Skyrim: 5 Unsettling Mysteries You May Have Missed in The Elder Scrolls 5 (Part 17) Skyrim Secrets

[@jmoxie]

Watch out guys theres a jumpscare in the beginning of the video

[@cass1115]

Thanks for the warning💛

[@guxery8901]

Bro that scared the fucking honesty put of me I was 100% scared

[@daevildevil4525]

i may or may not have changed my pants... you don't need that info do you?

[@lukesuro9616]

Think first before scaring M'aiq, Nate

[@BlackSouLII]

Lmao, I had to rewind cuz I didn't remember a jump scare, so I was not sure if I had nerves of steel or alzheimer.

[@cass1115]

The most unsettling mystery is why Nate loves putting terrifying jumspcares at the beginning of his videos :/

[@Kuriixi]

111 liked don't break guys

[@davidhill40]

Its no secret guys, he wants to MURDER us to death, that's why

[@HOBHazy]

David Hill oh shit, i’m gonna have nightmares now 😖

[@TaurusTheCrazyBull]

He will murder us to death with facts and tiny details of Skyrim

[@jacobnesbitt824]

Almost crashed by car bc of it!

[@NotRelated2Ryne]

“How are dragons made?” Well Nate, when a mommy and daddy dragon love each other very much......

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

When Akatosh loves himself REALLY really much... =)

[@brianstryker4536]

@@VaciliNikoMavich Hey sometimes Saturday nights get lonely.

[@MadMan-7978]

If akatosh is Bored he breaks a Part of his Soul away once again

[@JA-sn1or]

@@Havoc624 they're dragons in the elder scrolls universe, deal with it nerd

[@SenketsuFi]

Akatosh went to the dragon section of build a bear workshop.

[@yasquishyboi902]

being “that guy” again but the miraak cultists usually can be found at the temple of miraak before and after the quest line is completed

[@easytooner55]

Dont stop. I was looking for some info in comment section.

[@easytooner55]

You should stop being THAT guy though Lucas. Nobody likes u

[@yasquishyboi902]

Bailey Butler thank you

[@yasquishyboi902]

lilbusta111 ah ok

[@bigboi2182]

Darn it just posted the same thing

[@adventureswithred]

It's the eye of the falmer it's the thrill of the fight, dodging right from the poison of the charrus. And the last known dovahkiin stalks an elf in the night. And he's watching us all with the eyyyyyyye of a falmer.

[@Robert-iu2ou]

Red Films stuff beautiful 😂🙏

[@manuelmoreno1171]

Made my day just now

[@hj6507]

Comment underrated as ffuuuuuuqqqqq

[@izzyotton7436]

Dun dun dun dun dun dun duun duuuuun duuuuunnnnnnn

[@KyleJordanGaming]

LOL... Nice. 👍

[@nioxisterling7292]

Paarthurnax actually gives an interesting answer as to what the Elder Scrolls are. As one of the oldest living beings in Elder Scrolls lore, his words certainly hold some credence. He first calls them "raah wahlaan" which literally translates from the dragon tongue to "Creator Gods", but the translation he personally provides is that they are "fragments of creation." He also claims that the Elder Scrolls do not properly "exist" but that at the same time, they have always existed. These strange, seemingly contradictory descriptions are, at his own admission, partially due to the philosophical nature of the dragon language, and trying to get the concepts across to one not fluent is rather difficult for him.

[@hellokatyfac3]

Even better answer - in the Yokudan pantheon (and references exist in even older pantheons), when Alduin eats the world and all of existence, there are some that survive to hide away bits and pieces - the crumbs, so to speak, and hide those from Alduin until he disappears. They then use those, and some other things to make new worlds. It's mentioned in the Walkabout in the Yokudan pantheon, a quote- "Way of moving at strange angles to leave the eaten world behind." and y'know when you take something apart and put it back together, there's always a few bits left over.

[@5226-p1e]

we need a mod to use an elder scroll during combat to blind our enemies. but it's un-immersive to go into the menu to select the scroll. it would probably work better if it's a power that can be activated while the scroll is on your person. it would also be cool if there were more time wounds for each scroll that could give little snippets of history in historical locations that have been there since before the dragon war.

[@mattrogers6107]

@52262, it’s definitely an interesting idea, but it’d be a bit fishy if it was all that common in the past to use an Elder Scroll to damage time in such a way that it could lead to a coherent vision. Dragon Breaks seem to usually end in chaos, which means a vision would likely just be an excuse to give people seizures. LOL But yeah, if Bethesda could find a way to make it work in lore I would be _very_ interested in more of that sort of thing, good idea.

[@5226-p1e]

@@mattrogers6107 you'd think there would be more time wounds through out the world. if not the blinding elder scroll in combat idea, than the time wound idea could be done. think of how the elven mirror transportation portals work. they show an mirror image of the other side of the portal. the scene doesn't need to work like the original time wound at the throat of the world.

