Revealing Rorikstead's Sacrificial Soil SECRETS - Elder Scrolls Detective

[@TheLordofMetroids]

A little girl who is beaten by her family, who is a fledgling apprentice in magic, and who is having prophetic dreams? Well, if that is not a dropped quest hook, then i don't know what is.

[@thaumatomane]

I am a guy, and I'm attracted to guys, so I've never felt much interest in playing a female character, nor have I ever played a nord because they are such thugs - but after watching this I am committed to making my character for Elder Scrolls VI Sissel the Seer of Rorikstead who travelled to the province of ??? following a vision.

[@avatareternal3204]

Thaumatomane Nice!

[@alexandracohen0694]

His name is actually an anagram for Kill me.

[@seandelaney7436]

@@thaumatomane what does you being gay have to do with anything? It's like that stereotype about vegans

[@jacobbaker726]

Makes me think of the Shining

[@SamuraiPie8111]

Reading about Clavicus Vile's realm of oblivion, and guess what it's supposed to look like? Verdant farmland that smells like perfume and rotting flesh. Something nice on the surface but gets stinky when you look deep enough. Like Rorikstead. and the color of the sky? Greenish grey.

[@sec1125]

Very, very good find.

[@kasiajakubowska1499]

Amazing find

[@DoctorWhoKage]

I said a similar thing barely a minute ago. but, I was only going off what I saw on a clip on KZbin of The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard.

[@samuelbishop3316]

I wonder what terrible price he will exact in exchange.

[@Cooil1]

Lemkil is actually an anagram for "Kill Me."

[@daruphir]

You pointing this out only just make me see it

[@glishev]

No, that's Nazeem :D

[@brynhildr6981]

not now

[@honestkyn718]

Well he asked us.

[@gothxm]

Or KILL 'EM

[@Smithdog92]

When a guy spends 2 weeks punching children in Skyrim to answer our much needed questions on the extended lore of Skyrim, you know he's the man we need for this kind of content. you did this all for us. and you are a legend.

[@Werelight]

“I wish I could be an adventurer like you...” *Flurry of arrows suddenly appears from nowhere to kneecap little girl.*

[@chrisconstanti9283]

At least she can be a guard

[@thealchemistking4063]

I wanted to be an adventurer like you but then I took an arrow to the knee

[@birb106]

Morphs into tall armored Nordic man. "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll"

[@daruphir]

The comment "arrow to the knee" isnt a loteral arrow. Its an old norse euphemism for marriage

[@laurenkirby97]

@@daruphir Can you link a source for that?

[@WolfangStudios73]

Camel: "by the Nine..." Thalmor Justicars: ಠ_ಠ

[@JackTheBreadGuyOfficial]

Thalmor: **screaming**

[@Haidonomus_Rex]

I played a high elf who worshipped Talos and sided with the stormcloaks... the thalmor love me.

[@walnzell9328]

By the ten! Every Elder Scrolls fan ever: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[@MehrdadParthian]

DON'T YOU SEE ? ELVEN SUPREMACY IS THE ONLY TRUTH !

[@MehrdadParthian]

@@Haidonomus_Rex thats just stupid... every high elf in existence hates talos because he unleashed the Brass God on the Altmer and caused all sorts of bizzare events far worse than Death or slavery !!! altmer hating Tiber Septim is literally the most righteous thing ever specified in the entire franchise of elder scrolls !!!

[@TwadesOldChannel]

what conditioner does Erik use tho

[@jerryhogue3917]

The real secret is how Erik sacrifices fertile women to maintain his glorious locks.

[@peli-nel3248]

Wyn B. *though

[@alpeshabhijitchowdhury6895]

Lore'al

[@maurice4348]

Mods

[@ericpurvis]

@@alpeshabhijitchowdhury6895 Lol Rore'al

[@GlitchReigns]

That really does sound just like a clavicus vile deal. Fertile soil for fertile women.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Someone else speculated that Clavicus may have also put Rorikstead in some sort of time loop, explaining the strange inconsistencies with the timeline.

[@itzbeendakavgaming5632]

I'm thinking Mehrunes Dagon. Blood for prosperity and all that.

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

Honest pay for honest work

[@clavicusvile1328]

Pretty much

[@_MaZTeR_]

A soul for a soul

[@vsGoliath96]

Rorikstead always struck me as kind of weird. It's just... there. And nothing really happens. Everything about it smells of incomplete stories and cut quests.

[@avatareternal3204]

vsGoliath And secret Daedric murder cults.

[@AdrianOkay]

And the sanguine quest

[@HunterGilligan]

I slaughtered everyone there to fuel my ebony blade, that’s how useless it is as a town

[@Griffolion0]

My thoughts too. This is very obviously a case of cut content syndrome.

[@killingyoursoul22]

yeah can't help getting hackdirt like vibes from this town

[@johnd1040]

A note about Lemkill and asking you to hurt his daughters: I've heard it explained that if you show violence in front of a character (such as killing someone in sight of Lemkill), they have a small chance to request you hurt/kill someone they dislike. So basically, it's a small chance for anyone to offer money for that service, and he simply is scripted to dislike his children. Nothing special about that interaction being tied to Rorikstead.

[@marwoodyt]

Crow I have had this happen I attacked rorik and was arrested, while in white run a courier approached me with a letter to see lemkil I visit and he pays be to hit one of his girls (not sissle) I do and he pays me 50 gold

[@ZeroakaKira]

It's also fixed by Unofficial Skyrim Patch which he is most likely using. So no surprise he couldn't trigger it.

