Skyrim: 5 Unsettling Mysteries You May Have Missed in The Elder Scrolls 5 (Part 10) Skyrim Secrets

[@EpicNate]

Here's a Discord! discord.gg/ZMyxAZR

[@toastfilms347]

Thank you, nate. I'll send you some spice wine from solitude, on the house.

[@kristinemaiava7551]

Ill Send Some Skooma.

[@nickrffpatellis852]

Heeeeere's JOHNY

[@kellerkemstore358]

Well don't mind if I do

[@alexmaurice4274]

I'll send crack

[@SnapplyPie]

M'aiq does offer a lot of mysteries, once M'aiq had two sweetrolls and one disappeared, yet M'aiq was still hungry.

[@thebigodon9433]

Let me guess, someone stole it

[@grognakthedestroyerattorne3211]

Let me guess you tried to turn it into gold with the transmute spell

[@cracked4359]

I saw you in a game called skyrim.

[@maiqthetruth345]

brother .. ate your sweet roll

[@Wapiti_Jawz]

There are two M'aiqs.... hmm... I'm positively puzzled. Just kidding. But still, there are two M'aiqs, maybe even more

[@imbored7824]

Imagine Alduin returns but the Dragonborn became a vampire and lived long enough to wait for him and destroys him again. sad Alduin hours

[@hellfighter496]

Alduin: *prepares to raise a dragon*

[@GwendiWendi]

Think of how powerful the dovahkiin would be by then XD

[@hellfighter496]

@@GwendiWendi Alduin: I have retur- *gets fus ro dahed back to akatosh*

[@ChadKakashi]

Awesome idea.

[@ChadKakashi]

Alduin: Dovahkiin, I have come to barg- Dovahkiin: Fus-ro-dah!

[@Jegbmf]

I just realized when Alduin was sent to the future, no time passed for him. For him, he fought the nords in the past and then he just randomly appeared near Helgen. It’s like us when we die and then respawn and go “yea alright try two”.

[@matthewgoodson9275]

I’ve never thought abt that

[@destinisneath693]

Alduin is secretly a gamer, he just doesn't know it yet..... Damn, now I need someone to make a comic of that 🤣

[@kittensoundwave3480]

Maybe that's why he burnt down Helgen. Maybe at first he thought it was the town of those Nords he wanted to destroy anyway. Or he was just a pissed off dragon who popped through time as you said and was just letting off the rest of that steam.

[@moysauce788]

Seeing Alduin's soul flowing into the sky, I automatically thought of Akatosh taking his son back directly. That to me seems to be the most likely theory that fits

[@beyondmythoughts4288]

when your son screws up so massively that you have to take them back yourself

[@NMahon]

@@beyondmythoughts4288 but not really because the dragonborn also has the blood of Akatosh so it's like his two sons battling

[@Vixter_likes_talking]

That is exactly what I thought!

[@jaredhaines6275]

Beyond My Thoughts imagine the type of beating you would get if your dad was a dragon god

[@arifhossain9751]

Alduin is evil skyrim Jesus.

[@SnapplyPie]

One mystery is why Nate can't run out of Skyrim content.

[@yasquishyboi902]

M'aiq The Liar you should know as you know a lot of things

[@DraeonKaiser]

It's because skyrim is a massive game

[@kalebm9928]

@@DraeonKaiser imagine if he started doing more Oblivion, Morrowind, and ESO content. We'd all be watching his stuff in nursing homes.

[@BodeWinsGames97]

M'aiq, its because skyrim is a helluva THICC game

[@cheesaliciousable]

Nate is secretly a nord living in Skyrim, he uses the magic of dank memes to upload videos into our universe

[@paulpoumet773]

There is a book in Skyrim, "The Wispmother", written by Mathias Etienne, which quotes Spriggans : "Wispmothers are not undead at all, but rather elemental manifestations arising out of Nirn itself. By noting several similarities to Spriggans and Ice Wraiths".

[@DammedMan.]

One unsettling mysteries that gets to me is how does the courier knows where i am.

[@rocksnrolls]

DOES

[@DammedMan.]

@@rocksnrolls thanks, fixed it.

[@rocksnrolls]

Your welcome.😉

[@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586]

Dammedman that’s so true man lol. It’s like I have an letter for and I be like damn stop following me you creepy bastard lol

[@bechtjefferies1148]

I imagine that he's constantly running around between settlements just hoping to run into you.