[@AmyraCarter]

Sounds to me like the Elder Scrolls and the Matrix share a lot in common. ... (goes invisible)

[@GaryFromLiberty]

The biggest mystery in Skyrim: How can a gold based economy exist in a world where the Transmute spell exists!? Edit: Over a year and a half later and I'm still getting "um, actually" replies on this joke I made. I guess good to see Nate's old videos are still getting views and comments at least

[@fostersstubbyasmr9557]

GaryFromLiberty yooo don’t bring logic in here

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Because the spell itself is rare, and mining ore is not for everyone.

[@dELTA13579111315]

@@TheDanishGuyReviews then whoever knows the spell would likely do what I would do, and just go around buying all the iron and silver ore that people are selling

[@Jskid666]

The way I see it, most people can't easily learn that spell and if you're a talented mage, money is no concern, so you wouldn't need to transmute it.

[@MrDUneven]

Maybe it's not gold based? Maybe the imperial mint puts in some hidden spell to mark the coins? Maybe they have so many golden septims in the circulation exactly because they can transmute as much gold as they need.

[@the60thLiberator]

14:55 "I heard that thieves broke into the Arcane University, the Imperial Legion Compound, and the Temple, all on the same night!" 'Wait a minute, could I do that one again?'

[@kingjamesii404]

the60thLiberator 😂haha

[@archerbayou5428]

I know I’m late but I thought no one else noticed this.

[@mustangwolf1997]

I felt the panic set in as I thought I was having a stroke.

[@kirtemoon529]

Nate: *existential crisis about the Elder Scrolls* Nate, 3 seconds later: *lmao who’s wine is this*

[@paulypauleypolly6417]

“Jessica” is definitely just a developer of the game who wanted to immortalize herself

[@loganmiller7818]

That was my thought too. Either that or one of her co-workers was trying to subtly imply that she's an alcoholic lol

[@RepKyle95]

@@loganmiller7818 honestly, I'd both laugh and feel terribly bad for her if that was the case, seeing as it would mean her personal issues with addiction are very, very public since the game still has active players over a decade later. But funny in a sad sort of way.

[@TheTomconroy]

But no where in the mission are we ever introduced to a character named Jessica, and we're certainly not told about her wine. But no where in the mission are we ever introduced to a character named Jessica, and we're certainly not told about her wine.

[@mukkah]

Found this: "The experience was slightly different for Jessica Finster. She started her career on the QA team, which is where she was when Skyrim was in development. Being new to the company just before they released the game of the decade must have been very daunting. Jessica Finster recalled her feelings at the time."

[@mukkah]

@engineer gaming Google searched and found an article with this quote. If you search for part of what I quoted you'll be able to find where it came from

[@Dalt1n999]

I think the eyes of the Falmer glow when underwater bc if they didn't, there was a chance the player wouldn't be able to find them during the ending part of the quest related to them, as the whole dungeon gets filled with water and the dragonborn may have limited oxygen time to find all the sunken loot.

[@AmyraCarter]

To find any of the loot and GTFO. Unless, you know, one can utilize *_Waterbreathing._* Even still, one can easily get lost when trying to GTFO, lolz

[@brandontaylor6677]

But you have to take them from Mercer's corpse

[@justnoob8141]

Except, you only get it from the corpse

[@ViolaDragon621]

I always play as an Argonian anyway

[@unclesam326]

@@brandontaylor6677 it’s likely they didn’t plan that part out until after they made the assets for the eyes

[@remyk2195]

Jessica's wine sounds like it could been a clue in "Laid to Rest", that Jessica was a vampire...the labeled wine being blood she drank, camouflaged as "wine". ;)

[@MyKeyOFCL]

Theres probably a mod somewhere out there that renames that shit to Jessica's Period "wine".

[@Cidia_v1]

My only assumption to “Jessica’s wine” is that it needed an id and one of the few notable ones is the vampire lord mission id, and its more of a nod to an inside joke at bethesda for an employee named Jessica 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ChampiVenao]

Underrated comment I think the same :0

[@TenaciousBrie]

Yes!!

[@myyaoibetch]

A name like Jessica would probably never be used as a name in Nirn anyway. Just doesn't fit in. I definitely agree: probably an employee.

[@paulbennett2284]

Just Cidia perhaps one of the crew was a True Blood fan?

[@bacon-is-lyfe]

Just what I was thinking!

[@jslaughter777]

I love how Nate sounded clueless about why Mercer was after the Eyes of the Falmer. Have you SEEN those two gems?! Just like Brynjolf said: if Mercer was able to sell the Eyes, he’d be financially set up for life, and then he could disappear and never be seen again!

[@duplicitouscanadian3073]

Meanwhile in game: No merchant has enough gold for the damn things

[@misteryman526]

Nate: "Literally never run into cultists again" Me: "Oh look, there's a cultist guarding the charmed workers over at that All-Maker Stone. And hey, there's another cultist prowling around the interior of Miraak's Temple. Oh and now I've killed Miraak, but a couple of his cultists still spawn outside his Temple from time to time. Weird"

[@TheBeardedHydra]

I could have sworn you run into cultists in the Temple of Miraak 🤔 and maybe a few of the stones on Solsthiem

[@bo-berry1048]

That's because you do.

