The ABSURD Lore of the Elder Scrolls

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In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we delve into the most absurd lore of the Elder Scrolls.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.
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[@Jimmyinvictus]

Without the "absurd" elements of the lore, TES would just be another generic fantasy rpg. I'm thankful we've got the Adoring Fan, Ma'iq, Uncle Sweetshare, the Numidium, CHIM, Pelinal, the Dwemer, etc.

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

Jimmyinvictus thank you!

[@rixille]

..Warp of the West too, don't forget that one! Although, it makes sense if you did; a lot of people in Tamriel did.

[@eddardstark6554]

Don’t forget about Nazeem. Where the hell would the Elder Scrolls be without the Cloud District!?

[@kerimaras3229]

Almaflexia killing sotha sil and vivec saying adios to dunmer just beautiful

[@achmadtitofauzan3809]

Glad you didn't mentioned nazeem

[@roadhouse6999]

Okay now I'm just imagining Pelinal Whitestrake patrolling through the jungle, M60 in hand and necklace of Ayleid ears around his neck while "Fortunate Son" plays. "I love the smell of fire magic in the morning!"

[@ninguem3910]

roadhouse699 PTSDragonBreak

[@abuttnugget6753]

Fucking LOL!!Tiber Septim and his magic penis. XD With a wave of his "magic wand" any of his desires can become reality;and yours can too if you give it a good rub. ;)

[@thesenate2180]

C0DA makes it canon

[@roadhouse6999]

@@thesenate2180 You're not the Senate yet.

[@baval5]

he probably had a megaman gun though, his "white hand of killing light"

[@argentpuck]

As weird as all of these stories are, they're very much in line with a lot of traditional myth and folklore from the real world. Bethesda deserves a lot of credit for clearly taking inspiration from the bizarre stories our own ancestors told. Odin's horse Sleipnir, for instance, was born when Loki, the nominally male trickster, transformed into a mare to lure away a stallion, and that's frankly one of the more rational of Loki's children. Mating with a demon prince and severing his member to turn it into a spear is pretty much par for the course as far as real world mythology is concerned.

[@wu1ming9shi]

You mean Michael Kirkbride. I mean he basically wrote all the lore until Morrowind and my f the books in the later games.

[@rixille]

@@wu1ming9shi He sure gave us a hell of a compelling narrative in Morrowind, that's for sure. It beat the hero story of Oblivion and the Dragon mary sue of Skyrim.

[@wu1ming9shi]

@@rixille Lol, it doesn't even compare to those two (in a good way ofcourse). It's more on the level of planescape torment story. But I guess the second doesn't really count since it wasn't a story meant for a pc game since it already existed before that I think.

[@rowansidhe3239]

I would also describe my gender as “nominally male”

[@AdamRoss1]

They deserve credit for taking other ideas... What a comment.

[@DagothDaddy]

I hope Bethesda re embraces this to make TES6 feel As unique as Morrowind

[@waitwhat69247]

not likely Bethesda is plauged by profit minded stupidity and toxic wokeness expect a buggy half game and possibly even worse

[@shnookcook2455]

@@waitwhat69247 I fully expect to get tes6 just to open the case and find skyrim

[@waitwhat69247]

@@shnookcook2455 i wouldn't even expect that they put alot of time and work into skyrim but are rushing this 1 out

[@wu1ming9shi]

Yeah, why create a painstakingly but beautiful varied world like Morrowind that almost broke the company if it weren't for Obsidian, instead of making a game like Skyrim that was vastly inferior with originality and crazy ideas but gave them LOOOOAAADDSSS of money. I sure wonder what TES 6 is gonna be...

[@benbelt5849]

@Rising Horizon Gaming you can't read buddy.

[@ChazShinRa]

I think one of the main reasons elder scrolls achieves such realism is due to the fact a lot of the lore is not set in stone, by which I don't mean has been retconned, but rather a few schools of thought which are never confirmed much like in real life.

[@whitecreamymilk8436]

But the retcons kill that a bit..

[@ChazShinRa]

White creamy Milk this is true, retcons will always have somewhat of a kickback in any media but for elder scrolls, because it’s such a huge world I try to not let them get to me too much aha

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The most interesting thing is that it doesn't need a retcon to change the lore and keep the old lore at the same time. Dragon breaks allow for different things to be true at the same time. So all those different schools of thought can all be right.

[@veryrare432hz]

Yeah they reality shifted to others universes to get their lord

[@baval5]

One thing you just glossed over is that Cyrodiil never was a jungle. When Talos became a god he not only changed Cyrodiil into a fertile grassland, he retroactively changed it through all time so that it never was a jungle to begin with.

[@jinglejangle1533]

Every time a new god is born they just have to fuck time over and change the course of history so it always was as they wanted

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Well, the fact that it was a jungle at some non-point means that it is still noted down in Hermaeus Mora's library.