[@safwansaid5139]

alduin: *returns* future dragonborns: how many time do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

[@naughtydirtyhornyboy4756]

The only problem is hes the Last Dragonborn but if he where to somehow become Immortal (Like Becoming a Vampire) he could defeat him over and over again

[@brianna6087]

Spongebob AND skyrim reference? I think I love you

[@pixwool]

Lord Sauron He May not be the last.

[@krustedkody8254]

"HELP THAT GUY WANTS TO KICK MY BUTT"

[@aiden5573]

@@TheWorgenGamer dragonball

[@inkblooded1058]

Years later, but I wanted to mention something you missed in terms of the Spriggan. In Oblivion, most Spriggan were naturally hostile on sight, barring *two.* During the Knights of the Nine DLC, there are two Spriggan you meet during Kynareth's quest for the Boots of the Crusader that are not only non-hostile, but are guarding the boots themselves. Couple this with their abundance in the Gildergreen questline, and it isn't hard to assume they have some indirect connection with Kynareth, perhaps. Just some more food for thought.

[@DOPN]

6:51 Alduin: “Zu’u unslaad! Zu’u no’s oblaan” It means “I am eternal! I cannot end!” So maybe he knows that he’ll come back some day?

[@thomasjenkins7506]

well, he is essentially an avatar of akatosh, so as long as time exists, he'll exist to end it.

[@genkureshima9834]

@@thomasjenkins7506 I hope TES VI to have him as one of the antagonists.

[@thebreadfetish2370]

Rogue oh god please no, I would be so mad if Bethesda just re wrote Skyrim but in the future, we need a new story with new antagonists

[@coromo4978]

@@genkureshima9834 not TES VI but maybe the last elder scroll game if that ever become something and maybe he will succeed

[@williamheynen2111]

OPgamer 135 Dang you unfolded dragon language

[@songohan3321]

Who are Spriggans? Me: Depends on what Mod I have installed at the moment.

[@BloomerMindset]

This is ominous. I don't understand

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

Keep your tree fetishes to yourself

[@gabrielkendrick3217]

@@Vaguer_Weevil hmmm or where the 'mods' were found... Nexus? LL? The Void?

[@ellenwatson1012]

Lovers lab

[@gabrielkendrick3217]

@@ellenwatson1012 I dont know if I can flag that as beastiality or hippy tree hugging.

[@PleepusPlopus]

I used to be a smooth running game like Oblivion, but then I took 100 mods to the knee.

[@vlinxyz]

Okay, that one actually made me laugh

[@gekkodoesgames5593]

What is "laughing"

[@grilledleeks6514]

Smooth running? Lolololol

[@SirDankleberry]

Only 100? I'm running 194 and still getting a fairly stable game with only few quests broken that weren't that stable to begin with.

[@JohnSmith-kb4re]

>vanilla skyrim >smooth running I have consistently had 300+ mods and haven't had major crashes or encountered major bugs since SE was released and had a decent amount of mods on nexus, and the amount of times I crashed is significantly lower than I would in any vanilla Bethesda game. If your game has problems it's your fucking fault, not the mods.

[@goatsmasher1832]

my most unsettling question is why do wounded frostbite spiders have more health than normal frostbite spiders, why do the guards predict that I will use my crappy weapons to kill butterflies, how does a literal falmer shield, aka a weird mix between crab claw and shell have better stats than a nord's fully steel shield. So many questions

[@MikefromTexas1]

I thought Spriggans were spirits created by Kyne to protect the land?

[@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix]

I thought they were daedra of some sort, or an Atronach.

[@tacticalspatula2179]

I thought so too due to one of the quests in the Knights of the Nine DLC.

[@kevingalbraith2036]

I do believe that is accurate.

[@toneyaustin2386]

Joheg do you have a video link or something because I wanna see

[@Biswadeepable]

Spriggans and flame atronachs have identical features. Curious...

[@thesage8348]

It looks like we've got a mystery on our hands gang. Let's split up and search for clues

[@alienindisguise5546]

Now let's see who you really are. Alduin! I would've gotten away with it anyway if it weren't for you meddling Joors and your stupid Lydia

[@swoopiepoopy1608]

Zoinks!

[@wyntertheicewyvern6226]

Alduin had a plan to enlsave all mortal kind. What he didn't count on was The Dragonborn showing up

[@alienindisguise5546]

Hey Lydia will you do it for a Sweet roll. Oh no my sweet roll's gone. I guess we have a new mystery on our hands

[@wyntertheicewyvern6226]

The Dragonborn, Aela, and Serana will go to Windhelm. Lydia and Farkas will go to Riften

[@prieatknight]

The most unsettling mystery..... Is Nate an servant of Hermaeus Mora!