[@TheBeardedHydra]

@@bo-berry1048 Lol alright, I was just about to pull up an old save to find out

[@beboppapadopoulos4158]

I think what he meant is these are the only encounters you interact with them. In those two examples they just hang around with their dicks out no?

[@dylannecros3636]

Mr. KZbin pretty much. We don’t see any real behavior from them other than in a bandit mage dungeon function.

[@TheBeardedHydra]

@@beboppapadopoulos4158 Yeah I understand that, but he did say you literally never see them again. So, I guess my technical assholeness must have activated lol

[@joshbrosh6626]

The most unsettling mystery is who stole my sweetroll

[@jamesthegaminghero]

It had to be stolen by Butch. Tunnel Snakes Rule!

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Jessica stole it

[@patrickquillen5359]

Many the Courier or Braith.

[@iPlayGamesX]

People's lives are getting hard, and politics have nothing to do with it? Oh goodie.

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

It´s Skyrims version of Mysterious Sock Eater.

[@jeffnewton5881]

Nate, J’zargo does not enjoy these unexpected jumpscares

[@missingindy]

Booo

[@tsubakiofmelancholy6297]

Hey you! Those scrolls of yours almost killed me.

[@crunchthedying5606]

Kharjo does not like you trying to fight my friend j'zargo

[@michaelmamba1578]

This comment should have a heart on it. Come on nate

[@ArthropodJay]

I wish you could marry J'zargo in skyrim

[@Kazuma11290]

The Elder Scrolls are fragments of reality. Our reality. Real Reality, brought into their fantasy world. That's why they can't comprehend the scrolls. Zeroes and ones or magically created beings, if you wanna stay in canon, can't truly comprehend or even interact with actual existence. It's like asking a dream to obey the laws of physics. That's what the Elder Scrolls are. Or at least that's how I think of them.

[@sebastiansmith7336]

Actually. The Elder Scrolls are simultaneously archives of the past, present, and future. “The scrolls contain records of all past and future events, but they cannot be read without a severe price-madness, blindness, even death. Many believe they were created by the Aedra, but why or when is unknown” - Protector Arfire

[@Kazuma11290]

@@sebastiansmith7336 Well it's a good thing nobody knows what these McGuffins really are, because I like my idea better.

[@sebastiansmith7336]

Kazuma - kun I guess it comes down to which one is actually proven to right with the lore.

[@blademaster2390]

@@Kazuma11290 i like your idea as well. I’m not a philosopher (if they’re responsible for determining the nature of reality itself), but I believe that reality itself is alive, and can be harmed, or even broken. It would explain “glitches in the matrix” that some people experience, along with potentially “paranormal” events, places like the Bermuda Triangle, and maybe even certain events in various religions, that couldn’t actually happen without divine intervention, such as the conception of Jesus in Christianity, along with his godlike powers. It should be noted that I’m an atheist, but I do believe that reality is a higher power; one that ultimately doesn’t care for the troubles of those existing within its bounds (because i also believe there may be other realities outside our own, where things are drastically different (as an example, in our reality, The Elder Scrolls universe is just a series of video games and books, but in a different reality, existing parallel to ours, we live inside the universe of the Elder Scrolls, and the various NPCs in the games in our reality, are actually us in this parallel reality. Effectively, you could literally be Ulfric in this parallel reality, while I may be just a random bandit hiding out in Embershard Mine, and Nate may actually be Hermeus Mora)).

[@Kazuma11290]

@@blademaster2390 Pretty sure that's your own personal religion, not atheism, but okay.

[@johnperez1711]

So the name "Jessica" was actually created by Shakespeare, in his play "The Merchant of Venice" in 1596. Assuming bethesda was trying to create names that fit with the real life time period that corresponds with the setting of the game (say, 500 AD), they wouldn't use this modern name! So its doubtful that "Jessica's Wine" is cut content, or that "Jessica" would ever be the name of a character in Skyrim -- more than likely it's just an Easter egg / inside joke that Bethesda placed in the game :)

[@viceshark]

I’ve literally been listening to all the Skyrim stuff like a podcast. I just press play and do stuff. We are all impressed with your ability to make Skyrim content. I’m personally addicted lol.

[@DogNamedWatson]

I have them playing while I play Skyrim

[@mountainghoul13]

Ahhaa same!!

[@Miss_Camel]

I’m cramming info like it’s for some imaginary, all-important test, and play it like it’s my JOB…being on medical leave and not having a fully functioning body has not been helpful to my ability to be a productive human being. LOL

[@Heie_]

So many answers unanswered Nate: Rubs hands like birdman

[@owenbuhler6408]

I literally get the cultist encounter every play through immediately after visiting the greybeards

[@JargonMadjin]

Because that's scripted, it's meant to happen

[@zizter25]

Its meant to happen after the greybeards and you go to a city, which a lot of people do right after the greybeards.

[@JargonMadjin]

Yeah, what Isaac said ^

[@thefreephilosopher7398]

Breaks the immersion imho... Right after you went to the greybeards, you are still an unknown slob for the majority of the province, and are far from being a threat to Miraak's plans... That's why I prefer to delay the DLC questlines with mods... Edit for typo.