[@diegobrando3453]

You walk through Whiterun passing a housecat on a chair. You reach out to pet it, when suddenly, it says"what do you think you're doing?" Edit: Thanks for so many likes! If anyone wants to join my Elder Scrolls discord here's a link: discord.gg/DjtTGND

[@Hercules1-v9m]

Self soiling mode engaged.

[@tysonmccorkle1036]

『A e s t h e t i c 』 thats from that khajit build video or something?

[@windhelmguard5295]

very unlikely scenario because those kinds of kajiit, while intelligent enough and perfectly capable of understanding speech, don't actually have the physical abillity to speak any language a human could understand.

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

@@windhelmguard5295 r/woosh

[@cornbreadloverrr]

@@windhelmguard5295 thank you I was gonna say that

[@nazeem8086]

Wanna know what’s even more absurd? The number of times you go to the cloud district. 0 Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.

[@lau2900]

Nazeem how are you on every Fudgemuppet video there is.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Get between your wife's legs very often? What am I saying of course you don't.

[@nazeem8086]

Cataclysm magic of the cloud district

[@gavinyoung266]

REEEEEEEEEE

[@the_dropbear4392]

@JustSomeGuyOnTheNet especially with certain mods

[@solitaryanarchy6925]

What's absurd is getting to that giant outside of Whiterun and join the fight with the companions before their kill it so you don't get scolded for being a coward

[@lilblock3564]

I always do that too lol

[@waitwhat69247]

just shoot it

[@wu1ming9shi]

I'm a mage...let those scrubs deal with it. I got better things to do...

[@wrenwynter9336]

Aela's a bitch anyways

[@johnsmert3361]

You do that too huh? Lol I RP it if I'm not going companions I just walk right by

[@sirhenry9313]

Basically, The Elder Scrolls. If it confuses you, blame it on an Elder Scroll.

[@christianmorales4620]

@gage stdon wtf, elder scrolls are not only time machines bro.

[@jinglejangle1533]

Or dragon breaks, or newborn gods changing the past, or the faulty narrators

[@crsmith6226]

I can’t wait till it’s confirmed by Maiq has achieved CHIM

[@horacegentleman3296]

And only for the sole purpose of fucking with people.

[@Galimeer5]

My theory is that M'aiq is the manifestation of the Godhead, living in and experiencing his own dream

[@horacegentleman3296]

@@Galimeer5 so you're saying he's kind of like the Tom Bombadil of TES?

[@crsmith6226]

Horace Gentleman no, he IS Tom Bombadil *erratic theory noises*

[@justdude2775]

Chim isn't canon

[@JaelaOrdo]

"Do you mind? I'm busy doing the Fish Stick. It's a very delicate state of mind!"

[@stanleywilliams1605]

If you think Skyrim is harsh, try Morrowind, where breathing the very air on Vvardenfel can give you black heart blight.

[@wu1ming9shi]

Skyrim harsh? I don't think i've ever put those words together in one sentence lol. Even if it was my first actual fantasy game in this genre. When I played Oblivion afterwards on the other hand...Got basically one shottd right out of prison by some stupid bandit. (Didn't help I was using the OOO mod to make things more "interesting though")

[@citizenvulpes4562]

@@wu1ming9shi no, not the game, the environment.

[@zeallust8542]

@@wu1ming9shi You're literally using one of the hardest oblivion mods and comparing it to base Skyrim, in a conversation about geography.

[@user-bs2vb2sr5w]

Get ready for dagger fall

[@tinycervid7679]

@@user-bs2vb2sr5w with the falling daggers

[@Leufinngamer]

If Argonians can change their genders, could it be that the "lusty Argonian maid" may have been a man once?

[@loraelstad8941]

Leufinngamer Tune in next time for an excerpt from That Lusty Argonian Lad...

[@pbatesdomination]

Leufinngamer Well there is that other book entitled “The Sultry Argonian Bard”

[@sewershaman3280]

Mykl S why are you such a piece of shit?

[@fenrisvermundr2516]

@@mykls8712 Argonians were Created before Identity Politics were a Thing. So shut the fuck up.

[@val1842]

@@mykls8712 this has nothing to do with real life, and your a piece of shit

[@dinoluka11]

Wish I could visit the world of Elder Scrolls at least for a day. My life would be complete.

[@SilverFang2789]

>immediately gets killed by bandits

[@justdude2775]

>gets soul-captured into a soul stone, spends 1000 years in prison then faces the ultimate destruction of his identity by having his very soul turned into a magical charge.

[@RichterPhallos]

@@justdude2775 Not true. After the charge is applied, he would be trapped for all time in the Soul Cairn, forever a thrall to the Ideal Masters. So, a lot worse.

[@noahsibahi-jackson8757]

Silent Wolf I agree in fact, I have dreamed of such wonders once. I know it sounds cheasy 😂

[@lemonlordminecraft]

>eats 800 wheels of cheese without instantly dying before walking up to someone who you've talked to twice and marrying them.