[@immortalsnail-xd7zv]

I love how when the video is halfway through, Camelworks starts to really sound like someone who has studied this mystery for 200-hours.

[@leightonrud66]

Not really

[@n1580]

Why is no one commenting on the carry weight:1478/310 at 7:38 . Now i understand why it took him 200 hours to make this video.

[@acidguardian6456]

Jack Osten it's called tgm

[@n1580]

Dude i know camel uses console commands. My comment was meant to be taken as a joke.

[@eponymouselias]

Jack Osten he probably had god mode on

[@beelzibubbles]

Now I want to see a video like this where finds that he forgot to tgm after trying endlessly to trigger dialogue, only to be killed by a giant or something mid-scene.

[@aidentheorc2124]

M'aiq has had cabbage from Rorikstead. M'aiq will never have cabbage from there again.

[@FlSKMASTER]

Umm... Stalin? Why are you speaking like M'aiq the liar, you are an evil dictator not a wise, potentially divine cat-person

[@pimpingpippinaldis5891]

Fiskmaster yeah your M’aiq 😂😂😂 yeah right and you feed your people

[@FlSKMASTER]

Captain Aldis I'm sorry but i have no idea what you're trying to say.

[@pimpingpippinaldis5891]

Fiskmaster dude, really?😂

[@avatareternal3204]

Great Comrade Stalin Really hope M'aiq has a line like that in TES 6.

[@RichardMyburgh]

So, the ancient Nords worshipped Dragons, and there is a shrine to Akatosh just north of Rorikstead up on a ridge that overlooks the town. It is also east of Lund's Hut. at this shrine you will find Dragon scales as an offering. Something that should not be, given that dragons are just returning. This could be connected to the girl's dream of Paarthurnax. Maybe something of the old Dragon cult (or their practices) survived?

[@Kami-Sama197]

It is Paarthurnax who probably placed that scale himself, and when Sissel saw him.

[@Brandelwyn]

There were live dragons in the third and second eras, and scales dont necessarily come from a living beast.

[@KiraSieni]

Dragons never completely disappeared

[@pabbylink]

I think it could also be related to Kynareth. Kynareth is the goddess of nature and harvest which good explain the good soil. Sissel is able to dream about parthurnaax who taught men the voice, as instructed by Kyne. Perhaps the town is blessed by Kynareth and Sissel is a seer

[@dibidus6080]

You'd think that in that case they'd have some shrines to honour her, since she's one of the devines and not the forbidden deadra

[@tjhendrix607]

What if Kynareth blessed Sissel to stop the sacrifices

[@bghoody5665]

@pabbylink Nice catch! It might not be the only explanation but it could very well have something to do with what's going on. It would certainly explain what's happening with Sissel as far as her having visions of Paarthurnax.

[@kiwikiller954]

also probably unrelated there is a shrine of akatosh overlooking the town but akatosh doesnt really seem to relate anywhere here besides maybe being the father of dragons hence why the girl knows about paarthurnax

[@pabbylink]

AnubisGaming I'm pretty sure that's Dibella's area

[@Stardust_456]

There is a fourth place to find Spirit of the Daedra. MY FREAKING CHILD'S CHEST IN BREEZEHOME! I KID YOU NOT, that kid has ONLY brought home books about Daedra! The first one was about Azura I believe, and the second is the Spirit of the Daedra! My children in Skyrim terrify me.

[@avatareternal3204]

Stardust_456 Getting a Children of the Corn vibe from that.

[@Janoha17]

Obviously they know about the deals you've made for those Daedric Artifacts.

[@micahbell1229]

I may or may not of thought them the ways of lord Molag Bal

[@Janoha17]

I'm trying to figure out how Lucia keeps getting plants that are only found on Solstheim, while living in Whiterun.

[@sinkmc3682]

hey my kid has a black sacrament book in his chest bruh that's why I never go back to my home and have a whole new house away from him

[@rhysthomas1957]

I feel like the kid is being raised as a sacrifice, but Jouane has grown fond of her, and so is secretly teaching her magic survival skills.

[@acidrat420]

I like that thought. Especially with how her sister and father are so mean to her, he probably has a soft spot for her. If he was training her to take his place, that kind of water breathing magic doesn't seem to fit.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@acidrat420 so maybe he’s teaching her magic skills to survive on her own. This way, when she comes of age (I’m guessing when she hits puberty or something) he’ll tell her the truth and to run away from the town before the sacrifice can happen…leaving only her bitchy sister…

[@aliciagreen5411]

I definitely think that's what's going on

[@FullMetalAmerican]

What if drowning is the sacrifice?

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@FullMetalAmerican oooooh that’s good. That’s an interesting idea. 🤔

[@deff8487]

Lemkil: "I spend every day tending the fields, and what do my daughters do? Nothing! Complain and caterwaul! Sleep and eat! Useless!" The Dragonborn: "I uh.... I got some potatos."

[@ryokohonda4619]

Glad I killed him.