[@MadMax0417]

Owen Buhler I get them literally as soon as I return to whiterun after slaying the first dragon without fail lol

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

In my current playthrough, I'm saving the dragonborn quests for later. As a result, I've been ambushed by cultists at least 10 times so far.

[@autocorrecter999]

I’m doing something similar. Except I’ve only been ambushed once. And I’ve to most of the 9 holds a lot, just one singular encounter. In Whiterun. And I put the Cultist’s bodies in the water by Dragonsreach •-•

[@GrumpyTy34er]

Did they get stronger?

[@lisamarievera5914]

Hey Nate, miirak's cultists are actually at a few of the stones on solstheim, and I believe they're also in miiraks temple or at least a couple of them

[@amykerley9352]

"Expect being ambushed 2-4 times in any given playthrough" Me, who's only even been ambushed once in all of my playthroughs ".... Oh"

[@silverwolf2676]

I usually get attacked by them once, maybe twice if I ignore them for a month or two

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Same

[@abigaylegeisel]

I thought you were supposed to be attacked once a playthrough because it starts the quest. I think. Also, I love the spelling of your name! :)

[@Candy-8448]

i got my only encounter at lvl 8 in riften then i finished the whols main quest and a bunch of factions and only after i went to solthtiem but only ever got the encounter once

[@MrTreefoz]

I get ambushed by them once per playthrough, in the first settlement I go to after being acknowledged as the Dragonborn by the Greybeards. I thought that was a specifically scripted event to happen at that time. Besides that, I have only ever, to my memory, been ambushed one other time by them, in the Reach. EDIT: Aside from at the Temple of Miraak and at the stones where the people are zombified on Solstheim, of course. That's not really ambushing, though, I think.

[@jessicawilson8240]

I knew I left that wine somewhere.

[@tvangelist]

how did you get to tamriel? i must know

[@jacobalexander4498]

@@tvangelist obviously she teleported. Didn't you know she's a God?

[@tvangelist]

@@jacobalexander4498 no i didn't know that, as a god myself i have no knowledge of her

[@NyxMareux]

You lost your wine too?

[@tvangelist]

@@NyxMareux n-no

[@larrythehairycherry]

Jessica’s wine is a reference to my alcoholic step mother, Jessica.

[@SuggonDeezNutzzz]

Does she fuq?

[@seanellis5410]

I’d assume that the Eyes of the Falmer glow to help you find them while the room is flooding in the case that you happen to drop them. Also, if the falmer slaves made them, they were definitely placed there to represent their frustration with losing their sight - hence why the eyes are the only part of the statue made with a different, more valuable material.

[@viridianfox6172]

Nate: [about Elder Scrolls] "What are they?" KZbin: *Migraine medication commercial*

[@justabossman6147]

I mean, it's not inaccurate. Given that it's given people in the elder scrolls a migraine probably to try to understand them

[@awesomepaws3526]

🤣🤣

[@Hare_deLune]

Here's another Unsettling Mystery: Why is the Snow Elf statue BLEEDING where Mercer Frey pried out it's right eye?? There's blood on the face just under the eye socket, and a lot more blood on the ground below that; yet the statue is carved from stone as far as anybody knows... o_0 Also, why is there no blood under where the left eye was?

[@MrMoose-bl7jv]

0.o indeed

[@Hare_deLune]

@@MrMoose-bl7jv : D

[@17bergman]

Yesss, how curious that bit

[@jasoncarpenter4129]

Isnt there a falmer body under the eye. I could've sworn there was one. Maybe it was near it.

[@jackmeoff2367]

Theres also dead falmer so that mystery seems somewhat easy to theorize.

[@The_Obsessed]

Your boo didn't scare me, but it made my dog tilt his head, so you made something cute happen.

[@pepto843]

How do you manage To just keep finding this stuff, I mean don’t stop but like how?

[@dans.7002]

Only Nate knows.......and Nate isn't talking.

[@JA-sn1or]

@@dans.7002 because hes dead

[@Futurepatho]

Google.

[@szxpr]

@@Futurepatho if you could google anything there he wouldn't put that on youtube maybe he gets some help from comments, friends or just finds these things himself

[@kimbaker8572]

he prob sold his soul to good Ole Hermy 🤔

[@KyleJordanGaming]

Maybe the real Eyes of the Falmer are all the friends we made along the way.

[@AmyraCarter]

Plugging in some Final Fantasy lore, huh? (I approve)

[@LuckyDDBH]

The way i understood the eyes wasn't that they "drive them insane" in any mystical way but just that they are so beautiful that being unable to see them again after seeing will "drive you insane" And the fact That they flow in water is most likely just put in to help the player find them if they get lost in the room where you fight Mercer

[@ldcraig2006]

It took you 17 episodes of "Unsettling Mysteries" to FINALLY talk about the Elder Scrolls themselves??? (Just kidding! Love your work. You put a lot of effort into it, and we appreciate that.)

[@kiliosai]

Secrets exists Nate: they know and they wont tell.