[@dragonwicca2]

Leave Lord Mora out of this.

[@heirofcaelos6698]

Herma-Mora...

[@nickvanpijlen5199]

Nate = hermaeus more .... Plottwist

[@justsomeguy5390]

No he talks too fast lol

[@imablock16]

How else would he get all this knowledge.

[@joyfuldude4538]

*grabs detective outfit & steel sword* A’ight what mysterious await us this time?

[@Vladimir_Kv]

10:05 Talmor ultimate goal was clearly stated in the lore. They want to wipe out Men from the past, present and future because Men existence interferes with Mer ability to achieve Apotheosis (ascension to godhood). Before it was possible for a Mer to use White-Gold (or other) Tower to power up and become a demigod (like members of the Tribunal); but after Lorkhan's Fall and the emergence of Men reality of Mundus became more _mundane_ and Apotheosis became very hard. Then Talos ascended from Men and that caused a conceptual decrease in the divinity which is present in Mer due to their ancestry (Mer are descendants of Aedra). Which in turn made it impossible for them to ascend the easy way. They see this as a robbery of what was rightfully theirs. Thus they want Talos and his fellow Men erased from the history of Mundus.

[@JosetteFret93]

Vladimir K. *Thalmor

[@dutchpatriot17]

No, that ultimate goal is utter bogus and a fanfic made by Kirkbride. The lore is that they want to pacify and purify Tamriel; bring about a new Merethic Era. They do not want ''Men erased from history''.

[@Vladimir_Kv]

@@dutchpatriot17 _Thalmor spy! Shoo away!_ Then why they forbid worshiping Talos?

[@dutchpatriot17]

@@Vladimir_Kv To cause a rebellion in Skyrim which weakens the Empire.

[@anna-flora999]

@@dutchpatriot17 isn't it stated that they simply take offence to a man to be worshipped as a God?

[@Arya-db3yd]

I actually discovered that Sybille was a vampire when I first met her. I was casting healing spells on everyone and she *resisted* them Then I noticed her eyes

[@noubing]

If you blacken the sun at the end of Dawnguard she will say something like "Skyrim is finally ours" when talked to

[@Bananarenana]

Aduin “may be be permitted to return at the end of time to fulfil his destiny as the World-Eater”. It’s fascinating to me how Elder Scrolls lore is strongly inspired by Norse mythology. Alduin in some aspect, is the World Serpent that lets the people know when Ragnarök happens.

[@anthonyray1071]

It could be that the Rieklings were a group of Snow Elves that decided rather than become slaves to the Dwemer they would find their own way to survive, and ended up making a deal with a Daedra or some powerful magic user that ended up turning them into goblin type creatures. Completely based off no in game information, but it would be a nice way to make both theories correct in their own way.

[@arachnesakura9375]

What if theyre what's left of the dwarves? Turned crazy like the snow elves. Cursed by the gods for attaining so much knowledge they challenged Hermaeus Mora for the title. So he cursed them. Twisted them and turned them into rieklings.

[@anthonyray1071]

@@arachnesakura9375 Ooh, I do like that theory. It's always been the biggest thing I want an answer to in the Elder Scrolls, where the hell the Dwemer went.

[@heirofcaelos6698]

@@anthonyray1071 My current theory as to the disappearance of the Dwemer is that upon learning the secrets of the Heart of Lorkhan, they all simultaneously achieved Chim, as an entire species.

[@khaylinnthegamer94]

I am waiting for Elder Scrolls: Dwemer Found; Sky Cities

[@asparagoose8992]

Perhaps Malacath? He is the patron daedra of orcs, goblins, and ogres

[@demoonmunkay]

EpicNate “...Door to Oblivion...” Title on the book’s cover: Am I a joke to you?

[@Enoonb]

Nate. Nate... Alduin _did_ return. To West Virginia, as the end boss.

[@Koenna99]

And suddenly turned female...

[@Koenna99]

@@Surprised_Synth Radiation causes sex change confirmed XD

[@tris7794]

*almost heaven*

[@genkureshima9834]

What...?

[@jari32]

@@Koenna99 Well Dragons are reptiles.....I think? Some reptile species do change their sex.

