make. As for Molag, well he's the Lord of Domination, and it is in the very nature of the Dovah to dominate. "Dov wahlaan fah rel." Now look at what makes Molag Bal unique above all others. He can truly return a person from death, no matter who they are. Now look at Alduin and how he rebuilt his dragon army. He raised them from the dead, returning their souls to their bodies. Molag Bal is one of the patrons of Necromancers. The ancient servants of the dragons still rise from their graves, as draugr, to attend the needs of their masters. One thing that speaks against this is Durnehviir's reference to "'Alok-Dilon,' the ancient forbidden art that you call necromancy." However this could be because Traditional Necromancy would divert power away from him, since necromancy involves worship and deals with other deities (like the Ideal Masters). Also it could be that Alduin seeks to limit the power of the other Dragons so he can truly dominate them. There's some more little stuff that supports it but I'll just leave it with, "I mean look at him! Alduin looks like a dragon who got bit by a vampire!"
Something to consider.
No.
Alduin is part of the cycle of existence, the destroyer of every Kalpa.
Alduin is the Destroyer, Alduin the Dragon of Time and Anui-El the beginning.
In every Kalpa there are variations on god’s, never remaining consistent. Meaning that Molag Baal is not always Molag Baal. But Alduin is and has always been Alduin.
So no, Alduin is just Alduin. Molag Baal is just a Daedric Prince and Alduin is just a Statue sometimes.
Events from Oblivion to Skyrim was approximately 200 years.
I died when he said hermaeus like Her-MY-Us
Yeah and apperantly a bunch more people say it like that...EVEN THOUGH its name is spoken countless times in the game! Lets just be glad he didnt say HER-MY-ANUS
NATE IS SHORT FOR NATHANIEL?! MY WORLD HAS BEEN SHATTERED!
Lydia might have found the door with the ebony blade and learned something about the jarl which he didn't want out
Mephala being the Night Mother makes a little more sense when you consider a line of dialogue in her own quest where she says “Few can here my whispers anymore” and the Dragonborn can hear both Mephala AND the Night Mother. Seems like too much of a coincidental overlap.
The Dwemer got involved with a daedra while seeking forbidden knowledge. The blinding of the snow elves could be a daedra task. There was something the dark elf saix who lives in a giant mushroom prompted me to think about.
love the vids Nate!! I love seeing them pop up on my feed
Me too! :D
the Lurkers look like they have armor close to the falmer so they might be once snow elves who needed sanctuary from the Nords
Note how there are no Falmer on Solstheim, despite the Dwarven Ruins.
And they were enslaved by what? Ocean Dwarves? hahahaha......HUH...ya know...that...that actually wouldn't surprise me...
@@bajkotamas6285 there are sea elves they are called maomer
I can imagine Mephala just sitting back with some popcorn and watching the two factions at each other's throats like she's playing The Sims
My guess is that Lydia is related to Balgruuf.
He is the only jarl who mentions the houscarl he assigns to you by name.
His brother Hrongar is annoyed enough at you if you get Lydia to join the blades to possibly send thugs after you to beat you up.
So if I'm right Balgruuf assigned his niece to the Dragonborn hoping they eventually get married and his family tree will become dragon blooded.
Zankaras I might be wrong but I’m almost positive that the dragonborn doesn’t pass down dragonborn blood
Rhy der I’m just gonna pretend he does
Lydia is the Night Mother confirmed headcanon don't @ me
@Vincenzo Torizzo
@ Vincenzo Torizzo
@Vincenzo Torizzo
They are voiced by the same actress. 😂
sassmos09
Wait, really??
Nathaniel?! He'S a SyNtH!
CrumpetsRGood4U Lydia has no backstory. You know who wouldn't have a backstory? A SYNYH!!!
Famix Lydia gets stuck in doorways. You know who else gets stuck in doorways?? A SYNTH!!
THATS EXACTLY WHAT A SYNTH WOULD SAY
You know, I've looked through some things and realized something, the statues that are in sheogoraths isle of madness look very similar if not exactly like the lurkers
Speaking of heads those heads on Nordic ruins look like the door that opened in the bay in Oblivion: Gateway to Shivering Isles. Only with one (1) head instead of three/four.
Brainwashing of Lydia just made me think that she could be the mother of the Jarl's bastard.
Skyrim is a massive game
WHO TF IS "NATHANIEL"??
:)
Must be a collab or something.
Jesse H. Nate you idiot
We know, you idiot.
daniel are you sure it isn't nathaniel scuttlebug bandy?
maybe Nathaniel Howe ;)
I remember I played this day and night and morning everyday I have literally everything,
Completed every mission/side mission.I don’t know why I was so addicted to it.I got it in
2011 and I’m still playing today.
"Hey, how's it going guys, it's Nathaniel here"
Me: "WHAT"
whomst is nathaniel? did he murder nate to death?
It would be interesting if Lydia really was brainwashed. Maybe she listened to Whispering Lady and tried to get the Ebony Blade, but she was stopped and Balgruuf out of fear ordered Farengar to erase her memories. After the Whispering Door quest, she would start to remember things, and you would have a choice: kill her or help her remember everything and let her join us as a completely new person. Now that's a mod I would pay for.
I appreciate the cinematography in this video.
New theory: Skyrim used to have murlocks. Murlocks were transformed into lurkers.
Definitely need murlocs in skyrim.
Mrrglrgrrl!
Nathaniel, that threw me off 😂
Ashbee Gaming
Excuse me.
Why would an Amazing woman like you, Even talk to someone like me?
Get bent ladz Ashbee is my waifu.
Wow. It never occurred to me and now won’t stop bothering me that Lydia has no backstory D:
Dude. You are my reason to come back to Skyrim over and over.
I totally believe the Lydia being mind wiped theory as when you have both Lydia and Inigo with you Inigo will attempt to introduce himself to Lydia (yes its part of the mod of course) and she at first doesnt realize hes talking to her and starts listing off vegetables she wants to get from the market. Or brings up other random dialogue. Inigo then tells lydia he truly thinks she needs medical or professional help. Its glorious to watch
I heard a theory somewhere that the reason that there are so many bandits compared to people, is because they are the native Nords who live in the wilds, kind of like tribal people. I really like that theory, it contributes to the rough and primal land that Skyrim is supposed to be.
Great video Nate!
If there are 2 almost similar videos, I choose yours because I really love your voice and it always has some humor in.
The theory of Mephala being the Night Mother herself captivated me I hope Bethezda take it into consideration because fan theories do matter
creators should listen to their fans for they are many and many bright minds are hidden among them who may not have the "social" skills or the "guts" or the "money" required to step out and become successful but that doesn't make them less gifted than the ones who currently write the plots in the TES games