[@Malsypoo]

"If you have the Dragonborn DLC installed." I refuse to believe anyone playing today does not have the DLC

[@exantiuse497]

Before the Special edition was releases you could literaly pick up Skyrim and the DLC for less than $10 on Steam sale, and after SSE was released the original with no DLC was removed from Steam (which was the last place that sold it). So yes, it would be more difficult to get the vanilla game with no DLC than the game with all of its DLC

[@KendoSlice92]

Haha, I literally just got the special edition last month. Was playing the vanilla version for so long without feeling like I was missing anything!

[@Malsypoo]

@@KendoSlice92 *Todd Howard would like to know your location*

[@karmel5603]

Sadly I do not

[@Malsypoo]

@Matthew Boyce usually I'd be like "Woah! Over 100 hours?! Nice" but we are all cursed by todd to keep coming back no matter what

[@insidiouscerberus6896]

I have a theory for the Eyes of the Falmer. After you do the Dawnguard quests for Auriels bow. It might shed some light. The stones might literally the eyes of the Falmer, it's their taken eyesight by the Dwemer. And it's very likely that these stones are the key to returning eyesight to the Snow Elves.

[@cheesygenes3734]

So your telling me if i drop them on the floor and shoot them with sunhallowed arrows with auriels bow the betrayers get their vision back? No that doesnt follow the lore at all

[@imthepotato2727]

Where do they mention that you need to use the bow on the eyes, they were using it as a comparison.

[@CaptainFicus01]

What if the eyes are soul gems and filled with the souls of the dwemer? 🤔 and are called "eyes" due to the irony of the dwemer taking the eyesight of the snow elves. And just can't use the "soul gems" due to them being a "1 way road" and locking them in?

[@sharmgidly3497]

After 10 years of playing Skyrim and having bouts of getting bored and quit playing for a few month you are the reason I keep coming back to it! I know you've probably covered everything at this point but please never stop 🙂 you're my favourite skyrim and fallout youtuber!

[@Opus_Fluke]

The real mystery is how are The Companions still able to recruit when one of their Circle runs off and not only joins but marries into The Dark Brotherhood and another runs off to become a smith to a Vampire Lord? I mean they are a bit hopeless if they'll let any git off the street become Harbinger just because a ghost said so. Man, that Dunmer bloke is missing a trick there...

[@wallywallace2184]

Nate I'm pretty sure we experience cultists at his temple. I remember killing some with Frea as I was entering the temple and inside before draugr became the enemy.

[@zoeystar7841]

Wally Wallace I remember doing that too but I think it might just be from the unofficial patch lol

[@JargonMadjin]

@@zoeystar7841 Unofficial patch? Do you get those on Xbox 360? Because I've ran into cultists inside the temple on console and PC

[@chicky6471]

Yeah I ran into them too on xbox 360 and xbox one

[@farhansaber9330]

I hope y’all recognize the sarcasm cause Nate has a tendency of giving inaccurate information

[@PieKSER]

Dozens of times ran into cultists on ps3, and ps4. Plus one of the stones have cultists at it, if I remember clearly.

[@Raphentei]

0:00 Darn it, Nate, I nearly fell from my chair ! Woke up my neighbours too...

[@hardslaps]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up "Michaela's Flagon" when talking about Jessica's Wine. It is in Thonnir's house also in Morthal and also tucked behind a barrel in a similar fashion. For that reason I think it's just a couple game devs who wanted to see their names in game

[@purplewombatsandpinkjellybeans]

Part of the reason the Falmer eyes glow, in my opinion, is in case the falmer needed to flood the chamber, that way, they could find them again. I've also wondered if they are in reference to the egg thing in Harry Potter Goblet of Fire.

[@Lady_Asylum]

Hey, how's it going Nate? Guys here

[@R3D-3Y3-B4ND1T]

How, heys it nate going? Here guys

[@nifocide]

@@R3D-3Y3-B4ND1T thought I was having a stroke

[@OP-xi1hv]

hey Kate, lets play 'Hide the Sweetroll".

[@VeryEvilGM]

@@OP-xi1hv What the

[@Lady_Asylum]

@@OP-xi1hv bruh, what?

[@cranberryjuicefifteen]

The real mystery is how Nate left in 2 readings of the same line at 14:53

[@ryaneades725]

I was seriously concerned that it “must be my imagination “ as I play these videos while doing other things and heard it twice.

[@jordanp619]

at around 11:24 he says "dissect and decipher" at the same time

[@ArizonaRangerPE]

You'll be hearing from my lawyers for that jumpscare, Nate

[@ajh8566]

The only significance water has in Elder Scrolls is that it holds memories. Maybe the reason the "Eyes of the Falmer" glow when you place them in water is because they hold some memories of the Falmer.

[@BolasMinion]

One of the All-Maker Stones controlled by Miraak has a 100% chance to have 1 Cultist spawn nearby, with a random chance to spawn in a second Cultist.

[@justinegts4004]

I've had Mirrak's cultists attack me after I received the quest "The Horn of Jorgen Windcaller"

[@annalisa9755]

The most unsettling mystery of all is how the hell he keeps finding mysteries in this game

[@Sans-pc1pm]

Looks like the game It's...infinite.