[@daltonwilliams8541]

The Vikings had a battle tactic of singing war songs to frighten their opponents. Historical documents have claimed that their voices sounded like that of an angry wolf or the screech of a demonic possession. They are credited by some to have been the first to use vocal frys and growls in song. Most accounts claim that not only was this method very effective against their enemies moral, but that it could have been what inspired the legend of the berserkers. Just a take away on the parallels between the Vikings and the nords

[@wu1ming9shi]

You mean something like throat singing?

[@nagihangot6133]

wu1ming9shi No, throatsinging is Central / North Asian.

[@amyvic5121]

Cicero decribes something similar in "Germania" about the barbarians that lived in what is nowadays called germany. But they did it to get to a trance like rage before battle.

[@TheFos88]

Vikings are so metal, man.

[@jinglejangle1533]

@@TheFos88 id consider myself a pretty religious person, but even i can admit that when you look past all the paganism and pillaging, vikings were pretty cool

[@cjtheejuic3839]

Its a shame that mainstream audiences hinder just how interesting our favorite games can be. I love the weird ES lore it’s incredibly unique and i wish it was more prevalent in the recent games..

[@IronSquid501]

It has been? Did you play Skyrim? The plot was literally about a time-travelling dragon demigod trying to eat the world

[@Siegmernes]

@@IronSquid501 Skyrim did have some weird elements but it definetly was a lot less weird than Morrowind and Oblivion. I personally see positives and negatives in both approaches but would definetly prefer more weirdness personally ^^

[@vonfaustien3957]

@@Siegmernes baring the shivering islands oblivions is by far the most generic as far as weird shit goes

[@wiibrockster]

I love all of TES and I did find some weirdness in Skyrim but I hope that The weirdness of the older games returns.

[@Siegmernes]

@@vonfaustien3957 I'd disagree. There are a ton of unique and weird quests. Just remember Hackdirt with its lovecraftian beings, the town where everyone is invisible, the guy with the magic painting etc.

[@slumpytony2941]

ES lore is wierd but fascinating......

[@robpiy91]

I always wonder what drug they took when writing this stuff. Guess it was all of them.

[@Mortheous]

@@robpiy91 all of the drugs, all at once!😂

[@Drunkyboi]

Yes, A Gay Immortal Time Traveling Cyborg from the future went back in time to free mankind from elven slavers by going on genocidal berserk rages of which took divine interventions to quell and after the death of his apprentice turned lover by the hands of an ayleid king he went on one such fit of rage so grotesquely disgusting to the Aedra that they threatened to leave the world forever.

[@redslowbrother5902]

Imagine marrying a sweet argonian girl and one day, after her trip to a homeland to see the kin, you are now married to a deep voiced lizard man who is just in another "phaze" now.

[@grefsteel3989]

I was thinking the same thing bruh

[@DkKombo]

Wait...then whose rod did that maid polish?!

[@DkKombo]

*gargles in disbelief and discomfort*

[@DrFranklynAnderson]

DkXboxer Plenty of time to figure that out, my sweet. Plenty of time… 😂

[@DkKombo]

@DtFranklynAnderson get away from me I have a fork. Or this cool multicolored zebra pillow I bought for a girl one time. You have two roads which Do You choose?

[@mano7636]

Skyrim's harshness has a way of carving a man down to his true self

[@TV-jn4dh]

That would be Oblivion.

[@midshipman8654]

HaloSuperWarrior Prime the Skyrim describe in daggerfall and morrowind would at least

[@wu1ming9shi]

@@midshipman8654 Yeah,I'd so wanna visit the TES world as it's describe in the old books before Morrowind! OMG, I can already imagine the golden roads and silver bridges of the imperial city spanning over 9 islands, all kinds of people from many nations around nirn covered in gold and jewelry...*drools*...

[@billfletcher3966]

One of the best lines in the entire game

[@mortuorumrex6176]

Is it just me, or is the absurd and weird lore of the elder scrolls some of the most fun lore out there?

[@thomaslachance1224]

The most absurd lore is that I've never actually seen nazem in the cloud district (without mods)

[@johnsmert3361]

He's always up the Jarl's backside

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@johnsmert3361 But for him to go there he'd have to pass the cloud district. He sleeps in the meat shop of the elven brothers.

[@TheMegaRin]

Michael Kirkbride confirmed on a Reddit AMA that Pelinal Whitestrake indeed was a robot/android.

[@cosmonaut999]

The jungles of Cyrodiil bit gets even weirder, as apparently when the Warp In The West happened, the god Talos took advantage of the dragon break to make it so that Cyrodiil was *never* a jungle.... but also didn't, cause, y'know, dragon break.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yup, different contradictory realities can be true at the same time.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

When it comes to the Shivering Isles, “absurdity” to us, is just another Tuesday for the inhabitants. It belongs to the god of crazy, it’s to be expected

[@lionspride4821]

Hoàng Nguyên Wait what? when?

[@val1842]

@Hoàng Nguyên was that confirmed tho?