[@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384]

HONESTPAYFORHONESTWORK

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

@@ryokohonda4619 ok so i know the answer is probably yes but PLEASE tell me Sissel is adoptable via hearthfire if you kill her shithead dad

[@ryokohonda4619]

@@finn_in_the_bin5263 yeap. I adopted her actually. And left her evil sister alone

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

@@ryokohonda4619 welp.i know what i'm doing next time i boot up skyrim lmao

[@TheVCAwards]

"I can teach you how to put out a candle". You mean like blowing it? 😳

[@flannelpillowcase6475]

No, like thaumaturgy

[@firstname4097]

Or smushing it with your finger. I tried that to see if it would hurt, by my finger just got covered in wax :/

[@daruphir]

@@firstname4097 put a cuban out like wolverine if you want a sting. I do that once a week

[@galahad7024]

22:20 I believe this happens because there's a radiant quest where, should someone watch you kill something, they may send you a letter asking you to attack someone they hate in return for coin. In the creation kit, we can see that Lemkil hates his children, so the quest is just a quirck of the quest system. I know I'm like, 5 years late, but I have the urge to binge all the old videos again.

[@gerinko7874]

Well, I’m here too.

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

I do that often 😁

[@genobreaker1054]

Sissel could be blessed by Kyne. Her dreams a combination of her natural gift of magic, and a calling to High Hrothgar.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Sissel the Greybeard? That could work.

[@amenthegreat3761]

@@JoshSweetvale no it couldn't, a woman greybeard, shameful

[@chrisconstanti9283]

@@amenthegreat3761 That's gonna be a yikes from me chief

[@roojackaroo8517]

@@amenthegreat3761 that's not stated anywhere in TES lore,hell there even is a female mesh for the greybeard robes despite them being unobtainable in vanilla.

[@heresthadude1080]

Greyhair (but no beard)

[@Jarvis466]

Must Stay Awake Must Watch *CAMEL*

[@marcus21.]

The Boulder love your name xD

[@ctroost4324]

The Boulder Atla!

[@nolaz010]

I had a throbbing migraine when this came out. You describe my thought process verbatim.

[@sheriffsunshines7959]

The Boulder oh my god, its the boulder!! U got rekt by toph

[@エレダー]

also check out nazeem new dance from papa manslayer

[@awetastic4280]

Something that caught my attention was when Camel was reading about the book of the daedra, some of them actually described very specific personalities within Rorikstead. Hermaeus Mora: Knowledge of fate, past/present, and treasures knowledge. Sounds like Sissel, who sees visions of a friendly dragon. Mehrunes Dagon: Change, Revolution, Energy, Ambition. Sounds like Erik, who wants to break out and demands he be set free and wander the world. Namira: Spiders, Insects, and other creatures that are repulsive to man. Lund kept skeevers as pets, a lot of them. No one else does this. Also, Namira is all about the ancient darkness and is the spirit daedra, which clipping out of Lund's hut puts you in this strange ethereal realm not like other areas in the game, except some areas of Blackreach (there are small patches of faint green tint.) I would throw a wild theory out there that it isn't necessarily the fertile women offered up, but the children of the fertile women, and the women are killed in the process as the children become champions for the daedric princes. Oooor.... Jouane _IS_ Clacivus Vile/Mephala, just fucking with everyone.

[@jgostling]

"Lund kept skeevers as pets, a lot of them. No one else does this." Hamelyn bred skeevers into venomfang skeevers. Corpulus Vinius had a pet skeever when he was a boy. Your adopted son can bring a skeever into the house and ask if he can keep it as a pet.

[@MellSayzHi]

I like the idea that Jouane genuinely wants to help out Sissel with helpful spells and the Dragonborn is plastered against the window screaming about sacrificing women. Also, if that's the truth, bet that Sissel is staring at Britte waiting for the day she grows up and gets pregnant. 'Finally, hey Britte, remember how you used to say I smell like a pig?'

[@poisnblade]

Personally I think the issue with the age of Rorikstead can be explained rather easily. Whenever you hear them talk about the village from three thousand years ago they say Ol' Rorikstead, not just Rorikstead. They are two different towns and the first one is long gone by now. The reason the owner makes it a point to say this town was named after him was cause people would think he just copied the name from a famous long gone town and he wants to be clear why it has the same name. Just my theory though.

[@Mark_Agamotto1313_Smith]

Basically my thoughts, also, he said that he got the land WHILE his kindred where to the south fighting, so BEFORE the end of the war, not at or after it.

[@Blessed_V0id]

I like that theory

[@erw3387]

He could also be talking about a family name. Maybe he's Rorik, son of Rorik, son of Rorik etc and he feels it's named after 'him' because of his ancestors

[@cosmic2750]

Or you know, maybe it's a family name. Yk like in the old times, they used to have the same first name and went on marking it as fourth fifth whatever. So maybe what he really means is that Rorikstead was named after one of his ancestors who was also named Rorik.

[@BranBal]

Maybe he is immortal

[@mikeken6733]

POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT: When you got to the part about lund's hunt I was literally there during my playthrough IRL and noticed something interesting. You mentioned how he had a possible wife who was sacrificed.... Well the thing I noticed might had some merit to this theory... In the chest next to lund's corpse yielded a boy's yellow tunic! Why would lund have children's clothes unless hehad a wife who was expecting? Don't know if this has been pointed out lol

[@jahpolley]

*hears Lemkil's voice* IF I HAD A SISTER, I'D SELL HER IN A SECOND

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

Too big game, but so few voice actors. :/

[@NinjaGrimm666]

"I'm a synth"

[@Kos4Evr]

Isn't the healer the same voice as the guy in Markarth studying the dwarves? Calcemo I think his name was...