[@N30K4L]

Nate's mispronunciation of Deus Ex Machina around 10:07 made my soul hurt.

[@AmyraCarter]

Just slightly off...

[@Slashthekitsune]

Correction: You CAN run into random cultists on Soltheim, the random event that spawns small groups of them that are auto-hostile also applies to Soltheim random event locations.

[@jackmack4181]

Idea for Jessica’s wine Maybe it was part of a quest where we had to find evidence of people who were turned into vampire’s. Jessica’s wine is one of those evidence items, and it’s actually just blood in a bottle

[@dgamermenace2669]

Wouldn’t it be cool if the cultists reacted to you wearing Miraak’s armor

[@DogNamedWatson]

I deeply believe that more of Skyrim should be impacted by what you're wearing. For example, you can dress in Dark Brotherhood garb and no one questions you as you go through the city. You can walk right up to the Jarl! And the Dawnguard doesn't react to you wearing Vampire armor, either.

[@onlymordecai5731]

well the cultist dont know what mirakk look like

[@dgamermenace2669]

@@onlymordecai5731 but then why does the armor resemble him?

[@briandipierro8865]

I just wanted to say, I've been watching you for quite a while and your cinematography has gotten so good, and all the mods you use make it look even better.

[@DGARedRaven]

I am having more and more of a suspicion that you would know more about the Elder Scrolls than you let on, Nate... Mentioning English as a language the Scrolls depict may not have been a slip of tongue... And it would reasonably explain you endless knowledge and insights into even the most minute details of Skyrim... *insert hmmm emoticon here*

[@DCBiscuit]

🤔 This one?

[@HOBHazy]

This one is confused, I think he had too much skooma...

[@evervirescent]

m,moth

[@tsubakiofmelancholy6297]

Of course he knows more than he lets on. He is secretly Hermeaus Mora.

[@DGARedRaven]

@@DCBiscuit Yes, but the mindf*cked version of it.

[@morrigankasa570]

The cultists I one time had 14 sets of their gear stored away Mask, Robe, Gloves, Boots:) I always thought the scrolls where pieces of either Lorkhan's Flesh or some other Aedra that is magical and powerful with infinite futures based off the Multiverse Theory.

[@treepigsarecute]

Technically, the elder scrolls just tell you where to go to fulfill the prophecy, they don’t actually block out sun

[@toad5365]

Been scrolling a while and this was the o n l y comment i saw saying this heckin

[@christianbennett6416]

C Breezy: What if they chose to make the eyes so powerful because the falmer were blinded and were forced to live without sight. They truly understood how powerful the sense of sight is!

[@mattyp2032]

instead of saying "talk the talk, walk the walk" we now saying "dogs can talk, rocks can walk"

[@RangerTheCEOofsx]

Talk the dog, walk the rock

[@ysgramorssoupspoon2261]

@@RangerTheCEOofsx Rock the dog, walk the talk?

[@ZeroSeriesMMX]

That low-key jump scare made me spit my coffee... Poor ground coffee beans, they got _murdered to death._

[@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239]

ZeroSeriesMMX winner

[@SwooshJush83]

Stop

[@alemonatigaming2799]

0:14 Nate: “were rocks can walk” The Rock : * floats *

[@shadowdragun]

1:40 "This encounter seems to eb on the rarer side" *flashbacks to my argonian playthrough where they happened all the damn time*

[@DefaOmega]

The most unsettling mystery has already been solved. Nate is actually Todd Howard. You're welcome Tamriel!

[@CursedAndHauntedMiko]

So that means he's to blame for Fallout 76 *_angry mob forms_*

[@zoeystar7841]

14:55 you’ve got a small editing slip up :3

[@iwatchyoutube9484]

Zoey wym

[@onglogman]

@@iwatchyoutube9484 he repeats the same sentence twice

[@beardordie5308]

@@onglogman he repeats it once, so he says it twice. He repeats it once, so he says it twice.

[@OctavioHadra]

He consumed some of Jessica's wine, so he's a bit hazy

[@Nebnub]

Thank God someone else found this

[@notably5233]

I like the cultists masks, it has a love heart on it and it looks like their smiling, it’s so cute I can’t help but say aww

[@chilly456]

About the Elder Scrolls section: Did you forget. About the ENTIRE Dawnguard/vampire questline? The scrolls take you to Auriel's Bow, they dont do the sun things themselves. Edit: I see, so you brought up the ancestor moths but completely ignored the rest of the DLC. Spectacular.

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

Yeah sometimes nates brain just breaks

[@hiphoponly1678]

Một bài hát rất hoài niệm , nhớ những ngày bồng bột của tuổi trẻ, chút kỷ niệm của tình yêu, lời chia tay vội vàng đúng như cái bồng bột ấy. Đức Phúc cover lại bài hát này tâm trạng quá !

[@garyhart6421]

Could have sworn there are Cultists @ Miraak's temple on Solstheim.

[@jakeoneill1913]

I love your series Nate! You never fail to make people realise how awesome the elder scrolls v Skyrim is :)

[@xR3trospec]

Morthal rearranged spells “Thalmor” is it a coincidence?