[@weirdreportt]

*_Did you know?_* That the cloud district that Nazeem was referring to is a euphoric state. So next time you meet him, make sure to get some weed so you show him you can get to the cloud district as well

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

Nah, it's Lord Nazeem's pocket universe like Mankar Camoran's paradise. Only the worthiest can enter the ClOuD DiStRicT.

[@YourLocalWitchDJ]

The loud district lmao

[@ing4gi]

We get high on skooma here my boii

[@taskmaster9165]

so basically nazeem is a skooma adict?

[@stampfertnilpfert4485]

You have now reached enlightenment brother. Now, join us in the cloud district!

[@uraniumblue]

the entirety of the world and lore of tes is what roped me in to playing video games in general. it was all so interesting and i’ve always loved that about the franchise

[@stampfertnilpfert4485]

There’s nothing more absurd in this game than the fact that the main characters name isn’t even Skyrim.

[@Velvet_Crowe]

Zack Larsson next you’re going to tell me that the main character from oblivion isn’t named oblivion.

[@stampfertnilpfert4485]

Velvet Crowe no he’s actually named “murrowynd” or some bullshit like that.

[@xandersaurenmann6958]

I guess I'm naming my character Skyrim in my next playthrough...

[@stampfertnilpfert4485]

Xander Saurenmann thank you brave soldier

[@Tdope768]

Exactly! Just like you play as the brave little elf boy Zelda in Zelda from the Nintendo games your character, Skyrim, should be addressed as such!

[@hhjk377]

Maaaaaaaaaaaan I am scared shitless for how dumbed down tes6 might be

[@wu1ming9shi]

"Might"? You bet your ass it's GONNA be! I mean considering that Skyrim's world is far less original or creative than Morrowind but made them far more money than they could ever dream off should tell you something. That and the creation of the creation club as well. ... I don't like it either...

[@npcnpc7885]

I bet you won’t be able to make spells :^)

[@davidking6242]

I bet if it's set in hammerfell they'll get rid of swordsinging and make magic an accepted part of society similar to skyrim instead of a secretive guilds of sand witches and vodoo like cults which would be way more interesting

[@iboulderdash3242]

A man in the Elder Scrolls universe who is no stranger to the absurd would most certainly be the man servant, Stibbons. Poor guy can't catch a break. Turned into a goblin, turned into a solid ice statue, killed with his body taken over by another spirit, or even transformed into an Argonian egg, Stibbons will forever be the butt end of many unfortunate (but entertaining) events.

[@ratgator]

iBoulderDash the poor whelp :(

[@paurepiccheeseman]

The lore about how all the races of Tamriel is some of the craziest, like how a religious conflict (between the Chimer and Orsimer) ended up with a god getting ate whole and shat out, making an entire race ugly, or how the Chimer, after their gods (the daedra Azura, Boethiah, and Mephala(?)) had ate & shat out Trinamac - now Malacath - made their own gods, which led to them getting cursed by Azura as punishment

[@geneg.2055]

I was adventuring on the coast of winterhold when i spotted a remarkablly well preserved mammoth, half-frozen inside a glacier. Upon closer inpection, I noticed several dwarven arrows protruding from the beast, as well as several dwarven throwing spears! This led me to believe that this artifact was hundreds, if not, thousands of years old! I could imagine a dwemer hunting party trudging through the snow in hopes of providing meat and furs for their people in the nearby city of Alftand. Instances like that make the Elder Scrolls universe feel really magical, immersive, and alive.

[@loraelstad8941]

When you hear a lot of the more absurd lore out loud, you really wonder how it ever felt so “normal” while playing! 🤣

[@adamgorski2610]

Imagine being a dunmer slaver and having a lusty argonian maid one day and waking to have sultry argonian bard instead.

[@pancakes8670]

The ultimate play for an Argonian Slave, unless the Dunmer is Bi

[@sirrice69]

I don't like typical orcs. Elder Scrolls orcs are my favourite race in the game though. Bethesda really improved the idea of orcs in my opinion.

[@lilblock3564]

I agree

[@metallipwn]

They’re just D&D orcs

[@Directioner499]

@@metallipwn Glad somebody said it lol

[@Siegmernes]

@@metallipwn What? Not even close. They are very close to half orcs but dnd orcs are evil to the core.

[@Siegmernes]

I can understand why one would like them more but I personally disagree. I think they are equally good to the "Pure evil and rage" orcs usually depicted in fantasy. They are very different though, which is always refreshing ^^

[@Swordofswordom]

The boots of blinding speed: they're boots that blind you, and make you go really fast. Someone had fun making that one. x)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

laughs in maxed carry weight worth of skooma

[@shawn4116]

The voice crack when he said cats at 2:16 was hilarious

[@grayfox3240]

Oi fudge I was playing skyrim again and this caught my ear about the black-briars, let me explain. Diologe from Mjoll makes the black- family tree look like, Maven / Father(kaput) T Hemming / Ingun / Sibbi But than Hemming says "MY children, Sibbi and Ingun" instead of brother of sister Which makes me think that those two are the product of incest which would make the family tree look more like this Maven / father(still dead) T Hemming /Maven (again) T Ingun / Sibbi

[@grayfox3240]

@Hoàng Nguyên that may be true, but still too big of a possibility to throw away.