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

yep, I think you're right

[@mapicon7094]

Kos4Evr It is George Coe he died few years ago

[@chancemorey1857]

Clavicus Vile's deals usually are double sided with a tragic undertaking by the victim such as Sebastian Lort's slaying of his lycanthropic daughter, or cause and effect such as with his vampire underlings becoming immediately cursed by the pact they made with him. I think that the deal made with him in the case of Rorikstead was not a sacrificial pact, but a cause and effect pact. Its not that Jouane sacrificed these women, or that Reldith is an accomplice. Rather, when these women gave birth, Vile took them, and Jouane couldn't stop them. Reldith wasn't an accomplice to a sacrifice, but rather the midwife during delivery that witnessed the Daedric influence take its due from the twisted pact.

[@sewntolife]

Chance Morey I like this one ❤

[@Leschwa89]

My theory is that the fertililty of the women went into the soil.

[@Merc7734]

Leschwa89 BE A PART OF SOIL.

[@Leloreth]

My first reaction to the water breathing spell instead of the fire spell is that in medieval times Witches would be tried by weighting them or throw them in water. If they would float they would be burned at the stake or maybe in this case be sacrificed. If they would sink they would drown instead. A water breathing spell would certainly be able to save her life one day as the townsfolk are suspicious of magic and mages and would maybe not tolerate a young spellcaster within their mids. Jouanne noticed her talent for spellcasting and wanted to protect her instead. What is maybe suspicious is that an Altmer living far away from summerset and is only interesting in farming. I wonder what her backstory is. To bad this little town was probs one of those areas that got cut and the quest was never written.

[@David_Alvarez77]

That is an interesting thought about the breathing spell. Makes a fair bit of sense. As far as the Altmer is concerned, I think their society is very much caste and hierarchy, and so there are low caste altmer who may indeed be farmers. And if she dislikes the Thalmor or the whole Aldmeri dominion stuff, she'd best be far away from the homeland until things change. But I agree, she is suspicious.

[@calvinbruggemann9273]

Damn we really got robbed of a nice quest. :/

[@TheCrystalEssence]

Clavicus Vile Rank: Daedra Prince Titles: - Child-God of the Morning Star - Master of Insidious wishes - Prince of Bargains Sphere: Pacts, Wishes, Power Plane of Obilivion: The Fields of Regret Sourced from fandom

[@aurenkleige]

I mean, shoot, "The Fields of Regret." Sounds legit.

[@LBPBumout]

“The Fields of Regret” would be a great name for a quest associated with this theory/story.

[@classyoldsole2539]

In about my second *serious* playthrough of Skyrim, I did a bit of “sleuthing” and I figured the reason their soil’s so great might be because they were sacrificing all the women in town in order to keep their farmland so fertile, explaining why the only girls in Rorikstead, are just children.🧐😔 And based on how she was treated by her family, they might’ve had plans to have Sissel sacrificed next.😒 Sooooo I sniped her dad from the hillside while he was farming, Aaaand immediately adopted Sissel.☺️ Also her bully of a sister got sent to the orphanage. So they were both spared from the potential fate of sacrificial doom.👍🏻

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Actually, if you adopt britte she becomes less of a bully

[@boney2982]

@@Dovah_Slayer perhaps she just needed a loving family

[@Dovah_Slayer]

@@boney2982 yes

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

I tried to do that. I was busted every time. 😕

[@Dar_Paz]

With the falling book in the inside exterior, i was kinda hoping for "Lusty Argonian Maid" :/

[@geraltofrivia4845]

i was hopping for A Gentleman's Guide to Whiterun by Mikael The Bard

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I was so waiting for that to come up.

[@Easyflux]

We all wish for the lusty argonian maid when we see a book.. or, in general ;3

[@ACE-si4ng]

(‘ ^ ‘)

[@Coursecomfortable]

Lol

[@josephlytle1436]

It would have been neat if we got a quest in Rorikstead similar to the classic Oblivion quest "The Shadow Over Hackdirt". But I think it's perfectly fine as a mystery for players to ponder on their own about.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

would be nice to get more about sissel's ability, though. it would make sense that in a world with daedric princes that other people would make pacts with them outside of others' knowledge.

[@johnclark222]

I agree as it being a nice little mystery but I still want to see more development with sissel and her creepy dreams

[@maiqtheliar5622]

I feel like *Lokir* is associated with *Lund* In a way. Nobody mentions his name in the town. But maybe *Lokir* is *Lunds* son. *Lund* was so depressed after the loss of his wife and now his son *Lokir* leaves to top It off.

[@timtaylor9298]

Would be quite the twist if Lund offed himself at the same time that Lokir got shot. After all he couldn't have died too long prior to being discovered given that the skeevers hadn't finished off the food in the house yet.

[@winterwentmissing]

Why would I trust you, khajit?

[@jerikoistbesseralsmademyda7689]

M'aiq The Liar daughter? And who's that? They would probably be more like boyfriends

[@maiqtheliar5622]

@@jerikoistbesseralsmademyda7689 When did I say anything about a daughter? And everytime a woman has had birth she mysteriously dies.

[@ianmcleary4680]

i was thinking that too!

[@MarquisSmith]

Great video.... but what the hell have you done to poor Erik The Slayer?! You cannot be a respected Barbarian with nineties boyband hair.

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

I think they didn't have enough time to make Rorikstead. It is ripe for numerous quests. And the conversations between Jouane and the little mage girl are so intriguing and somewhat sinister, you'd think there'd be numerous quests.

[@SimGandr_PoW]

I do not know if you are aware but... Rorikstead has also very nearby a lair full of vampires... too close that they would be oblivious about it. Would they perhaps have anything to do with this village? I always wondered about that, to be honest.