[@skeletron898]

You know Skyrim’s deep when Nate manages to draw out an almost 500k KZbin account based mainly on Bethesda’s greatest masterpiece.

[@matheydrayconquerer1739]

The only unsettling mysteries who stole the guards sweetroll and who shot the arrow in their knee

[@hellfighter496]

Jim Carrey: it was me!

[@elliusagi]

Subtitles: "Owl doing", "All doing", "All do in", "Owdoin", "Old oin".. "Right lings", "Right wings", "Right lanes", "Rike legs", "Right Queens"..

[@evthespineconfiscator8652]

WHEEEEEEEEEZE

[@mancamiatipoola]

What are you doing? Are you ok?

[@mayaklein2524]

How many people knew that you could push a statue on top of Victoria during her wedding to kill her for the Dark Brotherhood? ...Asking for a friend

[@coltonbowman34]

I did

[@nickrffpatellis852]

Actually I did I either had heard about it before I played the game or read the quest

[@ezra5323]

I think I've heard about it but I never tried it

[@greaserat4126]

I did

[@daintysload]

Yep. Don't remember who showed me though.

[@budderbro1395]

Dear Bethesda, I wish to ask of you to make the thalmor a main villain at some point. Thank you, Me.

[@LeinadDaerz]

Or ally, it would be interesting Still hate them tho

[@crispin-freeman]

@@LeinadDaerz I kinda think that makes more sense. You character could be allied with the Thalmor to start with but half way through the main quest they double cross you and then your character finds out they have even bigger and more sinister plans that they were never privy to, so ultimate you have to find way to stop them.

[@buttlerubbies747]

Thalmor are the Jews of Elder scrolls

[@cheeseham9503]

I used to wish that Elder Scrolls 6 would take place in Summerset Isles so we could put a stop to the Thalmor in their homeland. Hammerfell is good too I guess.

[@SirDankleberry]

I don't know if I want a new Elder Scrolls game after seeing Fallout 4 and 76.

[@christophergonzalez3973]

Hey Nate! I've been trying to look this up and find answers to this, but, at the South Eastern Exit of Skyrim, above the gate there is a random creature flying through the sky. It follows a small looped path and clips through the mountains. No-clipping up to it, it cannot be interacted with or attacked. I've never seen a creature like it in Skyrim... But I have in other games. It's a god damned Cliff Racer! At least I'm pretty damn sure! I thought Saint Jiub killed all the Cliff Racers???

[@cassieseidlitz]

Christopher Gonzalez woah need to check that next time i play! Cool of you to notice!

[@christophergonzalez3973]

@@cassieseidlitz yeah, I was just exploring the edges of the skyrim map and saw it and just thought "Is that a fucking Cliff Racer!?" Don't think it's related, but, nearby on top of a mountain top that I think is inaccessible unless you no clip up there, there is a bed roll, a couple books (One of them being Cats of Skyrim), and an axe. But, it has a perfect view of the cliff racer from the bed roll. It's weird.

[@r3d_tb547]

It’s cause that exit of Skyrim heads towards Morrowind which is where they are found

[@christophergonzalez3973]

@@r3d_tb547 I know that, but, Saint Jiub supposedly killed all the cliff racer 200 years before the events of Skyrim. That's why it's really surprising to see them in Skyrim.

[@vincentdillinger2127]

Someone says something about cliffracers, pertaining to a period of time after Saint Jiub supposedly did so. If I'm not mistaken it's a rare line of dialogue from mjoll?

[@Tigerlilly-lx5zz]

With alduin(?) it’s almost like Akotosh(?) is taking his soul to put him the corner for misbehaving.

[@evanodell]

Nate you've outdone yourself in that intro! So many adjectives

[@insecdroid]

6:50 Bottom of the screen about translates to: “I am Eternal! I can’t be killed!” Edit: I want the Thalmor to be the main antagonists of the Elder Scrolls: VI

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Same. That is the big plot that is looming in the background that needs answers. Okay, how about the following: the scrapped plot of Uriel V (or one of his descendants) coming back with an army of dragons. Maybe they learned from Paarthurnax that working together is the better choice, so they decided to help the Septim bloodline back to the throne and kick elf butt.

[@jakegrant7663]

The 315 in Nate's name stands for his IQ

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

315? That seems too low.

[@emlynselene1096]

You right

[@EpicNate]

It's actually because 314 was taken.