[@lionspride4821]

Honestly. That just makes maven sound even hotter lol

[@wu1ming9shi]

*inserts LordZoth6292's profile pick here* XD

[@JoshSweetvale]

@Hoàng Nguyên And now they're Borgias

[@Devin13132]

@@lionspride4821 what????

[@bibo3282]

“Imagine being able to jump into a painting of your own creation” DARK SOULS!!!!!!!

[@owenw.1643]

this is why i love this series so much. the elder scrolls is so incredibly unique and detailed. its beautiful

[@Jacob-jg6cd]

Bethesda’s staff drink a lot of skooma in their free time.

[@tomasmcgrath5766]

I heard that for the price of an Arm and a Leg you can gain access to the unknown Lore of the world, but you are still unable to revive the dead.

[@Blade-xq5hk]

As well as save girls truned to weird dog hybrids

[@crafterofdoom]

still waiting for an accord of madness where Sheogorath gets Sanguine to admit his parties are better. id imagine Sanguine hosting a debauchery with endless food and booze that lasts for days, everyone so drunk that they blacked out for most of it, while Sheogorath gets himself a small bookclub, serves only tea and light refreshments, and gets praised into high heaven by the partygoers

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Sheogorath hosting a sensible and cultured meeting? Now that is something I'd like to see.

[@CHFafard]

​@@HappyBeezerStudiosTo be fair, there's no reason he wouldn't

[@s.maxwellleib4526]

I have just recently found your work... Thank you! Your knowledge of obscure ESO lore and they way you present it, is so delicious. Keep up the great work!

[@xenocyde8498]

Man this barely touches how insane elder scrolls lore is and i mean literally just scratching the bare surface of it

[@suvhur]

8:20 damn so Slave Knight Gael had it wrong this whole time, it wasnt that maiden who created the Painted World of Ariandel, It was a random dunmer dude with Dibellas artifact that caused us to have to go through that hellish place

[@realzachfluke1]

Yesss this is just what I needed right now. Thanks, Scott!!!

[@MrDeyvid34]

I remember that last year i started playing Oblivion because of that video called: "Your money or your live", pretty funny, I tough that this series could be fun. Now I spend everyday trying to archive CHIM

[@tobwhy7949]

It’s a shame Bethesda only care about money now and not their games

[@Ruofin]

Toby Smith oh yeah yeah

[@thegreycrusader]

@@Ruofin oh, yeah?

[@IronSquid501]

because time travelling, world eating dragons and invisible towers holding up the universe aren't good enough

[@oblivionbeggar6950]

@@thegreycrusader o yeah yeah

[@wu1ming9shi]

@@IronSquid501 Not when comparing to stopping A LITERAL FRIGGIN GOD!

[@jentzi23]

Was going to type "Sapient cats, not sentient" and then I got interrupted by "sex with his head". I did not need to have that image in my head.

[@hummakavula3750]

The greatest mistake I ever made playing Skyrim was switching the TV but leaving the audio on the prophet of Talos. His passionate sermon coming from the characters of Yo Gabba Gabba was unbelievably perfect.

[@jorvach9874]