[@platinumchromee3191]

In my current playtrough,there *_was_* a vampire lair nearby.

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

Isn't Clavicus the patron of a vampire group in Cyrodil? Hmmm...

[@Xeno_Solarus]

"Tryin' to break into my Wife's chest again, son?"

[@Stei_n]

I love those videos

[@inc2000glw]

I like 2 watch

[@chrissteinruck8681]

@@Stei_n, what's up with your name, person? It's like half of my last name. 🤔🤔

[@ReroutedYearAD]

@@chrissteinruck8681 Beer stein. Steinberg, Steiner, Steinem. I guess those three are all my phone had to suggest.

[@thecatattheend2250]

I know this is a two year old comment, but I just chuckled aloud.

[@101markus]

Just gonna quicly touch on the town name. Seeing as Roriksstead simply means Roriks farm, there very likely could've been other places with the same name throughout Skyrims history. A small village might dissappear from the map in the span of 4000 years. Or it might just have been a single farm owned by someone named Rorik. Anyway, I've heard speculations of this being an abandoned quest line, which would explain why there's so much going on.

[@llamaloaf8134]

I think it's always the same village. The book of Jarl Gjalund describes Rorikstead as "A Small Farmstead in the Western Plains." So it's probably the same village. Whoever wrote the lines of rorik probably just had no idea about the history of rorikstead. A simple developer oversight. And i strongly believe that Rorikstead is just full of unfinished questlines. The extremely fertile soil, with deadric implications The guy with the non-existant basement, that holds a mysterious chest The gifted girl, that dreams about paarthurnax The unused exterior of the dead guys house Sounds to me like bethesda planned a bunch of quests but scrapped them later in development.

[@benthomason3307]

they're not bitches, they just had to get the game out by a certain date; this happens all the time in the game industry. in fact this wouldn't even be the only example of this; the devs have confirmed that the same thing is going on with those bugs in jars: there was a quest planned, but they had to cut it for time constraints.

[@Human_G]

I feel like Rorikstead was meant to have a quest, but they scrapped it. They must have been too far along in the creation of the town/game to redo things, so they left it just to be a mystery (perhaps). I get the feeling it was supposed to be an Andale (small town from Fallout 3) kind of quest, with the sort of "higher powers at work" feeling of Tranquility Lane (a town from Fallout 3. For Andale was suspiciously well-off, despite being in the middle of nowhere with no crops, et cetera, and the player finds out that they are cannibals (they would "sacrifice people" or travelers for the betterment of their town). Whereas Tranquility Lane is a VR simulation in which all of the people inside do no realize that it is not reality, except for one person. This person, Professor Braun, uses them as his play-things (or in other words: a single person who is pulling the stings behind everyone's back). Yes the stories are a bit different, but Rorikstead's story appears to mirror that of previous Bethesda stories (at least in atmosphere), in the past. So yes, I do thing this was going to be a quest, or have some significance.

[@Hindaak]

Your tumbnail is a work of art!

[@gary8387]

Cabbage, the most powerful weapon the daedra ever used.

[@gpskiiiii]

Gary I have that same name, strange

[@katybeth8289]

I think it’s really interesting that Jovan is the one to direct you to Erik’s interest in leaving, as of anyone he is the most likely to attract and bring home a fertile lover but a young, attractive adventurer.

[@mohamadhajyahya6673]

" I want to be an adventurer like you " ... my boy have you heard what happens to NPC adventurers keep your knees Arrow free is what I say

[@thomasjenkins7506]

seeing how "taking an arrow to the knee" was and old way of saying "Getting married," let's hope he never does, at least not while he lives in rorikstead.

[@plasticdirttech272]

if you read Runil's journal (its a quest item given to you by Runil the priest of Arkay in Falkreath) he also talks about dreaming of dragons and possibly the dragonborn without ever seeing either. and he mentions how weird it is he dreamt of both. maybe something to look into

[@David_Alvarez77]

I was just wondering about this the other day. I usually don't read his journal but I did this time and I saw this reference to dragons and dragonborn.

[@deltaprism1404]

Sounds to me like a quest that went unfinished

[@smsmsmsmsmsm]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ERIK'S HAIR

[@Camelworks]

He's kawai

[@rosebliss2625]

What mod is it??? He's beautiful ; u ;

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

44:25 Maybe that was part of the quest that was meant to be about Rorikstead's soild, but was left in when they presumably ran out of time. Maybe entering through a secret door in the hut led to a horrifying nightmare version of Rorikstead. The arrangment of the rocky crags are quite similar to those near Rorikstead, after all.

[@moregasmthepowerful2959]

There is a dragon mound very close to Rorikstead. Kynareth being the mother of dragons, and Sissel dreaming of dragons and the rebirth and life being given to the dragons gives a high degree of credibility to the Divine Worship idea.

[@danieldriscoll2155]

Moregasm the Powerful isnt akatosh the dragon dude?

[@Smileyreal]

akatosh is a god that is depicted as a dragon

[@benthomason3307]

Parthunaax tells you that the dragons are the children of time/ the children of Akatosh, who is the god of time. additionally, Alduin refers to himself as the firstborn of Akatosh.

[@avvokin]

Martin septim turns himself into akatosh against mehrunes dagon in oblivion

[@samuelbishop3316]

@@avvokin Avatar of Akatosh. Not Akatosh himself

[@JadeThambireddy]

46:15 i think this might just be a case of "if we remove the tomato the game will crash so we just left it in"

[@michaelklaczynski3650]

Aha! The BARREL did it!