[@grognakthedestroyerattorne3211]

TheEpicNate315 moist

[@rowandedolph9667]

3+1+5=9 sounds right to me

[@iamwindextor1]

Since they're making the sixth game, I really hope they have a team watching these videos. It would be cool to see what Bethesda comes up with to answer a lot of these questions.

[@icedracooooo3211]

Today: no. 10 2050: no.1500 These videos never end but skyrim is so big that many things are still explorable.

[@poisonismentallyill6616]

there's atleast 10 quests even the creators have probably forgot about

[@MrExplosion449]

I’d love a side quest in Elder Scrolls VII (ES6 may be too soon to bring him back), where you temporarily travel to the end of time to fight Alduin

[@radix4801]

Nate: **speaks** Todd Howard: **Note taking intensifies**

[@SecularFelinist]

TES VI: Alduin Returns! For $19.99, call upon the World Devourer to devour the locks on your chests, instantly opening them all!

[@asparagoose8992]

Scrotor don’t give them any ideas

[@hellfighter496]

yeah... they take it and bump the price up

[@49mozzer]

Wait.... why would a stormcloak believe a high elf to be a high ranking member of their military?

[@mancamiatipoola]

Maybe he uses illusion magic to disguise his face to weaker minds. The reason it doesn't work on the player is because you are not a weak mind. I imagine as a spy, illusion magic would be something mandatory to learn.

[@placeholder2586]

Or he's just not racist?

[@49mozzer]

@@placeholder2586 Racism an common sense are two different things.

[@davidsanchez4370]

Two years old I know but I'm like um, yeah a high elf in stormcloak officer gear yeah ok definitely not sus

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

something something something my high elf dragonborn fighting for Ulfric...

[@feliciab5019]

As for Alduin, I noticed his power/soul was going upwards as he was...dying. I suspect Akatosh absorbed Alduin(for the time being of course).

[@mtgplayer4327]

The biggest mystery is how you're able to make so many videos

[@thatguyjohnmarston3480]

Ikr

[@ChadKakashi]

Money.

[@thatguyjohnmarston3480]

@@ChadKakashi that to

[@captd33zbluntz5]

Hey Nate, do you think that Movarth, the master vampire in Morthal, just might be the same Movarth that is the vampire hunter from the book "immortal blood"? Maybe it's something to investigate further? :)

[@ulfgard4734]

I always figured that's exactly the conclusion we were meant to reach.

[@colasupernova2196]

Vingalmo (high elf vampire in Castle Volkihar) is also mentioned in a book. King of the Aeliads, I think? Something like that?

[@chasefountain2122]

This video got me thinking alduin never killed anyone you knew like one of the greybeards or Delphine or esbern so I think the elder scrolls 6 the game should be a lot darker like one of the main character I'm the story line could sacrifice them selves so you could defeat who ever the bad guy is and would make the protagonist more human because the dragon born could just defeat alduin without a sweat but if the protagonist and his friends have to make sacrifices for the safety of the world if would make the stories much deeper and could attach you to the the people that die and the character themselves

[@Kato756]

Id love for them to die if you fail in combat. Would be a good incentive for you to either go in like a hero and tank; be a master of healing; or make use of the debuffs/buffs

[@bigdaddybulge3681]

Have you played oblivion?

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

well delphine and esbern wont be missed forcing me to kill paarthunax screw them and the blades

[@bigdaddybulge3681]

@@Balila_balbal_loki you kill parthanax! You monster

[@finnkavanagh6967]

In the Dragonborn dlc storn does sacrifice himself to allow you to defeat miraak

[@strongside4565]

Alduin will always return. He's destined by the gods to be the end of the world. It isn't as much a matter of if as much as when.

[@Novacayne-alt]

Konharik is actually very powerful, seeing as it pretty much REVIVES the dragonbor

[@firaflyes4825]

Hey Nate, have you ever noticed while playing the quest "The Throat of the World", that you can get one of the other Greybeards to put Arngeir in his place? If you choose the option asking him if he wants to kill Alduin after he implies the Blades are using you, Master Einarth will scold him in the dragon tongue about not helping you. I have no idea what he is saying beyond something about Paarthunax.

[@theragingwarcat1410]

Alduin: "I am inevitable"

[@fairyfox2890]

And I am... Dragonborn.

[@HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire]

And I…get…to the Cloud District very often.

[@immasword]

and I... have a curved sword!