😤😤😤Talos the mighty! 💪💪💪Talos the unerring! 💯💯💯Talos the unassailable! ✊✊✊To you we give praise!🙏🙇🙌 We are but maggots, 🐛🐛writhing 〰in the filth 👣👣👣of our own corruption! 💰💲🚫🔪While you have ascended😱😇 from the dung💩💩 of mortality, 👥💀and now walk among the stars!🌠⭐✨ But you were once man!👨👨👨 Aye!✅✔✅ And as man, 👦👦you said, “Let me show you the power💪💪💪💪 of Talos Stormcrown⚡👑🔱, born of the North,🆙🔝☝ where my breath 💨💨💨is long winter. ❄⛄I breathe😤😧 now, in royalty,💍👑💲and reshape this land🌐🌄 which is mine. I do this for you,👉👉 Red Legions, for I love you💞💞💞.” Aye, love. ❤❤❤Love! 💓💓💓Even as man,👴👴👴 great Talos cherished us. 😭😢For he saw in us, 👐👐in each of us,👫👬👭 the future of Skyrim! 👏👏The future of Tamriel!👏👏👏 And there it is, friends! 🙏🙏The ugly truth! 🙀🙀🙀We are the children of man! 👦👨👴Talos is the true god😇⛪💒 of man! Ascended 🙌😇from flesh,👃👃👃 to rule the realm of spirit!👻👻👻👻 The very idea is inconceivable to our Elven👱👱👱 overlords! 👺👺Sharing the heavens 🌌🌌with us? With man?👮👷💂 Ha! They can barely tolerate our presence on earth!🌎🌏🌍 Today, they take away your faith.🚫⛪🚫 But what of tomorrow?⁉⁉ What then? Do the elves 👱👱take your homes? 🏠🏠🏠Your businesses? 🏧🏦🏥Your children? 👪👪👪Your very lives?🔪🔪🔪 And what does the Empire do?🏰🏰 Nothing! ❌❌❌Nay, worse than nothing! ❎❎❎The Imperial machine enforces the will of the Thalmor!🙅🙅🙅 Against its own people!😠😠😠😠 So rise up! ☝☝Rise up,👆👆👆 children👶👶👶 of the Empire! 🏰🏰Rise up, 🆙🆙🆙Stormcloaks!💧⚡ Embrace the word of mighty 💪💪Talos, he who is both man and Divine!👼👼👼 For we are the children of man!👶👦👦 And we shall inherit both the heavens🌌🌌🌌 and the earth! 🌎🌏🌍And we, not the Elves👱👱👱 or their toadies, 🐸🐸🐸will rule Skyrim! Forever!💯✔💯 Terrible and powerful Talos! 👑👑👑We, your unworthy servants,🙏🙏🙏 give praise! 🙌🙌🙌For only through your grace and benevolence 💓💓may we truly reach enlightenment!👍👍👍 And deserve our praise you do, 👏👏👏for we are one! 👐Ere you ascended 😇😇😠and the Eight🕗🕗🕗 became Nine, 🕘🕘🕘you walked👣👣 among us, great Talos, not as god, 🚫👼🚫but as man!👲👳💂 Trust in me, Whiterun! 👌👌👌Trust in the words of Heimskr! 👍👍👍For I am the chosen✔✔ of Talos! 👀👀👀I alone have been anointed 💦💦💦by the Ninth 🕘🕘to spread his holy ⛪⛪⛪word!💌💌💌

[@eddardstark6554]

I’ve been a huge LotR fan my whole life - I still am. But man am I blown away with TES. I was introduced to the Elder Scrolls in 2011 with Skyrim - a game my best friend’s girlfriend at the time bought him that we started playing - and I was hooked. I was so curious about the lore. I played Oblivion and lots of Morrowind since, but just played casually for a couple of years. It wasn’t until 2017 when I got into the Legends mobile game and TES Online and then I started reading TES lore articles on the internet and it’s amazing how profound and interconnected things are. Now I’m a diehard fan and can’t get enough. I sure hope Bethesda doesn’t muck up their beautiful creation with TES6.

[@DerEuropaer]

0:00:45 "Subvert expectations" → Missed opportunity to quickly show the face of Rian Johnson!

[@annett110]

The vivic part went into such weird direction out of nowwhere

[@MrGod-nl7no]

Just like when reading his sermons for the first time. Still prefer Curio's works...

[@fivesilvercoins]

okay, but seriously. every time i see fudgemuppet's icon underneath their videos, i see a klingon with long hair. i know what mask and hood that is, but from the corner of my eye, it's never anything but a klingon. i'm not even a star trek fan, what

[@miaththered]

It was a jungle until Oblivion came out and retconned the jungle because they didn't want to render it. It was a jungle in Arena, it was a jungle in Daggerfall, it was a jungle in Morrowind, and then suddenly EUROPEAN PLAINS BECAUSE WE'RE LAZY. /loreist rant

[@the_dropbear4392]

It wasn't really a jungle in arena though

[@justdude2775]

The whole cyrodiil was jungle nonsense comes from a book in Morrowind where they say much of cyrodiil is endless jungle. Then right in the same game there is A Dance In Fire Vol. 1 where cyrodiil is literally described as a temperate forest with rolling hills. But people just repeat misinformation without doing the damn research.

[@aysseralwan]

@@justdude2775 one of the first dudes that you interact with in Morrowind also says that a lot of the Heartland is covered with jungles (one of the Imperials in the first building) but yeah it was maybe meant to be half/half Idk

[@DoritoBagWilkins]

Don't forget how they just turned the Empire into generic a medieval european society so it'd be more digestible for the generic fantasy crowd. Weynon Priory alone, full of its hideous robe-clad and tonsur-adorned inhabitants, should be enough to make any TES lore buff cry.

[@ChadKakashi]

They also erased an entire cyrodilic race.

[@suvhur]

8:35 most Dark Souls players know exactly what it feels like to physically jump into a painted world...trust me, its not fun

[@catrr2194]

🕳

[@Beowulf0510]

It's ironic to me that the khajit have a cultural addiction to moonsugar considering real cats can't taste sweetness.

[@randomdragon8245]

I like the idea of TES being capable of being put in any fantasy setting with the simple fact of it being a dream. Just imagine someone in Pathfinder or D&D falling asleep and ending up on Tamriel and they can’t escape until they complete a special quest and can then depart as if they were never there. That’s just so bizarre to sleep and dream the dream of the Godhead!