[@dejavu8982]

Wait what!?!? I havent noticed that since 2011

[@JA-sn1or]

I doubt it is, that city isnt connected to the thalmor at all

[@sad.5889]

Spies

[@Galimeer5]

They also say Morthal was named after the ancient nord hero Morihaus, but if you know anything about Morihaus, you know he has nothing to do with the nords. The same goes for Tiber Septim, sometimes called "Talos of Atmora," but all the history about Tiber Septim says he was a breton born in High Rock. Now _that_ is cultural appropriation.

[@kingjamization]

Considering that Morthal is stuck in a swamp in the middle of nowhere i have my doubts

[@philippeblais8594]

The Miraak cultist encounter where they talk to the player usually only happens after I talk to the greybeards for the first time. And they seem to ambush me more frequently after I killed Alduin.

[@fellmortem42069]

The biggest mystery is why a bottle of mead costs 56 gold.

[@dylant7193]

"Pour yourself a glass of your finest brandy, and put your feet up" - Implying that I'm not already drunk and relaxed when I clicked on this video

[@BearsAnyPercent]

That reinforced point at 14:55 really got me lmao

[@exploringandstargazing]

Wow. The last time I came this early... Uh, never mind.

[@victoriabryer4710]

Last time you came this early.....What!? I need to know. Life would be meaningless, if I don't know the answer.

[@theonlinedemon]

@@victoriabryer4710 There's a joke in there somewhere, good luck.

[@kareneldridge2160]

@@victoriabryer4710 ucc

[@felmiers]

I wish I could go back to when I didn't read this joke

[@RealBradMiller]

🎶I still remember I was three hundred years old My biggest fear was Hearthfire When she had to go A few couriers and letters and one long distance Thu'um We drifted away like leaves in the Evening Star But year after year I come back to this place Just to remember the taste Of Jessica's Wine, seventeen, The hot Sun Height's moon saw everything My first taste of love, oh bittersweet The green on the vine like Winter Berry wine...🎶

[@AllMostOliver]

would've been cool if Bethesda had coded the eyes so if you kept them for some time your quest marker would change so it pointed back to the statue

[@captd33zbluntz5]

I have a theory on what happened to jarel balgruuf's late wife is like to see you investigate. Gabrielle tells the dragonborn during the killing of the gormand that water has served her very well in hiding bodies, and we know that she has had dealings in whiterun, I think that she had a contract to kill Balgruuf's wife, and she stashed the body under the bridge of dragonsreach!

[@angelicure_e]

Yessir that's a gigachad move

[@TriXt3R_]

Right after you finished talking about the cultists and saying they have free will a libre ad played saying "I'm free, I can do what I want" lol

[@andrewrocha9833]

I've been watching every single one of the skyrim mysteries playlist

[@Dyre05]

I'm willing to bet that Jessica just got drunk once off of 1 wine cooler at the Bethesda Christmas party.

[@krausercruz2780]

The only thing i can think of for Jessica's Wine is maybe during some part of the quest you could ally with the main bad vampire, Jessica was his contact on the city and her wine may have some substance that turns people into vampires. Since its tug away maybe a bunch of them were hidden on some house and you were meant to take it and offer it to people?

[@LnPPersonified]

"If Spanish hypothetically existed in Elder Scrolls..." I mean, I assume the game's been localized for Spanish-speaking gamers, so...

[@ancientreddragon5617]

He doesn't mean that idiot, he ment actually in game, of course there is a Spanish dub of Skyim

[@totalingearth4243]

"English" is the elder scrolls is actually called "tamrielic"

[@LnPPersonified]

@@ancientreddragon5617 Relax, man. It was a joke.

[@LnPPersonified]

@@totalingearth4243 Except in those countries that don't speak English. There, it's their native language that's Tamrielic.

[@SuperLumianaire]

Nate: .......... one of the hardest emotional parts of the game. Me: "laughs in lawful good"

[@AmyraCarter]

Me: (Laughs in Thieves' Guild Master)

[@SuperLumianaire]

@@AmyraCarter if you choose to play as a ne'er-do-well, that's you.

[@AmyraCarter]

@@SuperLumianaire ... I dunno; it pays better and pays off better to be a thief than to be an assassin.

[@SuperLumianaire]

@@AmyraCarter if you play smart, you will never really hurt for money save for the very beginning. I've had well over a million gold and didn't work for either of the guilds of ill repute.

[@AmyraCarter]

@@SuperLumianaire ... Ah, but you see, it's more about honing skill than it is about money. Of course, redistribution of wealth (from the too wealthy to those in need) is always for the better of everyone else. So, yes, Brynjolf and Mercer read me wrong; I dabble in both honest and dishonest work. Enchant a stolen axe and make it more valuable, then fence it. Dirty. Smith some armor from stolen assets, enchant, and sell. Clean because the game engine can't keep track of stolen assets once converted by a creation system. 🤣

[@leimmortalraven3246]

Dude. The video buffered before it started for me. So that boo legit scared me! XD

[@Colecruzin]

14:54 tripped me out cause he said it twice

[@Jont12gte]

I had some of Miraak's cultists guarding the stones recently

[@leon_De_Grelle]

Two years from now: "Six Strange Skyrim Installer Filenames (Part 12)"

[@chrishavord9657]

I absolutely love Skyrim and just found your account 😊 you should do a video on fun side quests to do when you’ve done basically all of them.. like ones many people don’t know about it

[@clintonpangburn3698]

I have an awesome theory about what the eye of Magnus is. I believe the name refers to more than just its shape. I believe it sees and connects to all of the physical realm. I feel like this is hinted at by the whisps it creates at various distances and the fact that the archmage was blown out of the building without the doors even opening

[@awesomepaws3526]

That’s such a cool theory! You deserve more likes!