[@DerakosZrux]

That Rhagot mask quest with the fake captain is one of my favorite early playthrough memories. Because of the option saying "Weird (stormcloak officer guy) never said anything..." I had the thought to pickpocket him and wouldn't you know it lol so I killed him and never saw that part coming back out. Still a great game!

[@mathieuxlaflamme2322]

In regards to valmir and the masks, you can draw a parrallel with WW2 Nazis searching for every occult and magic artifacts possible to win the war.

[@mobslayer211]

Indeed

[@jamesmcdonald3054]

If we assume that the thalmor are trying to gain tangible info about the dragon cult, it makes sense that they would go snooping around Forelhost. From an NPC's perspective, Forelhost is the most famous dragon cult stronghold as it dominates the Riften skyline, making it kind of hard to cover up like some of the other dragon priests' resting places.

[@darrylpendergrass8703]

Indiana Jones flashbacks

[@92jdeg]

how have you not cover'd every pixel of this game by now...... you are a legend.

[@Theclownhaslanded]

When the Elder Scrolls Top 5/ Top 10 Secrets and Tiny Details you may of missed in the year 2077 we'll finally go onto the Fallout franchise, then Bethesda will release Skyrim 2 and we'll go through the entire thing again

[@joshuahadams]

Reiklings, goblins who got so cold that they turned blue

[@HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire]

They’re descendants of Brök.

[@valshades6515]

No one: Literally not even my dad: Bethesda: DLC in Solstiem time

[@braydenleclerc5529]

Alduin comes back in December as the final boss of 2020 to destroy the world

[@genkureshima9834]

One of the biggest misteries is: why are there giant spiders in Skyrim? And no, I won't accept Namira or Mephala as answers. Never. Edit: guys, don't take my comment too seriously. I'm just one of few players that hates those 8 legged bastards in Skyrim. Also, thanks for the likes.

[@Theauu]

Namira or Mephala.

[@michaelszilagyi4529]

Because the larger a creature is the more heat they produce. Since they are not magical the cooler environment of skyrim is more tolerable for them

[@michaelszilagyi4529]

In this world yeah, how do you know these ones are? Maybe they adapted, evolved from a similar, warmblooded creature

[@noahcolangelo2718]

Cause there cooler then smaller spiders

[@genkureshima9834]

@@deftigemahlzeit5935 And what does this has to do with their gigantic size?

[@thelivingafroo]

I just got into this channel yesterday and my god where has this channel been hiding from me I love the lore and how he doesn't drag out the lore in some super monotone voice for like 30 mins for and today you drop another part to my already favorite series

[@imablock16]

Alduin: I have returned dragonborn Dragonborn: (tosses walker aside) fus (old man air fart) ro dah .

[@the_cyberchill]

ESO actually adds quite a bit more lore to spriggans, several places in the game with spriggan enemies you can find "Imps" a surprisingly non daedric bat like enemy, with wings on its back, small horns, that shoots fire, that I remember where in oblivion, I believe several quests reveal that imps and spirigans are both a type of nature spirit, and that they can be corrupted into lurchers which are found elsewere in game in areas such as the boarders of blackmarsh such as deshaan, shadowfen and mirkmire, the sprigan seem to have a share connections toKyne/kynerath, and the "Earthbones" a group of ancestor spirits you can meet in glenumbra during that areas storyline in eso, the eso spriggan's are nearly identical to the skyrim counterparts with the exeption that the eso ones have root like tentacles as feet rather then actual legs.

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

The theory about Rieklings being descended from the original Falmer [snow elves] isn't that far fetched. Island gigantism/dwarfism is a real phenomenon that has occurred many times in real life. Three examples I can name off the top of my head are 1) a subspecies of significantly shorter humans that inhabited ancient Indonesia, 2) pygmy elephants that also inhabited ancient Indonesia, and 3) dodo birds becoming comically large in comparison to other birds. We can see both examples on Solstheim, wherein the reiklings became significantly shorter that whatever they descended from and the very large warthogs which they tame.

[@MinillaIF]

This series, and darkviper's GTA facts series are something I will never get tired of

[@anthonybickham1899]

About the Alduin thing, take a lesson from dark souls, you can only delay the inevitable.

[@Fenris2]

Anthony Bickham also the game dragons dogma

[@anthonybickham1899]

@@Fenris2 could you explain that one? Only thing I've seen on that is "Dragon's Dogma in one hit" from InfernoPlus.

[@asparagoose8992]

I am...inevitable

[@NBDYSPCL]

Cant wait for "Hammyrim". The ambitious mod that remakes Skyrim in Tes 6s engine.

