Why are the Elder Scrolls so Important? - The Elder Scrolls Lore

[@ImperialKnowledge]

I accidentally pressed publish, so this video is online 6 hours early. Please don't kill me algorithm :)

[@TheBasedTyrant]

As someone watching 2 years later I am appalled by your mistake

[@achichachi8825]

@@TheBasedTyrantunimpressed at most!

[@NovoCognition]

_The Elder Scrolls_ are indeed quite the meta-gaming artifacts in _The Elder Scrolls_ which has it's fare amount of meta-lore. There is still much about them that is unknown. How many are there? What happens when multiple of them are used next to each other at once? Could they be used to find out the release date of ES6? Will there ever be a game where one is the main point of the story? Well, beyond all that, fascinating video on these esoteric creations.

[@polarisator9892]

The number of the Elder Scrolls is not countable. All efforts to do so were futile, though the rolls didn't move nor vanish by them selfs. They were read next to each other all the time by the moth priests, so nothing much happening there. When I tried to read about ES6 in them i turnes insane, blind and dead, so I can't say much about that. And to the last question: yes, in ES69: The Elder Scrolls

[@BennyGoId]

"which has it is fare amount of meta-lore". The contraction "it's" is short for the phrase "it is", while "its" is an actual word and is the correct word to be used in this context. Also, "fare" is spelled incorrectly. It's actually spelled "fair". It's odd how you spelled everything else just fine.

[@alexanderduvall2567]

⁠@@BennyGoIdYou misunderstood this last year. Fare amount is correct. He meant it is enough you can have a festival celebration over. As for the it is… maybe he had already read from an Elder Scroll and is perceiving things from a total other dimension where such a construction is valid? Or maybe it is just a typo, or perhaps he was under the influence of Sheogorath? The world may never know.

[@sirgideonofnir6840]

Huh, I never thought of the games being the scrolls. But it makes sense now it's stated

[@ETBrenner]

There's some lore book I stumbled upon in Elder Scrolls Online about a researcher who was trying to document the number and general content of the Elder Scrolls in the Moth Priests' possession ... and the scrolls commenced to behave weirdly at him even without him reading them (not recalling all the details, vaguely recalling that they would vanish, reappear elsewhere in the archive, change category, etc.). When this researcher asked the monks WTH is going on, they gave some answer to the effect that yep, that's just how the scrolls are ... and the researcher wound up applying to be initiated into the Moth Priests. I'm sure someone here will come up with the name of that lorebook ... but in any case, that's when I really got it that those scrolls were a whole other level of strange. 😆

[@Admiral_Cody]

So you’re telling me that the Hero of Kvatch with a modded AK-47 and Nuke spell is technically canonical in the lore?

[@StuartLegomanLittle]

YES

[@ronin3485]

could be

[@kritizismmusics9737]

If todd says so. Ye. Or the elderscroll mcguffen their way into it

[@guventheguvenor4485]

Wow. This is a very clever way to explain them.

[@Auriorium]

Basically the games are just a version of an event. SO we as the players are reading the scrolls and these events already happen.

[@ogdenville]

The simplest way to put is..."knowledge"

[@WonderMonder]

Imperial Knowledge!

[@loC2ol]

Here I am In my garage.

[@captaina-d7871]

@@loC2ol This guy gets it

[@LandStrider23]

Definitely something I like more than my new Lamborghini

[@Jonas_æ]

‘And the scrolls heave foretold of black wings in the cold That when brothers wage war come unfurled. Alduin, bane of kings, ancient shadow unbound With a hunger to swallow the world.’

[@Synthesid]

I've always been under the impression that the Elder Scrolls are essentially complete logs of the universe existing out of the boundaries of time.

[@martymcmeme5362]

This is why I love these games so much. What other fictional universe has this kind of meta ass lore like this ? Like these scrolls are pretty much interpreted as the minds of the developers themselves, put into the game that they created.

[@Jiub_SN]

Miley games have this

[@portugesedude8875]

You give me something to look forward to in my day to day life

[@camman945]

My scroll foretold this video will be uploaded

[@gptechnologiesmangalore6909]

Short answer:knowledge

[@beckyreeves6283]

Just dropping a thought here....WE are the dwemer

[@valtontony826]

shit thought

[@nerdragon2649]

They exist and don't exist at the same time eh? *Nods in Schrödinger*

[@spinoodle221]

elder scrolldinger

[@Thailerr]

"Nods in Schrodinger" sent over the internet has an entirely legitimate meaning. I don't think you even nodded.

[@droka1564]

The elder scrolls are consistently keeping traces of weirdness in the series, big up to those things

[@JinKolmak_TaKo]

Did you know that one of these scrolls contains our past about the stolen sweetroll?

[@theorderoftalos6799]

Just saying even though they didn't appear an elder scroll did play an important part in arena.

[@pahbody5336]

What part was that?