[@danielclark-hughes692]

That's what they *want* you to think

[@Xianglican]

I'm soo late to view this video, but I did wanna point out that the sleeping tree camp is two stone's throws away from rorikstead. Why did the only spore to fall from the floating city land so very close to that specific spot?

[@exander3636]

Wasn't Clavicus Vile involved in that, as well?

[@piggymaster3209]

@@exander3636 yea

[@Renata_Knight]

I swear I don’t know what to do with myself when he says “a nice fertile woman” 🤣

[@samuelspoon878]

To me it's much bigger then just Rorikstead for example Jarl Balgruuf has kids but no wife, Lucias parents where farms but died and I think some of the Riften orphans where form Whiterun as well.

[@destructiveraider]

Holy shit. Imagine if all of this is truly connected. That's crazy.

[@avatareternal3204]

Samuel Spoon One of Balgruuf's kids said that he doesn't have the same mother as his siblings. I always thought that his mom was a concubine but maybe it is connected to Rorikstead. :O

[@FjreHazard]

@@avatareternal3204 that particular "son" supposedly shows up in the game files as the Jarls brother.

[@slinky6481]

:O What if Lucia is the daughter of Lund and his deceased wife?

[@pedigreeann]

@@slinky6481 Lucia says her parents' farm was taken over by other relatives who kicked her out, if I remember correctly.

[@paulcurran302]

I know I'm very, very late, but I have some insights that may help explain the myths about beating up and killing Sissel and Britte: If I remember correctly, very character in Skyrim has either a positive, negative, or neutral disposition towards each other's in the game's files. Most people are neutral to one another, but if a character has a positive or negative disposition towards another character, there can be some interesting interaction that happen. Lemkil has a negative disposition towards Sissel and Britte, and Sissel and Britte have a negative disposition towards each other in the game's files. This means that, if you attack or kill one of them, there is a small random chance that they will thank you and reward you with gold for doing so. It's just a part of the game's natural code, the developers just didn't turn if off for this family. This explains why you couldn't get it to trigger- it's a very small, random chance to occur. It's not a myth, it's real, but I don't think it has any lore implications.

[@GodzThirdLeg]

Did you just associate Meridia with necromancy? The one deadric prince that hates undead more than anything else.

[@Camelworks]

No, her sphere is obscured to mortals who are associated with the energies of living things. ie; Necromancers

[@vermiaarcelot9287]

Not Meridia. Mephala. He actually skipped Meridia in the book. She's also obviously unrelated as her whole purpose is to purge the undead.

[@fwoqma]

+Camelworks your grammar is lacking. "Meridia, whose sphere is obscured to mortals; who is associated with the energies of living things." a semicolon denotes a shift between two related ideas. the first is "Meridia, whose sphere is obscured to mortals;" and the second is "who is associated with the energies of living things." the only thing that can link these two, grammatically, is Meridia. so the 'who' in question is Meridia, and not 'mortals'. the correct interpretation of this sentence is that Meridia's sphere is obscured to mortals, and that Meridia is associated with the energies of living things. i do appreciate your work on this, as it's very in-depth, but you're wrong here.

[@jasonfenderson5372]

Yeah, Meridia hates necromancers because, in her eyes, they taint living energies and upset the natural order of life and death. Skyrim has a whole quest where you have to clear Meridia's temple of undead. Like sour grapes said, the semicolon makes all the difference.

[@viniciusbernhardtkroth971]

Mephala, you fucking idiot

[@CathodeRayKobold]

"Developer Oversight" is Bethesda's mantra.

[@blahblahboii]

The "rorikstead" mentioned in older texts could refer to different rorikstead than the one we visit. its not unheard of for more than one place to share the same name, at least IRL

[@PunknPixels]

I always took the Lokir tomb in Riverwood to mean that's where he set up after Rorikstead and worked as a farmhand or something where he didn't have his own home

[@acornman17]

So while I was watching I came to a realization that, while may seem far-fetched, also would play nicely into the narrative of this theory. Coming to this conclusion actually gave me chills, maybe also due to the cool AF delivery by the author and the overall tone of the video. So, now here's my theory bit: The little girl who saw the Gray Dragon in her dream is obviously a natural-born sorceress - it has been pointed out in the clip. The town's healer, the one who sacrifices all these women, knows that when she comes of age he will need to sacrifice her as well. But noticing the magical talent and, perhaps, even the prophetic-like dreams which she may have told him about, he grew attached to the girl, even teaching her magic. So far it's all has been in the video. Now, one needs to ask why did he suggest she would learn Water Breating spell out of all the spells he knows. Is it somehow important, given that he seems concerned for her and wants to take care of her despite the fact that he will need to sacrifice the girl in the future? No, he actually wants to save her, and waterbreating is the spel that willl provide that. I think that the sacrifices must have been done by drowning. Even though we see one grave of the poisoned man's wife, we don't see ANY other graves in Rorikstead. What do you all think of my speculation?

[@jessica-ov6js]

We are so lucky to have someone like you that puts all those hours into skyrim, investigating, so that we can enjoy another one of your stories. And oh boy, what a story. This one is my fa favorite! Thank you for all your hard work! 💗

[@rakctus8311]

I love how there's only like two farms at Rorikstead

[@pedroandrade8727]

31:58 absolutely creepy, I started to get chills watching her hammering the ground like that.

[@adolfgaming1761]

Isnt Erik a character dedicated to a an Elder Scrolls fan who sadly passed away a few Months prior to the release date?