[@ShinxSparks]

The number one unsettling mystery is that how can Nate play Skyrim for so long that he never gets burned out from it...

[@kastewy8428]

The Thalmor also have been interested in other magic bearing items. For example the eye of Magnus. My educated guess would be that they want to acquire these items to use in another conflict with the Empire. A second Great War if you will.

[@lkekwkow]

1 view? Well, I’m glad to see this vid so early!

[@BNK2442]

First.

[@elvenbredx6012]

Regarding captain Valmir - he is taking the appearance of the captain according to your choice you made at Helgen, but I always go with the Stormcloack even if I escape with Hadvar. Even if I join the Legion the Stormclock still win because I betray them at the crown quest ! And you can kill Valmir on the spot, the quest ends the moment you find the mask !

[@septon4087]

When Nate runs out of content, the world begins to destroy itself and implodes

[@Dastardly_Duo]

The thing with Alduin, I think it'd be a cool secret optional boss for ES6. Like you fight his essense trying to resurrect himself or something. Like some Dark Souls type shit

[@nazeem8086]

An unsettling mystery? I have one right here.. how does Nazeem keep returning in this comment section when you always kill me? Well it’s because I’m the deadric god of gods and I am the most powerful being in the universe. The power of the cloud district flows through me. Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.

[@jakegrant7663]

Powerful god

[@thatguyjohnmarston3480]

Amry 👊

[@claytone.9706]

I'm gonna send the Dark Brotherhood after you

[@bullseye5262]

Well, I’ll just call my boi Kratos for you Nazeem. He’s an expert at killing “gods”

[@mrbirb]

Sweet mother sweet mother send your child upon me the souls of the the unworthy must be baptized in blood "IM CALLING THE DARK BROTHERHOOD ON YOU!!"

[@wesleytownsend8214]

Boy I am so glad you continue to make videos cause KZbin is a boring as hell without these gems. Thank You So Mush!

[@rjn1749]

Sprigans are Wood elves, they have the same facial shape, they have the same power(make animals fight for them)

[@hellfighter496]

@@joheg8433 the wood elf theory still kinda sticks because they could've somehow made to Kynareths realm of oblivion and got changed by it

[@mareofmaers3590]

@@hellfighter496 Wouldn't even need to. Could be survivors of the Wild Hunt.

[@ramonapetermann9585]

Hi Nate, quite happy I found your channel. I'm playing Skyrim since November 2011 nearly every day, but there are so many things you show us, I didn't know yet - great!!!!!

[@MikefromTexas1]

Maybe it's called "Altar of Xrib" because Xrib *IS THE DEAD GUY ON THE ALTAR.*

[@mobslayer211]

Lol

[@shadysam7161]

I feel bad for him if thats what his family named him though.

[@tatoez-_-5297]

A thing to note about spriggans is that in a cave in skyrim filled with witches and skeevers, you can free one from a cage, and it will not attack you unless you attack it. They are capable of some kind of emotion so that means they could be a type of race, although no one has every seen them be born or created. There emotion matches that of the sload slug people of Thras southwest of Tamriel showing some kind of emotion other than feeling like they should kill people who aren't sload. Though, the sload's emotion are usually over exaggerated, imitated, and just not real. Also like the sload, only one of their species could talk at least not Tamrielic. They were the one angry at the lumber Jack's and the sload necromancer N'Gasta

[@DCowboys60]

The one time I’m early I can’t think of anything smart to say

[@natedogg7376]

Roflmao “murdered the the elf...to death!” Huge SKYRIM fan here. Absolutely love all of your vids bro.

[@edgywaluigi9006]

Mysteries you say *MYSTERY INC. WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

[@nahzook5452]

I love spending the last 2 days watching your videos 8 hours a day and waking up to a new one

[@realFoxdi]

If he ever returns my Vampire Dragonborn will be waiting for him.

[@Voltar_99]

10:18 I kinda wish it was. Here’s how I’d make it a quest. 1. Give a bit more information that would reveal that the thalmor need the others. 2. You have to talk to Delphine, esbern, or pasrthanaux (depending on how far you are in the main quest line, you’d have to have at least met Delphine to start the quest) to get the other mask locations. Though if you’ve got them all already or proceed to get them all via google/youtube, you can skip this step. 4. Once you’ve done so you have to go to labyrinthian to the central chamber where the wooden mask lies and khonarik is hidden, and get the golden mask. 5. Once you’ve done so you’ll find a company of like 6-8 thalmor wizards/guards along with elenwen herself, there to kill you. She’ll do a monologue thing about how you’ve been a pain in the dominions ass and now that the mask is in your possession you’re too dangerous to be left alive and then you can guess what happens from there. After killing them all you can find a note on elenwens body basically giving her the order to do this ambush and to not let them down (her higher ups) and with that the quest would end. Afterwards you could tell Delphine what happened and whether you asked her, esbern, or partysnax for the locations, her reply will change.