[@DontCome2LA]

I have not played skyrim in 1 year but j can't stop binging these videos great work nate

[@RocksandStuffs]

0:00 YOU SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH! Seriously, think about other’s wellbeing and not your own enjoyment!

[@SakuraShdows]

The second "mystery" was easy. The thalmor (or snow elves) used cursed gems. What kind of gem? Polished black soul gem. I know it sounds crazy but it's just a idea.

[@xXx_venlafaxine_xXx]

that jumpscare spooked me more than "the house of horrors" quest

[@felmiers]

Morag Bal wishes he was Nate 😳✌️

[@Bilygames]

wait hold on I've definitely ran into the cultists at the stones and the main shrine

[@Galimeer5]

Time for a snarky know-it-all (me) to explain things! 1. Because we never see cultists being mind-controlled, despite them hanging around the All-Maker Stones (Note: Neloth indicates that ordinary people fall under control when they get near the Stones, which can also happen to the player for a moment should they interact with the Stones) it stands to reason they're immune to being mind-controlled and that they've been granted this immunity by Miraak himself. Perhaps he wanted servants that could operate more autonomously, so he only mind-controlled them a little. 2. The Eyes are opal, you can tell just by looking at them (their vanilla texture, of course). As for the statue, the note clearly states that the snow elf slaves built the statue in secret, likely some time before they went feral, and the inclusion of giant gems as the eyes was symbolic of the dwemer making the snow elves go blind and the snow elves' defiance; "The Dwarves thought they took [the eyes/sight] from the Falmer, but they themselves were fooled" As for the bit about the Eyes glowing in water, they already have an animated glowing texture, but being dropped in water makes it easier to see. Why the Eyes drove the thieves mad is anyone's guess, but the Eyes didn't have the same effect on Karliah, Brynjolf, Mercer, or the player, so the two thieves that tried to get the Eyes before you must've already been weak of mind by the time they got to the chamber. 3. It would be more appropriate to call the Scrolls McGuffins (i.e. objects that necessitate the plot) rather than deus ex machinas (i.e. a contrived super power that saves the day). The Scrolls themselves have no power, they just show you what to do. You don't learn Dragonrend by reading the Scroll, you use the Scroll to see when the Shout was first used (and you don't need to use Dragon souls to unlock the words because the words Jor Zah Frul -- Mortal Finite Temporary are intrinsic to mortals. In fact, Paarthurnax clearly states that dragons are incapable of understanding the Dragonrend shout). You don't use the Scrolls to put out the sun, you learn how corrupting Auriel's bow with vampire blood will do that (and Vythur didn't "make" the prophecy, he just knew what would happen if the Bow were corrupted because, as Arch-Curate, he would've had a detailed understanding of how the Bow works and how to affect its properties). As for lore, read the in-game books Urag gives you when you ask about the Scrolls. The player isn't blinded by reading them because they have magical plot armor, we aren't blinded because we simply don't have the level of understanding Scrolls that would even enable us to be affected. It's like looking at the sun with blacked out sunglasses -- it doesn't do anything. The people who can be harmed by reading the Scrolls know how to take off those sunglasses and reading an Elder Scroll is the equivalent of taking a quick peek at the sun. Doing that over and over (as the moth priests do) will eventually damage your eyes and, if you're not careful, make you go blind, which is what happens to moth priests. But, as for what the Elder Scrolls actually are, there's an explanation (I don't remember where I read it unfortunately): Just as the laws of physics dictate how our universe works, the Elder Scrolls universe is dictated by a cosmic "song," and the Scrolls themselves are the sheet music. You can see what notes are going to be played in the future and you can see what melodies played in the past by reading this sheet music. 4. It's lube lol 5. (The dialogues between Brotherhood members are radiant, like npc dialogue in Oblivion, so the discussion doesn't have to be with any particular character). I don't think Olava fortold Gabriella's future, but perhaps taught her how to do it herself. After all, Gabriella never indictes someone else did the future-seeing, but rather she did it herself. As for why she wouldn't have told anyone else, I'd be willing to bet it's because she doesn't want to affect the future. It's like going back in time to kill Hitler; yeah, you'd (maybe) prevent WWII and the Holocaust, but then the entire country of Israel wouldn't exist anymore, nor would computers. Would that be worth it? My guess is that Gabriella would say no.

[@angelwolfspiret]

I’ve always thought that the elder scrolls are a way for Lorkhan to influence things and people while being “dead“.