[@mikeshultz1230]

I love your icon, that animation is my fav

[@shiny1556]

No your thinking of a fallout fan who died before Nuka World that Bethesda made a tribute of

[@steelkrakonlordx8435]

98% sure thats the case.

[@MrInternetMan]

McDonlandsScout No, both of those things happened.

[@kmidst_vg2996]

This is so interesting. Such a dark story told with subtle hints. This makes me want to explore every town and village like this.

[@leonelfaustino8409]

jouane always teaching children how to turn into mudcrabs

[@mshippy9856]

Baroka Obama lol

[@marcinolszewski2260]

39:00 female imperial soldier in mini skirt. That's when you realise you have too many visual mods.

[@kingofichigo]

or just enough. . .

[@fumarc4501]

Mythic Dawn had a lot of Bretons and High Elves among their ranks.

[@bryguytyguy]

Sissel returning in the next elder scrolls as an Arthur Maxon or MacCready type of character where you get to see what they’ve become would be incredible. So much potential for a legendary character right there, the backstory is so unique for such a minor character

[@michaelross2972]

Erm... So my door started gently banging constantly while I was watching this... it's been doing that for about half an hour and hasn't stopped... what kind of Daedra has cursed me? Is Sheogorath driving me insane? HELP!!!!!!!!! But seriously that door thing is real.

[@actualargonian4890]

Inner Voice you don’t have to make fun of their religion to say you dislike her religion

[@evilannie8884]

Weird that Rorikstead has been around for over 4k years. yet Rorik claims it was named after him.....

[@MysticalyAutistic]

what if its a line of people whose first name is Rorik? it would explain that and maybe Roriks dad just sold it so he had to buy it back

[@brynhildr6981]

prolly family name

[@samuelbishop3316]

Almost certainly a daedric influence.

[@evanparks4123]

I just subscribed to your channel. I can imagine you wandering around Skyrim on the back of your trusty camel, solving dozens of mysteries as you go.

[@mikeauditore881]

"Are you trying to break in to my wife's chest again, son?" xD

damn it mans1ay3r :D

[@ApollyonZKX]

Mike 2011qwerty let's get to bashing butts, as well as DEEZ NUTZ

[@rcroller1972]

Mike 2011qwerty "Keep your hands of those TITS, they're mine"

[@thatlemonguy1107]

Mike 2011qwerty h “Trying to claim those sweet tits for yourself?”

[@rager3657]

I love these videos. I usually just chill and listen to them. Love the content man.

[@markthedark4338]

I have a theory about this gray friendly old dragon Sissel talks about. What if Peryite was this dragon? Afterall, he is depicted as a Dragon on his shrine next to Silverfish River in Cyrodiil, so that might be a possibility. Another thing that could explain Periyte's presence near Rorikstead is Lund's Hut: a book in ESO, "Kyne's Challenge: A Hunter's Companion", mentions that Kyne gives the souls of skeevers to Periyte, and what is Lund's Hut filled with? Skeevers. So maybe Juanne isn't the only Daedra worshipper in/near Rorikstead.

[@Janoha17]

@CatholicPrincess15 Daedric Princes are masters of acting. However, when depicted in color, Peryite is usually green, not gray, and when the Dragonborn interacts with him, he appears as some spectral Skeevers.

[@IamYasha10]

I remember getting that "a night to remember" in Rorikstead which eventually revealed Sanguine. So i guess that place is really a connected to Daedras.

[@Loopaz]

that thumbnail is so epic! especially with the cabbage!

[@princesheogorath757]

as soon as I wake up I am making a quest mod for roikstead where you overhear the Altmer and breton talking about lun knowing to much and had to die.

[@SpinachGoblin]

Vault Savior did you do it?

[@sebastianpadberg7162]

what i love about these videos is the amount of effort Camel puts into them. keep up the good content my g.

[@dewkiddo2328]

Sees camel upload. Video is one hour. Cries tears of joy

[@CaptaiinGuN]

“no secrets here, my friend” “you sus, bro”

[@whiterunguard1955]

"By The Nine?" Do I sense a Stormcloak?

[@robr135]

Lund's hut does have a book on daedra! Tcl your character after entering the interior, turn right and clip through the wall, the book "varieties of daedra" should be close by suspended in the air. You may have to look closely because when I first checked out the strange world I used free camera and the book kept falling into the void but transporting back to its position and repeating, tcl will freeze all movement so it could be far below depending on when you used tcl. The plot thickens!

[@cidacit6273]

On the rorikstead being named after rorik even though its referred to as rorikstead long before he would be alive. I'm blaming it on Bethesda's incompetence.

[@Xbalanque84]

Cidacit Same.

[@benthomason3307]

maybe a minor dragonbreach?

[@KurtisMuniz]

So much lore & contradictions can be accredited to this fact, if it were a book series, the lore might be more solid, though we wouldn't get to be detectives & explore the world. But many things are just a dev being funny, putting in a reference, forgetting something else, or not knowing what other devs are slipping in. As much as I love lore, I have to question most of it because the devs may have obscured or cut many facets of the story out for time or space.

[@levongevorgyan6789]

Maybe he is the descendant of the original Rorik.

[@vsGoliath96]

Ben Thomason Akatosh sneezed and all of the sudden there's a town named after a guy who isn't born yet. Oops.