[@SuperTsunami13]

The scroll at the start looks like a map to the realms of oblivion

[@tomashradil3994]

So they're kind of windows allowing you to see the threads of destiny flowing through time, to look at the flow of events that can be disturbed or changed by the actual actions. like looking at the mastermind's written complex story, which is simultaneously re-written due to things that happen. like reading the code of actions your CPU is doing right now and what it did in the past and you can intervene into that actual writing by only clicking mouse randomly :D

[@leightonslang]

Kinda related (and dumb) question, but are the Elder Scrolls encased in their container by default or were they loose scrolls that were placed in there by mortals for safety reasons?

[@acolyte1951]

I like the concept of the elder scrolls, it's so neat

[@lorenzoweed2473]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even though the last dragonborn defeated alduin, he will eventually come return and eat the world in the far future

[@TheythinkimNinja]

Dragons and the dragon born himself are the only things that can permanently kill dragons, since the dragon born killed alduin, there should not be an alduin to return

[@tullekopp3161]

@@TheythinkimNinja thing to note, though: the Dragonborn did not consume Alduin's soul seemingly. While they do kill Alduin, the thing that seems to be the "True Death" of a dragon is when the soul Is consumed. Whether or not that's true entirely, I dunno, but that's what I remember from the ending especially after asking Paarthunax about it

[@achichachi8825]

Defeated, not killed I believe… someone correct me if I’m wrong as well, but I was under the impression we basically repeated what the original 3 did to Alduin, didn’t we blast him back into time again ??

[@ProfessorDextive]

Wonderful video as always!

[@senagangbe5804]

Intesting. It could explain a lot of the difficulty behind reading them. Essentially, the Elder Scrolls are source code! Each of the game(an Elder Scroll) is a source code which can be used to generate endless possibilities. They're the definition of the universes "engine".

[@Brandanus]

it's simply a very weird way to refer to the game master's material covering the campaign which the players are not supposed to know.

[@jzargo5797]

Do you think these scrolls could make this one a more powerfull mage?

[@novelgiani]

The games are called The Elder Scrolls because the games are the Elder Scrolls.

[@Raitzu]

"Have you heard of the elder scrolls?"

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Imagine if you could use them as weapons and Blind your opponents.

[@christophermills7693]

I always thought they were part of Lorkan....

[@ImperialKnowledge]

Possible, not too likely in my opinion but still possible. We dont know their origins so its anyones guess.

[@thewildcat7972]

So does it say anything about TES6 release date?

[@thorshammer7883]

I have question regarding the Daedric Princes. How powerful are they in powerscaling terms at their greatest? I know that they are atleast above universal in their realms since they can shape it any size or form they wish down from physics to time itself. But objectively are they even higher then what I assume of their power?

[@Jiub_SN]

They're gods, use something other than powerscaling

[@thorshammer7883]

@@Jiub_SN Why not use powerscaling? It has been done before with godly cosmic or reality manipulating beings before from other fictional mediums. The Daedric Princes are hardly unique when it comes to that standard. Besides what do you even propose as a alternative? You would end up back at powerscaling as a practice in the process.

[@CeleriaRosencroix]

Not to stomp all over your excitement (I do appreciate the thought regarding the Elder Scrolls spreading all across the world), but it still feels extremely odd to think of Aldmeris as an actual continent that is in fact out there somewhere and had any sort of existence beyond being the land mass from which all the continents were formed (via its breaking apart during the Ehlnofey War). The idea of it as some fully developed, highly advanced paradise is almost certainly a cultural delusion or actually purposeful propaganda to culturally reinvent the origin story the Aldmer told themselves after they fled. The only real evidence that points to it having been a real place at all would suggest that Tamriel is the heart of what once was, and that the myth, if anything, probably reflects the original settlement that the Old Ehlnofey lived in, which the Wandering Ehlnofey then stumbled upon, before the war between the two groups was sparked. A truly ancient event and reality, which fits the narrative rather perfectly, other than the Altmer not wanting to accept the idea that Tamriel is (what remains of) the land they left.

[@DavetheNord]

I like the theory that Altmeris is in the Altmer's imagination and doesn't actually exist!

[@ClockworkGearhead]

The Elder Scrolls are cut-content quest logs.

[@avatar19822]

Where do you get your information from? Do you ever watch Zaric Zhakaron? He's also considered a "lore beard", so to speak. love your content

[@envoy2500]

The Elder Scrolls are computer code that they're looking at from inside the game.

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

:)

[@kritizismmusics9737]

In elderscrolls 6 i wanna see a homeless dude tryna burn a scrol for warmth. Tbh 😂😂

[@jadencatameo466]

elder scrolls are scripts wrtten by the authors of the game

[@ysmirnorth9752]

First to watch, first to like..

[@Lupinemancer87]

39th to watch, 12th to like :D

[@NauticalCoffin2404]

They aren't important. They were slapped on at the end of development, towards the end of the dawn era as one of Auriels farts.