[@ernestlemmingway1124]

Sanguine's Stark Reality spell! Hence why he's my favorite Daedric Prince. He's the fun uncle I never had.

[@LordZoth6292]

I miss delving into the world of Nirn. I wish the waters at Bethesda weren't so muddy right now.

[@rixille]

@Rising Horizon Gaming That is ridiculous. Bethesda is definitely falling from grace.

[@rixille]

​@Rising Horizon Gaming You are confused, I understand.

[@rixille]

@Rising Horizon Gaming Paid and sponsored message by Bethesda and Zenimax Media. Doom is from a different development studio, it's not the one making Elder Scrolls and Fallout games fool.

[@wr5488]

I just want a new Elder Scrolls game. Skyrim was nearly a decade ago.

[@sith5790]

This elder scroll lore vids you got going on, really fuckin bring me joy dude. like when I'm cooking or doing anything I just listen to one of these bad boys.

[@ayato4743]

I just love the different types of Khajiit. I'm always a bit of a role player and have an entire family tree for my Khajiit characters. They often have Alfiq siblings because I just love cats xD

[@5thar]

I love how the music starts to drown him out as things get more conveluted 😂😂😅😅

[@TheRagCo]

I am disappointed that you didnt go into the truly weird lore like how the moons are the severed halves of lorkhan the god who created Mundus, the stars are tears in reality where the gods who fled our reality didnt become divines/daedra. Perhaps even about the sword singing ability to cut the atom which leveled an entire island.

[@Blafina]

You’ve become my favorite tes yt channel the past few months, thanks to interesting subjects, takes on subjects and regular uploads. Thank you very much!

[@Carmelo124]

this video made remember the feeling i had when i was exploring skyrim for the first time with most locations, including major cities, yet to be seen for the first time and how much i miss that feeling

[@Aethuviel]

1:47 A land of walking cats? In our world, all cats walk.

[@TrapGambino]

The opening song totally just gave me the feels... 😍

[@_vlpin]

What i like about tes lore the most is that those legends sound so real, and by real, i mean like our, real world legends are. We too have legends full of absurdity and impossible characters and so do the stories in tes. Even if they DID happen, because it's a fantasy world after all, most of it sounds like something you have to take with a grain of salt and you shouldn't take it literally, especially if it's about single people. A story always changes because every time it's retold someone adds a little of their own zing to it. It adds so much soul to the lore in my opinion :)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, we have to keep in mind that every story an NPC tells, every book or scroll or carving you read has been written by someone. And not just you as player reads something a developer at Bethesda wrote, but your character reads something a being in Mundus wrote. And those stories are how people remembered the story they heard from their peers and ancestors.

[@williamwilson1870]

There’s also an endless cycle of brave but unfortunate travellers getting stuck in the marshes of High Rock.

[@chaserseven2886]

is this ASMR in disguise?

[@weirdreportt]

The lore series is indeed an ASMR in disguise

[@mcsinnin6473]

When the simulation universe is built, I'm going to Skyrim.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Fans: but yeah but how khajiit did.. Todd: a wizard did it

[@opusfluke2354]

Got to love Nocturnal. She expects the Skeleton Key to get stolen then returned time after time because She's Nocturnal and that's why. Even sounding bored after all you went through still makes me laugh.

[@lazerbeam134]

I love it every time! "You want me to pat you on the back when you did what I expected you to do? I don't have time for that" lmao

[@willthevill5500]

You should’ve talked about the disappearance of Masser and Secunda and how the thalmor used it as leverage for the Khajiit to join the dominion. That would’ve been the perfect opportunity to make the joke “Khajiit have loyalty if you have moon”

[@Sageofwhat]

I'd be satisfied with an exquisite shirt with a Levitate 1pt constant effect enchantment...

[@loraelstad8941]

Logos Indoril Yassss, but with different styles and colors available, because...personal expression.

[@Tasorius]

That would be extremely slow...

[@Sageofwhat]

@@Tasorius Yes it would be, however, considering my general lack of enchanting skill in game and I never broke the game that way, it was okay given the speed buffs I had. It took me forever to get the spell "Fortify Skill" so I my game would frequently crash.

[@Aaron-mj9ie]

Y'all ever wonder what Kwama Eggs taste like? Apparently they're described as tasting like "milky, sweet, scrambled chicken eggs"

[@jackgriffi7826]

Your transition from absurdity to absurdity in this video is seamless.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

I write fantasy that some would define as high fantasy but then people die in awful ways and horrible things happen and you realize that world is as shitty as our own.

[@VelvetyCleric3]

19th! Hello i love the videos. They always impress me and are absolutely top notch! You are the bestand i get to know more about more of my favorite game series. Btw your voice is like butter over my ears.

[@tomasmcgrath5766]

This is so bizarre, it must be the work of an enemy stand.

[@joaopintomolegameplays3835]

Man... This video made me appreciate Fantasy so much more...