[@HunterSlayer2727]

I always think Sissel might be a Seer or a potential future Greybeard. Maybe all the Greybeards have this Vision of Parthurnax and leave their home after a call to find High Hrothgar. If so she may be the first Female Greybeard. It'd make sense for a quest in which Sissel hears the call and you are tasked to take her there to train. Also this whole Cut Questlines Idea may be the original Clavicus the Vile Quest, which would make sense as I always felt the Clavicus and Barbas quest was off when it came to the Vampire Cave, perhaps the Cave was much closer to Rorikstead instead of Falkreath and that the statue was a sacrificial alter.

[@trevorj7406]

The real magic was the crazy FLOATING CHEESE in the background. Sheogorath?

[@mattj500]

2:15am? Sleep? Nah.

[@ChloroformCloud]

This is why you live in Asia it is 6 pm right now

[@rodian5251]

2 am is nothing if you're staying up late

[@cheesus7672]

@camelworks have you yet investigated Karthwasten ? There are mercenaries who check for forsworn, there are weapons and training devices in the mine and a bloody ritualplace on a hill right before the town. Also the chief of the town is a tattooed reachman. For the dibella quest for forsworn kidnap a girl but it is said that they usually don't harm the village (suspicious...). Also, what do the forsworn want from the oracle of dibella ?!

[@insanecurity]

can you use a spell to see if Rorik is actually alive? Maybe he's some sort of undead who survived hundreds of years of war, but always stayed loyal to the one little village that was named after him earlier in history. much like a patron of some sorts.

[@arunda1734]

detect life confirms he is alive.

[@insanecurity]

crazy! thanks for responding :) what if there was another Rorik in the Skyrim canon, just earlier in history? We have people sharing names in this canon (Fultheim for example), so maybe that would make sense? The current Rorik basically imitating an earlier Rorik?

[@erickhenriques6219]

11:06 "But I took an arrow on the knee"

[@JayBirrd]

This is such a good video ive rewatched it like 20 times no joke good job man

[@TheMetastasia]

Well, Rorik could be named after his father who is named after his father who is named after hios father and so on....

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

And through many eras, the chain never broke? How?

[@hariboi8840]

Traditions. Nords are keen on their ancestors. Even if the chain had broken in between, it's likely that specific names have returned over generations. Even today children may be named after their grand- or grand-grandparents. Another way is how Germanic cultures did it: Children were named after their parents by double names, e.g. Herbert+Mechthild=Mechther, Mechtbert, Herhild, Hildbert, etc. If now a Mechtbert marries a Brunhild their daughter could be called Mechthild, again.

[@thischapternolongerexists1936]

NewCoastRadio but he says it is named after him.

[@AveTrueToCaesar8212]

Bodrick Beffley It is. Him and all the other Roriks there have been over the eons.

[@Hazy18]

I’m from Ireland and there is a, stupid and weird, tradition here where people will name their children after themselves. Like if the father was called William they’ll call their son William and so on, so I agree with this. Not to mention it would make sense especially if they were reusing the name for their family farm/land, which is kind of important in Whiterun hold and makes them money.

[@ingonyama70]

Do Lund and Lokir look similar to anyone else, or is it just me? It might have been nice to see a Black soul Gem somewhere in the village to confirm this theory, unless the sacrifice's soul goes directly to Clavicus. The way Clavicus works, I don't think anyone's actually being sacrificed. Don't mistake me, the deal Camel described is what's happening, but Sissel and her sister's mom died in childbirth. We don't know how Erik's mom died, but it doesn't sound like it was violent; he's not traumatized or chomping at the bit for revenge on whomever murdered her. (Jason Marsden is an exceptional voice actor; he'd have clued the audience in if that were the case). I think the deaths of fertile women are "natural", or seemingly so. There's no ritual sacrifice, no trapping of souls, no secret altar to Clavicus Vile. The women just die, mysteriously, randomly, as part of the pact. Their souls go to Vile, and the soil remains nourished. Jouane may not even have been aware of what he was offering when he made the deal -- most of Clavicus' business partners aren't. This isn't an attempt to excuse him, mind, as he clearly knows about it NOW. But the Daedric Princes are crafty SOBs, and Clavicus is one of the craftiest.

[@cinderedwolf8880]

The "you wat mate?" Was funny, when the little girl learning magic said she had a dream about an old Grey friendly dragon was hilarious

[@joerobins5649]

Things like this make me angry. Why wouldn't Bethesda prioritize getting amazing quests like these done before release? Instead we got a few good ones, and so many boring radiant and fetch quests. Wtf?

[@ajsouza3720]

Skyrim was *massively* rushed

[@MajorMatt01]

@@ajsouza3720 at least ES6 hasn’t been rushed eh? 😂

[@ajsouza3720]

@@MajorMatt01 ES6 if it ever comes is gonna be an unplayable buggy trainwreck.

[@DevKumar-ow1dw]

Sissel is a secret Targaryen.

[@DevKumar-ow1dw]

Sissel also has dreams of dragons, just like Targaryens.

[@cobaltprime9467]

There should have been a quest here. Like I appreciate subtle things like this where you have to look for the story, but literally the only think to do in Rorikstead is to help Erik. And I really only come back to recruit him for the Blades.

[@eternal8song]

call me a conspiracy theorist but Jouane and Rorik are definitely more than friends if you get my drift.

[@Pie_Smacker]

Quest: The Seer Pretty much, you can help Jouane and Sissel by expanding on her unique arcane gift, and maybe introduce her to ole Parthy

[@blackmane1999]

21:15 who knows, she might even be the next fledging dragonborn

[@ralcogaming7674]

Our character is specifically the LAST dragonborn