[@vivo-oo4cr]

nate's voice remember me of that follower mod, lucien

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

I always thought of the spriggans as nature spirits that used natural materials to build a form to "manifest" in. There's loads of examples of this kind of behaviour in monsters from real life folklore, especially in Eastern Europe.

[@agioborg6980]

Number 5 starts at 0:58 it’s a replay and it’s free I’m not a beggar

[@agioborg6980]

No replies ok

[@gstyles4567]

@@agioborg6980 F my dude, I pay respects to your lack of replies.

[@Angelus1269]

As for Spriggans, there are creatures semi common in branches of D&D, that are commonly known just simply as forest sprites and not much is known of them either...

[@Tommy-zz6sc]

This might get lost in the comments but Spriggans aren't actually immediately aggressive. They're somewhat like Giants, they will see you and stare at you but if you get too close they will engage.

[@Goomba12341]

Falmer are snow elves right? Betrayed by dwemer? Right?

[@nickvanpijlen5199]

Yeah I believe so

[@Goomba12341]

Yeah they where. The snow elves where being drove to extinction by the nords, and fled underground. Asked for the dwemer for sanctuary. The dwemer told them to eat a certain fungus before they would take them in, but it made the snowelves blind. Eventually the snow elves evolved into the blind falmer you see now.

[@JosetteFret93]

The Falmer, before they devolved, worshipped Auriel.

[@GRH_Roadhouse]

I have gamer block....... 😒 Roadhouse

[@I_Am_Wasabi_Man]

holy frggin crap

[@robertmazziottesr5741]

Nate, you forgot about the portion in Oblivion in the DLC Knights of the nine where once you complete the kynareth portion, spriggans and other animals are no longer hostile towards the character. Just a tiny detail you may have overlooked.

[@Nova-jw6ju]

spriggans arent really..a mystery. theyre based off of tree spirits found in real world folklore who protect the forest. i cant remember what culture came up with them.

[@BeansWCornbread]

Love when you reference and go back to old games! It’s cool seeing these changes over time since a lot of them I’m not familiar with. I’d love if they did more with Spriggans in the next game.

[@MEGURMAN]

Mispronounced Labyrinthian and riekling, smh did you even play skyrim 😉

[@Cailan_Mors]

Alduin is supposed to eat the world so the next one can be born. He wasn't supposed to rule Tamriel at all, which is why the Dragonborn had to kill him. I doubt we will see him again seeing as he'll come back at the end of time.

[@gregpayne3770]

Bethesda studies Nate's videos too keep their lore in line.

[@capybaragames347]

I believe Xrib is a deadric prince we haven't met yet. Like the devs said the planes of oblivion are infinite when asked if there were anymore deadric princes. This would explain the alter and temple to him as even though the dwarves did not worship gods, like seen with Nocturnal, it could have been a business transaction between the dwarves and Xrib, they would help Xrib and he would grant them great boons. The alter could have even been a way the dwarves contacted Xrib rather than a place of worship. This also plays into the fact that if a new deadric prince was revealed that prince would have had to have interacted with nirn once before and this can be explained through the lore of the dwarves so it makes for a good oppurtunity to add in another deadric prince

[@timothyconnelley6099]

I'd love for alduiin to make a cut-scene appearance at the conclusion of TES series to bring a neat, canonical ending to a legendary game series (but that will probably be, at the rate TES 6 is coming along, ten games later and 160 years from now 😂)

[@KingPettyV01]

I’d love for you to start dissecting all of the rest of the TES games

[@ardentofzeal6244]

Spriggan is remnant wood elf after using wild hunt. Concept art on fandom wiki looks very convincing. It is said after the hunt is finished the elfs become some horrifying mixture of flora and fauna.

[@NemoUberKitty]

I love these videos Skyrim is my favorite game. I'm 43 and still love playing my video games. I live in a boring small town with not much to do except play video games and work on my art. Keeps me from going insane