[@violetvappy1796]

It's really cool that new ESO dlc coming in June is going to feature different furstocks of Khajiit. The concept art for the Alfiq merchants looks really cool!

[@sortsindvantro]

I would like to see other forms of khajit in ES6

[@wu1ming9shi]

Yeah, me too but something tells me that they'd come up with some bullcrap reason like "some disaster killed off 10 of the 16 subraces because reasons" just to press the costs of the game.

[@weirdreportt]

Imagine an Elder Scrolls game with a companion of a speaking house cat, or a cat similar to those in Monster Hunter series, that can walk like bipedals

[@-sanju-]

Let's hope they will continue the traditional ES style with ES6.

[@lordsheogorath73production51]

Fudgemuppet. Can you do a video featuring how would you have done Cyrodiil in Oblivion based more on the lore or just to make it more unique?

[@markallan635]

That's not only absurd it's inconceivable

[@joshuerivera2302]

When the content comes out and you have snacks and drinks ready and lore, etc to learn 😉👍🍿🍵

[@myfrequencies1912]

At one point in Skyrim there's even a talking dog. Are they fucking kidding?!

[@kalenboies3826]

I'm not sure if it's absurd or vile . Remember the dark elf alchemist,that openly admits to being a necrophiliac?

[@jefthereaper]

I remember years ago somebody discussing the sunbirds from the Altmer with me and at first I just thought it was some kind of fanfic.

[@kitshaffer363]

Elves and Elven lore is what I adore the most. It doesn't make me popular in the Fandom but I am not alive to be popular it's not needed.

[@redfallxenos4585]

@Sethei yeah but ESO is before the high elves became genocidal xenophobes, soo...

[@arpitsingh2394]

DEATH TO THE ELVES!!!

[@shortyorc121]

@@redfallxenos4585 smart guys those high elves.

[@kitshaffer363]

@@arpitsingh2394 Wow soooo original. 🙄

[@kitshaffer363]

@@redfallxenos4585 Not every Altmer is Thalmor look at the NPCs in Skyrim in the colleges, Cities and ruins clearly not with the Dominion.

[@user-pq6hy4hx8n]

Weirdest you say? How about marrying and consumating Lydia and she still calls you her thane.

[@fanealexander7412]

I love this video Scott. Awesome topic of discussion. thank you Fudgemuppet!

[@diamondmetal3062]

What I love about The Elder Scrolls is that the player can choose to experience the games as either a generic fantasy world or as a terrifying ball of metaphysics masquerading as a generic fantasy world.

[@Saniraf808]

In honor of the new anime “Shield Hero” there should be a shield only build for skyrim. (Maybe Shield and shouts/ magic would help even the odds.

[@beastmode1032]

JustAnotherHero 808 i made a Breton build that used conjuration and shield only, it was pretty fun

[@windhelmguard5295]

alright here is a shield only build that is also broken as all hell. what you need: any shield (preferably the shield of ysgramor, spell breaker and the targe of the blooded) as for the perks you would choose i'd say most shield perks are great, personally i don't recommend the one that slows time because it's buggy and makes fights take forever to finish, but go ahead if you like it) wether you want to go for heavy or light armour is up to you but i recommend not bothering with either because you really don't need to worry about physical damage once the build is complete. aside from the block skill tree the alteration tree is your next best friend, here you want to grab anything you can to max out magic resistance and spell absorption. at this point iwant to point out that you have to pick up any food ingredients for beef stew, vegetable soup and venison stew you can find because those will be essential for this build because you only ever need one point in stamina to shield bash, consuming either of the three gives you unlimited shield bashes. as for your birth sign i'd say with the steed (until you get the perk that lets you ignore armour weight, skip the steed if you don't use armour) the lord or the atronarch. as for the hsield to use, the best shield early on is the hsield of ysgramor, it's relatively easy to get and the elemental resistances are good for fighting mages because ranged combat will be your weakness until you can walk faster with the shield raised. next you should grab the targe of the blooded, just make sure to also carry the shield of ysgramor so you can switch to it when fighting mages. later you should replace the shield of ysgramor in this strat with spellbreaker. finally, once you have miraaks set as well as the atronarch stone you have perfect spell absorption, at which point you can fully comit to the targe of the blooded. once you have all that yo uare basically unkillable, archers aren't a problem once yo ucan walk normally with the shield raised, mages won't be a problem ocne you get spell breaker and melee opponents can't do shit when you keep staggering them with shield bashers or just run them over with the level 100 perk.

[@johnsmert3361]

You've never done this yet? Sheild mage block/bash set on fire

[@matthewrileymcleanwilkinson]

Well done Scott. The absurdity of the lore is all part of the charm. Thanks for the video.

[@piersdhadly7658]

The idea of Cyrodil being a jungle always confused me as it was also described as being a highly fertile land , which, although I’ve never tried, I can’t imagine growing crops in a jungle is particularly easy. It was also supposed to be quite densely populated which compared to other provinces, which again I can imagine a jungle getting in the way of.